What does an assistant curator do? Find out this week as we meet Michelle Macleod, assistant curator at McGill’s Visual Arts Collection (VAC) and a PhD candidate in Art History. We learn about her love for the city and photographs, her current research on 19th-century illustrated journals, and the benefits of digitization during a pandemic.

Explore More * McGill Visual Arts Collection * Watch the event – Seeing Double: Photographic Portraiture in McGill’s Visual Arts Collection * De-Stress + Sketch * Find out more about Canadian Illustrated News, the 19th-century journal Michelle is studying or find a copy in the McGill catalogue

Credits Host & Producer: Sheetal Lodhia

Associate Producer and Technical Assistance: Jacquelyn Sundberg

Transcription: Labiba Faiza

Guest: * Michelle Macleod

Music * Title song: Happy Sandbox, by Mativve, sourced from Freesound.org * End credits: Happy-music by monkeyman535, Sourced from Freesound.org.