The Walters Art Museum
I am a senior photography major here at MICA. I found out about this internship opportunity from researching on the Walters’ website last semester. I was immediately interested and started making a cover letter and sprucing up my resume right away. Over winter break I received an email from Kate Blanch, my internship coordinator, saying that she felt I fit the position and wanted to conduct a phone interview within the following week. The interview went very well and she told me I could start my internship in January! The Walters Art Museum is a non-profit organization that was started from Henry Walters’ own art collection. At the Walters I was a Conservation Digitization Intern working on the Kress Grant Digitization Project, which focused on 17 th century classical paintings. My duties were to digitize and catalog the documents related to Cons ervation. Any time the department cleans or x rays or repairs a painting they have documents and photographs that correspond with e...