This semester I have done an internship at Printroom, a small gallery in Hampstead that sells contemporary fine art prints. I have learned a lot about through this placement and I have really enjoyed the opportunity. I have gotten to meet some of the artists, which has been really neat. One of them is actually from near Morganton, NC, which was a fun connection to make. The networking opportunities of this internship have taken me all over London. I even got to go to a function in a 30 story sky scraper down in Canary Warf.
I have gotten to see and handle hundreds of beautiful pieces of art. Life is very different when you look at art so often. I will miss the excitement of opening a new delivery that is from an artist. It is great fun to feel like I am one of the first people to see a new set of prints!
I have created a facebook page and a twitter account for the gallery (please follow @PrintroomLondon on twitter and like Printroom on facebook) and I have done some updates for the website. I have really enjoyed these marketing aspects of the intership, and I am glad I got the chance to help the gallery use some new forms of social media.
These are just a few of the awesome things I have gotten to do with my internship. I really love my weekly trips to Highgate and Hampstead. If you are ever in the area, you should definitely look up the gallery. I know it is somewhere I hope to return to, as it has been really great to me.
Oh, and last week when I was hanging the gallery window I saw Ricky Gervais. Pretty cool!
i think living in college qualifies as suitcase and storage containers. meaning there are good days and better ones this semester that could be equally noted on the cyber space :)
ReplyDeletewe shall see. maybe something will be worth blogging about soon enough.
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