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Reflections on dance in and outside of the gallery

Tiffany Sims – Curating an exhibition is closely related to the art of dance in that choreography is fundamental to the creation of a body of work for an audience. Dancers are specifically selected, and so too...

Dust and Dinosaurs: Agents of Deterioration in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Mercedes Pérez-Shillington – “Your job is really cool but you're like really dusty,” a child says to me. They are right, working on the open dioramas for “Dinosaurs in Their Time” at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History...

Clapp, Coal, and the Caribbean

Jon Krippe – Jon Krippe, Museum Studies intern at the University Art Gallery, Fall 2023 What do an influential Caribbean novel, a Renaissance sketch torn from a massive book, and a landscape of...

Work(s) From Home: My Experience Interning with a Private Collector

Sarah El-Hefnawy – Intern at the O’Brien Foundation for American Art - Fall 2023 As a Museum Studies student at Pitt, I only saw career options and anecdotes from institutions, like museums, non-profits, libraries...