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Art Museum Senior Profile Katie Omberg '08
Position: Collections management assistant
Major: Religion
Minor: Art history
Hometown: Rockville, Maryland
Favorite piece at the museum: We have a portfolio of some Max Beckmann prints. He's one of my all-time favorites, a German painter who worked from the 1910s to about the 1960s. Though her official title is collections management assistant, Katie Omberg '08 says she does "pretty much a little bit of everything" at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. On any given day, her duties may include entering information into the MIMSY museum cataloguing database, matting and framing art, and filling in at the front desk if the receptionist is out sick. "I also build housing for things in storage, such as boxes for print portfolios or Native American artifacts from the Skinner Museum collection. And when exhibits go up, I help with condition reports for objects coming in, get the labels and text up on the wall, and handle a whole bunch of other loose ends." Omberg applied for a January Term internship at the museum as a sophomore because "it sounded like fun." And, in fact, one of her most memorable moments at the museum occurred during that internship while helping to move a painting into storage. "The painting was huge, about the size of a wall--maybe 7 feet tall and 12 feet long or so," she said. "It was in my hands and I was psyched not only to be touching art in a museum, but being encouraged to do so. Fortunately, after my internship, I was invited to stay on as a student worker." In addition to her eight hours a week at the Museum, Omberg spends a lot of time each week at the office of the Mount Holyoke News. She does the paper's graphics and is the creator of the comic strip Fancy! "I've exhibited at SPX--the small press expo--as well as at a comic book convention for independent and self-published comic book artists," Omberg said. "I try to draw the cartoon so that it plays into whatever's happening on campus. It's great to see Fancy! hanging on someone's door, especially when it's one that I didn't think was that funny." As for what's ahead, Omberg says one possibility is working in the continuing education department at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC. She added, "If that doesn't come through, I'll probably just find work at a frame shop." Related Links: At the Museum: An Outstanding Senior Class
By the Numbers: Class of 2008 at the Art Museum
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