Photo by Daria Sannikova on Pexels.com There is no one type of living artist. Artists that you could work with on an installation will range from first time showing artist to famous artist, poor to rich artist, easy to difficult artist, humble to maniacal artist, confident to emotionally needy artist and their issues with the… Continue reading When you are a preparator working with a living artist on their installation.
Author: chuckagro
A cautionary tale for a future art service company general manager (advice to a former student and friend)
Photo by George Becker on Pexels.com Let us step back and consider your work responsibilities up to this point, what information you had and what you could directly control. You have worked for your company as one of several art handlers for several years. You were given specific jobs to perform and information to document.… Continue reading A cautionary tale for a future art service company general manager (advice to a former student and friend)
Communicating Site Visit Information. The Site Visit-Part 3 of 3.
Photo by Burst on Pexels.com The ability to communicate clearly and accurately is the key to successful project management. Your response to a site visit request should not be in a narrative format. The person that requested the information needs to see the answers to their questions as both obvious and clear. What they do… Continue reading Communicating Site Visit Information. The Site Visit-Part 3 of 3.
Setting Project Goals: The S.M.A.R.T. principle
You have been asked to manage an art service project. You have your list of objects in front of you that need to be relocated, installed, crated, whatever the project requires and it would seem the way to approach managing the project is to just jump in and start. I am here to tell you that it is not… Continue reading Setting Project Goals: The S.M.A.R.T. principle
Identifying the purpose of a site visit for a project. (Why are you being asked to conduct the site visit?) part 2 of 3
A request usually comes down the chain of command to the person that will eventually be responsible for the on-site implementing and management of the information derived from the site visit. This person is the project manager. If you are the person receiving the site visit request, there is a good chance that you will… Continue reading Identifying the purpose of a site visit for a project. (Why are you being asked to conduct the site visit?) part 2 of 3
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