Planning a School Wide Art Event - Preliminary Planning

I spent 5 years planning literary events for two different bookstores (McNally Robinson in Saskatoon and Books and Co here) and I rarely had to confer with anyone other than the author, or sometimes an author representative from publishing house, which made planning easy.  But planning events by committee is far more complicated because everyone has an opinion and wants their ideas to be heard and valued.

Based on our discussions in and out of class, planning a school wide event can become very complicated, but the process of planning is a valuable exercise if only because ideas that may not be apparent to the original person who proposes the event are brought forward.

For example, deciding on how the event will be shaped (how many pieces of art per class, where it will be held and when) can be fraught with complications if one party is inflexible and feels their ideas should be given more importance or if someone on the committee is unwilling to change simply because that is the way it has always been done.  However, as with anything done by committee, if things are run on a consensus model, where everyone has a chance to put forward ideas, things run more smoothly.

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