Welcome to our Summer 2024 student assistants!

As we gear up for another busy summer ahead at the Museum of Art, we are pleased to welcome a new cohort of student assistants. The group officially kicked off their internships with gelato and highlight tours several weeks ago as part of Brunswick’s Second Friday Art Walk. In addition to delving into various curatorial and educational project, the students will also lead daily tours, participate in reading groups, and visit peer institutions in Maine this summer. We are thrilled to welcome the six student assistants to our team and look forward to working with them this summer.

This summer, Gabi Sennett ’25 will be playing a lead role in family and community-facing programs as the Student Education Assistant. A Classics and Education double major and Religion minor from Chicago, Gabi will develop resources and activities based on this summer’s new exhibitions. Currently, she is designing informational and interactive gallery guides for families and young learners, as well as hands-on crafts and bingo games. The activities will specifically highlight the current and upcoming exhibitions Tom Burckhardt: Informal Worship and Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time. Gabi is particularly interested in museum accessibility and the BCMA's role as an educational institution.

In addition, we welcome our five student curatorial assistants: Isa Cruz ’27, Zoë Pringle ’27, Axel Romell ’25, Julia Smart ’25, and Marianna Zingone ’26. They will contribute to a broad range of upcoming exhibitions and curatorial projects through research, writing, and programming support.

Isa Cruz ’27 is a prospective Latin American Studies and Visual Art double major from Nashville, Tennessee. This summer, Isa is collaborating with co-director Frank Goodyear on an upcoming exhibition, which will explore modern and contemporary portrait photographs of artists. Examining artists as both creators and subjects, Isa will engage with the complexities of photographic practice as they consider the narratives, communities, and relationships that undergird each photograph. In Isa’s research and artistic practice, they are interested in audacious, experimental approaches, the body as a tool of meaning-making, and marginalized (often queer) urban lives, all of which feature prominently in this project.

Zoë Pringle ’27, a Sociology major and Cinema Studies minor from Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be assisting co-director Anne Collins Goodyear on two exhibitions: the upcoming retrospective on the American abstract artist William T. Williams, and an exploration of the intersection between U.S. and Mexican modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. For this month’s E-bulletin, Zoë conducted an interview with artist Abigail DeVille in anticipation of the opening of Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time. In addition to Zoë’s involvement at the BCMA, this summer she is also completing an internship in MaineHealth’s community health department at Mid Coast Parkview Health.

Working jointly with Zoë, Axel Romell ’25 is also contributing to the upcoming William T. Williams and Walter Pach projects under the guidance of Anne Collins Goodyear. A rising Junior from Sigtuna, Sweden, Axel is pursuing an English Major with a concentration in creative writing as well as a minor in Art History. Aside from assisting Anne Goodyear with organizing and compiling images for upcoming shows, Axel collaborated with fellow intern Zoë Pringle on the interview with Abigail DeVille.

Julia Smart ’25 is a double major in Art History and English from Pella, Iowa. Julia returns to the BCMA as a former member of the Student Ambassadors program. This summer, she is assisting Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Sean Kramer on his upcoming exhibition, Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now (opening in January 2025), which focuses on global contemporary artists’ responses to dehumanization and conflict. Julia hopes to build on her work at the Museum with a senior honors project in art history this upcoming year.

From Chatham, New Jersey, Marianna Zingone ’26 is an Art History major and Cinema Studies minor. Under the supervision of curator Cassandra Braun, Marianna has been researching object rotations for current exhibitions and will also develop research for an upcoming exhibition on Argentinian artist Josefina Auslender. In addition to her work at the BCMA, Marianna is reading and evaluating film scripts as a development intern for Josephson Entertainment.

We are excited to bring this dynamic cohort of new interns to the Museum and look forward to working with them this summer. Stay tuned for more updates from our students in the weeks ahead!

Sabrina Lin
Curatorial Assistant and Manager of Student Programs