This spring, Beloit College’sCareer Channelsprogram and theStateline Small Museums Conference (SSMC)are teaming up to bring Beloit students a unique opportunity to meet and learn from alums in themuseum studiesfield.
Worldbuilding Channelcoordinator andEnglishprofessorMichael Dangosays that the conference is “centered around Beloit alums who are in this field and making opportunities for those alums to connect with current students who are curious about how to enter these fields.”
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Credit: Ellie Anderbyrne
On Friday, April 21, in theLogan Museumfrom 1-4 p.m., SSMC will host a workshop for Beloit College students, staff, and faculty followed by a networking dinner event with Beloit alumni working inmuseums. Attendees will learn how to make photo corners for mounting and hinges with methyl cellulose, and how to hinge works on paper with methyl cellulose, important skills in the museums field. But more prominently, the conference will introduce students to alumni working in small museums andarchives.
Michael Dango, the coordinator for the Worldbuilding Career Channel, says that the conference is “centered around Beloit alums who are in this field and making opportunities for those alums to connect with current students who are curious about how to enter these fields, how to network within these fields.”
The conference continues the following day in thePowerhouse’s Weissberg Auditorium, where six Beloit alumni will give presentations on everything from the creation of new museums to budget-friendly strategies for exhibit development. The six presenters are:
- Sara Hindmarch’98, Collections Manager, Obama Presidential Center Museum;
- Sara Podejko’09, Registrar and Collections Move Project Manager, Milwaukee Public Museum;
- 凯特·贝内特的18岁,博物馆馆长,愉快的草原Historical Society;
- Tom Skwerski’87, Exhibits Operations Director, Chicago Field Museum;
- Catie Anderson’10, Curator of Education, Woodson Art Museum; and
- Andi Altenbach’18, Archivist and Librarian, Studio Gang.
Career Channels combines students’ diverse interests with programming, alumni connections, and events like this conference to help them think about their future careers. Dango says that Channels events give students a chance to “come out of Beloit being able to tell a story about how their classroom experiences and their out of classroom experiences really worked together to prepare them for whatever kind of career they end up pursuing.”
SSMC is a volunteer association that hosts annual conferences in Wisconsin and Illinois to support small museums, volunteers, professional staff, and others interested in the field.
April 19, 2023
