Birds in Art Online Exhibition

This is an isolated part of "Poultry Sellers" by Joachim Beuckelaer. It became colloquially known as "Chicken Man" in the class.

Birds in Art

Devotion & Decadence

Visit the Exhibition

is an online art exhibition officially presented and hosted by the Toledo Museum of Art.

It is a student-made exhibition.

I was part of the design team.

Exhibition Video

The Documentation Video

I did much of the major editing for the documentation video. That included working in Adobe Audition to equalize and enhance the interview audio to the best of my ability and in working in Adobe Premiere for everything else.

This was a remarkable undertaking as I had not previously had experience with video or audio editing, but I wanted to be the one to do it. I had been the one to video the birds used in the intro sequence and I did the entire first introduction sequence (birds, then fade to title). Just that much video editing had me hooked and wondering what else I could do, so I did it.

My teammates took care of the interviews and the sequencing. They had some elements plugged in, we had already identified the music, and they had made the other assets used in the video (including name tags and the credits screens). I contributed some video and photographs to the video as I was one of the cameramen that helped with documenting the project throughout the semester. In the video I added in scene and asset transitions, looped and softened the music as appropriate, and made sure nothing was rushed.

All said, I am extraordinarily proud of how everything turned out.

A photograph I took of the Center for Visual Arts. This photo was taken nearby the street and is framed by the early spring greenery which landscapes the Toledo Museum of Art's grounds.

Ambassador and Documentarian

My main role in the design team was to upkeep documentation about what everyone was doing in their roles, taking photographs and and videos for the class, and communicating with the curatorial class. Later on, I worked on the aforementioned documentation video.

The Favicon

Our professor wanted us to have a favicon to go along with the website. For the uninitiated, a favicon is a tiny little icon that goes along with one's website.

For the Birds in Art exhibition, I absolutely jumped on the idea of making it and began to do so the moment I leaned what a favicon was.

The favicon I made was of the little parakeet featured in "Young Lady with a Bird and a Dog" by John Singleton Copley, which is one of the paintings featured in the show.

This is a screenshot of the birdstma dot org website name. On the left of it is the favicon, which is appropriately tiny.

This is a screenshot of a small section from John Singleton Copley's "Young Lady with a Bird and a Dog" painting. The part that I'm sharing here is specifically of the parakeet bird. It is perched on a blue ribbon that is tied to an appropriately antique Victorian fancy chair.

This is the same parakeet but now featuring a circular pumpkin-orange background.

This is an alternate parakeet (the bird looks the same) with a different background color. It is undeniably khaki.

This darling parakeet, who I must stress looks the same and just has a circular background added, now has a slightly mute yet cool blue. This version of the favicon was the one that we used for the website.

I was enamored by this little parakeet once I spotted it because it is simply so utterly tiny in the frame of the painting. And what a way to draw attention to this tiny bird than by repainting it and making it so utterly tiny as a favicon.

I digitally painted the bird using Adobe Photoshop and gave it a few different background color options. I chose the blue as it was the established pleasant compliment to the otherwise brown earth-toned show.