Work Experience at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEMHA)

While working on my undergraduate degree at Utah State I worked as a student employee at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEMHA). I would like to share with you a little bit about my experience working at there as well as the type of things I did while employed.

I began at the museum in July 2009 but as a volunteer, not a worker. I worked just a few short weeks and then I was offered a position as a student employee. I volunteered there because I have a great passion for art (especially modern art!) and it was summer and I was extremely bored, despite nearly working 40 hours at another job.

In the beginning my job duties were mainly to man the front desk and greet visitors. While greeting them I would inform the visitors of the museum rules and etiquette as well as the exhibits that we currently had. On the days when the museum was closed I would work on cleaning, painting, organizing & etc; I did pretty much anything that they needed done. As time moved on I began to learn more about the artwork and exhibits and began to help with giving tours around the museum. I also was privileged to see how the museum worked from the behind the scenes, where artwork was kept and how it was handled and cleaned.

As I proceeded further into my art discipline I began to do a few small design projects around the museum. I designed posters and information work that was displayed in the museum.

The two posters I created were to give the visitors information about the exhibit that was currently being displayed. At that time it was the "Uses of the Real". Below are the posters that were displayed.

They have been placed side by side. These posters are copyrighted,
please do not download.

I also created informational flip books for specific museum pieces. These flip booklets were placed next to their corresponding artwork and was there to engage the viewer to learn more about the artwork. The flip booklets were very much a love hate relationship. I ABSOLUTELY loved learned more about the artwork and I came out with so much knowledge in regards to the artist but my computer had so many problems with the adobe suite that I was constantly having to reinstall and un-install it. Luckily the computer is working just fine and I can continue to
design.

My employment ended in August 2010. I chose to end this employment in order to focus on my education.