Spring 2019
Annie Abernathy
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Annie Abernathy worked as a Curatorial Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She conducted preliminary research for an upcoming exhibition concerning art and economic inequality. Her compilation of sources and brief artists descriptions will aid curators and docents as the exhibition develops.
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Adia Augustine
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Adia interned with University Library System’s Archives & Special Collections this past semester. She assisted with processing and organizing the Kuntu Repertory Theatre Collection. This collection contains the archives of a theatre company associated with Pitt’s Africana Studies Department that was active for 39 years and produced over 300 productions.
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Michelle Bachy
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Michelle worked under the supervision of Matthew Lamanna at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the Vertebrate Paleontology Department. She assisted in the conservational work of 50 million year old fossils from the Eocene period. She also transcribed and maintained mid-20th century curatorial documents for the department. By performing these responsibilities, Michelle developed her curatorial and conservation skills, better preparing her for work in the field and in museum environments.
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Lisa Canavan
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Lisa Canavan interned at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Brooke Sansosti, Digitization and Special Projects Lead. She helped digitize the Pittsburgh Photographic Library archive and created an exhibition titled Men’s Work/Women’s Work that will be on view in the library’s Gallery@Main in July.
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Gillian carver
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
As the Ethics Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH), Gillian was in charge of researching ethical standards for natural history museums and understanding how ethical guidelines impact departmental operations across CMNH so that the museum’s Ethics Code can be updated as part of their ongoing American Association of Museums (AAM) reaccredited process. She worked under the guidance of Dr. Erin Peters Joint Assistant Curator, Science and Research.
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Claudia Haines
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Claudia interned in the Education Department of the Carnegie Museum of Art. She collected and analyzed surveys conducted by Gallery Ambassadors to understand how visitors to the 57th Carnegie International reacted to the exhibition, and how their responses reflected engagement, education, and positive change. She also conducted early research for an upcoming exhibition of Chinese ceramics.
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Steven Haines
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Steven assisted the University Art Gallery (UAG) in the preparation of an exhibition of Chinese video art. His responsibilities included researching technological needs for the display of each piece, learning to visualize exhibition spaces using SketchUp, and gaining a general understanding of Chinese film and video. The exhibition is set to open in the fall of 2019.
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Karly Klunk
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Carly interned at Rivers of Steel Arts (RoSA) under the supervision of Chris McGinnis, Director and Chief Curator. After conducting object studies and online research in the Rivers of Steel museum archive, she curated an exhibition titled, Art and Design in the Steel Industry (opening Fall 2019), for the Steel Case, a miniature traveling exhibition space.
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Meghan Lees
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Meghan interned in the University Library System’s Archives & Special Collections. She took information provided by the exhibit, Travelers Along the Silk Roads: 10th Century to Present, and conducted additional research to design an informative and aesthetically pleasing digital guide that can be used to view the exhibit once it is taken down. She also aided in the pulling, shelving, and listing of books and materials for class visits.
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William Mayer
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
William worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History under the supervision of Nicole Heller, Museum Fellow and Curator of the Anthropocene. He assisted in the management and testing of the Anthropocene Living Room. In his work he compiled research on the psychology of communicating issues related to the Anthropocene and performed evaluations of audience interactions with the Living Room space.
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Savannah Potts-Krammes
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Savannah interned at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with Joint Assistant Curator of Science and Research Dr. Erin Peters. She created an updated database for the Egyptian collection and implemented data merge techniques in InDesign to create object cover sheets with information pertinent to the upcoming Egypt on the Nile exhibit.
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Nicole Schnee
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Nicole Schnee worked as an intern at the Senator John Heinz History Center. She worked with Senior Curator Leslie Przybylek to research Eastern Orthodox Christianity and skiing in Pittsburgh. Nicole’s work at Heinz History Center has inspired her to pursue a career in curation and public history.
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Gabriel Schunn
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Gabriela worked as research and curatorial intern with Mellon Fellow in Education and Curation Emily Mazzola to craft an online exhibition exploring the role of Western Pennsylvania in the formal diplomatic entertaining of the White House. The project focuses on Senator John Heinz History CenterBryce Brother’s/ Lenox, Inc. collection at the Detre Library and Archives.
