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Archive Internship NYC
Photographer’s Studio
Internationally recognized photographer seeks a very motivated, incredibly detail oriented individual to assist with print archive cataloguing.
Candidate must be interested in archive management, photographic preservation and be proficient in Filemaker Pro. No Exceptions. Knowledge in photography
and/or photo history a must, and experience working in an artists/photographers studio is always helpful. This internship is unpaid and available for academic credit.
Please send cover letter and resume with two references to elizabeth@susanmeiselas.com
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted August 27th
Fall Internship 2010 Bonham, Texas
Sam Rayburn House Museum
Texas Historical Commission
Closing Date: September 10, 2010
Start Date: September 20, 2010 (negotiable)
Position Title: Intern (1 opening)
Location: Sam Rayburn House Museum, 890 W. State Hwy 56, Bonham, Texas.
Brief Description of Duties: Interns may work on one or more of the following projects: cataloging and researching the museum collection, taking digital photographs of artifacts; recording oral histories; re-housing and cleaning artifacts; data entry of collections records; assisting with guided tours of the house museum; assist with inventory of collection; assist in the development of events and programming at the site as well as developing themed guided tours and presentations; and organizing site resources.
Desired Qualifications: Interest in museums, history, and/or education. Strong writing, research and communications skills. Strong organizational, multitasking and people skills. Knowledge of American and Texas history. Knowledge of standard office computer skills, including database software and word processing. Ability to work independently and on detailed tasks. Degree or expected degree in history, education, museum studies, humanities or a related field. Demonstrated interest in museum programs, education and/or history.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday (negotiable)
Project Supervisor: Anne Ruppert, Curator, Sam Rayburn House Museum
Term of Position: preferably between September—December 2010
Who may Aplly: Applications will be accepted from currently enrolled college students who are sophomores, juniors, seniors or graduate students and recent Bachelor’s and Master’s degree graduates.
COompensation: This is an unpaid position.
How to Apply: Submit a cover letter and current resume including three references by mail, email, or FAX to:
Sam Rayburn House Museum
Attn: Anne Ruppert
P.O. Box 308
Bonham, TX 75418
FAX: 903.640.0800
Email: Anne Ruppert, anne.ruppert@thc.state.tx.us
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted August 17th
Work on women’s issues, past, present, and future! Washington, DC
Internships Now Available with the Historic National Woman's Party at the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, the historic headquarters of the National Woman's Party, is currently looking for interns. Candidates must exhibit strong writing skills, attention to detail, interest in women’s issues, and relevant coursework or work experience.
The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum internships offer individuals the opportunity to grow professionally and personally through project-specific opportunities with staff in the areas of museum administration, research and interpretation, collections management, fundraising, education, communications and programs. Some projects are open to students only in specific disciplines. See below for details.
- Collections Internship: Participate in a project to improve intellectual access by cataloging the National Woman’s Party collection. We are looking for graduate students with a background in museum studies or library science and experience with collections management to catalogue objects into PastPerfect Museum Software and assist with exhibition development.
- Development/Communications Internship: Persons with experience or interest in nonprofit fundraising and communications, including direct mail, grant writing, website maintenance, and drafting correspondence should consider this position. Tasks will include growing constituent lists, developing communication and outreach collateral, assisting with direct mail campaigns, and providing research and assistance with public programs.
The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum is committed to diversity and encourages people of all ethnic, cultural, economic, and sexual orientations to apply. These are unpaid internships; however, academic credit may be available through your home institution.
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and 3-5 page writing sample to education@sewallbelmont.org. For more information on the collections internship, please contact Kelley Robison, Collections Associate, at kelley.robison@sewallbelmont.org or 202-546-1210, ext. 24.
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted August 13th
Unpaid Internships Waukesha, WI
The Waukesha County Museum is please to announce the following unpaid internships:
- Education Programming Intern
The Education Programming Intern will work directly with the Director of Education in many aspects of the museum’s education programming, including working behind the scenes and with the public and volunteers. The fall 2010 Education Intern will prepare, implement, and evaluate fall Scout, family, and adult programs for the Big Read and the museum’s next traveling exhibit, Memories of World War II, many of which take place on Saturdays or weekday evenings; assist in presenting docent-guided tours; continue previous work developing a suite of programs for third graders in Waukesha County, including a teacher’s guide, pre- and post-visit activities, self-guided tours; develop family gallery and activity guides and museum highlights guide for general audience; among other duties.
- Marketing/Communications Intern
The Marketing/Communications Intern (MCI) will report to the Director of Development & Marketing, aiding in designing, implementing, evaluating, and revising all aspects of the museum’s marketing/communications program. The MCI will function as a team member in both the Department and as a member of the entire museum staff. The MCI will also receive exposure to and opportunities to interact with other museum professionals (curator, archivist, education director, etc.).
- Exhibit Research Intern
The Exhibits Research Internship will provide practical experience researching exhibits that present Waukesha County’s history to visitors of all ages. In 2010, this will include final preparations and installation for the fall 2010 exhibit, “Memories of World War II.”
