For the past year I’ve been an intern at Pink Arrow Arts, a gallery located in Montrose PA. When I first started I would help the art director/curator set up the galleries. This mostly included patching holes and painting walls but I did get to hang a few pieces myself. 

Over this summer I had been given the task of inventorying and taking photos of an artist’s estate. Before this summer project, if anyone had asked me what I had planned to do with my degree I would’ve shrugged and said, “I don’t know, work somewhere in a gallery or museum.” I had no solid plan or career in mind, just something to do with art. But I found out how much I really, really, liked working on this estate and getting to really appreciate another artist’s work. So now when people ask me that question, I respond with something equally vague but this time about estates. 

And just yesterday I had the opportunity to photograph and help set up an opening reception for a painter at the gallery. The opener was a former teacher for Montrose High School who shared a few words with me before the event started. “Keep going, never ever stop ingesting art. Find out what you want to say with your art and say it.” 

I’ve had so many amazing experiences being a gallery intern, have been introduced to so many amazing artists and people in the field I want to go into. I’ll be writing more about the estate and that whole process once I’m 100% finished with it. But my experience seeing the in’s and out’s of a gallery has been truly eye-opening and world changing for me