jemiller@roanoke.edu

I have finished my internship with the Taubman and it has been a wonderful experience over the last two weeks. I didn’t realize how much went into the organizational side to museum work and all of the jobs that are generated from those needed roles. I’m excited to witness how the work I have contributed is used in future exhibitions particularly in the George Washington spotlight and the Goode exhibition that will be installed in January-February.

To finish up my internship I placed the finishing touches and edits on all my writing and made sure that every artist I was working on had a length bio to accompany it. When all my writing was edited I uploaded it to a google doc folder to be sent out to be printed and displayed on the gallery walls.

Today has been my final day of my internship at the Taubman. Recently most of my time has been spent working on the educational resources for use by the institution. Due to COVID local schools are not going to be going to the museum physically to participate in these learning activities. Therefore, the resources that I had to develop involved sending the resources to do the educational art making at home.

I spent a majority of my time combing through the various SOLs for Virginia schools to see what I could use to base my program around. Eventually I ended up using a piece titled Other Rooms, by Jacob Lawrence as the source material. The educational resource I created then involved students choosing a period from history and like Lawrence (who used 1940s Harlem) create a street scene from that period. To do so they could add figures either in a collage style, by cutting and pasting or if they rather they could draw figures in their historical street-scene.