Under the FAC

Today we began the grand send-off for our Arthur Dove Fog Horns . It will be dearly missed, but we know that it will be well cared for in its temporary home of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany. The museum is one of three prominent museums in Cologne and boasts a collection that ranges from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Fog Horns will be one of 120 loans in a four month exhibition titled Once Upon a Time in America. The exhibition will be covering three centuries worth of American art. It will explore the phase of artistic exploration after the Colonial period and continue through the Hudson River School, the reaction to the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Ashcan School, and end with the Armory show of 1913. The show will focus on the wonderful diversity of American Art. Quoted from the Wallraf-Richartz website: "The show is vivid proof that there is not “one single” history of US American art, but many." As interns, our small piece in th...

We are Amber and Suzy, the interns at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, taking part in the summer museum internship program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We dwell in the basement of the FAC in the registration and collections department, under the watchful eyes of Michael Howell, the registrar and director of the internship program. We put this blog together to share our experiences with collections management, art handling, researching, and everything else we encounter within museum operations. But we also put it together to share our fun experiences and daily shenanigans. We hope it is useful to anyone out there considering a internship or job in the museum field!