professional training
In addition to coursework and cooperative group experiences, students have opportunities for professional training through semester- and year-long internships, independent studies, and through the school's required 8-to-12-week summer internship. Students choose to pursue training outside the classroom in many areas of museum work including education, exhibitions, development and collections care. Professional Seminars, offered on Fridays throughout the semester, bring noted museum professionals to Cooperstown to share their expertise for a day.
fall 2009
- Creativity Workshop - Joanne Curran
- Omeka Web Design Workshop - Jeremy Boggs, Center for History and New Media
- Internship Presentations - Class of 2010
- Institutional Problem Solving - Philip Morris
- Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Conference - Saratoga Springs, NY
- CGA Alumni Forum
- Walker Evans & Depression Era Photography - Ray Sapirstein
spring 2009
- Museums & Documentary Film - Kate Roth, Producer
- Development - John Carnaham, Former VP for Development at NYSHA
- Educational Technology - Bill Tally, Center for Children and Technology
- Career & Financial Planning - Paul Stimmler, Adjunct Professor of Business/Permanent Lecturer Penn State University/SUNY
- Bruce Buckley Lecturer - Varick Chittenden
fall 2008
- Internship Presentations - Class of 2009
- Alternative Uses for Historic Houses - Barbara Silberman, Historic House Consultant
- CGA Alumni Forum
- Museum Theatre - Diane Elliott, Museum Theatre Consultant
- Interpretation - Katie Boardman
spring 2008
- Communication Design - Doreen DeNicola, DeNicola Design
- Human Resources - Paul Stimmler, Adjunct Professor, Penn State University
- Mount Making - Chris Rossi, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, NYSHA
- Bruce R. Buckley Lecture and Workshop - Steve Zeitland and Amanda Dargon, CityLore
- History Day - Tobi Voigt (CGP '06), History Day Coordinator
fall 2007
- Internship Presentations - Class of 2008
- Product Development - Valerie Troyansky, General Manager Product Development at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 20th Century Design - Kory Rogers, Associate Curator at the Shelburne Museum
- CGA Alumni Forum
spring 2007
- Museums and Technology - James Yasko, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
- Investing - Paul Stimmler, Adjunct Professor, Penn State University
- Cultural Entrepreneurship - Phillip Morris, Director, Proctor’s Theater (Schenectady, NY)
- History Day - Tobi Voigt (CGP '06), History Day Coordinator
- Bruce R. Buckley Lecture and Workshop - Susan G. Davis (CGP '78), Professor, University of Illinois, Institute for Communications
fall 2006
- Design Workshop - Doreen DeNicola, DeNicola Design
- Visioning for Pocantico - Charles Granquist, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Pod Casting Workshop - John Buchinger, The Farmers' Museum
- Digitizing Your Collections - Toya Dubin, Hudson Microimaging
- CGA Alumni Forum
- Internship Presentations - Class of 2007
- Keys to a Successful Museum Store - Andrew Andoniadis
spring 2006
- Mount Making - Chris Rossi, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, NYSHA
- Reading the Landscape - David Schuyler, Chair of American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
- Museums and Institutional Change - Carl Nold, President, Historic New England
- "Assured Protection for the Negro Traveler:" African Americans and the Changing Etiquette of Race - Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
- History Day service
- Bruce R. Buckley Lecture and Workshop - Joe Hickerson, musician and folklorist
Faculty and students work together at the Creativity Workshop during Fall 2009.