Graduate Internship:
I completed an internship with Professor Deborah Krohn at Bard Graduate Center in Summer 2020. I worked on various research projects related to her upcoming exhibition, Staging the Table in Europe, 1500-1800. Since pandemic travel restrictions are loosening, I will be interning at the Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, this fall.
Digital Project Requirement:
I completed the digital requirement in Caspar Meyer’s seminar, Nomadic Material Culture: Western Eurasia in the first Millennium BC, in spring 2020 and created a visual inventory of the horse costumes in Pazyryk Kurgan No. 5 using WordPress. The website contextualized the location and type of horses buried, arguing that the Pazyryk horses formed an intimate relationship with their riders in life and in death. Further, their costumes’ designs and materials reflected the animals’ societal contribution and metaphysical association with their human rider in the afterlife.
What was the value of this project for you?
I technically completed my digital project in Nomadic Material Culture when I made a WordPress site. However, I also completed a Qualifying Project Exhibition with a corresponding SketchUp animation, which was extremely valuable to me and my professional goals to eventually curate exhibitions. When I came to BGC two years ago, I had never used SketchUp before. By the end of the program, I produced an animation of my mock exhibition that consisted of two floors complete with objects and interactive elements that materialized the philosophy of scent in Renaissance Italy. Through SketchUp, I was able to situate my argument visually and experiment with how best to materialize notions of scent in a physical space. The mock exhibition enabled me to highlight numerous objects directly rather than reference them in passing in a text-based document. This allowed me to draw out their specific sensory-based histories, many of which have never been written about, for people to smell and consider in galleries designed to bring the social life of Renaissance Italy to twenty-first century New York.
Qualifying Paper:
Perfumed Air and Scented Bodies: Materializing the Philosophy of Scent in Sixteenth-Century Padua
Next Steps:
Although I am flexible, I am mostly applying to positions in the curatorial field, libraries and archives, as well as auction houses. I am also looking into perfume industries and commercial businesses that work with scent and fragrance. Within the United States, I am applying to positions along the Northeast Coast and as far west as Chicago. Outside the U.S., I am considering all possibilities.
I completed an internship with Professor Deborah Krohn at Bard Graduate Center in Summer 2020. I worked on various research projects related to her upcoming exhibition, Staging the Table in Europe, 1500-1800. Since pandemic travel restrictions are loosening, I will be interning at the Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, this fall.
Digital Project Requirement:
I completed the digital requirement in Caspar Meyer’s seminar, Nomadic Material Culture: Western Eurasia in the first Millennium BC, in spring 2020 and created a visual inventory of the horse costumes in Pazyryk Kurgan No. 5 using WordPress. The website contextualized the location and type of horses buried, arguing that the Pazyryk horses formed an intimate relationship with their riders in life and in death. Further, their costumes’ designs and materials reflected the animals’ societal contribution and metaphysical association with their human rider in the afterlife.
What was the value of this project for you?
I technically completed my digital project in Nomadic Material Culture when I made a WordPress site. However, I also completed a Qualifying Project Exhibition with a corresponding SketchUp animation, which was extremely valuable to me and my professional goals to eventually curate exhibitions. When I came to BGC two years ago, I had never used SketchUp before. By the end of the program, I produced an animation of my mock exhibition that consisted of two floors complete with objects and interactive elements that materialized the philosophy of scent in Renaissance Italy. Through SketchUp, I was able to situate my argument visually and experiment with how best to materialize notions of scent in a physical space. The mock exhibition enabled me to highlight numerous objects directly rather than reference them in passing in a text-based document. This allowed me to draw out their specific sensory-based histories, many of which have never been written about, for people to smell and consider in galleries designed to bring the social life of Renaissance Italy to twenty-first century New York.
Qualifying Paper:
Perfumed Air and Scented Bodies: Materializing the Philosophy of Scent in Sixteenth-Century Padua
Next Steps:
Although I am flexible, I am mostly applying to positions in the curatorial field, libraries and archives, as well as auction houses. I am also looking into perfume industries and commercial businesses that work with scent and fragrance. Within the United States, I am applying to positions along the Northeast Coast and as far west as Chicago. Outside the U.S., I am considering all possibilities.