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Conor Short
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2019
Conor worked at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. He helped enter new donations into the digital object record with special emphasis on the collection of a local veteran. He then organized the physical collection and helped create a uniform format for the digital record.
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Fall 2018
Bonnie Christopher
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Bonnie interned at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology, working along side the Collection Manager. Bonnie conducted researched on historical landscape paintings of Pittsburgh, specifically the Carnegie Museum of Art’s View of the Great Fire of Pittsburghby by William Wall. Using historical documents Bonnie uncovered both the geographic accuracy and atmospheric fiction of Wall’s painting.
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Alyssa Gobleck
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Alyssa worked as an intern in the marketing department at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She helped create promotional material and engaged with the public on social media platforms in order to increase awareness of the museum’s special events. During one of her projects, she aided in the production of a two-minute video commercial for the museum.
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Taylor Hauskins
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Taylor worked as an intern at the Silver Eye Center for Photography, participating in a new education initiative called Scholars @ Silver Eye. Her internship included extensive training in all operational aspects of a non-profit art space. She also had the opportunity to work collaboratively with her fellow interns to organize and curate an upcoming exhibition of photographs by regional artists.
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Rose Hawk
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Rose was an intern at the Office of Public Art. She visited ten different public art sites in Oakland and downtown Pittsburgh and wrote about them for the Art Places section of the Greater Pittsburgh Art Council website. Some of these profiles include the Westinghouse Memorialin Schenley Park, For Pittsburgh by Jenny Holzer in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, and the Edward Manning Bigelowstatue in front of Phipps Conservatory.
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Eric Knapp
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Eric worked with Marilyn Russell, the Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Sally Cao, the museum’s Curatorial and Education Program Manager, during the Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018. As an intern he helped analyze and quantify gallery ambassador surveys, building a better understanding of how ambassadors enhance visitor experiences at the International.
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Isabella Lam
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Isabella worked as an intern in the Special Collections Department of Hillman Library. She helped prepare for visiting classes by researching materials and locating the necessary books, pulps, magazines, etc. She also cataloged materials for students to reference in the future. Isabella facilitated events the Department hosted/participated in as well.
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Sydney Leslie
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Sydney worked at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, under the supervision of the executive director, Madeline Gent. During her time at AAP, Sydney primarily worked with the organization’s historical archive. This included organizing and logging catalogs dating as far back as the 1920s, creating a timeline of AAP’s online presence, as well as filling in missing portions of the exhibitions archive.
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Amy McLaughlin
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Amy interned at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as their Ethics Intern under Assistant Curator Erin Peters. She researched Codes of Ethics from accredited museums using internet resources and compiled this information into suggestions for the new CMNH’s Code of Ethics.
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Madison Myers
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Madison worked as an intern in the development department at the Mattress Factory. She helped with securing funds for the museum by reaching out to individuals and corporations to obtain new sponsors. She also began the writing process for a grant to renovate one of the Museum’s best-known installations.
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Emily Pelesky
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Emily was an intern at Carnegie Mellon’s Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Her work was focused on re-foldering and preserving the collection of an individual botanist. She inventoried the documents and cared for included specimens. Additionally, she conducted research into the botanist’s interests, in preparation for an article to be published in near future.
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Jessica Saunders
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Jessica worked as a research assistant to Emily Mazzola, a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture department at the University of Pittsburgh. Jessica assisted Mazzola research the White House china produced by Lenox using the archival resources of the Detre Library and Archives. Jessica aided in archival work and record keeping and conducted an independent research project using Pitt's ULS newspaper and magazine databases to find public opinions of Lenox crafted presidential porcelain.
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Joshua Shearer
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Joshua interned at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum where he worked with the Curatorial Department and the Education Department to conduct research. Joshua’s primary research project involved analyzing the photographs and letters sent home by Sgt. John R. Elm from the conflict in Vietnam, recovering and preserving Elm’s experiences of the war.
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Alec Story
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Alec worked as the summer Fine Foundation Fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History under the supervision of Dr. Erin Peters. In this position, he worked across several museum departments to synthesize research for the CMNH’s upcoming exhibit entitled “Egypt on the Nile.” He also planned and conducted community focus groups, investigated the museum’s anthropology collections, and helped run internal meetings and workshops.
