Meet the Interns: Part 1
Hello, everyone! My name is Cassie Walker and I am the (semi) new intern at Partners for Sacred Places located in Chicago. I am currently an undergraduate student at DePaul University where I am majoring in art history and I intend to graduate this year in May.

I found out about the internship at Partners through a professor of mine who thought the opportunity would be fitting to my interests. I looked over the requirements and did some research on Partners to get a better idea of what the organization was all about. A few weeks after I sent in my resume, I received a call from Leanne Gherig inviting me to come in for an interview. Following our meeting, I was very excited for the possibility of getting involved with the organization and waited for another call. Sure enough, Leanne contacted me later that week to tell me that I was invited back to meet the rest of the crew. Starting in November, I became a weekly fixture in the Partners for Sacred Places office and was introduced to the Arts in Sacred Places program that I was to be mostly involved with.

In my studies so far I have started to take a special interest in architecture and feel incredibly lucky to be located in the city of Chicago where there is so much to see and learn about. I have also particularly enjoyed learning about Eastern art and Islamic art over the years. Two of my favorite artists are Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, and currently I am learning more in depth about 19th century European art in my classes at DePaul.

Photo taken by Orlando R. Cabanban. Resident in front of the Raymond Hilliard Homes, designed by Bertrand Goldberg.

Once I graduate I plan to move to Australia for the winter and hopefully be admitted into an internship at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Upon returning to the United States, I will be attending graduate school for either museum studies or arts management with intentions to pursue a career in the art world, which has long been my goal.

I’m very excited to be working with everyone at Partners for Sacred Places and for our future together in the coming months. You all will be hearing more from me on here as well as the other intern, Lara, who will be introducing herself next time. Talk to you soon!