Meet Kayla Bolland
The Trust are sponsoring another York University student to work with our friends at the Mansion House. This time, the project is to revise the outdated brochure and create an introductory exhibition about this great building.
Our last student, George Norton, was a delight to work with and produced some truly valuable research and exhibition material so it was not a hard choice when the university invited us to sponsor another student.
We were spoilt for choice with six well-qualified and enthusiastic applicants for the position. From an international shortlist we appointed Kayla Bolland from the USA. She is studying for a masters degree in History of Art at York and will be with us until September 2019.
Kayla is from Seattle and graduated from the university there with a degree in Photography and Art History. She is clearly an energetic and ambitious person having undertaken a range of internships in museums and galleries in the USA. For a time she was an official photographer at the Washington State Legislature. She tells us that her colleagues would joke at how her stock photos consistently featured architectural details or how they would catch her with her eyes glued to the incredible ceiling detail in the building.
She is passionate about building better public accessibility to cultural heritage which fits very well with the ambitions of the Friends of the Mansion House and the Trust.