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Kenneth Wahrenberger
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Kenneth interned at The Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant for the chief curator, José Carlos Díaz. He completed extensive research for the fall 2019 exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation. Using evidence from the Time Capsules, archival materials, and Warhol scholarship, Kenneth assisted Díaz in developing the framework of the show.
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Maggie Walter
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Maggie worked as a curatorial intern with the REcollection Studio at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main. She developed and curated an exhibition of the Pittsburgh Photographic Library’s photographer Esther Bubley. She selected images, digitized and edited the negatives, and installed the exhibition, resulting in a month and a half long show titled Intimate Moments.
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Noah Weintraub
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Noah worked as an intern in the Mattress Factory’s Greer Lankton Archive, assisting Archivist Sarah Hallett. Noah helped developed a processing plan for the Lankton Archive, learning to catalog and digitize archival materials and documents. Noah experienced first hand the ways archives can reveal intimate details of an artist’s life and death.
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Madeline Wich
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2018
Madeline interned with the Marketing Department of the Carnegie Science Center where she helped produce social media content, press releases, and donation letters for the Center. Her internship culminated with the media management of one of the CSC’s most popular events, the Chain Reaction Contraption Contest, an annual competition for high school students.
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Spring 2018
Amanda Bartko
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Amanda interned at the Mattress Factory contemporary art museum in the Education Department. She assisted with afterschool activities for students in grades 3 through 5, and participated in various kinds of art education programming offered by the institution.
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Samantha Bastress
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Samantha worked as an intern in the Marketing Department for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In this role, she assisted the full-time staff in visitor surveys, event photography, and developing marketing strategies for the exhibit “We Are Nature: Living in the Anthropocene.” She also helped curate the social media platforms for the Museum.
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Morgan Benner
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Morgan worked as an intern at The Heinz Architectural Center in the Carnegie Museum of Art. She aided in data collection as part of the “Copy + Paste” Hall of Architecture exhibition digitalizing the daily surveys obtained by gallery ambassadors. She also had the opportunity to design new methods of data collection for data analysis.
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Emily Campbell
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Emily interned at Contemporary Craft where she researched its founder, Betty Raphael, and the craft-based artists who had exhibitions at her former gallery, The Store for Arts and Crafts and People-Made Things. Her research culminated in a SCALAR storybook project about the artists who contributed to build The Store with their work.
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Zoe Creamer
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Zoe interned at Hillman Library in the Special Collections Department, working with the Walter and Martha Leuba Collection. She cataloged and researched prints from the collection, facilitating the future online accessibility of the works. She also conducted research on postwar Japanese woodblock prints from the collection toward creating a small online exhibition.
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Sydney Dominick
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Sydney worked at the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. She collected and archived donations to the museum and aided in organizing the women’s collection obtained from past exhibitions. Sydney also helped organizing events for the museum and developed her own research project.
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Darcy Foster
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Darcy interned at the Thomas and Katherine Detre’s Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center. She took inventories of collections, and processed a collection of autographed photographs obtained from the former Nixon Theatre, in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Danielle Grentz
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Danielle worked at the Senator John Heinz History Center researching ties between Pittsburgh and the commercial film industry. She examined newspaper articles for films made in Pittsburgh in order to contact possible interview subjects for an eventual film-themed exhibit.
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Cassandra Maas
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Cassandra interned at the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center, where she researched women in Pittsburgh’s labor movements. Under the supervision of Media Curator Miriam Meislik, Cassandra examined archival records on local unions, organizations, and people associated with women and labor. Using the information and notes she gathered, she also created a LibGuide.
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Geoffrey Mansfield
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
As an intern at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Geoffrey used computer software to catalogue incoming donations and provided condition reports, summaries, and made photographs of artificats. He was also responsible for digitizing and researching a selection of WWII-era photographs.
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Emily Marturano
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Emily was a Curatorial Research Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History working under Assistant Curator, Dr. Erin Peters. She researched textual sources and reference images on Egyptian funerary processions. This data will be used to build a procession timeline, for an exhibition on Egypt and the Nile.
