Franklin Furnace: Museum Intern

I was placed as a museum intern at Franklin Furnace through CUNY Cultural Corps. Since their archive is large and in need of consistent organizing into a database or excel spread sheet. The first week, I did basic office work such as making copies of paperwork and contacting clients/artists. They made me edit the coding for their website ever so slightly but I do not specialize in UX/UI design. I convinced them into allowing me to do more of the graphic design aspect to the work. Since then, I’ve done event posters and video editing for their footage of preforming art. I edit each video on Adobe Premiere and add the logo to it for uploading onto Vimeo. Artist are always coming into the office to get placed under Franklin Furnace. They work with museums to sell their archive of artist work to other Institutes. The history behind this program is to welcome any artist (photographer, painter, drawers, preforming arts). These artist preform and all work and footage are kept on file since they’ve established their archive. To ensure they have more interns and workers, they have applied for many fellowships, grants and along side CUNY. One of their grants requires them to upload their footage to vimeo and the other requires interns to track their hours. As of recently, they placed me under their Sequential Art for Kids program. It is a 10-week program in Forte Green where artists come into a grade school that lacks an art class or program.