For the past month and a half, I have been working as Exhibitions Intern for the Bates Museum of Art. My work has consisted of researching the artists that the museum will feature in upcoming…
My internship at the Bates Museum of Art has been educational and informative and has opened my eyes to the ways in which museums operate. It has exceeded my expectations in regard to museum work,…
So far this semester, my involvement in the installation process of Lesley Dill’s exhibition, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me, was one of the most influential experiences I have had working at the Bates Museum of…
Much of my everyday work as the Collections Management Intern at the Bates Museum of Art consists of cataloging pieces received by the Museum into our EmbARK database. In 2013, the museum was gifted a…
Finding myself already in the middle of this semester it’s nice to have the opportunity to look back and reflect on what I’ve accomplished and learned thus far. Given the task of researching the artists…
As someone who is hoping to pursue a career in the art industry, working as an Exhibitions Intern at the Bates College Museum of Art has given me exposure to the process and challenges of…
Working as an exhibition intern with the Bates Museum of Art has been a highly rewarding, educational, and enjoyable experience. My internship has focused on researching the incredible collection of photographs kindly gifted to the…
So far, my time as an exhibitions intern alongside Grace Devine, Julia Oliver, and Laura Littlefield has been incredibly fruitful. Although I had previous experience in art education when I entered this internship, I never…
I have had the utmost pleasure of working as an intern with the Bates Museum of Art this Fall. My fellow intern, Sophie Cappello, and I were presented almost immediately with our task for the…
Reflecting on my internship involvement at the Bates Museum of Art, I can truthfully describe my experience as a positive one. This program offered me opportunities to exercise my writing, critical thinking, and research abilities…
My work at the Bates College Museum of Art started as a way to gauge my interest in the field as a future career. I was, and still am to a degree, uncertain about what…
I had an awesome semester at the Museum. It commenced with a research project on recently donated work from the Jane Costello Wellehan Collection (see our previous post). For the latter half of our internship,…
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a Bates Museum Intern this fall. Although it was not a normal semester, by any means, I still found myself engaged and surprised by all the wonderful opportunities…
Our first internship weeks were marked with an extensive research project on approximately 50 artists, many who have some relationship with Maine. Their objects were generously donated to the Bates Museum of Art’s permanent collection…
When I was creating my presentation for Rollin’ to Olin, a program the museum offers annually for all Lewiston 4th-graders, I came across an amazing painting. I was in awe of its composition, subject matter,…
I have greatly enjoyed being involved in the Bates Museum of Art and working as the Museum Education Intern this winter. I have had so many wonderful opportunities, from helping with block printing workshops to…
Chenoweth Hall was a musician, sculptor, writer, painter, and art professor who has over a dozen pieces in Bates College Museum of Art’s collection. Hall was truly a woman of the arts, having played violin…
Many times, in my years at Bates thus far, I have thought to myself, “How did I end up in Lewiston, ME? I am not at all disparaging the school that I have called home…
As a Collections Management intern at Bates Museum of Art, I spent most of my time interacting directly with works of art: observing them, describing them, and cataloging them. For the majority of the time…
As a Collections Management Intern with the Bates College Museum of Art, I examine works of art that the museum has acquired quite closely, and I get to see a lot of interesting things. Recently,…
For my internship at the Bates College Museum of Art I was involved with educational programming, working under the Education Fellow Abigail Abbott who upheld the position. Museum studies, a field I had recently been…
The pieces that come through the Bates College Museum of Art are diverse to say the least. As a Collections Management Intern, I have seen a variety of pieces that were acquired through donations, as…
This semester as a Collections Intern, I’ve spent a lot of time accessioning and cataloging donations or museum purchases and adding them to the database. In doing this, much of my time was also spent…
Upon working on the exhibition, Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era, I found the topic of place to be quite common in the artists’ interests. Many of the artists emphasize their…
My name is Katie Bull and I am a senior sociology major at Bates. I am the education intern at the Bates Museum of Art and have learned so much from working at the museum…
