Initial Questions:
What jobs in the museum field did you have before becoming a curator?
Were you ever a practicing artist? If so, how has this affected your job as a curator?
Response
I really enjoyed this lecture. I would love to have Markonish's job one day. I liked learning about this museum as I am preparing for a move to Connecticut and am interested in new places to visit and possibly work in the future. I liked her "Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape" exhibit. She seems to have good clear ideas and successful ways of executing them. Her extensive study of contemporary Canadian artists was also extremely interesting. She is choosing topics that she has not seen addressed before and therefore inspiring interest from viewers who want to learn and see something new. I was surprised at how small the staff is at Mass MoCA. Makes the job market seem daunting.
My questions were not really answered, although I did get the feeling she was never a practicing artist. I am now more interested in knowing how she got the jobs she did, and what she recommends to other people trying to find jobs in her field.
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