John H. Dryfhout '64 Internship

Created by an endowment gift from John H. Dryfhout ’64, the John H. Dryfhout ’64 Internship supports student training and involvement in curatorial and collection management projects at the Kruizenga Art Museum. The goal of the internship is to provide students with hands-on experience in different aspects of museum work, so that they might be encouraged to pursue museum careers after graduating from Hope.

The John H. Dryfhout ’64 Internship Program is open to Hope College sophomores, juniors and seniors from any department who have completed at least one course in the Department of Art and Art History. Students interested in applying may contact the museum director, Charles Mason, for more information.

Internship Projects

2024–25

Jenna Robertson worked with the KAM’s Visitor Services Coordinator to manage the museum’s social media and campus outreach efforts. She also helped plan and implement a variety of public programs involving Hope student groups, K–12 students and adult learners.

2022–23; 2023–24

The Dryfhout intern for academic years 2022–23 and 2023–24 was Liliana Fraser-Shade ’24. During her time at the KAM, Lily worked on a variety of collections and curatorial research projects. On the collections side, she helped catalog and photograph new acquisitions and did some of the matting and framing of artworks being used in KAM exhibitions. On the curatorial side, Lily cataloged and researched a recently donated collection of historical Chinese ceramics and helped with exhibition installation and programming plans.

2020–21; 2021–22

Grace Pettinger ’21 assisted with the collections inventory, updating metadata where needed, and photographing artworks to add to and improve the KAM’s online collection. Grace also researched the life and artworks of French artist Françoise Gilot for the KAM’s fall 2021 exhibition, Color, Texture, Form, and wrote label text for the exhibition and its accompanying catalog.

2019

Garrett Fixx ’20 prepared artworks for display and assisted with exhibition design for the KAM's fall 2019 exhibition, Deities and Devotion in Mongolian Buddhist Art.

2018

Caleigh White ’20 researched artworks and wrote catalog entries and exhibition labels for the KAM's spring 2019 exhibition, Once Were Nomads: Textiles and Culture in Baluchistan.

Nina Kay ’19 researched artworks and wrote catalog entries and exhibition labels for the KAM's fall 2018 exhibition, Living Tradition: Contemporary Ethiopian Christian Art from the Sobania Collection.

2017

Mason Hunt ’18 and Madeleine Zimmerman ’20 researched artworks and wrote catalog entries and exhibition labels for the KAM's fall 2017 exhibition, From Beyond the Stars: Innovation and Inspiration in Meiji Japanese Art. 

2016

Monica Czechowicz ’16 cataloged and photographed a large donation of Mongolian paintings. 

Image: Heroic Red Tara, Mongolian, 19th Century, Pigments on gold and sized cloth; silver and glass case (Gift of David Kamansky and Gerald Wheaton)