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During this month’s First Saturday, we’re debuting a new program that showcases the Archives, and I could not be more excited to open up the Museum’s history during the Age of Black Power. We will be offering a public tour of the Archives and making files from the Museum’s history available to peruse in our Libraries and Archives’ Reading Room. I was inspired to propose this program while my colleague and I were deciding which archival documents related to the Community Gallery to include in Soul of a Nation. It was so hard to choose only a few pieces of paper when each folder contains hundreds of documents. I wanted the public to see the entirety of the Archives’ materials themselves, not just our curated selection.

With the assistance of my talented colleagues, this month we’ll be framing Archives as raw history, open to each person’s interpretation, rather than the dominant historical narrative that is prepackaged and dictatory. This tour is an attempt to expose how history is subjective and constructed, but the infinite untold stories contained in Archives have the potential to enable people to rewrite, add nuance, and expand our understanding. Directly engaging with these historic documents, you realize that trying to piece together what people did and said 50 years ago is difficult and brings forward so many emotions. Brooklyn Museum’s history has ramifications for people who experience and work in the Museum today. Even though it has been half a century, it is a history that is still raw for many people. Making the Archives available in this new format is a concerted effort to make our history more transparent. Our Archives are open for research by anyone, and we encourage you to schedule an appointment if you can’t make the tour!

Tour: Archives as Raw History will take place on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 7:30. 30 free tickets will be available at Admissions at 6:30 pm on a first come, first served basis. Hope to see you there!

Posted by J.E. Molly Seegers

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During this month’s First Saturday, we’re debuting a new program that showcases the Archives, and I could not be more excited to open up the Museum’s history during the Age of Black Power. We will be offering a public tour of the Archives and making files from the Museum’s history available to peruse in our Libraries and Archives’ Reading Room. I was inspired to propose this program while my colleague and I were deciding which archival documents related to the Community Gallery to include in Soul of a Nation. It was so hard to choose only a few pieces of paper when each folder contains hundreds of documents. I wanted the public to see the entirety of the Archives’ materials themselves, not just our curated selection.

With the assistance of my talented colleagues, this month we’ll be framing Archives as raw history, open to each person’s interpretation, rather than the dominant historical narrative that is prepackaged and dictatory. This tour is an attempt to expose how history is subjective and constructed, but the infinite untold stories contained in Archives have the potential to enable people to rewrite, add nuance, and expand our understanding. Directly engaging with these historic documents, you realize that trying to piece together what people did and said 50 years ago is difficult and brings forward so many emotions. Brooklyn Museum’s history has ramifications for people who experience and work in the Museum today. Even though it has been half a century, it is a history that is still raw for many people. Making the Archives available in this new format is a concerted effort to make our history more transparent. Our Archives are open for research by anyone, and we encourage you to schedule an appointment if you can’t make the tour!

Tour: Archives as Raw History will take place on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 7:30. 30 free tickets will be available at Admissions at 6:30 pm on a first come, first served basis. Hope to see you there!

Posted by J.E. Molly Seegers

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Week Ten: August 14th, 2018 marked the last Tuesday outing of the first ever Citi-sponsored Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellowship program. The day started at 10am at The Brooklyn Roasting Company in Building 92 on Brooklyn Navy Yard. Or rather, it was supposed to start at ten. This wouldn’t have been an official New York adventure if my group hadn’t ended up lost at least once. Things got a little tricky when the subway suddenly decided to become a 5 instead of a 2. I have learned that that is just the New York way. However, thanks to my city-savvy friend and fellow intern, we arrived at our destination albeit a little behind schedule.

Building 92 is an industrial building with a large rusted orange sign in the front. It is surrounded by a gravel moat with carefully curated flecks of orange scattered throughout. This place was our starting point. Inside, pleasantly surrounded by the aroma of coffee, we met Carli Beseau who would later give us a tour of the galleries in Building 92 and other parts of the Navy Yard. From the cafe, we departed to the Terrace Room on the fourth floor to meet with Elizabeth McGorty: the archivist and records manager for Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC). She talked about the importance of archives which harkened back to the questions posed to us at the beginning of this internship: What are the purposes of archives and how do they relate to museums?

According to Ms. McGorty, archives “collect, preserve, and make available records of enduring value.” At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the archives house Corporate Records like architectural plans, Manuscript Collections like digitized photos, Special Collections like recorded oral histories, and Museum Collections showcased in the exhibits. Before we went to see these exhibitions, we had the chance to look at a few items pulled from the archives. One item in particular was an undated ID badge for a female Navy Yard Worker. There was something special about seeing something handled by someone in the past with a life of her own. In some ways, it allowed connections to be made that were not previously possible. I don’t know who she was exactly, but I know at one point she lived. She breathed. She existed on the planet I now inhabit. At least in that, we are alike.

