Interning

I spend my Sundays as well as most Tuesdays and Thursdays, interning at the Art and History Museum.  While many will ask me, "Why do you waste your time, not getting paid." and I generally respond with the simple, "I do it because I love it."  It really is more than that. 

I do it because the life experience is invaluable. While getting a degree from a college is a great asset and really a necessity in this day and age, I personally feel life experience trumps all.  To me, what good is my degree if I don't have to skills and the well rounded assets to back it up.  I tend to over extend myself when it comes to achieving my life experience goals, but in the end it will all be worth it, and I hope to be one step ahead of the competition when all they have is that little piece of paper.

Plus if I'm doing what I really love, and I assume it is the same for most, as much as we would like to be paid the value and reward I get just from doing it is enough, well at least for now.

Introduction :D

While I assume for the most part, while I'll be writing this blog I will most likely not have any readers, I will be everyday posting something different I have encountered in my life as an Art History student and as an intern for an Art and History Museum in Florida. 

I suppose I will introduce myself to give a bit of a persona to this blog, my name is Kristina and I am a 23 year old student at UCF, which is in Orlando, Florida, I have had a love for the arts since I was an elementary school student, and I do a little bit of painting and printmaking myself. I was originally going to study studio art, but because I am not to keen on marketing my artwork to be sold, I switched to Art History to further explore my passion for the past, present and future of the Art world. I have a passion for the Italian Renaissance,19th century French Impressionism and I am finding a new love of Modern/Contemporary Art.  

I intern at the Art and History Museum of Maitland, which I love dearly, helping with Rental of the facilities and the Gallery Store.  I also just started volunteering at the UCF Gallery helping maintain the collection of work the school has a acquired, by cataloging and preserving the work. 

But, that is enough about me for now :D Art is an incredible thing and I hope that I will inspire some people to take a closer look at the world around them, and what Art has done for us all.