When Kimberly Gaitonde (AB ’20) was pursuing her undergraduate degree in art history at the University of Georgia, she interned at the Georgia Museum of Art in the collections department for the Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters. There, she worked closely with museum staff to care for and preserve art in the permanent collection. Now, her experience at the Georgia Museum of Art is being put to good use in her new positions as curatorial assistant and executive assistant for the Yellowstone Art Museum (YAM) in Billings, Montana.
Our staff enjoy mentoring and getting to know student interns each semester and today we’d like to acknowledge how appreciative we are of the work that our 2022-2023 interns have done at the museum. To that end, in a show of appreciation, our staff have written about each intern and how their work has contributed to the museum this year.
The Georgia Museum of Art enriches the education of many students at the University of Georgia. Each semester the museum offers internship and work-study opportunities to provide students with unique and behind-the-scenes experiences of museum life. The following students worked with us between summer 2021 and spring 2022. Some have graduated or are due to graduate tomorrow, while others will return. We appreciate each of them for what they brought to the table.
In 2018, associate registrar Amber Strachan visited my Russian art history class to announce an internship at the Georgia Museum of Art in the registrar department. It was the first time I heard of such a thing.
Most of my internship with Georgia Museum of Art Director William U. Eiland has been dedicated to preparing “Echoes from Abroad,” an exhibition of paintings from the collection of Barbara Guillaume. Opening Saturday, this selection of works features American artists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Georgia Museum of Art enriches the education of many students at the University of Georgia. Each semester the museum offers internship and work-study opportunities to provide students with unique and behind-the-scenes experiences of museum life. The following students have worked with us between summer 2020 to spring 2021. Some have graduated or will be reaching that milestone in a few days, while others will return. We're incredibly grateful for their resilience and hard work during such a challenging year.
Curatorial intern Santana Nash writes about her research on artist William Anderson Jr. and creating a video so that others might get to know his work, too.
The Georgia Museum of Art enriches the education of many students at the University of Georgia. Each semester the museum offers internship and work-study opportunities to provide students with unique and behind-the-scenes experiences of museum life. The following students have worked with us between summer 2019 to spring 2020. Some have graduated or will be reaching that milestone in a few days, while others will return. We're incredibly grateful for their dedication and hard work.
Since his tenure at the Georgia Museum of Art began, in 2010, Dale Couch has supervised, mentored and learned from a series of student interns for the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, most of whom have been UGA students, both graduate and undergraduate. This program, which has alums now occupying a wide variety of fields — both in the art world and beyond — has been “an unqualified success,” according to Couch.
Valeria Serrano (AB, ’15) interned at the Georgia Museum of Art in two different departments while an undergraduate at UGA, putting in a full year of work learning how museums operate and discovering that she wanted to continue in the field.
