This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Grace Vallecillo-Drews (’26) about her internship experience at the Gallery B612. What organization are you interning with and what do you do in your internship? I have been interning at Gallery B612 since January of this year! I started doing mostly education and program/workshop planning along with some registrar duties. However, it’s a very small team, so my role also encompasses everything from curation &…
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Internship spotlight – Marnie Hill-Woodworth
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Marnie Hill-Woodworth (’26) about her internship experience at the Messors in Italy. What organization did you intern with and what you did in your internship? I interned with Messors Art & Cultural Heritage Conservation where I learned how to conserve Byzantine and Medieval frescoes as well as 17th- 20th century paintings, led by Tonio Creanza and Jennifer Bell, Filip Petcu, Joana Diniz, with guest lectures…
Internship spotlight – Nancy Wynstra-Cope
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Nancy Wynstra-Cope (’26) about her internship experience at the Burke Museum. What organization did you intern with and what you did in your internship? I completed my internship at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, working with one of the collections managers in the Heritage, Arts, and Cultures department. Two of my projects included inventorying and rehousing textiles in the permanent collection and…
Internship spotlight – Megan Lam
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Megan Lam (’26) about her internship experience at The Vestibule. What organization did you intern with and what you do in your internship? I am interning at The Vestibule as a gallery assistant. I help with installation, making catalogs, and sometimes reaching out to organizations for potential collaborations, donations, and sponsorships. What learning goals did you have going into the internship? I wanted to learn more…
Curator spotlight: Madeleine O’Connor
Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Madeleine O’Connor (’25) about her experience as MOPOP’s Guest Curator. Madeleine curated Chutzpah: The Jewish Voices Behind American Comics, on display at MOPOP from March 2025-March 2026. What inspired the theme of your exhibit? The theme of the Jewish history of American comics was very much inspired by my love of comics but also the erasure I was seeing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe of Jewish heritage, stories, and experiences….
Alumni spotlight – Megumi Nagata
This post is part of our Alumni Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Megumi Nagata (’17) about her professional experiences since graduation. Megumi is a Heritage Program Manager at 4Culture in Seattle. Can you please provide a brief introduction about yourself? Hello! My name is Megumi Nagata (she/her), class of 2017. I grew up in Japan and came to the United States when I was 15 years old. I have moved…
Evaluation Specialization spotlight: Lucas Terry
Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Lucas Terry (’25) about his experience in Museology’s Evaluation Specialization. Can you give us a brief introduction to yourself and why you decided to take the Evaluation Specialization in museology? My name is Lucas Terry, and I have chosen to complete the evaluation specialization because of my interest in the effect of affect. As a form of narrative, museum evaluation offers opportunities to explain how a museum experience may animate the…
International Student Spotlight – Zhiyue Chen
As I write this, winter quarter has just begun, marking my second quarter as an international student in the Museology program. The transition from semester to quarter was challenging, but the real hurdles were the language barrier and cultural differences. In the beginning, these challenges felt like an invisible weight pressing on me, present in every interaction and task. To calm myself, I would repeat this thought: “The program admitted me for a reason—they believe I can make it.” While…
Internship Spotlight – Wilson Lam
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Wilson Lam (’25) about his internship experience at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Can you tell us a bit about your internship? This internship was with the Wing Luke Museum’s Exhibits department. This position was created primarily to support the design and mounting of the exhibition Lost & Found: Searching for Homeland, which explores the themes of homeland and the…
New online exhibit
This post is from second-year Museology student, Ginger McCormick. Ginger explains about the online exhibit she created for a class she took that focused on archaeological looting and loss. Let’s Wrap This Up: The World’s Fascination of Egypt & the effects it had on looting For Archaeology 512: Looting & Loss, I created this digital exhibit to dive into the messy and often uncomfortable realities of looting and how museums have been part of that story. This class gave me…