[late] anniversary post

A little over a year ago I started this blog while at a job completely unrelated to museums or children. A lot has changed in a year and while I haven't been the best at updating consistently I would like to do a quick general run down of the year and where I'm at now with the (probably unrealistic) idea that I will write more frequently.

I have started graduate school which I love. The school reflects the museum education field in that it is 99.99999% women. I also no longer have many male friends. To counterbalance this general lack of testosterone I have moved in with my boyfriend which more than compensates.

I student taught in the first and the fifth grades. The classes were both insane in unique and wonderful ways that I wish I better documented. Bottom line is: kids do say the darndest things...it's true.

I was interning and then hired to lead school group tours at a museum that specializes in contemporary art as well as New York City history. I don't want to get more specific then that (Let's just call it Museum 1) but I think I can safely say that it is not The American Museum of Natural History.
And Yet... When I ask the school groups what they are expecting to see on their trip when they come to visit 7 times out of 10 someone will say: "DINOSAURS!"
Damn you AMNH for cornering the definition of museum.

I have also started referring to museums in short hand (I say A EM EN H when I am talking about the museum of natural history. I am that inside.

On Monday I begin work for family programs at a museum-mile art museum (extremely creative pseudonym: Museum 2) which I am very excited about but alas there are no dinosaurs there either so I will continue to perpetually let down children.

That's my update!
I am in a much better position now to write about children and art in a more meaningful way than I was a year ago...so here's hoping I actually do it.

This...was probably a foreseeable problem.

Jane:  read your blog....i read the link as "e meats paste" and i was like....hm meat paste?

Me:  ha ha I am a little worried about the unintentional "meat" in my address.  

oh well.  

maybe it will intrigue the fans of electronic meat paste

a fast growing industry

Hello!

This blog will be about me, em.  

After spending WAY too long at a graphic design job I have remembered what I meant to do with my life: Museum Education! (ta da!) 

I am passionate about arts education (I have been working in museums and other cultural institutions education departments since high school) and I'm psyched to get back into the game. 

So psyched that I am going to prematurely start this blog even though I am still at the graphic design job doing nothing with children or museums til I start graduate school in a few months.  

But in the meantime it will remind me who I am when I give a shit about what I do.

Here goes...