Student OpportunitiesOlin Art Gallery workstudy students assist Gallery Director, Dan Younger, throughout the school year with preparatory work including installation, packing and shipping, painting and signage. Students learn the essentials of selecting, sequencing and displaying artworks. Opportunities for experience in office work are also available, including artist correspondence, planning, filing and slide documentation of exhibitions. |
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Olin Art Gallery director and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Dan Younger, teaches in alternate years a spring semester Museum Studies seminar. The Museum Studies seminar exposes students to critical and theoretical ideas about the museum. Through readings, discussion and paper assignments, seminar participants historicize the museum; probe cultural issues of representation; problematize notions of curator, artist and audience; and propose theoretical models for assessing the display of history and historical and contemporary art. On occasion, coursework complements Olin Art Gallery exhibition and educational programming. |
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The Olin Art Gallery regularly sponsors Gallery tours for Gambier's Wiggin Street Elementary School. The Art Adventures program is run by the Gallery Director, and student workstudy managers and volunteers. The student managers conceptualize, administer, execute and publicize this popular program. Student volunteers, working in teams of two to three, lead the tours, eliciting discussion and providing age-appropriate interpretation for elementary classes. This program exposes kindergarten through fifth graders to visual expression through the diverse exhibition programming on view in the Gallery. For further information regarding workstudy Gallery Assistant and Art Adventures opportunities, or the Museum Studies seminar, please contact Gallery Director and Visiting Assistant Professor Dan Younger at youngerd@kenyon.edu, or by phone: (740) 427-5346. |
