Claire Bennett Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

- Lead diverse tour groups to help contextualize art within exhibitions through discussion and inquiry-based learning strategies. - Encourage conversation and creativity during hands-on workshops and dynamic on-site programming.

Houston, Texas, United States

- Examine and inventory all stock within showroom, including quality control checks of all inventory.- Manage and organize all products, including new items, to meet company visual standards.- Answer client questions about pieces and provide good customer service.- Create and monitor all necessary facilities cases.

Chicago, Il

• Engage with museum guests with scientific exhibition content in an educational, memorable, and fun way through hooks, open-ended questions, and personalized experiences.• Encourage innovation and creativity within diverse audiences for ninet different programs or exhibitions. • Anticipate guest issues and proactively solve them, individually or collaboratively. • 1st year participant in 2-year Building Leadership Talent program, which provides leadership training to individuals noted by coordinating staff for leadership opportunities.

Chicago, Il

• Provide excellent visitor engagement by modeling positive, educational, and engaging interaction through play for both young children and multigenerational families• Maintain physical spaces within exhibitions to both young children and their caregivers.

Seattle

• Conduct facilitated, semi-structured interviews; distribute self-assessment visitor instruments for more than eight different evaluations or evaluation portions using evaluation best practices, using either random or continuous sampling.• Data entry of instrument responses from all evaluation in Excel or IBM SPSS• Train and serve as point of contact for data collection protocols four volunteer data collectors

Seattle, Wa

• Part of three-person team to create evaluation plan, including design, methodology, sampling plan, instruments, and analysis plan, based on institutional RFP responses. • Trained ten first-year UW Museology students about study’s protocol and best practices for data collection• Entered and analyzed data collected both onsite and online through both Woodland Park Zoo and Seattle Aquarium• Analyzed and wrote evaluation data analysis report, presented to both sites

Seattle, Wa

• Create documents associated with accessioning objects, including incoming receipt, deed of gift, acknowledgement letters, thank you letter, etc. for donations to the Henry Art Gallery• Inventory, catalog, and photograph works of art from within the collection and new acquisitions. Note objects in need of future conservation• Created pull lists, pulled works or art, and set up artworks for classes using best practices for art handling• Designed and constructed custom storage boxes and padding for works of art

Seattle, Wa

• Research best practices for museum informal education with particular focus on family learning in art museums. • Research, write, and edit family guides and school guides used for the Henry Art Gallery’s Fall 2017 museum-wide exhibition, The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection. • Give museum introduction to visiting groups, including museum etiquette and overview of exhibitions on display

Seattle, Wa

• Create documents associated with accessioning objects, including incoming receipt, deed of gift, acknowledgement letters, thank you letter, etc. for donations to the Henry Art Gallery• Inventory, catalog, and photograph works of art from within the collection and new acquisitions. Note objects in need of future conservation• Design and construct custom storage boxes and padding for works of art• Created pull lists, pulled works or art, and set up artworks for classes using best practices for art handling

Seattle, Wa

• Interact with and answer any questions from visitors within the museum exhibitions• Give ten-to-fifteen-minute artifact-specific lectures to visitors within three different gallery spaces per three-hour shift• Provide way-finding or serve as activity facilitator for special museum events

Seattle, Wa

Master of Arts degree in Museology, with a specialization in EvaluationThesis: Exploring Characteristics of Family Engagement Strategies Implemented Within Art Museum Exhibitions

Seattle, Wa

• Part of three-person team to create evaluation plan, including design, methodology, sampling plan, instruments, and analysis plan, based on institutional RFP responses.• Trained ten first-year UW Museology students about study’s protocol and best practices for data collection• Entered and analyzed data collected both onsite and online through both Seattle Aquarium and Woodland Park Zoo• Analyzed and wrote evaluation data analysis report, presented to both sites

Seattle, Wa

• Conduct facilitated interviews, distribute exit survey instruments, and gather information from zoo visitors as part of the Evaluation Team’s annual exit survey of visitors using evaluation best practices, utilizing either random sampling or continuous sampling as needed• Conducted data collection for a new zoo program, including pre and post surveys• Data entry of instrument answers from various instruments for several different evaluations

