Prescott College Grad Gets Sought After Sharlot Hall Museum Internship

Kristen Densmore

Archivist Ryan Flahive, of the prestigious Sharlot Hall Museum Library and Archives, welcomes summer intern, Kristen Densmore, from Charleston, South Carolina. Densmore is an MFA candidate in Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She’ll be working in archives processing new materials, printing and scanning photographs for the Arizona Memory Project, helping patrons, and researching and writing a story for the ’Days Past’ column. “I look forward to being involved in as many aspects of the museum as possible,” Densmore says.

While earning her Bachelors degree in photography from Prescott College, Densmore “met many wonderful people and fell in love with the Southwest. I always felt supported and inspired by the Prescott community and am very happy to be back here for the summer.”

Flahive, who feels “blessed to have Kristen for the next 10 weeks,” says that “as a graduate student in photography, she brings detailed knowledge of historic photographic processes and extensive darkroom experience.”

Densmore would eventually like to settle in Arizona, Colorado or New Mexico. She has traveled extensively through North America, Mexico, Central and South America.

She’s interested in teaching, working on her personal artwork, and working as a museum curator presenting exhibits with historical, social and environmental themes.

Something that most people don’t know about Densmore is that she was a competitive swimmer and lived in Boca Raton from 1988-1990 where she trained with Mark Schubert, the head coach of the women’s Olympic swim team.