Alumni Connect: Center for the Arts & Religion in Berkeley

April 15, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

Editors’ note:  For this edition of USF Museum Studies’ Alumni Connect, we were pleased to catch up with Lydia Webster (MA, 2017) who is blazing trails a the Graduate Theological Union as Assistant Curator of the Center for the Arts & Religion in Berkeley, Lydia, who is originally from Scotland, moved to California in 2016 to pursue her MA at University of San Francisco. Museum curators are often seen as the arbiters of knowledge: those who decide what narratives will […]

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MSGA welcomes 2019 officers!

April 8, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

Last November, the University of San Francisco Museum Studies Graduate Association — now in its sixth year — elected new officers for the 2019 calendar year. So far, the four officers — Libby, Ginger, Mackenzie, and Mauricio — have been working on increasing MSGA’s social media presence, scheduling speakers and events, and augmenting MSGA’s operating budget. All four are excited about the opportunity to serve MSGA throughout the year. The MSGA officers would also like to thank Nathan Dennis, MSGA’s […]

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Alumni Connect: Young Audiences of Northern California

April 1, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Emily Katz (MA, 2017) Editors’ Note: For this edition of Alumni Connect, we interviewed alumna Emily Katz who currently works full-time for Young Audiences of Northern California here in San Francisco. Emily originally hails from Nebraska and moved to San Francisco for her studies at University of San Francisco. She described to us the profound personal satisfaction of working to bring arts to young people and why she is so committed to her work.   It’s critical to firmly […]

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Intern-connectivity: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego/Tijuana

March 18, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Jennifer Cha (MA, 2018) The Art Center of La Jolla was founded in 1941 and after several rebranding name changes, became the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego where I interned in the registration department in Summer 2018. These name changes not only signified the promise to serve the greater San Diego area by adding two downtown locations to its campus, but to also serve the diverse audience of the greater San Diego region through the addition of the […]

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Intern-connectivity: The Joy of Cookbooks at The American Bookbinders Museum

March 11, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Nicoline Meyer (MA, 2018) Located in the heart of San Francisco’s cultural center, The American Bookbinders Museum (ABM) is dedicated to the craft and process of bookbinding, as well as the lives of bookbinders, and is the only museum of its type in North America. The ABM’s collection features historic bookbinding tools and machinery, books bound in representative binding styles, and ephemera relating to binding in San Francisco and the United States. As a self-taught bookbinder, I was delighted to […]

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Alumni Connect: The Museum in Transition

March 4, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

By Shabnam Shermatova (MA, 2016) Editors’ note:  This fall Museum Studies alumna Shabnam Shermatova received a prestigious grant from the V-A-C Foundation to attend the International Committee for Museums of Modern Art Annual Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Below are her reflections on the experience of discussing the transforming museum landscape with other emerging museum professionals from throughout the world.  To read more about CIMAM, click here.  Shabnam currently holds the position of curator at the National Museum of Tajikistan and […]

Categories: Alumni, Museum Studies • Tags: Alumni, art, curating, global, professional development, travel, USF Museum Studies

Intern-connectivity: Montalvo Arts Center and An Homage to the Loss of Songbirds

February 25, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Valerie Wainwright (MA, 2018) The Lucas Artists Program (LAP) at Montalvo Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary artists residency program in the South Bay that welcomes writers, composers, choreographers, visual, multi-media, performance and culinary artists. LAP Fellows are granted three months of residency time which they may use however they like over a period of three years. The Art on the Grounds. program is the most visible manifestation of the program. I’ve always loved environmental art, from the magnificent fountains and […]

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Intern-connectivity: Narratives of the Past at the National Japanese American Historical Society

February 18, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Michael Reyes (MA, 2018) Editors’ note:  Tomorrow marks the 76th Anniversary of new-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s signing of executive order 9066, authorizing the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.  In honor of this sober anniversary, we bring you alumnus Michael Reyes’ reflections on what he learned about Japanese American patriotism during his 2018 summer internship at the National Japanese American Historical Society. –museumstudiesblog   The seemingly bland gray box with black metal […]

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Intern-connectivity: Art Works Downtown, San Rafael

February 11, 2019 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by Rebecca Simoneaux (MA, 2019) I was raised in the town of San Rafael California, located just north of of San Francisco, in scenic Marin County. While San Francisco maintains a reputation for being a vibrant city, rich in multiculturalism and the arts, Marin is also home to a variety of arts organizations that provide the county with a rich artistic culture in its own right. In fact, organizations such as Art Works Downtown have helped shape San Rafael into a […]

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