My internship is at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in downtown. I begin at 10am and end my shift at 5pm. I like my schedule because I get to sleep in a little bit longer and get to watch up on my rest from the day before. I usually arrive around 30 minutes early from internship so I’ve been getting a coffee most morning to help me energize for whatever is to come throughout the day. My work site is not very big, there is maybe around 30 employees but each one is working on something to keep it moving. There are many departments within the museum that are all working together in order to fundraise money, bring in people, create contests, and educate younger generations. I am interning as a part of the education department which means that there are 2 main things I am working on right now. I am working on the 25 & Under contest and on the next ESP showcase. The 25 & Under contest consists of choosing 25 artists under the age of 25 to represent the artists in our community. The ESP showcase is the same thing that our school got to with collaboration of the museum, this month we are working with High Tech High Media Arts, San Diego High School, Westview High School, and Hoover High School. As part of the 25 & Under contest, Mia and I were assigned to sort through the top voted artists. In order to do this, we collected data from a website and casted the votes on spreadsheets in order to better display the data. After seeing which pieces got the most votes, we picked the top 25 voted. After doing this, we worked on an email to send out to the selected contestants congratulating them and reminding them to bring in their artwork. For the ESP showcase, I worked on writing a text for a poster describing the ideas behind each school’s exhibition. In order to get this showcase ready, we had to bring down furniture from upstairs multiple times and help arrange it in a way that better displays the new artwork. Another part that went into preparing for this showcase was cutting out labels for the artwork, receiving artwork from the schools. What strikes me the most about my workplace is that there are so many moving parts behind each contest, showcase, and museum visit. Each person contributes something meaningful to the team whether it be their compassion, tech skills, confidence, or simply their lending hand. There has been a lot of support from employees, they let us now that it’s a safe space and that they started off as interns too which they were able to translate into a long term job.
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AuthorMy name is Valeria Aguilar and I'm currently a Junior at HTHcv. Read these blog posts to know a little more about my experience! Archives
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