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Art + Feminism: an interview with Siân Evans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2019

Siân Evans
Siân Evans*
Affiliation:
Information Literacy & Instructional Design Librarian, Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1300 West Mount Royal Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217, USA Email: sevans01@mica.edu
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How to answer this question? I guess I began my career as a librarian at a party. Newly possessing what I already knew was a useless (in capitalist terms, at least) MA in Art History, I had moved to New York City to be closer to my family, and to stay up all night at MisShapes parties and eat pizza at dawn. I was working in marketing for Forbes Magazine, as you do when you're 24 and need to pay the bills and have no idea what you want to do with your life. It wasn't long after the financial collapse of 2008, when job prospects were very low, that a friend of a friend who had just finished library school at Pratt handed me a drink at a party and said, ‘you like writing and researching, if you don't want to be a teacher, why don't you become a librarian?’

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 44 , Special Issue 2: Critical Art Librarianship , April 2019 , pp. 72 - 77
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