Ms. Beseau led us to the first floor gallery; the first thought to enter my mind was nautical. Should I have been surprised that the first word to come to mind at a Navy Yard related to ships in water? The first thing I noticed was the large image of the USS Wyoming. Staring down the front of this massive ship made me wonder if it was scaled to size. There was a cannon in the middle of the room that complemented the undulating timeline depicting the events that occurred “From Wallabout Bay to Today’s Yard.” The dates mimicked the pattern of waves as they brought us from the past to the present. Ms. Beseau raised the question “How do you look and move forward when so much of your identity is in the past?” Ponder that for a second.

The next room was filled with products and pictures of people who make them at the Brooklyn Navy Yard today. Ms. Beseau then took us on an outdoor walking tour on the way to the dry docks where cranes from World War II still operate. History was ingrained in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “So much of its identity resided in the past.” However, I believe so much lives in the future as well. Inevitably one day, the future becomes the past. I wonder what will get archived for the years to come.

One bacon, egg, and cheese later (another learned New York way) we were back on the road headed for our home base: the Brooklyn Museum. Upon arrival we met with Kate Lupo, the Executive Assistant to the Director of the Brooklyn Museum. Kate Lupo gave us an incredibly helpful workshop on how to ace our interviews within the first three minutes. This is her website where you can find more information on how you, too, can land your dream job.

After that, we met with Monica Marino to talk about questions we asked in the beginning of the internship. Questions like: “What is the process of creating and completing special exhibitions?” These questions that couldn’t be answered at first were now resolved showing how much we learned during this internship in our departments as well as from each other. We also addressed some of the frustrations we had at the beginning including the fact that there is usually not enough context provided to think critically about art; or that there needs to be more resources to dive into the meaning of works of art. While these frustrations have not all been settled, we have been able to critically ponder them as a group and think of ways to solve them. This internship has opened a lot of our eyes to the advantages and disadvantages of how museum institutions operate. This is necessary because our generation will be the ones leading them into the future. I cannot wait to see the evolution. To read more from individual interns on their experience in their respective department, visit our blog.

Posted by Naimah Jangha

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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Week Nine: We started off our day with Lisa Bruno (Chief Conservator) and Jessica Ford (Assistant Paintings Conservator), in the Conservation Lab on the 6th floor. The lab is an expansive and shared space where numerous works of art— ranging from sculpture to works on paper, textiles and paintings – are diligently worked on by the conservators that specialize in those specific areas. It was definitely a treat for us interns to see pieces that are currently not on display in the museum. My personal favorite was seeing Brooklyn Bridge (1949) by Georgia O’ Keefe, as it offered a new perspective of a bridge that I’ve walked countless times.

Afterwards, we ventured to the storage spaces where ancient Egyptian and African art are held. We had a brief opening talk with Walter Andersons (Senior Manager of Collections and Collections Initiatives), Kristen Windmuller-Luna (Consulting Curator of African Arts) and Kathy Zurek Doule (Curatorial Assistant for Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art) where we discussed the beginnings of the museum’s collection and what it means today. We saw a plethora of exciting objects in the collection: papyri, animal and human mummies, and an intricate African mask. Kristen is in contact with the family that owned that mask in order to get as much context about its function and creation as possible. The storage trip was a memorable one, just like the one conservation, because we were able to see objects that are usually not on display in the museum.

Following the storage visit we trekked to the Gowanus canal to meet with Katie Dixon, the Executive Director of Powerhouse Environmental Arts Foundation. The foundation is an up and coming space which aims to support the needs of working artists here in New York. It was really interesting to listen to Katie’s exciting plans for the space and for her to touch upon topics that are integral within the arts community, such as accessibility and the question of “what does it mean to support artists?” As interns in an art museum we are surrounded by works of art that are already completed. Powerhouse, on the other hand, is focused on fostering the next generation of artists who, in the future, may create works that will be displayed in a museum in the future.  

Our last stop of the day was to LuckyFish Studio which is run by Jann Cheifitz.  LuckyFish is a line of clothing and home furnishings which are hand-printed  through a simple screen printing technique in Brooklyn. Under Jann’s guidance, we printed “BKI 2018”on our own tote bags and t-shirts from a stencil which Jann designed. This was definitely a first for most of us. At LuckyFish our overarching question of “what is an archive” continued during this visit as we got to see Jann’s clothing archive.

