Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Xavier Lucas-Cooper (鈥�27) spoke with Marnie Hill-Woodworth (鈥�26) about her museum experiences with taxidermy. How has researching taxidermy as a student changed your understanding of the labor, craftsmanship, and care involved in museum collections work? Researching taxidermy as a student has made me realize how old of a practice it really is and how many different cultures and uses it has been a part of. It hasn’t always been used in museums or for collections…
Category: Student Voices
VSA Student of Promise Scholarship awardee – Zhiyue Chen
Zhiyue Chen (鈥�26) was selected as the Visitor Studies Association Student of Promise and received a scholarship that will allow her to attend the VSA conference this summer. Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Xavier Lucas-Cooper (鈥�27) spoke with Zhiyue about how her thesis work ties into the VSA conference and museum evaluation. Was there a specific idea or theme you touched on in your thesis on Chinese-language interpretation that made attending this conference feel especially necessary or compelling? Yes. One…
Work study spotlight – Lesley Tetlalco
Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Xavier Lucas-Cooper (鈥�27) spoke with Lesley Tetlalco (鈥�27) about her work study experience at the Burke Museum. What is your academic background and how did that draw you to your position in the Burke? My academic background is in art history and museum studies, focusing on Chicanx and Latinx art practices and Indigenous material culture/contemporary art from the Americas. At the Burke Museum, I work in the Heritage: Arts and Culture department as a collections…
Work study spotlight – Evelyn Manchester
Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Xavier Lucas-Cooper (鈥�27) spoke with Evelyn Manchester (鈥�27) about her work study experience at the Burke Museum. What is your academic background and how did that draw you to your position in the Burke? I wanted to work at the Burke because I love collections work and wanted to gain experience with a new聽type of collection!聽My academic background is in anthropology collections, primarily arts and culture, meaning this is the first time that I鈥檝e worked…
Work study spotlight – Aidan Sweeney
Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Xavier Lucas-Cooper (鈥�27) spoke with Aidan Sweeney (鈥�27) about her work study experience at the Burke Museum. What is your academic background and how did that draw you to your position in the Burke? One of the main reasons I wanted to work at the Burke was their paleontological collections! My background is in invertebrate paleontology, and I’d just wrapped up a program in paleobotany before starting at UW. The opportunity to work in collections…
Work study spotlight – Mitch Cook-Graver
Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Xavier Lucas-Cooper (鈥�27) spoke with Mitch Cook-Graver (鈥�27) about his work study experience at the Burke Museum. What is your academic background and how did that draw you to your position in the Burke? My undergraduate education was in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. With this degree, I got an archaeology job with the Forest Service near Mount Rainier and soon got involved with Greg Wilson-Mantilla’s lab on my weekend trips up…
International Student Spotlight – Zhiyue Chen
As I write this, winter quarter has just begun, marking my second quarter as an international student in the Museology program. The transition from semester to quarter was challenging, but the real hurdles were the language barrier and cultural differences. In the beginning, these challenges felt like an invisible weight pressing on me, present in every interaction and task. To calm myself, I would repeat this thought: 鈥淭he program admitted me for a reason鈥攖hey believe I can make it.鈥� While…
New online exhibit
This post is from second-year Museology student, Ginger McCormick. Ginger explains about the online exhibit she created for a class she took that focused on archaeological looting and loss. Let鈥檚 Wrap This Up:聽 The World鈥檚 Fascination of Egypt & the effects it had on looting For Archaeology 512: Looting & Loss, I created this digital exhibit to dive into the messy and often uncomfortable realities of looting and how museums have been part of that story. This class gave me…
MOHAI Curator’s Fellowship – Polly Yorioka
For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (鈥�25) spoke with Polly Yorioka (鈥�24) about her position as MOHAI鈥檚 third annual Curator鈥檚 Fellow. 1. Tell me more about yourself. My name is Polly Yorioka and I grew up in the Seattle area. My dad’s side of the family are Japanese American and have lived here since the 1900s. My background is in classics. I studied classical Greece and ancient Rome, but then I got more interested in…
#ExploreSeattle – Sweeping views and sunny days!
Today we have yet another fresh installment of #ExploreSeattle from the exploratory perspective of second year Museology student Libbie Barnes!