{"id":71226,"date":"2020-02-19T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/senior-earns-real-world-experience-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-internship\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:38:03","slug":"senior-earns-real-world-experience-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-internship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/senior-earns-real-world-experience-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior earns real-world experience at Museum of Contemporary Art internship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Emily Rodriguez ’20<\/strong>, an Art History<\/a> and English & Comparative Literature<\/a> double major, is one step closer to living her dream of becoming an art museum curator.<\/p>\n This semester, she is the Collections Intern<\/a> at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA)<\/a>, located just a few miles from campus down Peachtree Road.<\/p>\n In her position, this Oglethorpe senior is exposed to multiple facets of working in a museum, including handling the artwork, reporting on the conditions of the pieces, helping behind the scenes of exhibits, and making website updates.<\/p>\n According to Rodriguez, working at a smaller museum like MOCA has given her more hands-on experiences than would be possible at a larger museum. As a result, she can work directly with artists featured in the museum’s exhibitions and collection. Interestingly, among those artists in MOCA’s permanent collection, Rodriguez points out, is Oglethorpe art professor Alan Loehle<\/a>.<\/p>\n John Tilford<\/strong>, curator of collections at the 好色先生TV Museum of Art<\/a>, was one of Rodriguez’s most helpful resources in preparing for the internship. Every day, she is putting what she has learned in Tilford’s Curatorial Practices course into real-world application. Prof. Jessica Handler also played a significant role, helping Rodriguez create her resume and serving as a reference on her application.<\/p>\n I want to do Oglethorpe proud!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Oglethorpe is small enough to build those relationships with your professors,” said Rodriguez. “They actually want to help out and make connections.”<\/p>\n On campus, the soon-to-be graduate is a teaching assistant for the Art History department, a co-founder of Oglethorpe’s chapter of the International English Honors Society Sigma Tau Delta<\/a>, and a member of the Art Club<\/a>. She also has served as the Editor & Chief of The Tower<\/a> literary magazine.<\/p>\n The reputation of Oglethorpe interns preceded Rodriguez, with one MOCA official sharing that the museum “always had such good results with Oglethorpe students.” Rodriguez intends to uphold that reputation.<\/p>\n “I want to do Oglethorpe proud!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":71229,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[4558,4556,4552],"tags":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-71226","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-career-development","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n