People often ask me, “What can you do with a history major?” As I began my summer job search this spring, I was looking for an answer to that question myself. After two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I learned in many of my courses that art long has been used to capture the history of cultures and generations.
The decision to pursue a summer internship at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum brought together my university experiences, reminiscences of art classes at Athens High School and a fascination with museums sparked by reading the novel “The Da Vinci Code.”
After a month at the Woodson, I realize that “Birds in Art” might be the exhibition that most people know and that put the museum on the map, but there is much more to the Woodson and to museum work.