MCN 2011 Scholarships

The 2011 MCN Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of thirteen MCN Annual Conference Scholarships and four THATcamp MCN Awards funded by the Kress Foundation. Over seventy qualified professionals from the museum, library, and archives communities applied for these competitive scholarships to attend the MCN conference and THATcamp "unconference" this November in Atlanta.

 

MCN Scholarship Recipients

Lisa Adang, Digital Imaging Specialist, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

Susan Cairns, Doctoral Student/ Website Coordinator, University of Newcastle/Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Adamstown, Australia

Sarah Chu, Graduate Student/Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin

Sarah Conlon, Graduate Student/Assistant Registrar, University of South Carolina/McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina

Amy Fulkerson, Curator of Collections, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Lucy Jones, Assistant Archivist, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Maureen Lane, Collections Manager & Digital Media Manager, Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Jonathan Lill, Project Archivist, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Mia Ridge, Doctoral Student, Open University, Oxford, England

Alice Rubin, Senior Project Manager, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, New York

Gary Schneider, Director of Education, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

Margaret Tamulonis, Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, Robert Hull Fleming Museum at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Elycia Wallis, Manager of Online Collections, Museum Victoria, Victoria, Australia

 

THATcamp MCN Awards Funded by Kress

Katie Filbert, President, Wiki Society of Washington D.C., Washington, D.C.

Adriene Katz, Museum Intern, Rufus Porter Museum, Bridgton, Maine

Abby Van Ness, Program Communication Manager, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri

Vicky Walsh, Database Administrator, Science Museum of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota