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Annie Abernathy is a senior in the History of Art and Architecture department, with minors in Museum Studies and French. She is interested in themes of identity and materiality as well as the relationship between the museum and its publics.

Kami Beckford is a senior majoring in architectural studies and minoring in theatre arts for scenic design and studio arts.

John Dwyer is a Senior pursing his interests as double major in Architectural Studies and Urban Studies with a minor in Studio Arts.

Alejandro Cuevas is a senior who is pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Architecture as well as a minor in music and Italian. He came to Pittsburgh from Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, which is a small town near Harrisburg, PA.

Harisa is a graduating senior pursuing a major in Architecture and certificate in Sustainability. Having passions for design, equity, and climate action, she has found architecture to be a great culmination of these disciplines.

Over the past two years, I have worked on the exhibition “Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music” at Americas Society in New York, which opened on January 20, 2021.

This fall I interned for the Senator John Heinz History Center here in Pittsburgh. Given the current situation, I was working remotely on a project relating to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic under the guidance of Archivists Sierra Green and Carly Lough through the History Center’s Detre Library and Archives. I was able to spend hours reviewing trial captures (crawls) of websites from multiple areas of society that have been affected by the pandemic.

When I sought to conduct my Museum Studies Internship at the Mattress Factory’s Greer Lankton Archives, part of the idea was to get some museum experience outside of the Andy Warhol Museum, where I have worked for nine years. Indeed, it has been extremely rewarding to work in a different museum with a different collection, yet I started noticing connections between Lankton and Warhol on my very first day.