Museum of Art Archives

April 11, 2019

Challenges and Rewards of a Museum Educator

For my internship at the Bates College Museum of Art I was involved with educational programming, working under the Education…

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April 9, 2019

Art Not Seen: The Purposes of Museum Storage

This semester as a Collections Intern, I’ve spent a lot of time accessioning and cataloging donations or museum purchases and…

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January 22, 2019

Maika’I Tubbs and A Connection to Place

Upon working on the exhibition, Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era, I found the topic of…

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December 21, 2018

Interview with Jaime DeSimone

My name is Katie Bull and I am a senior sociology major at Bates. I am the education intern at…

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December 7, 2018

Thai Tran ’19: My Experience as a Collections Intern

Categorizing items and managing databases are things I had been doing extensively prior to being an intern at the Bates…

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September 21, 2018

Calvin Reedy and His Experience With the Bates College Museum of Art

My name is Calvin, I’m a senior, and I spent the Winter semester here at the Bates Museum of Art…

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September 21, 2018

Landscape Rap

We are rapping about landscape this week. Students wrote poetry that made them think about colors in a landscape. How…

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September 21, 2018

Museum Curatorial Internship Reflection

As the winter semester winds up and the internship concludes, I realized I would have never known about the different…

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April 18, 2018

A Short Interview with the Senior Art and Visual Culture Majors

For my blog, I interviewed the senior studio art majors during the Senior Thesis show on Friday, April 6, 2018.…

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