Meet Nicole
Nicole Burlock, Membership and Development at Design Museum Boston, truly believed in the museum before she even knew it existed. While a graduate student at Savannah College of Art and Design, she did her thesis project and dissertation on art museums that took a non-traditional approach; for instance, being a part of a community as opposed to attracting people to a certain building.
“My whole thesis pretty much discusses what DMB is all about,” she says. “It is about a decentralized network within the city of Boston, where everyone has access to it, and you don’t have to have a certain economic status to attend. It is education based - things aren’t placed upon pedestals.”
When Nicole moved to Boston after earning her degree, she noticed someone on the street wearing a Design Museum T-shirt in the Fort Port area. She went home to look it up, and immediately applied for the position she has held for six months now. Nicole explains that DMB is based on building relationships, whether it be with members, sponsors, or audiences, and giving insight about the things around us, the steps necessary to get those things where they are, and the design behind all of it.
Favorite Exhibition: Street Seats
Location she’d most like to see the museum: Chicago, IL
Originally from: Flint, MI
Word that best defines DMB: Innovative

















