5/11/2026
My time this semester with Vivero has been an excellent wrap-up of the last year and a half of work. I’ve had a wonderful and informative time working in the position and am proud with the projects that I’ve completed or progressed in my time here. This semester, I would say the most important thing I’ve learned, or more so sealed the deal on, was time management and learning how to utilize skills I learn with Vivero for other tasks. I’ve been balancing a lot as a second semester senior, and practicing breaking down my larger tasks into manageable and consistent work has allowed me to balance my time more evenly and utilize my Vivero skills in more creative ways. My advice towards younger vivellos coming in is to take your work easy and slow. Consistency is key towards building up your project, relationship with your project lead, and ultimately making a schedule that works for you.
My biggest accomplishment this last year and semester has definitely been completely reworking the Vivero WordPress site, and I’m very proud of all the work I’ve done on it. In addition to that, I also created a new documentation style guide for the updates, and sorted over 300 films in the Omeka Database out of the back log. Balancing my Vivero work with everything else I had to do was definitely the hardest part of the semester, but I was able to resolve it by adjusting my hours as needed, and being realistic with what I could create and how long it would take. As for Documentation, there is the new style guide that I just mentioned, but there is also a newly updated Spring 2026 project recap which writes out the most recent progress on the project, tasks involved with working on it, and how to access the various of the project. The Next Steps for the Digital Titular Head project are also laid out and include: updating the Database with more films, keeping the wordpress site updated, and coming up with ways for Alumni Outreach. The next fellow to work on the Virtual Tithead Project is ideally somewhat that wants to do more work with cataloging and metadata to continue updating the actual archive as well.
Going forward after graduation, I’m excited to continue exploring the connections between digital scholarship and the arts, and will hopefully be able to take my skills and utilize them as I move into professional technical theater. In August 2026, I will be beginning a theater carpentry apprenticeship and look forward to discovering where digital scholarship can overlap with physical arts construction.