Categorizing items and managing databases are things I had been doing extensively prior to being an intern at the Bates Museum of Art, and an opportunity to apply these skills to art was something I…
My name is Calvin, I’m a senior, and I spent the Winter semester here at the Bates Museum of Art interning as a curatorial assistant to Dan Mills. Before I go into detail about what…
We are rapping about landscape this week. Students wrote poetry that made them think about colors in a landscape. How does a color taste, feel like, smell like? We all started with a piece of…
As the winter semester winds up and the internship concludes, I realized I would have never known about the different roles and jobs in a museum and how they collaboratively optimize its functions and performances,…
For my blog, I interviewed the senior studio art majors during the Senior Thesis show on Friday, April 6, 2018. Saleha Belgaumi “I’m not inspired piece by piece, I just make work as part of…
Over the past year, I have been working with the museum’s director, Dan Mills, as a curatorial intern for the exhibition, Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era. This exhibition, which highlights…
Being the Art Museum’s Collections Management Intern for the semester has been nothing but fascinating. Getting the opportunity to explore a recent acquisition of Vietnamese and African pieces, with similarities to the collections at the…
Since I started working as an Education Intern at the Bates College Museum of Art, I have been thinking quite a bit about what the function of a museum is. In my very first few…
Going into this internship, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I could assume, I could hope, I could believe that I wasn’t going to be in over my head. But what I really didn’t…
This fall semester I worked as a Collections Management Intern for the Bates College Museum of Art. I am interesting in pursuing a career in museum work, and being able to learn from Corie Audette,…
A recent exhibition at the Bates Museum of Art titled “In Yor Way,” focused on Kate Gilmore, a feminist performance artist famous for her videos that depict women struggling against a barrier. For example, Kate…
Two and a half months in the making but it’s finally here! The video of Nugamshi’s Lewiston, ME visit. Nugamshi is a celebrated Saudi Arab artist that was part of our curated show “Phantom…
Jefferson Pinder, Music Missionaries Art is like the metamorphosis of a butterfly. It starts with an idea and transforms itself into something unique and beautiful. Like a butterfly, sometimes the physical transformation can…
As an Educational and Interpretive Programming Intern, I am taking on the role to develop education programming at the Bates Museum of Art. I am thankful to be working with the Education Curator at…
As a Collections Management intern, my main tasks include registering museum pieces into the database embARK. I am gaining exposure to artists and finding new favorites every time I come in. I added a piece…
With my fall semester as an intern for the Bates College Museum of Art completed and the year 2016 behind us, I would like to start this post with acknowledging just how amazing the staff…
During opening weekend of Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Lewiston at the Bates College Museum of Art, I had the pleasure of meeting contemporary Saudi artist Nouf Alhimiary to speak about her…
This fall semester I worked with the Bates College Museum of Art curating the show, Phantom Punch, which exclusively includes artwork from young, contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia. I was immediately drawn into the project and…
As a curatorial intern in the Bates College Museum of Art, my main task thus far has been to research female performance artists to use as background for an upcoming exhibition by Kate Gilmore. Gilmore,…
It is difficult to revive a project that has been inactive for a year, however, having the resilient spirit of Bates College, we decided to undertake the project of revamping our blog, through the lens…
For the past month and a half, I have been working as Exhibitions Intern for the Bates Museum of Art. My work has consisted of researching the artists that the museum will feature in upcoming…
My internship at the Bates Museum of Art has been educational and informative and has opened my eyes to the ways in which museums operate. It has exceeded my expectations in regard to museum work,…
So far this semester, my involvement in the installation process of Lesley Dill’s exhibition, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me, was one of the most influential experiences I have had working at the Bates Museum of…
Much of my everyday work as the Collections Management Intern at the Bates Museum of Art consists of cataloging pieces received by the Museum into our EmbARK database. In 2013, the museum was gifted a…
Finding myself already in the middle of this semester it’s nice to have the opportunity to look back and reflect on what I’ve accomplished and learned thus far. Given the task of researching the artists…
