Your Dentist Will See You Now: Art & Dentistry at UCSF

September 17, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Marissa Nadeau (MA, 2018) This summer, I’ve had the opportunity to work as a Curatorial Intern with UCSF Library’s Archives and Special Collectionson the upcoming exhibition, Open Wide: 500 Years in Dentistry.  Considered a traveling exhibition, Open Wide…was originally presented at the University of Buffalo (UB) Anderson Gallery.  The collector whose works lined the walls, Dr. Morton G. Rivo, is an alumnus of the school, and is currently a retired periodontist living in California.   Dr. Rivo is a periodontist, […]

Categories: Exhibits, internships, Museum Studies • Tags: art, curating, design, exhibit, internships, USF Museum Studies

Open-source databases, podcasts and lectures: How a local historical society stays local but reaches far

September 10, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Andrew Armstrong (MA, 2018) As a recent expat Midwesterner, living in the Bay Area for less than a full calendar year, my awareness and knowledge of the city of San Francisco was little more than my commute to campus, and the Golden Gate Bridge. I wanted to change that, and learn as much as I could about my surrounding and the city I now live in. Therefore in Summer 2018 I decided to intern at the Western Neighborhoods Project here in San […]

Categories: Alumni, internships, Museum Studies • Tags: California history, collections, internships, photography, technology, USF Museum Studies

Intern-connectivity: Magic Moments at the Museum of Craft and Design

August 27, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Emma Doctors (MA, 2018) “I want to touch that!” is what Assistant Curator Ariel Zaccheo remembered thinking during her first trip to a museum storage facility in Utah. She witnessed a curator don the iconic white Nitrile gloves (commonly used to protect artwork from natural oils on our hands) and inspect a work of art in the collection. She was hooked. I had the recent opportunity to sit down with Ariel to talk about her “magic moments” and creative […]

Categories: Alumni, Community, Exhibits, internships, Museum Studies • Tags: art, curating, design, exhibit, internships, USF Museum Studies

“Crabtivating” curation and digitization in a pinch at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

August 20, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Alice Fornari (MA, 2018) In Summer 2018, I moved to the Washington DC area to begin a contract at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, working to digitize and curate Crabs in the Smithsonian’s offsite collection facility (Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland).  The Brachyuran Curation and Inventory Project is an undertaking a few years in the making in the Invertebrate Zoology department of the Smithsonian Institution, and has allowed for several contractors to have a hand in making […]

Categories: internships, Museum Studies • Tags: collections, internships, nature, science, students, technology, USF Museum Studies

Quarantine and Eradication: San Francisco and the Plague exhibition opens at the SF History Center

August 13, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Leslie Lombre  (MA, Museum Studies 2017) Quarantine and Eradication: San Francisco and the Plague is the current exhibition featured at the Daniel E. Koshland San Francisco History Center on the 6thfloor of the Main Branch of the San Francisco Library.  In my role assisting in the research and preparation of the exhibit during Spring and Summer of 2018 in tandem with my completion of my MA in Museum Studies, I delved into the 2 million object photo collection, the digitized catalog […]

Categories: Alumni, Community, Exhibits, Museum Studies, Social Justice • Tags: Alumni, California history, exhibit, library, photography, USF Museum Studies

Black Panther, Oracle and Chanel: A Trip to the Letterform Archive

August 6, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Brienne Wong (MA, 2018) During my tenure as the Library Intern at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the Spring of 2018, I went with the staff of the museum’s Library and Archives Department on a field trip to the Letterform Archive. According to their website, “the Letterform Archive is a nonprofit organization for inspiration, education, publishing, and community.”[1]They collect and provide access to objects related to typography, graphic design and lettering. It was founded by Rob […]

Categories: internships, Museum Studies, Site Visits • Tags: art, collections, design, internships, library, USF Museum Studies

Alumni Connect: Open Wide

July 9, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

Editors’ Note:  Last month, Museum Studies alumna Sabrina Oliveros (MA, 2015) shared her experiences at the San Francisco Maritime Museum.  We continue to fill in our community on Sabrina’s adventures in the world of curating by re-posting the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Archives and Special Collections’ announcement about Sabrina’s next upcoming exhibition.  Congratulations Sabrina, as well as MSGA President Marissa Nadeau who is working with Sabrina on this exhibition over the summer. To read the original post, click […]

Categories: Alumni, Collaborations, Exhibits, Interviews • Tags: Alumni, curating, history

Alumni Connect: Bright Stage at the deYoung Museum

June 25, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

We congratulate USF Museum Studies alumna Fernanda Partida Ochoa (MA, 2017) for her work assisting artist Ranu Mukherjee on the production, planning and coordination of  Mukherjee’s new installation at the Deyoung Museum which opens on July 14 in Wilsey Court.  It will remain on view until January 20, 2019. Mukherjee is a San Francisco-based artist who creates video installations, bodies of drawing and painting and collaborative projects that have to date included choreography, pirate radio, procession, exhibition and book making.  She […]

Categories: Alumni, Exhibits, Museum Studies • Tags: Alumni, art, curating, DeYoung Museum, USF Museum Studies

Alumni Connect: San Francisco Maritime Museum

June 18, 2018 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

By Sabrina L. Oliveros (MA, 2015) Last year, I immersed myself in a research project for the San Francisco Maritime Museum. The job had me diving into its building’s earliest years, when the ship-shaped structure on Aquatic Park Cove was anything buta museum. Constructed through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). from 1936 to 1939, the building was meant to be the recreational center for Aquatic Park: decked with lounges, restaurants, and amenities for the public to use. Newspapers heralded it […]

Categories: Alumni, Museum Studies • Tags: Alumni, art, California history, research, USF Museum Studies