brightwork

“Bright is the noble work; but, being nobly bright, the work Should brighten the minds…"

[lillithblackwell]

Tilda Swinton 

photographed by Rick McGinnis, 1992

[brightwork]

I just looked at my students' evaluations of my teaching effectiveness from the discussion sections I taught last semester and my heart is so full! Not everyone submitted their evaluations, but the ones that did gave me high marks overall and largely very sweet comments. And I am appreciative for the comments on things that I can improve on as well, although some of those things aren't under my control right now (like course pacing and amount of material), but they are good things to keep in mind for the future. Ahh! I just love teaching and helping students to become interested and engaged and working with them to create a dialogue facilitated by works of art. I'm so pleased that my hard work paid off and my enthusiasm came across and that my students seem to have enjoyed my class and gotten a lot out of it on the whole.

[wargaymon-blog]

please bring back replies nobody is messaging me about my mediocre text posts

[eomer-eadig]

#NEW YEAR, NEW ME

[leftboob-enthusiast]

“you don’t need to be stressed!” okay but consider this: I am

[goldduststevie]

[anarchivefullofmems]

Hannibal, Translated: Actual cool dad Hannibal Lecter

[brightwork]

“George Grey Barnard (1863-1938) in 1922. The sculptor and collector stands among ruins of the 12th-century cloister of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, which he acquired in France and erected on the grounds of his museum, the Cloisters, on Fort Washington Avenue.” Photograph: The New York Times.

[brightwork]

This is going to be a long post about grad school / graduating.

For the past week or so, I’ve been feeling anxious about 2016. I’ll be graduating this May, or at the end of the summer at the very latest, with my MA in art history. I’m not applying to PhD programs this academic year, so when I graduate, I won’t have anything academic to fall back on. Not that getting a PhD is taking the easy route, but I’m a little envious of my friends who are applying to PhD programs, since if they get in, they’ll know what they’ll be doing/where they’ll be for the next 5-6 years. It’s hard not to compare my path to theirs, even though I know everyone has a different path. It makes sense for me to take time off, since I want to do museum work and want to have more practical experience before coming out with a PhD and not much practical experience to show for it. All of my friends in the department want to teach, so it’s not as if they would gain much relevant experience by taking time off and seeking that.

But I’ve been thinking about it all tonight, and 2015 had some good experiences for me. I presented some of my research at my first conference, which was a major conference for my field. I also made a lot of headway for my master’s thesis with archival research, which I had never done before this past semester. I’m actually really excited about my thesis, and I think it could really go somewhere, especially with the growing interest in the history of collecting and my interest in museum work. I managed to keep my head above water with my coursework and museum job/teaching load, and I met and stayed in contact with various people in my field. So although the day-to-day experience has been pretty rough, some pretty great things have come out of it.

I’m still feeling anxious about graduating, though. It will be the first time in my life that I haven’t been a student, and I think that not having that rigor will be difficult for me. Hopefully a job will provide some of that, but I have no idea what I’m going to do. Ideally, I’d be able to find a job doing some form of museum education / public engagement / objects research / curatorial work (or anything else, really...) for a museum in a big or mid-sized city, but I’m not really sure what’s going to be out there by the time I’m looking for jobs. I’d like to stay up in the northeast / mid-atlantic, but I don’t know. 

:/

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when is my elven family coming to remove me from this plane

[luna-intheforest]

[agameofclothes]

What Lyanna Stark would wear

[thebeauty-blog]

[romanticbohemian-deactivated201]

[brightwork]

I hope no one minds that I’m going on a liking and reblogging spree right now...it’s winter holidays, which means I have nothing else to do at night at my parents’ house, and I miss having a creative outlet, and I’m going to be unemployed in a few months so I might as well re-kindle my hobbies...?

[magicwandarthistory-deactivated]

Ophelia with Magic Wand by John Everett Millais.

[konguloarkonan-deactivated20171]

nordweeb: MY ANCESTORS…PAGANS…THEY FOUGHT THE WEAK CHRISTIANS #PAGANBLOOD #PRIDE

actual norse ancestor: *converts to christianity out of political convenience* nice

[deviajeconcarlos]

Claustro del monasterio viejo de San Juan de la Peña, Aragón (España). Junio de 2014.