A masterpiece of a board game: Be an art expert with Curator7 The Daily Tar Heel Monday, December 5, 19885 Campus Calendar Monday By DAVID ABERNATHY Staff Writer Ackland Art Museum is closed for renovation, but you can still get an excellent tour of the museum and learn about art without stepping over construc - tion materials. In fact, you don even have to go inside. .. "Curator: A Museum Adventure in Collecting Art" is a new board game based on the blueprint for Ackland's new floor plan and the works of art contained in the museum. Curator, a category game -similar to Trivial Pursuit, was ..designed to teach students and oth t.ers about art and art galleries. It gives you information about difficult. "I was concerned because the questions are not easy," Williams said. "They are specific, serious questions. It's not just a little kiddy game." The game was designed by Wood ward and Hopkins, a graphic design agency in Durham. Curator was funded primarily through grants, including one from the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties Inc., and a contri bution through the Fund for South ern Communities, One thousand copies of the game are being printed, with 300 copies of the game being distributed to local schools. The remaining copies will be sold through the museum. 4 p.m. The Lab Theatre will present " Tis Pity She's A Whore" in 06 Graham Memorial. Admission is free. Sign up sheets available in Graham Memorial. Walk for Humanity will have an organiza tional meeting in the Campus Y Lounge. All interested are encour aged to attend. 7 p.m. GAIA, the Global Issue Committee of the Campus Y will host a talk by Dr. Larry Shirley, Director of the N.C. Solar Cen ter, on "The Prospects of Solar Energy" in the Campus Y Lounge. Circle K will hold its end of the semester meeting in 210 Union. Pizza and drinks will be served. 7:30 p.m. Amnesty Interna tional will hold its monthly meeting at the Newman Center, 218 Pittsboro St. Meeting will focus on sending holiday messages to . prisoners of conscience worldwide. 8 p.m. The Lab Theatre . ' will present " Tis Pity She's a Whore" in 06 Graham Memorial. 8:30 p.m. Fellowship of Christian Athletes will hold "Talent Night" in 208-209 Union. All are welcome! Items of Interest Campus Y Student Environmental Action Coali tion will be collecting old phone books throughout campus until Dec. 8. If you live off-campus and have an old phone book, you can drop it off at the Campus Y. Help save a tree! . ;how galleries work and what art dealers do, said Ray Williams, i.Ackland's Curator of Education and :the creator of the game. I' In the game, players become cura Vtors who move through the floor plan of Ackland Museum and try to .. collect five color reproductions of art works in one of seven categories. . Categories include Ancient Greek .-and Roman works and 19th Century !? French works. The first curator to ; collect five works is ready to install ,a gallery and wins the game. When players land on certain squares, they try to answer questions -about some of the works. Many of the answers come from observing the reproductions. "The point of the questions is to . make sure the players collect works of art, not just a category," Williams said. Players also encounter risk cards during the game. These cards can , provide information for questions, ,' allow players to move to a certain ' gallery or impose a penalty. Penal , ties include such things as missing a ,turn and returning to the entrance .while you eat your snack. Another feature of the game is the art storage square. When players , land on this square, they are allowed to take a card from the discard pile. Williams said this addition to the . , game resulted from his family's frus ; tration when other players discarded r " the cards they needed. "My mother was so frustrated," .Williams said. "She got so bent out of shape that I made the art storage square." . Williams has been working on the game for more than a year. He felt it ! would be a good way to keep up interest in Ackland 's collection dur ing renovation. k ' - v. "I was brainstorming on ways to iv keep the collection accessible," Willi- .. ams said. "Since we are closed, it's a real challenge to see how we can make the collection as accessible as possible." The game has been field tested in Triangle public schools, as well as , by an advisory committee that Willi . ams created. "We learned a lot from it," Willi ams said. "We were able to make some changes." Even though minor changes were ... required, no major overhaul was needed. 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