INTERNSHIP
Beadwork Adorns the World: Exhibit Book
I worked under Dr. Carrie Hertz, folklorist and curator of Textiles and Dress, to prepare an exhibit book for Beadwork Adorns the World, an upcoming showcase in the international art of “migrant glass,” or traded beads. Each chapter of the book was organized by the function or theme of the art which would later be installed in the exhibit. For more information on this exhibit, click here.
Sweeney Elementary School: City of Santa Fe Youth Summer Program
MOIFA collaborated with the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and the Santa Fe Community Educators Network (CEN) to participate in the City of Santa Fe Youth Summer Program, June 12-16, 2017 held at Sweeney Elementary. Over the five half-days, I assisted in engaging students in a pilot-launch of a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) program featuring botany and folk art hands-on activities. The STEAM curriculum collaboration is a new Folk Art to Go school program offering in 2017/18 where students problem-solve, design, create, and decorate a vessel / container that holds soil to plant seeds in. The program was designed in conjunction with the Tramp Art exhibition.
Nancy Walkup, the editor of SchoolArts and a contributing author for Explorations in Art, Davis Publications’ elementary textbook series, volunteered alongside me during our work with Sweeney Elementary Students. Click here to see her blog post and pictures of our work.
The Community Educators Network conducted a blind review of the STEAM program and its overall success, including a review of my own contributions. To read this review, please click here.
Japanese Yokai Travel Guide
As an intern at MOIFA, part of my task was to use folklore-based information and scholarly work to help curators obtain resources for upcoming exhibits. I was asked to use Michael Dylan Foster’s book Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai as the backbone to a travel itinerary of Osaka, Tokyo, and important regions noted in Japanese folklore associated with monsters (or Yokai). This list includes past, present, and upcoming museum exhibits, theater productions, market stops, and literary resources on the research of Yokai.
To view this travel itinerary, click here.