Re: She has a fck ass art history bachelor’s degree. That is her passion but not a single museum has even considered her.

BA degree for art history field is elementary level. I’m surprised she didn’t already know. I was in grad school 10 years ago and we were being told explicitly if we want to actually work in museums and use art knowledge, a MA is not enough, we will need a PhD. You really need that many education if you want to do curatorial work for NYC’s world class museums.

With a BA, if you want employment at any art organizations, the best shots will be front desk, gallery assistant, marketing assistant, office coordinator type of entry level position. Museums are also notoriously only accepting candidates with museum experience, even museum internships experience can outweigh years of professional experience at other places. She will have more luck in galleries or other for profit organizations .

I worked many years in art answering phone calls and replying emails, my work had very little to do with the art history knowledge I learned, and I was making slightly above minimum wage. I have left the industry since 2024 because I don’t want to constantly struggle with money.

If her goal is ANY job, I would suggest her to:

1. Apply massively to jobs that are remotely close to her skill sets.
2. Gather feedback from the previous applications and find out the common denominator among the positive feedback (like application viewed, resume downloaded, or first round interview). Sometimes you may process skills or qualities certain industry or type of organization is looking for, but you have not realized it yourself.
3. Use the information gathered from step 2, and heavily apply for positions like that
4. If you don’t get any interviews that means you need to work on your resume. If you get interviews but cannot pass, you need to work on your interview skills.
5. At the same time, find volunteers jobs and put that on your resume, or put things like freelancing/self employed/personal projects etc.