This post is from second-year Museology student, Ginger McCormick. Ginger explains about the online exhibit she created for a class she took that focused on archaeological looting and loss. Let’s Wrap This Up: The World’s Fascination of Egypt & the effects it had on looting For Archaeology 512: Looting & Loss, I created this digital exhibit to dive into the messy and often uncomfortable realities of looting and how museums have been part of that story. This class gave me…
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Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part III)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the third of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by second-year Museology student Marcela Velandia. Inspiration and passion have been a central part of my life since…
Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part II)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the second of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by Mirka Jablonski, M.Ed. Kim is Museology Guest Faculty and is also a partner at Upper Left Projects….
Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part I)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the first of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by Kim Aziz, M.Ed. Kim is Museology Guest Faculty and is also the co-founder of Upper Left Projects….
Internship spotlight – Yanyue Guan
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Yanyue Guan (’25) about her internship experience at the China Cultural Relics Information Consulting Center. What organization did you intern with and what you did in your internship? During the summer, I returned to China and interned at the China Cultural Relics Information Consulting Center (CCRICC). During my internship, I participated in a collaborative project between CCRICC and…
Internship spotlight – Ash Gingery
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Ash Gingery (’25) about their internship experience at the Museum of Pop Culture. What organization did you intern with and what you do in your internship? I was lucky to have the opportunity to intern in the collections department of the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). My project centered on a sub-collection of materials related to the history…
Internship spotlight – Emily Shields
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Emily Shields (’25) about her internship experience at the National Nordic Museum. What organization did you intern with and what did you do in your internship? I interned with the National Nordic Museum (NNM) in their Collections department. My role was to assist with collection operations, primarily cataloging some accessions. This meant creating digital catalog records by numbering…
Internship Spotlight – Amanda Rodgers
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Amanda Rodgers (’25) writes about her internship experience at the Pacific Bonsai Museum. From January to June of 2024, I was a Community Engagement Intern for the Pacific Bonsai Museum (PBM) in Federal Way, Washington. I was drawn to this internship for two main reasons: first of all, I’m particularly interested in what it looks like to display cultural practices—such as the cultivation and care of bonsai…
MOHAI Curator’s Fellowship – Polly Yorioka
For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Polly Yorioka (’24) about her position as MOHAI’s third annual Curator’s Fellow. 1. Tell me more about yourself. My name is Polly Yorioka and I grew up in the Seattle area. My dad’s side of the family are Japanese American and have lived here since the 1900s. My background is in classics. I studied classical Greece and ancient Rome, but then I got more interested in…
Internship Spotlight – Michelle Villagomez
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Michelle Villagomez (’25) about her internship experience at the Fishbowl Gallery. What organization did you intern with, and what did you do in your internship? Why did you decide to intern there? My internship was at the Fishbowl, an art gallery which provides space for QTBIPOC artists (Queer, Transgender, Black, Indigenous and People of Color). This gallery was…