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Rebecca Moser
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
For her internship at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Rebecca assisted in planning and researching for the 2018 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon event. Utilizing databases, library resources, and archives, she created 34 artist research folders to make the creation and editing of Wikipedia articles easy for attendees. She also collaborated with art organizations, institutions, and the community to coordinate and promote the event.
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Mairin Plant
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Mairin worked as an intern in the Department of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. In her role, Mairin collaborated with staff on the conception and description of programs and events. She worked specially on the museum’s online presence by updating and disseminating information to the Museum website.
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Tulip Serbin
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Tulip interned at The Andy Warhol Museum in the Education Department. She assisted staff members with various office tasks and helped facilitate the monthly LGBTQ Youth Prom planning committee meetings. In these meetings, Tulip mentored students on graphic design and event planning. She also helped with the Sensory-Friendly Event for Teens and Young Adults program.
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Rebecca Stewart
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Rebecca worked with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main and the REcollection Studio. In this position they planned and executed an exhibition titled "Signs: Images of the Pittsburgh Photographic Library." As curator of "Signs" Rebecca selected works and installed the exhibition, created a reading list and blog post, and gave guided tours to visitors.
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Emma Vescio
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2018
Emma interned in the Development department at the Mattress Factory. She created a young professional membership program, and helped with day-to-day tasks and archiving development-related documents. She also helped coordinating other museum events like the annual Urban Garden Party.
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Fall 2017
Rachel Abolafia
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Rachel worked as an intern in the marketing department at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She helped coordinating the museum’s public engagement on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr. She produced content that was symbiotic with regular programming and with special events like conferences and new exhibitions.
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Heather Alvarado
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
In her internship, Heather worked at Walton Hall in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History administering audience evaluations under the supervision of the Assistant Curator of Dr. Erin Peters. Heather conducted a survey about developing a new exhibit that includes digital technology and hands-on interaction with the Carnegie’s Egyptian funerary boat as the center piece.
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Breanna Baldwin
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Breanna worked in the Archives Service Center, University Library System, at University of Pittsburgh, on the papers collection of the Pittsburgh artist, activist, filmmaker, professor, creator, and researcher Steffi Domike. Starting by updating the finding guide and researching different aspects of Domike’s life and career, Breanna placed and catalogued new materials in the permanent collection.
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Abigail Brady
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Abigail interned at The Andy Warhol Museum as curatorial assistant for the Milton Fine Curator of Art, Jessica Beck. She did research work for two upcoming shows, Adman: Warhol Before Pop and Cry Baby: Devan Shimoyama. She used Pitt’s University Library System and compiled bibliographies on Warhol’s Boy Book drawings and photography to provide sources of reference to the curatorial team.
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Kendall Dunn
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Kendall worked as an intern at Contemporary Craft researching its founder, Betty Raphael. She worked on her scrapbooks to create a SCALAR storybook project, focused on the 1979 Carnegie Museum of Art exhibition, Arts in Modern Handcrafts. She also did some on-site research on Raphael’s craft store in Verona, The Store, opened in 1971.
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Natalie Gomez
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Natalie worked at The Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology with head curator Jennifer Hipple. In this position, Natalie’s task has been to aid the new curator in updating all the wall text and labels in the museum, rethinking the way visitors interact with the museum. She also gave public tours and specialized private talks.
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Michael Jacobs
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Michael worked at the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center on Thomas Blvd. in the preservations department. His job consisted in repairing and rehousing books and documents that are sent to the Archives Center from the different libraries and collections at Pitt. He learned how to unbind books and build corrugated clamshells for books and musical instruments.
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Cyd Johnson
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Cyd worked at Contemporary Craft on Betty Raphael’s scrapbooks to build a SCALAR storybook project. She followed Raphael’s life after Outlines Gallery closed in 1947, through the Riverview Community Action Corporation project in Oakmont and Verona that lead to the opening of “the Store” and the project that grew afterward called the “Sociable Workshop.”
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Ryan Lewis
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Ryan worked at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum as a tour guide for students, covering the periods of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War. He also worked on the PastPerfect software used by the institution to keep inventory of all the different artifacts, as well as cataloguing objects, writing descriptions, taking photos and adding the new entries into the system.
