On Thursday and Friday afternoons you can find me at a picnic table by the museum entrance offering a family craft activity as part of a larger visitor experience initiative, providing more interactive experiences on some of the days with higher visitation. On Thursday afternoon there were no children at the museum who might have been interested in such an activity (school has not yet let out and the tourist season is only really just starting), so instead I sat and watched the men from the boat shop start to cut the mast for a boat they are restoring. They were only finishing squaring the second side of the tree trunk by the time I called it quits and headed back inside.
This afternoon I finally had some takers, though! I helped seven kids make personalized labels for their own oyster cans which might sound like a random art project, but today actual oyster cans from the Chesapeake are highly collectible. In fact, there is a large wall of such cans in the Oystering on the Bay exhibition; the differences in color, picture, and design is rather mesmerizing! I made a sample label that I called "Jumpin' Jill's FRESH Oysters," stressing the status and perceived elegance of someone who might want to buy my canned oysters. Who doesn't want to color outside on a beautiful day, though?
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