day job.

happy saturday! i want to share what i do each week day between 8 and 5. i graduated from baylor this may and struck out in search of work - i'm not thinking graduate school just yet - and i was hired by an archive and library, the texas collection. this place holds anything you could want that has to do with texas.

(this photo is a screen shot from a youtube video-it looks funny because there is a vintage filter over it)












we have:
-14,000 texas maps-some are 500 years old 
-250,000 photographs from the earliest days of photography in waco, until last week
-and almost as many books. 
-and some non-paper items, like old letter jackets and other personal effects of famous texans.

so if we have these special collections, how do we show them to people?

that is one of my jobs! i have a background in museum studies and studio art which allows me to create exhibits and then advertise them with posters, photographs etc. working on these projects is the best part of my day. we are currently putting together 4, two-story banners to hang outside the building!

this summer, one of our projects was to create film trailers for out special collections. trailers like those that advertise new movies. my co-worker and i dreamed up a SILENT FILM for our new exhibit that went up last month, come to texas!  we have done so much with this exhibit - it's truly been our baby this summer. here are some of the graphic design pieces we made for it:

                           * all images and design are intellectual property of Baylor University*

copyrighted to the texas collection 2011

and here are some pictures of the actual exhibit we installed!

these are foam core cut outs made from scanned photographs in the actual brochures.

 close-up of one of the six shelves of brochures.

 these 'side-cabinets' as we call them are auxillary exhibits on a texas ghost town, and how waco was promoted to attract  new wacoans.

so what's it been like transitioning from school to work? to be honest it was very hard for me - especially with cody gone all summer in ohio. i've never been someone who stayed in one building or place for long - i was always running off to work on something or had a class across campus, but i liked the variety in that.

BUT this is really a great job and i'm grateful to be there. i never dreamed i'd get so many opportunities to do work like this so early in my career - God has given me something to ease into so fresh out of the school lifestyle i've had for almost two decades. it's so good to know i can do work like this if my photography dream doesn't fit into my life at times. #blessed.