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Ilana McAfoos
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Ilana worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with Assistant Curator Dr. Erin Peters. She helped in the development stages of the new Egyptian exhibit, Egypt on the Nile, creating and conducting audience evaluations on the plans for the future exhibit. This experience gave her greater appreciation of and understanding for the work and effort needed to create an accessible and effective exhibit.
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Madeline Schatten
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Madeline worked as an intern for the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery (UAG). She transferred the online exhibit Configuring Disciplines: Fragments of an Encyclopedia from the Constellations website to the UAG website. She also digitized old posters and programs at the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center and archived past UAG exhibits on the website.
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Alexander Schempf
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
An intern at Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, Alexander worked on the creation of a new exhibition for the travelling ‘Steel Case’ that first exhibited at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His task was to propose an exhibition concept, pick a location for it to be presented, and create promotional material. His topic highlights the development of political ideology during industrialization, specifically the rise of socialism and associated propaganda materials.
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Abigail Sutherland
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2017
Abigail worked as an intern at the Carnegie Museum of Art, conducting a tracking-and-timing study. She observed visitor behavior in the museum’s Scaife Galleries, for the exhibit Created, Collected, Conserved: The Life Stories of Paintings. By studying patterns of visitors’ movements and coding the pertinent behaviors, Abigail was able to identify which artworks attracted most attention and which ones tended to be ignored.
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Spring 2017
Abigail Meloy
Fine Foundation Fellowship, Fall-Spring 2016-7
Abigail worked under the direction of Janet McCall, Executive Director of Contemporary Craft, and closely with the Exhibition staff. She facilitated exhibition programming, such as writing tours and assisting with events and installation/deinstallation. Abigail coordinated community partners for programming for Contemporary Craft’s upcoming social justice exhibition Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home. In addition, she also spearheaded a summative evaluation process for this exhibition.
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Alexandra Wolf
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Alexandra Wolf Worked under the supervision of Hannah Turpin, Curatorial Assistant of Photography and Contemporary Art. She helped catalogue their collection of books using LibraryThing, labeling each title and organizing this collection. She logged over 2,000 books into the CMOA system. She also contributed to the planning of the Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
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Andrew Brumbaugh
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Andrew worked as the curatorial and educational intern at Soldier’s & Sailor’s Memorial Hall & Museum under the curator Michael Kraus, Civil War historian. He helped prepare the interactive tours materials. He also cataloged and photographed donated artifacts using the PastPerfect software. Andrew intends to work in the museum field, specializing in American military history.
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Darien Pepple
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Darien made her internship under Erin Peters, assistant curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, during the initial stages of development of the new ancient Egyptian exhibit. She developed her own audience evaluations and conducted them on visitors of the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, learning valuable information about audience evaluation techniques and the process of designing new exhibits in museums.
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Hayley Pontia
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Hayley undertook her internship in the Marketing Department of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Her position included editing and writing content, producing photographs for social media, organizing archives and answering visitor emails. One of her projects involved reorganizing the department’s photos, researching digital platforms that would allow an online space with easy access for all the employees to use.
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Jared Klatskin
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Jared worked as a communications intern at The Andy Warhol Museum. He helped update their exit surveys and worked with social media and website analytics. Jared also created strategies to market the exhibitions for the press. Finally, he assisted with the editing of an upcoming book.
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Lauren Woolwine
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Lauren worked alongside under Erin Peters in the Education Department at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. As part of her job she outlined for a potential curriculum to be used for docent training at the CMNH. She developed a set of summaries for the reading resources she gathered in her research.
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Marie Manske
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Marie worked as an intern at the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms. She performed archival and curatorial tasks. She created 463 conditions reports and submitted orders for storage facilities. Her work from the internship will feed into the Fall 2017 semester’s Museum Studies Exhibition Seminar.
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Marina Wei
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Marina worked in the Education Department at the Mattress Factory as a teaching assistant in an after school program.INSTALL: Afternoons @ the Factory. She interacted with artists, museum educators and other staff within the Museum. She also shadowed tours, helped create materials for events and outreach and educational art activities for families.
