Hello
Everyone! I’m Christianna Reyes, an Art Education Master’s student who is also
getting the certificate in Museum Education. This week I have started my internship
at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art along with Megan Police, another Art
Education Master’s student. For the last 2 years I have been both an intern and adjunct educator at the Dallas
Museum of Art in the Center for Creative Connections, so being at the MADI will
give me experience in a small scale museum. Because I am so used to being at the DMA, an intial challenge I could see is that I have to get used to this new space, but so far it has been very interesting and I've had no problem at all. Understanding how this museum is run and meeting all of the staff that make it possible is the first thing I would
like to accomplish.
I am also
excited to be at the MADI because I will get to create and help facilitate a sensory program for
the main gallery space. After meeting with the
director of the MADI, I learned that school groups frequently visit, so I think
this will be the target audience for my program. However, I would love to make
it available to all museum visitors. I have previously worked with sensory programming at the DMA, but this will be my first time creating a program from scratch and getting to facilitate it myself. My overall goal for the summer is to
successfully create a program that is beneficial to visitor experience.
So far Megan and I have already done a lot over the last three days. We have helped
finish up a grant proposal for an upcoming event at the MADI and in the process
got to learn about the history of the museum as well as those who help run it.
We also got to photograph some of the museum’s permanent collection for the
grant which was pretty fun too!!
Our next day is Saturday where the staff will show us how tours are conducted. Then next week we learn more about the process of restoring one of the pieces in the museum’s collection!
It looks like
we will be doing a little bit of everything at the MADI, so I am super excited
to see what happens over the summer!
Hooray! I am thrilled to hear that your first few days at the MADI have made for a smooth transition for you from big museum to small museum. I am excited to see how you like wearing many and varied hats this summer!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that you are getting to create and facilitate your sensory program! It will be very interesting for you to compare the process from conceiving of it at the DMA and hoping to get it started there, to being able to pilot it at the MADI!
Its really cool that y'all are getting to do so many different types of things for the MADI to get a really full museum experience along with creating a sensory program, I hope everything is going well! :)
ReplyDeleteI am so envious of you and Megan! This sounds exciting to be working with such a small and specialized collection. The methods you will be learning about conservation is always an exciting process. Can't wait to see what happens!
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