{"id":13975,"date":"2020-05-27T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=13975"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:44:07","slug":"interns-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/interns-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Interns&#8217; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interns often contribute to the museum\u2019s ongoing work from behind the scenes.&nbsp; The Interns\u2019 Blog helps shine the spotlight on their important work by letting them share their personal perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2025\/04\/11\/collection-highlight-stephen-schaefer-by-alice-neel\/\" aria-label=\"Collection Highlight: Stephen Schaefer by Alice Neel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-195x300.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-195x300.webp 195w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-585x900.webp 585w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-768x1182.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-408x628.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-998x1536.webp 998w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1-130x200.webp 130w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/1997.15.1.webp 1083w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2025\/04\/11\/collection-highlight-stephen-schaefer-by-alice-neel\/\">Collection Highlight: Stephen Schaefer by Alice Neel<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Clara Kennedy \u201925<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-04-11T12:28:22-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I first saw this portrait of Stephen Schafer by Alice Neel at the Bates Museum of Art when my class Portraiture as a Medium was choosing pieces from the collection for a gallery talk in&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2025\/04\/11\/collection-highlight-isabella-kirklands-back\/\" aria-label=\"Collection Highlight: Isabella Kirkland\u2019s Back\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-224x300.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-224x300.webp 224w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-671x900.webp 671w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-768x1031.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-468x628.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-1145x1536.webp 1145w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize-149x200.webp 149w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2013.2.1-web-resize.webp 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2025\/04\/11\/collection-highlight-isabella-kirklands-back\/\">Collection Highlight: Isabella Kirkland\u2019s Back<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Keira January \u201925<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-04-11T11:44:41-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When I first looked at Back by Isabella Kirkland, I was intrigued by the busyness in the painting. Contrasted with the black background, the work displays an explosion of plants and animals out of the&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2025\/04\/11\/collection-highlights-contest-by-william-pope-l\/\" aria-label=\"Collection Highlights: Contest by William Pope.L\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-283x300.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-283x300.webp 283w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-850x900.webp 850w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-768x813.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-593x628.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-1451x1536.webp 1451w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped-189x200.webp 189w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/06\/2009.4.1_cropped.webp 1813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2025\/04\/11\/collection-highlights-contest-by-william-pope-l\/\">Collection Highlights: Contest by William Pope.L<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Lola Buczkowski \u201925<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-04-11T11:29:46-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I was thinking about the way people use bigoted language. It\u2019s almost a physical act. It\u2019s like you are throwing something at someone. I began doing these experiments where I would just write something and&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button with-arrow with-arrow\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/interns-blog-archives\/\">Intern&#8217;s Blog Archives<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interns often contribute to the museum\u2019s ongoing work from behind the scenes.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-13975","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21823,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13975\/revisions\/21823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}