Curatorial intern Santana Nash writes about her research on artist William Anderson Jr. and creating a video so that others might get to know his work, too.
The Georgia Museum of Art enriches the education of many students at the University of Georgia. Each semester the museum offers internship and work-study opportunities to provide students with unique and behind-the-scenes experiences of museum life. The following students have worked with us between summer 2019 to spring 2020. Some have graduated or will be reaching that milestone in a few days, while others will return. We're incredibly grateful for their dedication and hard work.
Since his tenure at the Georgia Museum of Art began, in 2010, Dale Couch has supervised, mentored and learned from a series of student interns for the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, most of whom have been UGA students, both graduate and undergraduate. This program, which has alums now occupying a wide variety of fields — both in the art world and beyond — has been “an unqualified success,” according to Couch.
Valeria Serrano (AB, ’15) interned at the Georgia Museum of Art in two different departments while an undergraduate at UGA, putting in a full year of work learning how museums operate and discovering that she wanted to continue in the field.
Linnea West (AB ’06, MA ’15) interned at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia as an undergraduate majoring in English, working on museum publications. It was during that process that she figured out what she wanted to do with her life, and her experiential learning at the museum gave her the skills to make it happen. West received a Fulbright Scholarship to research contemporary Hungarian art and national identity at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest in 2012–13 before being hired to coordinate the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives Program at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She recently moved to Philadelphia, to become manager of adult public programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The University of Georgia now offers a certificate in the discipline. For anyone interested in working in museums — whether they be related to art, history, science or anything else — this is a program I would highly recommend checking out.
One of our former public relations interns, Samantha Meyer, recently took the time to write about how her internship with the Georgia Museum of Art helped her find her ideal career path. Meyer is currently the lead career consultant for the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
