#TEAMCHARLOTTEANDEMILEE taking Photography and Film Night really seriously…
Kid Happy Hour kicks off at 4PM, the event begins at 5pm!!
“MAH” semester comes to a close - back to Wisconsin I go!
It’s been aMAHzing to spearhead creative membership initiatives, help with community events, and explore the local histories and mysteries at Evergreen Cemetery over the past 15 weeks. I never dreamed that I would:
- Be competent with the Raiser’s Edge software
- Meet 2 international interns
- Excavate headstones
- Ride a paint splattering bicycle!!
- Ever hold a check with that many zeros
- Become friends with homeless people
- Investigate paranormal activity
- Become a blogger
- Meet such amazing and passionate staff, interns, and volunteers.
The list could continue, but it would never fully encompass the challenges and rewards encountered during my internship.
When I return to the Midwest I will graduate college and join the “real world” with no doubt that my experiences here at the MAH have both added to my skill set and more importantly:
shaped my
perspective.
Thank you to all who were a part my experience here in Santa Cruz. You will be forever in “MAH” heart. <3
Kristin Eggen, Membership et. al. intern
Some of the awesome wood mosaic frames made by our wonderful participants at the Earth Day Jubilee event. These are one of a kind frames. Good job every one!
Neda, Community Programs.
We had some wild and crazy critters roaming around the MAH for our Earth Day Jubilee last Friday! We opened early for Kid Happy Hour, where kids got to enjoy the art activities, play in our cardboard forest (hand crafted by yours truly), and munch on some DIY Dirt Cups (actually pudding, oreos and gummy worms).
The event was so much fun to plan, and probably even more fun to work at. It was truly a treat to see the kids smiling, laughing and makin’ art! My favorite part was seeing the cardboard forest in action, because it was quite an endeavor to make! It is so rewarding watching your hard work pay off, Kid Happy Hour for the win!
~Emilee, Community Programs
putxi asked: Hi! How are you? I'm from Barcelona and I'm a faithfull follower to your blog!! And... just at this moment I'm writting my cover letter to apply for the summer internship. :) Hope to meet all of you in the MAH. Bye!
We can’t wait to meet you! Best of luck, summer is beautiful in Santa Cruz :)
Anonymous asked: Hello, I'm an MA Student in Museum Studies at Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey) and would like to know if international students are accepted to the internship program at MAH. Thanks a lot in advance.
Great! We love international interns! We welcome people from around the world at the MAH. Recently we’ve had interns from Spain, the UK, Italy and Australia!
Anonymous asked: Can any of the unpaid internships lead to a job at MAH?
We can’t confirm any internship will turn into a job, but at least two interns have been brought on as full time or part time staff members!
Anonymous asked: This blog is AWESOME! Go MAH Interns!!
Thank you! just reading these messages, not sure how long ago this was sent, but thank you!!
~Emilee
Adventures in Bringing the Museum to Schools
My favorite part of being an Education Intern so far has been working on the Community Postcard Project. Since October 2012, education interns (alongside Ashley, director of Education) worked with two local elementary schools teaching photography classes to 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. We worked at Amesti Elementary in Watsonville and Green Acres Elementary in Live Oak, two very different areas of Santa Cruz county. At the end of the project, students got to pick their favorite photograph, turn it into a postcard, write a note to another student across the county, and finally, the schools sent them to each other. By the end of the project, four hundred postcards sharing words about the students and their communities had been exchanged!
The last part of the project for us interns involved installing an exhibit in the museum explaining the project and displaying the students photographs and postcards.
My experience with this project has been amazing. I already love art and working with children, but I learned so much about photography and how to teach children to take really great photographs. I also feel I matured in classroom management. I feel so lucky to be an Education intern at the MAH; the museum has given me such a great amount of responsibility that has allowed me to constantly learn and grow as an artist and as an educator. I loved my time spent in the classrooms, particularly working with kids who have never used a camera before!
Something that was so rewarding during this internship journey, is that as education interns, we were able to come up with the concept, design, and install this exhibit ourselves! (Obviously we had some help and had to get approval from the exhibitions team, but still…such a cool process).
I feel very proud of myself and the entire education team; this project has turned out to be amazing!
Be sure to check out the Community Postcard Project at the MAH on exhibit until July 7th. It’s not to be missed as you walk up the stairs to the 2nd floor. And, if anyone reading this has an opportunity to intern at the MAH, you should do it!
-Jamie Keil, Education Intern
Working through the Homeless Issue
Aside from being an amateur archaeologist my time at the museum-owned Evergreen Cemetery has brought me into greater understanding of the Santa Cruz homeless community. Being from a small town in the Midwest, I found it alarming and unsettling to suddenly be in a city with such a visible homeless population. Frankly, I wasn’t sure how to react.
