Tegan Kehoe

I haven't been publishing online very much in the last six months or so, largely because I've been working on projects in other media, such as articles for a forthcoming history textbook, a radio play produced by the Post-Meridian Radio Players , and bringing myself up to speed on two centuries of medical history and innovation for my work as the exhibits and education specialist at the Paul S. Russell Museum at Mass General Hospital. Here's a selection of my recent work which you can find online. Why? A post for Chameleon's Dish Theatre on why small theater matters Self-Care for Museum Students A post on the Tufts Museum Studies blog Transitioning into the Wider World My farewell post on the Tufts Museum Studies blog Moire for a Soiree -- Free Knitting Pattern A 1920's-inspired knitting pattern for a scarf and purse set, designed and written by yours truly.

Here are my posts from my column, "The Wider World," on the Tufts Museum Studies blog from the summer and fall semesters. The Wider World is about ways that museum studies students can be connected with the world outside our grad school bubble in order to better serve the diverse communities that make up the potential audiences of museums where we work and study. Ushers at the Gates of Information Getting to Know a New Area Design with the Public in Mind How Do You Keep Up? What I did… right after my summer vacation Accuracy vs. Authenticity in Slave Quarters — Reflections and A Call To Action Visitor Studies in the Wild? Does the Status Quo Myth Hold Us Back? Part 1 of 2

Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard of the Sargent House Museum wrote this sweet little piece introducing me and my work to fans of the museum, where I interned in the summer of 2014 between my first and second years of graduate school at Tufts. Thanks, Kimberlee! Remembering the Past, Building the Future: Our 2014 Graduate Intern

I've been writing the monthly column "The Wider World" for the better part of a year now on the Tufts Museum Studies blog, and it's time for a new announcement -- I am now managing the blog. The blog covers topics related to Tufts museum students' experience, and includes job board that updates weekly. If you are a Tufts Museum Studies student (or perhaps an alumnus?) interested in writing a guest post or a column, contact me at tuftsmuseumblog@gmail.com . If you are interested in learning more about what's going on in emerging minds in the museum field, check out: http://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/

In September, I started school at Tufts University for my M.A. in History and Museum Studies. It has been wonderful to finally be back in school, and I love the community there. One of the small ways I'm contributing to that community is my monthly column on the Tufts Museum Studies blog , "The Wider World. I use it as a platform to explore what it means to strive to make museums accessible and inclusive while being a museum studies student. As museum lovers in a museum studies program, we are in a bubble of people who do find most museums accessible to us and who feel included at most museums. It's great to be surrounded by fellow museum geeks, but it can make it harder to understand those who don't feel this way about museums. In this column, I explore many different types of accessibility, from having no barriers to people with disabilities to not requiring prior knowledge or cultural context to understand and enjoy an exhibition. Similarly, I look at including peo...

Some older posts on this website currently have dead links, as they were to a Boston-based web magazine called Diffuse 5, which is now defunct. I have copies of all of the posts I wrote in my monthly blog on that site, "Queerly Bookish," but they are not all in one place, so it will be some time before I upload them all here. Stay tuned!

 Many months ago, I co-wrote a couple of posts with Camille Myers Breeze, director of Museum Textile Services, about the history of rayon fabric. I left Museum Textile Services last summer to start my graduate studies at Tufts, but I recently noticed that I never re-posted those last few blog entries here. In November, I had the pleasure of working with Camille again as a panelist in a round-table discussion she led at the New England Museum Association conference. I presented on our experience with e-Hive, a cloud-based collections management system. Below is the introduction to the rayon posts, and links to read for yourself. "A surprising number of historic clothing and textile items we’ve treated at Museum Textile Services in 2013 have been made of rayon -- and we've added some rayon pieces to our study collection, such as the "reliable" rayon yarn we blogged about in April. This has prompted us to refresh our knowledge of this important fiber and take n...