Museum Educator Experience Paper

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I am writing to apply for Museum Educator being offered by the education department in Museum of the Moving Image. I received my MFA from the Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York with a focus on interdisciplinary practice, working mainly with time-based media and interactive projections.

While at the School of Visual Arts, I worked as a teaching assistant in both sculpture and New Media classes. My teaching experience includes responsibilities for course preparation, instruction, and advising final critique, research project, presentation, and collaboration between students. My five years of administrative skills were honed while serving as an exhibition assistant for the Southwest School of Art: exhibition administration,

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