Working on a humanities research project has proved to be challenging in ways I had not expected. Choosing a topic to study was simple with the guidance of my project advisor. I have pursued learning about the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian was an entomologist and artist from the late 1600s.
Museum Studies Intern at The Andy Warhol Museum - Spring 2018
Campbell’s Soup. Crazy Hair. Artistic Icon. These were the things I knew about Andy Warhol.
Museum Studies Intern at Contemporary Craft – Spring 2018
Contemporaneity asks what it means to be contemporary. The term is often invoked in reference to the current lives of citizens of today’s world, but this edition seeks to highlight contemporaneity across a wider variety of historical contexts. The aim is to uncover how cultures throughout the global past have negotiated temporalities, modernities, and historicisms, to come to terms with what it means to be present in their own moment.
Author: Krystle Stricklin
PhD Student in History of Art and Architecture
Author: Ben Ogrodnik
PhD Student in History of Art and Architecture and 2017-2018 Mellon Fellow in Curation and Education
Author: Rae Di Cicco
PhD Student in History of Art and Architecture
Adding to the department’s many collaborations with local cultural institutions, I have been working with Stephen J. Tonsor, Director of Science and Research at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Stewart Urist, Managing Director at Quantum Theatre, to connect programming at the theater on Troy Hill to local collections.
Author: Edith Doron
Nexus Senior Program Manager, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Author: Emi Finkelstein
PhD Student in History of Art and Architecture
