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Gabrielle Wyrick

Education Curator

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)

Interview:

(Question 1)

Q: (Gabrielle went to UCSD) Specifically, which department or school inside of UCSD did you attend?

A: I went to Mur College at UCSD and the department was the visual arts department and I got my bachelor's degree in art history and criticism.

(Question 2)

Q: What did you originally want to accomplish or learn there? Did it change?

A: Umm, yes, so when I started college...I always knew that I loved art history, soI was very passionate, interested in art history..ummmm...but I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with it, I thought that I would become a professor or an art historian, and pretty much towards the end of my college-my senior year, I took a class called Curatorial Practices, basically it was a class where you learned about museums and you learned about what someone with an art history background can do in a museum, and we met different people all over the city, one was the curator here at the MCASD at the time, and we also got to participate in curating an exhibition that was at the university art gallery at UCSD...and I just loved working in a gallery in a museum context, it was so much fun, and I liked it so much because it was so concrete whereas art history was really abstract. In a museum you got to really interact with people and the works of art...

(Question 6)

Q: Did you original thoughts, plans, pretty much anything dealing with your perspective on MCASD change after working?

A: I've definitely had the opportunity to see and experience more contemporary art, I think the way it has changed the most is the opportunity that it's given me to meet contemporary artists and kind of have a greater understanding of them has just people...as regular people..and that certainly has been a positive attribute to this job and the belief of how crucial and how relevant contemporary art is to everyone out there no matter who they are and how interesting conversations and insight can be with every type of person about any work of art...I guess...yeah