Meet the security guards moonlighting as curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art
“Last year, the Baltimore Museum of Art invited their guards to curate an exhibition. And since then, BMA security officers have been working on it with professional curators and other staffers, leading up to its March 27 opening. Working with various museum departments, they learned what it takes to put up an exhibition — and got paid for it, too, in addition to their regular salaries. And they had a terrific time, at least according to the ones I spoke with. One of them, in fact, burst into song!
Kellen Johnson has been a guard at the BMA for almost nine years. He’s also studying vocal performance at Towson University in Maryland. He loves music, as well the extra money from the project. ‘I’m working my way through college’ he says.”