For my recent projects, I have been working with my professor on a dig site in Isthmia, Greece. I have been reading over old archaeology notebooks from the site that list information about the dig and artifacts found within the different areas of the site. Our focus is on coins but we do not limit it to those. Once the list of artifacts, locations, depths, and extra information is collected on an excel sheet we will plot the artifacts, baskets/boxes on an interactive recreation of Isthmia using the GIS program.

Going forward, I plan on participating in as many archaeology dig sites as possible. I would like to use my degrees and career field to see the world while learning the history of it. I hope to find a career within a museum being a curator or working with collections and exhibitions as well. My first collaboration with The Creative Process is working on their Greek interviews and podcasts. They are connected to a number of artists and institutions in Greece, including museum directors, curators, and archaologists, so I look forward to learning from these conversations and adding my creative response.

The importance of art and creativity is not only the expression and the emotions evoked or produced through the pieces but a sense of individualism, of history. Using art we can gather so much information about an individual, culture or way of life. The technique used or the object being studied is a jumping-off point that provides the key to a locked door. It opens up our world and knowledge to so much context, ritual, history, style, etc... Without art, in all sense of the word, we wouldn't know where to start. It is our bridge.

I hope to learn everything I absolutely can. I want to use this opportunity to be a sponge, to explore new fields and actually be apart of the full process. I want to produce something I can look at and go, yes, I did that. I was apart of that, I helped create this exhibit or collection that will help others learn. I want to share my passions and what I find joyful and interesting with others. It will also put me in touch with others that share my dreams as well as learning new insights into something I already may know about. This gives me the option to meet some of the people who I look up too in the field and the connections to be made will be wonderful.

A recent example of my creative work was helping create the "In Our Nature" exhibit, which entailed compiling information, creating a label, choosing a piece and collaborating with other students and artists to build the exhibit and make it a success.