What an amazing day indeed.

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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Week Eight: The contrast between the Schenck house’s red facade and the linoleum floor of the Brooklyn Museum made me aware of being in a museum; something that happens when you work in one. The house’s oddness in the space illuminated the identity of the environment it disrupted. To see the interior of the Schenck house, one must enter the doors and gaze into the rooms from enclosed perches. Unlike the period rooms, the viewer of the 17th century house must stand within its walls. When I walked through the tiny hallway, my steps made the floorboards bend and croak, making a chair on the other side of the glass shudder. Upon exiting the house, the interns discussed the history of this home and this museum. We talked about the intersections between these spaces and ideas, contemplating how keepers of the museum can maintain and present different types of objects in its collection. Through observation and discussion, we explored inquiries about the Museum from different vantage points.

Our first external site visit of the day was the Whitney Museum of American Art. Xin Wang, a PhD student in Art History at NYU and Education Fellow at the Whitney, guided us through the exhibition David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night. Wojnarowicz worked from the early 1970s-1990s on paintings, photographs, sculptures, and films in the midst of the AIDS crisis and culture wars. Xin’s detailed commentary gave us historical and visual insight into the greater context of the works on display, weaving them into a nuanced narrative which underscored the depth of the artist’s broad body of work. We followed iconographic themes in Wojnarowicz’s work, such as severed loaves of bread stitched together with red yarn, and the four elements of earth, wind, water, and fire. By the time we finished walking through the exhibit, we had been truly immersed in the bright colors, piercing symbols, and emotional intensity of Wojnarowicz’s oeuvre.

Next, we left the slick, modern Whitney and traveled to the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn. Weeksville is a multidisciplinary museum comprising several 19th and early 20th century African American homes as well as a renovated building. The homes belonged to members of the Weeksville community of free black citizens and freedom fighters. We toured three of their homes. The experience of visiting these historic houses greatly differed from entering the Schenck house; the July heat settled in the small sitting rooms and narrow hallways, making the space susceptible to the reality of life in Brooklyn then and now. Standing in the kitchen, the sun-speckled greenery visible through the window reminded me of the people who lived in these houses, who lay awake at night in their small beds sweating through summer evenings. When I stepped out of the house to escape the heat, the nearly imperceptible breeze was like a fugitive tendril of the crisp air conditioning of the Brooklyn Museum.

Posted by Ariel Kaufman

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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Week Six: This Tuesday morning, we readied ourselves to visit two museums: The New Museum and The Museum of Chinese Americans. At The New Museum, we were introduced to the Black School and exhibits by Kameelah Janan Rasheed that explores the past and futures of black critical pedagogies. After a short introduction the space, we were able to freely analyze the works of art, complete community surveys provided by the Black School and enter into Rasheed’s research space that provides scholarly works for the public to read and even scan and take home. Rasheed was able to create a space that was both artistic and archival, which both aspects worked strongly together to educate the general public about black history that advocates for black education.

After meeting with the participants of The New Museum’s teen programs and discussing their roles in educating visitors about the importance of the exhibits, we made our way a few streets down to the Museum of Chinese Americans. There we were able to freely walk around and explore the museum, which focuses more on history and archival documents than physical art objects. From the history of opium trade to the treatment of Chinese Americans during the Red Scare, the museum provided 160 years of Chinese history for visitors in an informative and interactive way. Kevin Chu, the collections manager for the museum, library and archives, was kind enough to give a tour of the archives for the museum to us. While walking around the storage room, Kevin explained that the collection not only revolves around Chinese American history, but each object tells an individual story, which any museum would argue is the importance of having an archive. 

Posted by Maribel Cosme-Vitagliani

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This summer the Brooklyn Museum is thrilled to host our first cohort of Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellows. The Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellowship is a full-time, ten-week, paid internship offered to undergraduate students looking to pursue a career in the arts and culture space who may not have the opportunity or ability to take advantage of the often unpaid internships that are typically offered at many arts and culture institutions. The fellowship aims to increase the pipelines of opportunity in communities where non-profit arts jobs are unknown and often not even considered. The two-year initiative is generously funded through the Citi Foundation’s ‘Pathways to Progress’ initiative, which seeks to help reduce youth unemployment and improve the quality of the youth workforce.

Throughout the summer, Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellows will spend time in many different departments across the Museum, including Curatorial, Marketing & Communications, Education, the Registrar’s Office, Development, Exhibitions, Design, and more as they gain hands-on experience working in a world-renowned encyclopedic museum. The program will include weekly field trips to other institutions throughout the New York City area, where fellows will have a chance to meet the leadership teams and learn more about their career paths. Fellows will also attend special presentations and panel discussions by leadership and staff at the Brooklyn Museum.