Seattle, Wa

• Plan, design, execute, and evaluate family education program for free First Thursday evening event attended by an estimated 2,000 people

Seattle, Wa

• Facilitate semi-structured interviews using random sampling to both visitors and non-visitors as part of a year-long evaluation project

Price, Ut

• Purchased, approved, and allocated funds for all non-gift shop purchases. Justified museum’s budget for over 20 associated accounts/indices, including monthly reports produced by USU’s Business Office. Saved the museum over $12,000 in one fiscal year (almost 5% of annual budget) by resolving errors resulting from double billing, incorrect application of indices, etc. • Took minutes for all weekly staff meetings, weekly exhibit design meetings, and monthly Advisory Board meetings have been repeatedly complimented by Chancellor and Board members for clarity and conciseness• Served as primary contact for all museum members, managed new/expired memberships, sent proper documentation to members, as well as plan, executed, photographed, and created materials for member events. Membership increased almost 40% while in charge• Planned, executed, and photographed all museum events open to the public or members• Wrote, reviewed, and edited various documents for official use, including exhibit text, official correspondence on behalf of the director, quarterly newsletters, press releases, official protocol, etc. • Cataloged archaeological artifacts with no previous written or electronic record. Entered, updated, and researched catalog collection information through Re:Discovery database software• Tracked and served as point of contact for all annual curation agreements with more than 25 Cultural Resource Management (CRM) companies working on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Utah • Organized and supervised inventory of the Prehistoric Museum’s entire previously unorganized archive for ease of use, following archival standards and practices• Served as interim gift shop manager for three months while gift shop manager was on leave, while maintaining all other administrative duties

Sugar Land, Tx

• Tutor students aged 4 through adult in reading, math, study skills, SAT/ACT• Set up for meetings with families regarding students’ progress with curriculum• Interact with parents, students, and teachers to coordinate schedule changes, financial payments, etc.• Set up, test, and evaluate level of potential incoming students to develop individual curriculum• Maintain files of students enrolled; establish new files for incoming students• Prepare and distribute payroll to teachers• Train newly hired teachers

Houston, Tx

• Tutor children aged 4 through adult in reading, math, and study skills in groups as large as four students and as small as one-to-one• Tutor SAT/ACT in reading, math, and English

Houston, Tx

• Customer service representative during the holiday season - included answering at least 50 phone questions and requests per day• Aid in packing up the store once the location closed down

Houston, Tx

• Responsible for answering the telephone and supporting the five-person staff • Reorganize the company’s filing system so that land surveyors could more readily access information on each drill site• Produce primary drafts for billing and organize receipt of payment from those companies

Jaunay-Clan, France

• Create lesson plans for high school students and BTS students focusing on oral comprehension and production• Prepare and execute special monthly lectures about cultural differences• Aid students with preparation for B.A.C. tests and BTS final examinations• Served as resource for grammar, vocabulary, and cultural questions• Tutor several students one-on-one to improve their oral comprehension and production skills

Jaunay-Clain, France

• Create lesson plans for high school students and BTS students focusing on oral comprehension and production• Prepare and execute special monthly lecture series on French and American cultural differences• Aid students with preparation for B.A.C. tests and BTS final examinations• Answer questions from the students about grammatical issues and cultural differences• Tutor each student one-on-one to improve their oral comprehension and production skills

Boston, Ma

• Organize documentation of new exhibits at the Lyman Library for archival and future reference• Ambassador for the museum, answering questions patrons had about exhibits and the museum• Recover and catalog returned library books and other multimedia materials• Perform special projects for the curator as well as other staff members

Master’S Degree, Museology/Museum Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, History, 3.3

Activities and Societies: Student choir, Dance Theater Group, Ballet RepMinored in Art History and French

D.E.L.F Certification, French

Studied abroad for one semester. Earned B-2 level certification in French production and comprehension