While working in museum collections I have frequently assisted researchers and students with access to collections by pulling artworks for study and providing associated and records.

 

I have also been trained in conducting research in museum collections  through a class in graduate school that focused on object-research methods using a model from  SIMA . During this course I conducted research on   basketry hats  from the Klamath River area of Northern California. For another project I conducted research on a series of flat twined   "cornhusk" bags  from the Plateau region in the collections of the Denver Art Museum.

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As a part of my  master's thesis project  I wrote and was awarded a Museum Student Research Award to study the basketry collections of four other museums in California (Oakland Museum of California, California Academy of Sciences, the Hoopa Valley Tribal Museum, and the Clarke Museum). I used this research to develop resources for my project including a  guide  for others conducting similar research projects in museums. 

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