The 75th anniversary of Kittredge Hall brought together a special event with Logger artists and alumni. The Art History Alumni Colloquium features research presentations and roundtable discussions addressing a wide range of career choices pursued by Puget Sound art and art history alumni, from software development and archaeology to gallery management, estate sales, and curatorial work.
Alumni Katie Ferguson (Human Resources Administrator, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), Maggie O’Rourke (Education Department, Seattle Art Museum), Kristie Chang (Online Content Marketing & Analytics Coordinator, Tacoma Art Museum), Michelle Reynolds (Curatorial and Programming Coordinator, Wellin Museum, Hamilton College)
Ayse Hunt ’19 is pursuing a joint PhD in Computer Science and Learning Science at Northwestern University. She completed a Curatorial Summer Internship at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle in 2019. She also presented a paper entitled, “Digital Strategies and Access in the Art Museum” at an international conference “The Art Museums in the Digital Age” at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, January 2019.
Learn MoreAlly Suarez ’16 (Art History major, English minor) was accepted to the Syracuse University’s dual MA program in Art History and Museum Studies.
Louisa Raitt ’15 Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU was awarded the Marica and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2020-2021. This 12-month fellowship provides Louisa with the opportunity to work with the Latin American and American Collections of the Metropolitan Museum.
Elsa Woolley ’15 has recently taken a position as a Development Assistant focusing on architectural historic preservation with the St. Charles Town Company in Denver, Colorado.
Brendan Balaam ’14 served as a curator at the Tacoma Historical Society. He earned an MLitt degree in Material Culture & Artifact Studies from the University of Glasgow.
Ben Block ’14 is working as a software developer at Tyemill in Seattle.
Jordyn Jones ’14 earned a law degree at Seattle University in 2017.
Tosia Klincewicz ’14 presented a paper, "On Display: Curating the Works of Julia Margaret Cameron", at the Gender Studies Symposium held at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in March 2014.
Maggie O’Rourke ’14 is working at Seattle Art Museum as an Education Assistant in the Department of Public Programs; Was awarded a 2014 summer internship in the Education Department at the Seattle Art Museum.
Lucas Sokolsky ’14 participated in the Art Summer Residency Program in Europe in Summer 2014 with three studio art students, traveling to Budapest, Leipzig, and Berlin to study contemporary art. The program is funded by an anonymous donor; Currently Gallery Associate at Jules Maeght Gallery in San Francisco.
Joelle Luongo ’13 held the position of Curatorial Intern in Summer 2013 for the African collection of the Seattle Art Museum; Currently Program Assistant of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards in Washington, D.C.
Emily Bolton ’12 earned an M.A. in Library and Information Science at the University of Washington and is working as the company librarian and music assistant for the Seattle Opera.
Kelsey Eldridge ’12 has passed her General Exams and is now at the stage of ABD (all but dissertation) in the Ph.D. program of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She was awarded a Graduate Fellow position for Fall 2018 at the Villa i Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence to pursue research on her dissertation entitled, Imitations of Empire: Porphyry Sarcophagi in Byzantium and Beyond.