What an honor it is to be here featured on Museum Drip. As someone outside of the museum world, it feels a bit like sitting at the cool kids’ table. I’m not positive how I got here, I hope you like me, and please don’t ask me to name my favorite artist because they are…
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I just deleted my Facebook account. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m not a righteous person doing this for the right reasons, we all know how much I love Instagram which is also owned by ~Meta. The bad started to outweigh the good on Facebook, and when I thought about what I’d be losing…
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I feel like I’m always writing that I don’t want to talk too much about myself, and then talking about myself at length. So – you should be used to it by now and have no complaints! <3 Or maybe, you’re not used to me because I haven’t written anything in a whole month! I…
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I imagine this title will turn a lot of people off since we are living through a global pandemic, a labor revolution, witnessing the collapse of Western democracy, etc. etc. etc. Everyone has experienced loss, burnout, exhaustion and cynicism this year. However as the saying goes, although we are all in the same storm, we’re…
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There’s plenty of places to look for commiseration and information if you’re looking to leave the museum field for good, or looking for a community to enforce your instincts that maybe museums themselves need to be overhauled completely. We’re in the business of considering how to make museums feel more welcoming. Perhaps we should think…
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It’s September! And while I have no idea how many museums will be welcoming students into their physical spaces as we enter the second fall season of the Covid-19 pandemic, the earlier sunsets and PSL frenzy still means that museum educators are ramping up for the school season. Even if students aren’t getting the thrill…
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In our last post about internships, the topic was the ways in which internships would not be saved merely by paying interns. I wanted to get into some good debates about the value of internships, the value interns bring to organizations, why paying wasn’t the only thing that would make a difference, since plenty of…
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Happy May to all those graduating seniors! Honestly if you are, in fact, graduating from college right now, please do something nice for yourself because most people don’t have to persevere through a global pandemic to achieve a Bachelor’s degree. I’m proud of you! Hopefully you’ve got a spectacular job opportunity lined up, but if…
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