{"id":14543,"date":"2025-12-12T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:48:08","slug":"logan-ruzzier-curatorial-volunteering-at-the-kyoto-institute-of-technology-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/logan-ruzzier-curatorial-volunteering-at-the-kyoto-institute-of-technology-art-museum","title":{"rendered":"Logan Ruzzier: Curatorial Volunteering at the Kyoto Institute of Technology Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14544 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-590x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-590x443.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-193x145.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1000017502-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My CIP at KCJS was volunteering at the Kyoto Institute of Technology&#8217;s Museum and Archives. During my ten-odd 2-hour sessions, spread evenly through the Fall, I engaged in a wide variety of art historical and curatorial activities for the museum. These activities spanned the realms of posters, architectural plans, and fabrics. I worked hands-on each session with one of three staff members, who each specialized in one of the aforementioned fields. I helped prepare artworks for display, measured and organized them within the archives, and even worked with graduate students to get exhibit rooms in order.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My advice to you is to seize upon this opportunity if you are seeking the following from a CIP:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1-on-1 relationship building in an apprenticeship-style role<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Consistent exposure to uncompromising, workplace-level and instruction-oriented Japanese\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conversations on any topic of your choice with highly knowledgeable, passionate academics (contingent only on your will to ask and ability to understand)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Above all, the chance to gather diverse and esoteric art historical knowledge through real objects, as well as the responsibility of handling them<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is very much a project that returns what you give, so I recommend that you arrive at the museum each time hungry to help out and learn as much as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My CIP at KCJS was volunteering at the Kyoto Institute of Technology&#8217;s Museum and Archives. During my te &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/logan-ruzzier-curatorial-volunteering-at-the-kyoto-institute-of-technology-art-museum\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14543"},"categories":[184,161,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14545,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}