Starting in late May

It was a bit complex for me to earn this internship position in Education Department of Crow Collection Asian Art.

After the meeting with Laura and other interns in art building on the first day of May, I was still waiting for the response about the internship from Crow Collection of Asian Art. Until May 21, I got through the first meeting about my internship. The meeting went great, and I got the intern position eventually. Literally I didn’t start the internship until May 26.

Mentioning about the process of getting the job, I have to bring in a long story about getting the position there that made me a bit stressed out.

In the month of April, I first applied for the interview of paid part time position of gallery educator in Crow Collection. Fortunately, I got passed on the interview and was offered the position with a year contract. However, I had to refused the offer since later I figured out that I cant keep both jobs from Campus and Off-campus as international students. Luckily the Crow internship department agreed to change my part-time position into unpaid internship position. Then I have a long period of time waiting for response of starting date of internship. Well, I learnt from this time that I have to keep myself patient enough for waiting.

The last week of May was my first starting week of my internship. In that week, I got my To Do List over the summer from my supervisor, which including attending staff meeting, department meeting, brain storming of activities, proposing evaluation tools and participating on Fridays “After Dark” and Saturdays “Adventure Asia” events. Through out this summer, I also have the other two big projects that I need to totally take care of, curating Printmaking Exhibition of East West Exchange Artist Residency and making visual promotional documentation video of Education Programing.

The education programing is still very fresh and new for this small museum team, but I can feel the motivation from every staff member and the potential growing opportunities for my own ability and capacity of work. At the end of week, all staff members went to dinosaur state park for team hiking. I got praised from my supervisor when we had group conclusion.