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Regina Hackett takes her Art to Go

Museology students answer back

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In response to this post, (my advice: ashes, ashes; all is ashes), graduate students in the University of Washington’s department of museology responded. Go, you guys. More about this class experiment here.

Whitney Ford Terry:

I feel compelled to mention that an M.A in Museology isn’t just a credential. I don’t feel all together
threatened by the current job market, in fact I think it has allowed
for people to truly realize the importance of restructuring cultural
institutions.

If you know what your doing, and you do it well, you’ll find a good
job. Though this may be idealistic – I really do believe it to be true.

Thanks for the advice but I think this one is f*cked.

K.C. Porter:

Thank you for the mention, this exhibit should be a very interesting little social experiment.

I would also echo Whitney that if you have set out to get any sort
of arts or humanities-related MA as just a stamp on your resume, then
you’ve set out on a poor path regardless of the economy in which you
find yourself. While the going may be a little tougher, nowadays,
people who are leaders in what they do and who have a great track
record of innovation will push forward. I see the degree program at UW
as something that has allowed me the opportunity to collaborate and
innovate, and it’s those projects are what I’ll be standing on, not the
diploma. I have the skills to raise both the money and the interest to
make the projects I want to happen a reality.

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