Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today, I will be telling you about the first exhibition we’ve done this school-year; The Winter Exhibition!
As you may know, there is an Exhibition for PLP before the end of every semester. There, we present our project that follows the requirements and show it off to relatives, teachers, strangers… amongst others.

PLP Exhibitions encourage you to present yourself and your work in front of a crowd, which may be important in the future with job interviews, collage presentations… you know, big events in your life! These things and more can be practiced and tested at Exhibition.

Now, let’s move on and explain what we actually did. This project is very much different from all the others we have worked on in the past; because they’re centred around US as people!! For all the other exhibitions I’ve done so far, we had to follow a specific narrative; but we got to be ourselves for this project, to which I thoroughly enjoyed. I am the type of person who enjoys doing their own thing, doing things differently and my own way. Now that may sound bad, especially in a program like PLP; but stay with me here.

The name of the project is “Marketing me”. We were ordered to make resume’s and business cards that reflected what we were marketing (an interest or talent that you could make into a career) and show them off at exhibition. The point of the project was to learn how to properly make a resume that could grab employer’s attention, alongside presenting what we may be interested in doing in the future. Of course I based the project around my art since I technically already do that as a job, alongside that being pretty much the only thing I’m currently good at.

Enough about what I did; the real question is HOW I did. Now, I do have my fair share of critiques, but let’s go over what I did well first so I don’t start bawling in the middle of writing this.

Now, one thing that I did enjoy alongside observers was the big fat slab of wood I used as a backboard. It was an oval painted yellow, with an orange boarder and a little smiley face at the top. This represented me because not only do I love smiley faces and the colour yellow, but it’s also bright and colourful like a lot of my art; which is a big representation of my skills and values. Another thing I did that I really liked was actually my very quick Canva document. I made this with all but 5 minutes left before the exhibition started, and I actually managed to cram it in; and I’m glad I did, because it really perfected my booth. It provided an easy way for people to observe more of my art, without having to print it up and stick it up behind me.

Now, onto my many faults. I’m tearing up already thinking about this… but oh well.
One thing I would change would have to be my preparation. I need to seriously learn how to plan ahead of time instead of doing stuff impulsively last minute. With these types of projects it’s bound to screw you over at some point, doesn’t matter if it was fine before or not. Something that I should practice is writing down a plan, where I can look over my thoughts and try to think of ideas to add on or to remove. This would prevent situations where I may have an idea but not have the supplies, time or space for it.

Well, that’s pretty much it. Thanks for sticking around and reading my blog post; even if the winter exhibition was 3 weeks ago. I’ll see you next time!!!