Internships & Student Gallery Guides

Emily Normand likes to ask student visitors what they think about the layout of the Nasher Museum’s building. What about the lack of a grand marble staircase? What about galleries spread out in three separate pavilions? “I...

This summer, graphic design major Yesenia Martinez-Yanez relaunched a video series at the Nasher Museum, giving the project her own unique touch. She met with the museum’s security manager to make sure he liked the idea of...

This summer, history major Diana Sanchez took a deep dive into part of the museum’s collection of arts of the ancient Americas. She focused on several ceramics and textiles from ancient Peru—learning about how each object ...

Ashleigh Smith’s art history career might have started with Empire, the dramatic musical TV series that debuted on Fox in 2015. She was quickly hooked and right away she noticed stunning works of art in Lucious Lyon’s fict...

Julia McHugh, Ph.D., Trent A. Carmichael Curator of Academic Initiatives, taught her first Museum Theory and Practice course in Spring 2019 with 20 students, the biggest class since the Concentration began three years earl...

Rising junior Mika Deshmukh, who grew up in in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, was sure she wanted to be a chemist, all through high school. Mika also knew she wanted to attend an East Coast university, and Duke seemed a...

ALL FOUR YEARS I came to Duke knowing I wanted to get involved at the Nasher. I had visited it during Blue Devil Days and really enjoyed my time seeing the museum. I took an art history class my second semester and immedia...