Our alumna, Felicia Garcia just started a new podcast titled Exhibiting Kinship. It is a podcast dedicated to discussing the many ways Indigenous people are working to radically change the museum world. You can learn more about it here.
Congratulations to our alumnus, Christopher James on his new position as the new Collections and Exhibit Technician at the National Enforcement Museum in Washington D.C.
Congratulations to our alumna, Kimberly Kitada on her new position as Curatorial Assistant at the MOCA in Los Angeles. She's currently working on research for upcoming 2020 exhibitions and would be happy to connect with other Museum Studies alumni at kkitada@moca.org.
The first guest of our new feature Alumni Spotlight feature is Grace T. Weiss. Grace graduated from the Program in Museum Studies in 2015, and was interviewed by faculty member Rosanna Flouty. In their conversation, Grace talked about how she began to explore her career path through course projects, thesis research, and internships in New York, and the particular experiences that finally lead to her current position of Assistant Registrar for the Media Arts Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Read full interview here.
The NYU Museum Studies Alumni Association (MSAA) connects alumni to one another and to the Museum Studies Program at NYU. MSAA's ultimate goal is the establishment of an active alumni network that helps its members build and maintain professional and personal relationships, trade practical advice related to careers in the museum, gallery and not-for-profit worlds, spread awareness of job vacancies and other professional opportunities, and extend the education and training gained through completion of the degree program at NYU.
If you would like to stay informed regarding upcoming MSAA events and other networking opportunities, please fill out the below form.
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Hunter and Lisa are both 2018 graduates of the NYU Museum Studies program and Alexa Cummins is a 2019 graduate. Hunter currently works as an Annual Giving Associate at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Lisa is the Collections Manager at Fraunces Tavern Museum and a Curatorial Fellow at the Climate Museum. Alexa’s professional passions lie in museum education, public programming, interpretation, and accessibility. Together, they are excited to continue fostering relationships among the NYU Museum Studies community as co-chairs of the Museum Studies Alumni Association. Hoping to expand upon existing events, they are also working to extend our alumni network beyond New York City and solidify connections with national and international museum professionals!
