My name is Pennie Taylor and I've been working in art and museum education since 2007. I bring a background in anthropology to bear on how people engage with art and objects. I've developed digital resources, interactive installations, and programs at museums including the ICA Boston, the MIT Museum, and the Rose Art Museum. I'm a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University’s College of Art, Media & Design. See more at www.homenaturemuseum.com
I created Why the long face? game at the 2014 Harvard metaLAB Beautiful Data workshop. The workshop, supported by the Getty Institute, asked us to envision new ways to engage with museum collections and open collections data. I thought it would be fun to make humans make the faces that humans made for animals, and to get to know a collection through your face. My prototype deck used photos I took at Harvard's Museum of Natural History; the Geoffroy's cat and moonrat in the HMNH collection remain favorite faces.
I made a Hungarian Why the long face? deck, using photos I took at the Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum (Hungarian Natural History Museum) and Budapest Agricultural Museum, as artist-in-residence with Igor Metropol, Budapest, in spring 2015.
Why the long face? has been supported via 2014 and 2016 Mitchell Fellowship Awards, 2015 Somerville Arts Council Interrelated Media Grant, and 2017 Assets for Artists grant.
I created Why the long face? game at the 2014 Harvard metaLAB Beautiful Data workshop. The workshop, supported by the Getty Institute, asked us to envision new ways to engage with museum collections and open collections data. I thought it would be fun to make humans make the faces that humans made for animals, and to get to know a collection through your face. My prototype deck used photos I took at Harvard's Museum of Natural History; the Geoffroy's cat and moonrat in the HMNH collection remain favorite faces.
I made a Hungarian Why the long face? deck, using photos I took at the Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum (Hungarian Natural History Museum) and Budapest Agricultural Museum, as artist-in-residence with Igor Metropol, Budapest, in spring 2015.
Why the long face? has been supported via 2014 and 2016 Mitchell Fellowship Awards, 2015 Somerville Arts Council Interrelated Media Grant, and 2017 Assets for Artists grant.
Why the long face? had a successful Kickstarter in fall 2015 and the first edition of the game was shipped out mid-December, 2015. After some tweaks to the packaging and cards, another print run is ready to ship September 2016!
