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December 12, 2022
Celia Maiers Cubas –
When walking through a museum, have you ever wondered what it would be like to climb into and touch the displays? Well, during my...
December 12, 2022
Christina Gioia –
This semester I had the opportunity to work at the Heinz History Center with Melissa Marinaro, Director of the Italian American...
December 12, 2022
Heather Hershberger –
On Walnut Street in Shadyside, there is a little gallery that is free to the public. The little-known new spot is filled with...
December 12, 2022
Irene Castillo –
Beelzebub, the fish with human teeth, looked even more horrifying in the histogram in the computer. Moving the Eva to make it...
December 12, 2022
Noelle Derksen –
On Saturday October 22, 2022, I had the great honor of being part of the Silver Eye Center for Contemporary Photography's Annual...
May 4, 2022
Julia Lepre –
This semester, I worked with Professor Alex J. Taylor, alongside two other interns, Lee Silva-Walker, and Tiffany Sims. Professor...
May 4, 2022
Celia Kaine –
Preserving art as a form of personal history has never been a more essential process. Creation, as a reckoning with the...
May 3, 2022
Elijah Cordrey –
During my time with the department in the Spring 2022 semester, I received hands-on training in the collection process while...
April 28, 2022
Ellie Downs –
The return to in-person tours in February of 2022 marked the first time in nearly two years that the Nationality Rooms could...
April 26, 2022
Lee Silva-Walker –
This semester I had the opportunity to work with Alex J. Taylor, the guest curator for the exhibition, Alone Together: Encounters...
April 24, 2022
Isabel Meline –
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) is a local nonprofit which organizes shows in the Pittsburgh area for artists in the...
April 19, 2022
Lydia Bailey –
Every week, hundreds of students filter in and out of the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building. Rushing to and from class, most...
April 19, 2022
Gabby Lynch –
A first internship can be daunting – a new environment with new people and different expectations. The Carnegie Science Center...
April 18, 2022
Carson Sanov –
This semester I worked with independent curator Hannah Turpin to help digitize Marty O'Brien's private art collection. My main...
April 18, 2022
Anika Agarwal –
My time as an intern at the University Art Gallery allowed me to learn about and contribute to the critical work that goes into...
April 18, 2022
Francesca Bonamo –
What do you think about when you visit a museum? Do you ponder the artifacts, read the labels and imagine the people these items...
April 18, 2022
Jackie Bender –
The University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives and Special Collections works to preserve, catalogue, and in some cases...
March 24, 2022
Lily Brewer –
Since the detonation of the Trinity Test in July 1945, the scientific and cultural consequences of weapons testing in the United...
December 13, 2021
Dilann Harris –
I received the opportunity to work alongside the Programming Director Valerie Bundy and Marketing Director Paige Ilkanhipour at...
December 8, 2021
Mythri Sundar –
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) works to connect visual artists with audiences and displays artists’ work in exhibitions...
December 8, 2021
Brianna Stellini –
This semester I worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the Anthropology department under the supervision of Dr. Lisa...
December 7, 2021
Helena Hyziak –
While normal museum work takes place in back rooms, working to create the perfect in person exhibition context to display ...
December 7, 2021
Mariette Williams –
This past Fall I had the opportunity to internship with Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, in Homestead, Pennsylvania....
December 7, 2021
Angela Koontz –
The traveling exhibit What Natured Destroyed, It Also Preserved - POMPEII: The Exhibition arrived at the Carnegie Science Center...
December 6, 2021
Kaitlin Lloyd –
There’s an expression that ‘the calm comes before the storm,’ but I would like to propose that it is changed to ‘the calm comes...
December 6, 2021
Rebecca Fitzharris –
Walking down any street in Pittsburgh you can see trash cans scattered along the sidewalks. People discard materials into these...
December 6, 2021
Jennifer Kandray –
As the Hampton Hall Condominiums in North Oakland approaches its centennial anniversary marking the breaking of ground for the...
December 6, 2021
Char Pyle –
This past semester, I worked under Coordinator of Archives and Manuscripts David Grinnell to reprocess the American Federation...
December 6, 2021
Yara Makasakit –
Though environmental conservation may seem like just another passing trend, the idea of protecting wildlife has been around for...
December 6, 2021
Jamie Roncinske –
Museum experiences are different for everyone. That is part of what makes a museum such an important venue of culture: where you ...
December 6, 2021
Bella Hanley –
Now in the planning stages of its 58th iteration, the Carnegie International was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1896, shortly...
December 6, 2021
Emily Wiley –
Repatriating the objects of various Native American tribes across the United States has been an ongoing process for many museums...
May 3, 2021
Abreihona Lenihan –
I was ecstatic to learn about the curatorial internship at Contemporary Craft (CC) as I have been eager to both learn and gain...
April 21, 2021
Danielle Baxter –
I interned at the University of Pittsburgh’s Art Gallery (UAG) under the guidance of Dr. Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, the Director and...
April 21, 2021
Delia Franklin –
I was not sure what to expect when I began my internship at the Mattress Factory in the Greer Lankton Digitization Project in...
April 21, 2021
Jasmin Brown –
Last summer, we all had a lot of time to watch Black Lives Matter protests and the various positive and negative responses to...
April 21, 2021
Lila Seirsdale –
This semester I worked as an intern at the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center. As a student studying remotely and not living...
April 20, 2021
CJ Dawson –
As we recently passed the one year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, museum spaces and galleries have found their footing and...
April 20, 2021
Raina Holt –
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has a wide array of departments. Over the course of my internship, I provided research for...
April 19, 2021
Megan Myers –
Every year, the Nationality Rooms Program hosts an Open House event in early December, allowing visitors to see the 31...