March 23rd/March 24th:

This is an unusual post since it's an internship experience I had outside of the museum and on the weekend. This past weekend I acted as an educator at the Art @ the Domain festival in Austin. The festival is mostly an outlet for artists to market their items and get their names out to the general public. We were the only museum present and I, along with another educator, spent the day speaking to people about the type of art we focus on at the museum, as well as the various education outreach programs we offer.

The project we had prepared for the public was block printing. The block printing activity was loosely based on screen printing and was supposed to illustrate what we do with our Screen It! program. We had so many people approach our booth to try the activity. I would say that the event was successful and I was happy to speak directly to people who otherwise would have never heard of the museum.

This weekend was definitely me stepping out of my comfort zone. I had zero experience with block printing and although I'm friendly, I've always had trouble getting the right words out when speaking with people. The festival was a lot of fun and made me even more enthusiastic about the work I was doing at Mexic-Arte.


HOURS WORKED: (15 hrs.)
Sat: 12pm-7:30pm (7.5 hrs.)
Sun: 11am-6:30pm (7.5 hrs.)