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2011 WINDGATE MUSEUM INTERNSHIPS

For the sixth year, the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (CCCD) is partnering with museums to offer four Windgate Museum Internships for either graduate or undergraduate students who are aspiring craft curators.  Interns work closely with museum staff on a craft collection, exhibition, or research project designed specifically for the internship. Since 2006, the Center has awarded internships to 21 graduate and undergraduate students from 10 museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.  Review the internship posted in early 2011.

Caitlin Combes, a BA graduate from Rice University in Texas with experience working as a curatorial intern in the Department of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, will intern at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee.  She will be providing logistical and research support in preparation for an installation by Richard Jolley which is projected to be completed in late 2013. 

James Saul, who is working to complete a MA in Art History at The American International University in London, will intern with the Crafts Studies Center (CSC), a museum of modern craft situated at the Farnham campus of the University for the Creative Arts, to create a significant new archive of the eminent 20th Century letterer and sculptor Ralph Beyer.

Chelsea Kaufman, who graduated from Goshen College in Indiana with a BA in both Art and English, will intern at the Racine Art Museum to research and record a portion of their wood and fiber holdings, specifically pieces of David Ellsworth and Dorothy Gill Barnes, in preparation for an exhibition in late 2011.  She will also participate in the development of a large collections-focused fiber exhibition in 2012.

Alexandra Irving, a MA graduate from Bard Graduate Center in NYC, will intern with the Mint Museum of Craft + Design to research for an exhibition F.O.O.D. which presents a thematic look at inventive and contemporary objects that have one of three objectives: to prepare, to cook or to present food. 


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