Read below for a short interview with gallery intern Cole Thornton! Keep checking back on the blog as we continue to introduce our entire team.
- Name: Cole Thornton
- Hometown: Nashville, TN
- Class year: Junior
- Major: Art history
- Why did you intern in the gallery?: I had some friends who did it and I was interested in getting experience working with exhibits!
- What has been your favorite memory from the job?: Driving Around Yinka Shonibare!
- Favorite Artist/work and why?: Francis Bacon. He isn’t necessarily my favorite, but I think his painting is some of the most emotionally powerful I have seen, and it made me like surrealism more.
- Hobbies?: I am a trip leader for Davidson Outdoors, so I like the outdoors. I also like to read.
- Little known fact: I went abroad to Florence, Italy!
- And finally, if you could have a meal with anyone dead or alive, who would it be and why?: Lady Gaga so I can stream LG6.