Hi, Aaron,

I suspect that this reply will be greeted with howls of something or other,
but here goes.

The short answer?  No.

The long answer is a story.  When I worked in museums and with interns, I
often talked to them about their life plans, personal as well as
professional.  When I found I had art history interns in relationships with
musicians, poets, sculptors and the like, I would ask about whether they had
talked about moving to find jobs, and the possibility that they would not
find career-appropriate openings in the same city.  Or maybe the same state.
I tried to provide some clear assessment of what they faced as a couple and
well as individuals pursuing careers that are never likely to climb out of a
bad job market.  (On the other hand, I congratulated interns in love with
engineers, nurses, business administrators and the like...)

If your fiancée wants to be employable in Boston in any capacity, she needs
to acquire sellable skills: computer skills, accounting and business skills,
teaching certification, fluency in foreign language, and so on.  The chances
are very very slim that she can get her degree from Lesley and then a job in
this limited field.  It's possible, of course, but I would be considering a
wide array of options in the meantime.

If she can package herself as a performance-based museum educator that
speaks Vietnamese and Spanish and can take on maintenance of the website,
well, then the picture might be different.

Best of luck to you both.

Ellen B. Cutler
LNB Associates: Writing, Editing, Research Services
Aberdeen, MD
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From: Aaron Marcavitch <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:35 AM
Subject: Museum Education and Creative Arts


> Hi folks, got a question for you about the use of music and art in museum
education.  My fiancee
> is looking into a program at Lesley College (Cambridge, MA, USA) called
the Creative Arts in
> Learning program.  This gives her a Masters in Education that focuses on
using art, dance, music,
> and theater in the classroom.
>
> If she had such a degree, do you think she would be "sellable" to a museum
education department
> such as the MFA in Boston?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts,
> Aaron
>
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