Several years ago, I went to New York City on a business trip, and was nearly paralyzed in my tracks with sheer sensory overload. The sights, smells, hopelessly tall buildings, and TRAFFIC was a lot to process as I felt myself being prodded by the eager herd of business people trying desperately to move this ‘tourist’ from their path.
Last weekend, I revisited the city with my boyfriend, Ari, but had the wherewithal to ‘keep my eyes on the prize’ as we journeyed to the International Center of Photography to see Civil Rights exhibit, “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights”.
Now that I’m interning alongside curator Karen Falk of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, I’m getting my first taste of what is involved in bringing an exhibit to life, as I am researching material culture of Jewish foodways for the upcoming “Chosen Food” exhibit coming in 2011. I’ve quickly become giddy at the prospect of cultural immersion through fact-finding—I was born to do this job!