Meet the interns: Fall 2020

I’m from Dayton, Ohio... I lived in a smaller town right outside [Dayton] called Oakwood.

The activity that goes on. Even though it’s not a giant metropolis, it’s definitely bigger than Dayton… When I first got here, I was kind of intimidated and a little shocked at everything, but as soon as I [found] my way around, I really enjoyed exploring.

Last summer, I studied abroad. I went to Italy with the History of Art Department... And one of my last days in Florence, [a friend and I] took [a] bus all the way up this hill out of the city to this little town called Fiesole. [There] were these ruins that we found, and we just explored and found this little monastery on a hill. And it was a very stereotypical study abroad experience, but it was everything… That whole day was so fun.

Before quarantine, I definitely would not have considered myself a reader, but… I read [and] that’s pretty big for me... Other than that, I continually have been writing. I write a lot of poetry. Although nothing really happened over quarantine, I was still able to just write down some random things I was thinking of, and that definitely helped me pass the time.

What comes to mind immediately is the exhibits. I’m very much a visual arts person. Although most of my classes up to this semester have been ancient art -- like learning the history of art -- this semester, I’m taking two contemporary art classes (Performance and the Politics of Space with Visiting Associate Professor Tim Griffin and Envisioning the Nation: Modern & Contemporary Art in Asia with Associate Professor Namiko Kunimoto). So I’m definitely getting a grasp of contemporary art because I previously had never learned about it in a class. So it’s actually really nice that I'm in this internship and also learning about it… Contemporary art was something I [never] really thought I would be interested in. But I just never was in the environment where I could learn and reflect. I’m actually really interested in it now…The exhibits are definitely my favorite.

I took [the photo above] when I was in Italy. When we went on a little hike, Professor Whittington had been there [before], so he knew little backroads up the hill. And you can see the Duomo!

It’s a city called Kunming in the southern part of China. It’s called Spring City because we don’t get snow; summer’s not very hot. I miss it. I miss it like crazy.

The Short North; I just love walking there, and there are a lot of stores and art.

I do drawings and paintings all the time. So I’ve been continuing to do that during quarantine... And playing with my cat. I could spend my whole day with him.

During my sophomore year, one of [my] design classes (Materials and Processes for Visual Communication with Oscar Fernández) had a lot of field trips, and the Wexner Center was one of the places that we visited... I love art and I always felt like this is such a cool place... so I [felt] very attached to this place. Last year, one of my friends, Lily, asked me if I wanted to work at the Wexner Center. And I was like “YES PLEASE.” And that’s how I ended up here!

We make posters and cards for every event... We work on image production for the website... A lot of posters and postcards and sometimes some video editing... But during quarantine... I’ve been working on videos for the whole summer, and I’ve been working on the Pages book. [Also] a lot of social media posts this summer.

[The picture above is from] a photography project I did in my freshman year (Photography 1 with Michelle Marie Burdine). This is the final project. I basically took all the photos that I took before and took them to the same place and held them up [to] take the photo again… I love this series because it reminds me of how fast time went by and how much I’ve learned and accomplished.