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LUMA Stars
Katie Linder
served as a Curatorial and Collections intern at LUMA during the
fall 2017 semester. A recent graduate of Loyola’s Art History program, she hopes
to combine her passion for history, art, and museums through a career in art
conservation. She loves both studying and creating art, especially painting and
ceramics. In her free time, Katie enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time
with family and friends.
Makeba Tsibu
has worked as a Gallery Manager at LUMA since October of her
freshman year. Her favorite part about working at the museum is learning about the
history of different works of art in the museum’s permanent collection as well as in
the rotating exhibitions. As a Loyola student, Makeba plans on pursuing a degree in
Communications and hopes to work in the advertising industry in the future. In her
free time, Makeba enjoys creating and learning about music, art, and cartooning.
Barbara Kopec
graduated from Mundelein College in Russian and worked in the
Slavic Languages Department at the University of Illinois, before spending the bulk
of her career as a stay at home mom to four boys, and serving as a volunteer lactation
consultant with La Leche League. But she always had an interest in art history,
and jumped at the opportunity to enter a docent class at LUMA about 10 years
ago. Following docent training and inspiring curator-led lectures, she was totally
captivated by the richness and depth of the D’Arcy collection. This led eventually to
a Masters of Liberal Studies degree with a Concentration in Medieval Art History at
Lake Forest College this past year. Her graduate studies led to papers focused around
several sacred objects in the D’Arcy. She has found her volunteer work to be the
most appealing aspect of her time at LUMA, and looks forward to a lengthy stay in
this position. She appreciates good music from the classics to the Great American
Songbook, rock and the blues. She also spends a great deal of time traveling with
her husband from one coast to the other to visit her out-of-town sons and especially
delights in spending copious amounts of time with her four granddaughters in
Pennsylvania.
FREE ADMISSION
Starting on January 8, 2018
STUDENT STARS
DOCENT STAR
We are thrilled to announce that LUMA will offer free
admission to the museum this spring!