As someone who is hoping to pursue a career in the art industry, working as an Exhibitions Intern at the Bates College Museum of Art has given me exposure to the process and challenges of…
Working as an exhibition intern with the Bates Museum of Art has been a highly rewarding, educational, and enjoyable experience. My internship has focused on researching the incredible collection of photographs kindly gifted to the…
So far, my time as an exhibitions intern alongside Grace Devine, Julia Oliver, and Laura Littlefield has been incredibly fruitful. Although I had previous experience in art education when I entered this internship, I never…
I have had the utmost pleasure of working as an intern with the Bates Museum of Art this Fall. My fellow intern, Sophie Cappello, and I were presented almost immediately with our task for the…
Reflecting on my internship involvement at the Bates Museum of Art, I can truthfully describe my experience as a positive one. This program offered me opportunities to exercise my writing, critical thinking, and research abilities…
My work at the Bates College Museum of Art started as a way to gauge my interest in the field as a future career. I was, and still am to a degree, uncertain about what…
I had an awesome semester at the Museum. It commenced with a research project on recently donated work from the Jane Costello Wellehan Collection (see our previous post). For the latter half of our internship,…
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a Bates Museum Intern this fall. Although it was not a normal semester, by any means, I still found myself engaged and surprised by all the wonderful opportunities…
Our first internship weeks were marked with an extensive research project on approximately 50 artists, many who have some relationship with Maine. Their objects were generously donated to the Bates Museum of Art’s permanent collection…
When I was creating my presentation for Rollin’ to Olin, a program the museum offers annually for all Lewiston 4th-graders, I came across an amazing painting. I was in awe of its composition, subject matter,…
I have greatly enjoyed being involved in the Bates Museum of Art and working as the Museum Education Intern this winter. I have had so many wonderful opportunities, from helping with block printing workshops to…
Chenoweth Hall was a musician, sculptor, writer, painter, and art professor who has over a dozen pieces in Bates College Museum of Art’s collection. Hall was truly a woman of the arts, having played violin…
Many times, in my years at Bates thus far, I have thought to myself, “How did I end up in Lewiston, ME? I am not at all disparaging the school that I have called home…
As a Collections Management intern at Bates Museum of Art, I spent most of my time interacting directly with works of art: observing them, describing them, and cataloging them. For the majority of the time…
As a Collections Management Intern with the Bates College Museum of Art, I examine works of art that the museum has acquired quite closely, and I get to see a lot of interesting things. Recently,…
The pieces that come through the Bates College Museum of Art are diverse to say the least. As a Collections Management Intern, I have seen a variety of pieces that were acquired through donations, as…
Two and a half months in the making but it’s finally here! The video of Nugamshi’s Lewiston, ME visit. Nugamshi is a celebrated Saudi Arab artist that was part of our curated show “Phantom…
Jefferson Pinder, Music Missionaries Art is like the metamorphosis of a butterfly. It starts with an idea and transforms itself into something unique and beautiful. Like a butterfly, sometimes the physical transformation can…
As an Educational and Interpretive Programming Intern, I am taking on the role to develop education programming at the Bates Museum of Art. I am thankful to be working with the Education Curator at…
As a Collections Management intern, my main tasks include registering museum pieces into the database embARK. I am gaining exposure to artists and finding new favorites every time I come in. I added a piece…
With my fall semester as an intern for the Bates College Museum of Art completed and the year 2016 behind us, I would like to start this post with acknowledging just how amazing the staff…
During opening weekend of Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Lewiston at the Bates College Museum of Art, I had the pleasure of meeting contemporary Saudi artist Nouf Alhimiary to speak about her…
This fall semester I worked with the Bates College Museum of Art curating the show, Phantom Punch, which exclusively includes artwork from young, contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia. I was immediately drawn into the project and…
As a curatorial intern in the Bates College Museum of Art, my main task thus far has been to research female performance artists to use as background for an upcoming exhibition by Kate Gilmore. Gilmore,…
It is difficult to revive a project that has been inactive for a year, however, having the resilient spirit of Bates College, we decided to undertake the project of revamping our blog, through the lens…