2018 Brooklyn Summer Fellows

Zakiyya M. Beasley, Sophomore, Winston-Salem State University; Development Department Fellow

Charlynn Trish Ben, Senior, City College of New York; Chief Curator’s Office Fellow

Rose Camara, B.A., The Art Institute of Chicago;  Registrar’s Office Fellow

Maribel Cosme-Vitagliani, B.A., Hunter College; Curatorial Fellow in Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art

Naimah Jangha, Sophomore, Howard University; Education Fellow

Devika Kanagaraj, Senior, N.Y.U.; Development Department Fellow

Umisha KC, Junior, Mississippi University for Women; Marketing and Communications Department Fellow

Courtney Middleton, Junior, Howard University; Curatorial Fellow in American Art

Sidney Minor, Sophomore, Tuskegee University; Education Fellow

Cynthia Torres, Senior, City College of New York; Chief Curator’s Office and Development Department Fellow

Applications for the Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellowship 2019 will open February 1, 2019. Questions? Please email internships@brooklynmuseum.org

Posted by Monica Marino

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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. Featuring over 150 works by more than 60 Black artists, the exhibition offers an unparalleled opportunity to see a wide array of dynamic art that responded to this important moment. 

Don’t miss Soul of a Nation, on view September 14–February 3.

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This summer the Brooklyn Museum is thrilled to host our first cohort of Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellows. The Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellowship is a full-time, ten-week, paid internship offered to undergraduate students looking to pursue a career in the arts and culture space who may not have the opportunity or ability to take advantage of the often unpaid internships that are typically offered at many arts and culture institutions. The fellowship aims to increase the pipelines of opportunity in communities where non-profit arts jobs are unknown and often not even considered. The two-year initiative is generously funded through the Citi Foundation’s ‘Pathways to Progress’ initiative, which seeks to help reduce youth unemployment and improve the quality of the youth workforce.

Throughout the summer, Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellows will spend time in many different departments across the Museum, including Curatorial, Marketing & Communications, Education, the Registrar’s Office, Development, Exhibitions, Design, and more as they gain hands-on experience working in a world-renowned encyclopedic museum. The program will include weekly field trips to other institutions throughout the New York City area, where fellows will have a chance to meet the leadership teams and learn more about their career paths. Fellows will also attend special presentations and panel discussions by leadership and staff at the Brooklyn Museum.

2018 Brooklyn Summer Fellows

Zakiyya M. Beasley, Sophomore, Winston-Salem State University; Development Department Fellow

Charlynn Trish Ben, Senior, City College of New York; Chief Curator’s Office Fellow

Rose Camara, B.A., The Art Institute of Chicago;  Registrar’s Office Fellow

Maribel Cosme-Vitagliani, B.A., Hunter College; Curatorial Fellow in Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art

Naimah Jangha, Sophomore, Howard University; Education Fellow

Devika Kanagaraj, Senior, N.Y.U.; Development Department Fellow

Umisha KC, Junior, Mississippi University for Women; Marketing and Communications Department Fellow

Courtney Middleton, Junior, Howard University; Curatorial Fellow in American Art

Sidney Minor, Sophomore, Tuskegee University; Education Fellow

Cynthia Torres, Senior, City College of New York; Chief Curator’s Office and Development Department Fellow

Applications for the Brooklyn Museum Summer Fellowship 2019 will open February 1, 2019. Questions? Please email internships@brooklynmuseum.org

Posted by Monica Marino

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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Week Three: For the Interns and Fellows’ Tuesday program this week, we were first given a tour of the Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. Our guide, who’s been working with the Museum for 17 years now, was a wonderful lady who talked to us about her own journey and how the visit to the installation many years ago inspired her into pursuing the job.

This gallery visit was then followed by the much anticipated Black Gotham Experience walking tour. Kamau, the founder of the project, led us around lower Manhattan and talked to us about the erased history of slavery and rebellion of early New York. Named Sarah’s Fire, the tour focused on the act of rebellion that happened on Wall Street on April 6, 1711. Continuing off last week’s theme on archives, we had discussions about the importance of archives and how power plays a role in the way history gets told.

After the tour, we met Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, back at the Museum. She talked to us about what goes behind curation of an exhibit and gave us her own views on the artworld. She never shied away from any of the questions we asked and gave us honest, detailed answers. Getting to sit down and talk to one of the leading curators of the Museum was an insightful experience for all the interns.