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Molly Wight
Museum Studies Academic Internship Spring 2017
Molly worked as an Intern for the Heinz Architectural Center on projects relating to the Hall of Architecture. Her work built on a previous project from a design studio class at CMU in 2011, consisting in gathering visitor preferences and responses to the Hall to design a better signage system, putting together a report with the results. She also worked with the Carnegie Museum database to research the casts and record the data for archival records.
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Patricia Smith
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Patricia was an intern with Gretchen Anderson, the conservator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Patricia's work focused on the conservation and restoration of the open-air dioramas. She learned the cleaning and maintenance of objects by conservational standards.
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Reagan Harper
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
Reagan worked at the Carnegie Science Center as an intern. She worked with the Buhl Planetarium archives, organizing the documents in storage, and setting up a numerical inventory to make files more easily located. Reagan's work helps toward realizing an interactive, digital display on the history of the Buhl Planetarium available to the public.
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Xiaoyuan Zhang
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2017
In this internship at the Education Department of the Frick Pittsburgh, Xiaoyuan facilitated the museum’s public programs, including gallery talks, adult and family programs and special events. The internship was supervised by Amanda Dunyak Gillen, Director of Learning & Visitor Experience. Xiaoyuan helped run special events such as the annual Women’s History Program and designed public programs for the upcoming Undressed exhibition.
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Fall 2016
Abigail Sites
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Abigail was an intern at the Collections Department at Fort Ligonier Museum in Ligonier. Her duties included inventory of collections using PastPerfect -the museum cataloging software-, packaging and moving collections to storage, accessioning and photographing new collection items, assisting and leading school tours, and facilitating large site events such as reenactments.
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Bridget Lynch
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Bridget was an intern working at Botany Hall of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Her work culminated in a short documentary video about the history of dioramas, specifically those of Botany Hall, in museum context. She filmed the museum space and its employees, sharing valuable insights into the world of diorama making.
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Cristine O’Brien
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Cristine worked as an intern at the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. She worked on cataloging donated objects, assisting in preparation of educational tours, building and organizing a new shelving system, writing critical exhibition feedback and initiating the reorganization of the museum’s library materials.
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Eliza Wick
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Eliza interned at the Botany Hall of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Her work took the form of a research project, collecting and interpreting primary sources related to Botany Hall as well as secondary sources that related to the style of the display and related topics in visual studies.
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Emily Morris
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Emily worked in the Special Collections Department at Hillman Library to help to facilitate the online accessibility of the Walter and Martha Leuba Collection. The collection is composed of several hundred original woodcuts, wood engravings, metal cuts, and linoleum cuts, as well as thousands of books. She took on the task of compiling metadata about the woodblock prints, engravings, and lithographs within the collection.
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Emmaline Cushey
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
As an intern in Development Department at the Mattress Factory, Emma used the nonprofit CRM software, developed and implemented a donation campaign. She also planned and implemented events and programs and was able to experience and assist in many exhibitions within the museum.
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Kathy Lipinski
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
For her internship, Kathy worked as a gallery ambassador for Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium, an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She facilitated visitor experience by engaging in conversations with a diverse range of individuals, educating the public about the life and art career of Oiticica. Kathy also wrote on the ways by which museums engage sensitive topics with the public.
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Leslie Rose
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Leslie interned at Botany Hall of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Her work focused on the conception and creation of the dioramas featured in the Botany Hall. She studied the role of women artists in Botany Hall as part of a broader investigation into natural history museums and the discipline of natural history.
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Maureen Jones
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
As an exhibit design intern at the University Library System, Maureen worked on the construction of a Libguide for each Fall exhibit. This brought together the exhibit catalogs with images of the display space and relevant supporting visuals, as well as secondary research to complement the exhibition. Maureen also researched the Black Panther newspaper collection, ranging from the photographs that accompanied the articles to the supplementary drawings of the back covers.
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Raka Sarkar
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Raka assisted UAG Curator Isabelle Chartier to organize and enter information into CollectiveAccess, the gallery's collection database. Because the UAG has a collection of over 3000 objects, Raka needed to work with large groups of objects at a time, researching their origins and related entities while filling in discrepancies in data. She worked on the Inuit Art Collection and helped setting up the online exhibition for Exposure: Black Voices in the Arts.
