Thesis Advice and Slight Progress Update! :)

 Good morning everyone!!

The semester has been picking up speed and that hasn't helped my scattered brain really prepare to climb the massive mountain that sits in front of me that is this thesis exhibition. Rather than having a bunch of updates on what I am doing I more so have advice... DON'T BE AFRAID TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO HELP!!! I have had the pleasure of working with the curator of the Watts Museum at the University of West Virginia to include some editorial cartoons from a traveling exhibition on the Mine Wars of West Virginia designed to commemorate the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed uprising in American History since the Civil War, for those who are unfamiliar, thanks to the people at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV who I reached out to and got me in contact with her. Make this a project you love to have in your portfolio and reach out to anyone who you think could help make it exactly that; something you love. As for my thesis exhibition itself, finding a location has been the biggest struggle but struggle is a part of the process; nothing good comes easy. Overall not much has changed since my last update just a constant brainstorm that would probably give anyone who could hear the inside of my brain a heart attack as well as some object curation which I will not be sharing because that's spoilers! Also, literature review is due Tuesday and I don't know about everyone else but to me that is absolutely TERRIFYING so keep pushing forward and make this something you're proud to talk about!!