Posted by Umisha KC

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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Week Two: A lot of emphasis is placed on the front end of museums but what about the happenings that go on behind the walls? On the second floor, past the Arts of Korea introductory wall text, through the double doors, into a really cold holding space for casings with coded entry, and through another set of double doors lies the Brooklyn Museum’s Libraries and Archives. We had the privilege of meeting Molly Seegers, the Brooklyn Museum Archivist. Since she’s the sole archivist, she’s extremely busy, so this was a huge deal for us.

Molly shared the Brooklyn Museum’s roots which extend back to 1823! Its narrative begins in a pub where the founder, Augustus Graham, voiced the need for a library. Some years later, what was initially known as the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library developed into the Brooklyn Museum that we all know and love. She also shared records of the Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery and shed light on the Brooklyn Museum Art School. This resonated with me considering that a couple of the artists featured in the exhibition that I’m working on, Soul of Nation, were educated at the BKM Art School. Following that, we got a peak at some of the 7th grade writings of poet Walt Whitman who was fortunate enough to study in the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library.

The in-house excursion to the archives and library was extremely insightful especially because it helped inform all of our museum practices. The visit also helped us answer our running question, “What role do archives play within museum settings?” I didn’t know how much work went into archives. I found that the visit to the archives gave me a glimpse of the not so pretty, but equally interesting work of archivists. They’re scholars, detectives, and unsung heroes of museum settings whose tireless work enables our cultural institutions to preserve and present the complexities of history.

Posted by Autumn Harris Edited by: Ariel Kaufman

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Hello! We are the 2018 Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows. Over the course of next 10 weeks we will all be interning in many different departments throughout the Museum. This program is a chance for us to learn from and work with experts from different areas of the Museum. Four days of the week, we will be working under the guidance of full-time staff members of our department on day-to-day workplace activities.

However, every Tuesday the Interns and Fellows convene for full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and fieldtrips to other institutions around the city. On Thursdays we meet for brown-bag lunches which is time for us to catch up with other interns and talk about things that we learn or just things that we find worth sharing. Each of us is expected to present in these lunches over the course of next ten weeks. We’re excited to start this journey and share the experiences that we gather over the summer! Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Posted by Umisha KC

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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

For Intern Tuesday this week, we explored a bit more on the idea of archives. However, before we went out for our excursion, we sat in front of the Paul Kelpe piece in the Williamsburg Murals housed in the Museum. Our team exercise was to recreate the abstract piece using construction paper. It was a fun and refreshing exercise.

After our mini exhibition of the final product, we made our way towards the New York City Public Design Commission where we met Julianna Monjeau, the Archivist & Records Manager. Julianna was wonderful and talked to us about the work of the Design Commission and showed us some pretty cool archived records of designs that have come through for approval. It was very cool to see old designs of the buildings and statues. It was a very cool outing. After lunch, we walked right on over (it was a very hot day and we all wanted to die) up to the World Trade Center to look at murals. The best part was finding out that Emoni, one of the interns, modeled for one of the murals! How cool is that??

After the WTC murals, we made our way over to Franklin Avenue to look at a mural that remains, to this day, as a memorial for the Crown Heights Riot. Sidney, one of the interns, gave a brief presentation telling us about the history behind the piece. The outing then ended at Beaux Arts Court at the Museum where we discussed the importance of archives and whether the pieces we looked at today belonged in a Museum, an archive, or neither.

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The King’s Chambers, Château de Versailles 

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“Long before becoming an eternal icon, David Bowie was a rock-n-roll chameleon. He applied his mark to every facet of his work, visually and sonically while simultaneously refusing to be pinned down as just one entity, making him one of the greatest artists of our time.” —Spencer Alexander 

Have you created art inspired by David Bowie? Share it with us tagging @brooklynmuseum and #DavidBowieisBKM for a chance to be featured for Fan Art Friday.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

For the Intern Tuesday this week, we were given a tour of the Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. Our guide, who’s been working with the Museum for 17 years, was a wonderful lady who talked to us about her own journey and how the visit to the installation inspired her into the job.

This gallery visit was then followed by the much anticipated Black Gotham Experience walking tour. Kamau, the founder of the project, led us around lower Manhattan and talked to us about the erased history of slavery and rebellion of early New York. Named Sarah’s Fire, the tour focused on the act of rebellion that happened on Wall Street on April 6, 1711. It was one of the greatest internship experience I’ve had so far.

After the tour, we met Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Getting to talk to one of the leading curators of the Museum was an insightful experience for all the interns. The Q&A was not only informative but also very enlightening. The fact that I get to intern in a space that is so educative, challenging, and on top welcoming blows my mind!