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Alessandra Pazzaglia
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Fall 2016
Alessandra completed an Internship at the Senator John Heinz History Center within their Italian American program. She worked on a project that focused on a group called I Campagnoli, an Italian folk dance and singing group. Working with this community, she compliled a collection of pamphlets and photos and other memorabilia to develop an online exhibition for the group.
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Summer 2016
Christie Scully
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Summer 2016
Christie worked at Rivers of Steel in Homestead, curating an online exhibit called Little Steel. The exhibit documented the lesser-known steel mills in Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania region. Christie discovered several previously-unknown steel mills and wrote biographies for about fifteen steel mills and accumulated over one hundred photographs and advertisements.
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Mariah Flanagan
Fine Foundation Fellowship, Summer 2016
Mariah worked with Erin Peters conducting research on funerary practices in ancient Egypt as preparation for the redesign of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Egyptian Collection. She also assisted with two studies at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh that collected quantitative and qualitative data on visitor engagement and response.
Sonnie Solomon
Fine Foundation Fellowship, Summer 2016
Sonnie worked with the education and curatorial staff on the Alison Knowles exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art. As part of her work she handled interactive sculptures, sound-making objects, large works on paper, silk, and canvas and a selection of the artist’s own collected ephemera.
Spring 2016
Ashley Funyak
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Ashley was a marketing intern at Society for Contemporary Craft. Her duties included writing and copy-editing media alerts and press releases for upcoming programs, events and exhibitions. Additionally, Ashley created content for traditional and online marketing, including online calendar, social media, blog posts and assisted with marketing research.
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Angelica Marks
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Angelica worked as an intern at Rivers of Steel, developing an online exhibition of the graffiti works found at the Carrie Furnaces. She compiled information on the history of graffiti in the US, the decline of the steel industry, and documentation of graffiti in Pittsburgh. Finally she conducted interviews with local graffiti artists who frequented the area.
Caris Windhausen
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Caris worked as an intern in the University Special Collections Department at the Hillman Library assisting to the development of two exhibits and their accompanying materials. For both exhibits, Caris wrote and posted Library Guides on the University website.
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Caroline Fazzini
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Caroline was an intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and worked with Assistant Curator Dr. Erin Peters on analyzing visitor evaluations of the exhibition She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World. Her work has been to code and analyze visitor experiences. Later she presented the information at HAAARCH, a showcase of undergraduate research for the HAA programs.
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Courtney Krauss
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Courtney worked with Rivers of Steel at the Carrie Furnace about the graffiti accumulated in the area after the site was left empty in 1978. She did her research on the Rivers of Steel archives to gain a larger understanding of Pittsburgh graffiti and the steel industry but she also interviewed former steel mill workers to learn about their memories of the site and their views on the graffiti as they come back to give tours to Carrie visitors.
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Isabella Sigado
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
As a curatorial intern at Frick Pittsburgh, Isabella worked with Chief Curator and Director of Collections Sarah Hall on research and project coordination for The Frick Collects: From Rubens to Monet, a major survey of the collecting habits of Henry Clay Frick and his daughter Helen. Her work towards the exhibition included research assignments on object provenance, exhibition label development and copy editing.
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Richard Moore
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Richard’s internship at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum was divided between curation and education. He assisted with the acquisition, identification, cataloging and archiving of a wide range of artifacts donated to the museum. His internship also suported the development of educational events, such as veteran visits and off-site presentations.
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Sarah Pomfret
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
As a University Art Gallery Intern, Sarah worked to update and standardize the online database system, CollectiveAccess, consolidating content from legacy platforms and paper files to create a more comprehensive and accessible representation of the UAG collection. She created a CollectiveAccess Data Entry Guide to ensure the system is consistent in the future. She also worked on the Nicholas Lochoff Collection, displayed in the Cloister of the Frick Fine Arts building.
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Shannon McClenning
Museum Studies Academic Internship, Spring 2016
Shannon worked as an intern at the Archives Service Center, University Library System. She helped create and execute several exhibits that went on display around Pitt’s main campus; for instance, Shannon curated her own exhibit on the Lillian Friedberg collection, which presented a selection from Friedberg´s 1,700 postcards she acquired over nearly 60 years.
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