Please see full job descriptions for more information.
Internships require the completion of a minimum of 150 hours within three months.
To apply, please send (email preferred) a cover letter, resume, three references, and a program or writing sample by September 6th to:
Elisabeth Engel
Curator of Collections & Exhibits and internship coordinator
Waukesha County Museum
101 W. Main St.
Waukesha, WI, 53186
eengel@wchsm.org
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted August 12th
Volunteer Management Internship Canton, OH
Fall 2010
Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is seeking students for its Fall of 2010 Volunteer Management Internship with its Museum Volunteer program. Students who are interested in pursuing a career with an historical organization and have an interest in volunteer program management or human resources are preferred. The student interns will be given an introduction into the history of professional football and the museum volunteer program. The student interns will assist staff in maintaining the online volunteer management database and volunteer programming. The student intern will also assist in volunteer orientations and educational training.
Student interns are required to work for a continuous 12-week period in the Fall 2010 and be available on weekends. Volunteer Management interns are required to have completed or working to complete a bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields: history, public administration, non-profit management, human resource management or equivalent. The museum prefers students who have experience volunteering or working for an historical organization and in a graduate program in one of the following fields of study: non-profit administration, human resource management, history or equivalent. The Volunteer Management Internship is an unpaid internship.
Please send a cover letter, 3 references and resume to: Jason Aikens, Collections Curator, Pro Football Hall of Fame, 2121 George Halas Dr. NW, Canton, OH 44708 (330) 456-8207, Jason.Aikens@profootballhof.com.
The deadline to apply is September 10, 2010 but application materials will be reviewed immediately.
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted August 12th
2009–2010 Fellowship Appointments
The Smithsonian American Art Museum announces the appointment of 18 new fellows for the 2010–2011 academic year. The museum’s program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships.
The 2010–2011 museum fellows are:
• Prudence Ahrens—Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland; “Travelling Modernisms: American Art and the South Pacific”
• Lacey Baradel—Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; “Destabilizing American Regional Identities: The Slippery Signification and Interpretation of Place in the Visual Arts”
• Maggie Cao—Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; “Landscape Interrupted: The Emergence of Zoological Agency in Nineteenth-Century American Art”
• Bridget Gilman—Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Realism, University of Michigan; “Re-envisioning Everyday Spaces: Photorealist Painting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1960–Present”
• Camara Holloway—Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware; “Shadowing the Light: Race, Photography, and the Modernist Persona in America”
• Elizabeth Lee—Senior Fellow, Dickinson College; “Therapeutic Culture: Health and Illness in Turn-of-the-Century American Art”
• Sara Beth Levavy—Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford University; “Immediate Mediation: A Narrative of the Newsreel and the Film”
• Elizabeth McGoey—Predoctoral Fellow, Indiana University; “Staging Modern Domesticity: Art and Constructed Interior Displays in America, 1925–40”
• Emily Moore—Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley; “Indian Art of the New Deal, Indians in New Deal Art”
• Márton Orosz—Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; “György Kepes: His Period and Contacts within the United States in the Post–War Art”
• Gisela Parak—Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; “Landscape Narratives: German and American Photographs in Comparison, 1850–1933”
• Austin Porter—Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Realism, Boston University; “Paper Bullets: The Visual Culture of American World War II Print Propaganda”
• Breanne Robertson—Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland; “Forging a New World Nationalism: Ancient Mexico in United States Art and Visual Culture, 1933–45”
• Susanne Scharf—Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; “Art with an Agenda: Hugo Reisinger as Promoter of Transnational Cultural Exchange in the Early Twentieth Century”
• Hélène Valance—Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow, Université Paris VII- Diderot; “Nocturnes in American Painting, 1890–1917”
• Jennifer Way—Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow, University of North Texas; “Politics of the Handmade: The Significance of Southeast Asian Handicraft for America, circa 1955–61”
• Amy Werbel—Senior Fellow, Saint Michael's College; “American Visual Culture during the Reign of Anthony Comstock, 1872–1915”
• Mary Wood—Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware; “Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World circa 1812”
Other Smithsonian Appointments in American Art
• Meredith Brown—Predoctoral Fellow (at Archives of American Art), The Courtauld Institute of Art; “Feminist Spaces, Politics, and Programs: The Impact of A.I.R. Gallery on the Feminist and Alternative Art Movements in 1970s America”
• Mazie Harris—Predoctoral Fellow (at National Portrait Gallery), Brown University; “Photographic Portraiture and Patents in New York between 1850–80”
• Kim Sels—Predoctoral Fellow (at National Portrait Gallery), Rutgers University; “Assembling Identity: The Object-Portrait in American Art, 1917–27”
Since 1970, the museum has hosted more than 360 fellows who now occupy positions in academic and cultural institutions across the United States. Fellowship opportunities available at the Smithsonian American Art Museum include the Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowships for the cross-cultural study of art of the United States; the Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellowship for research in American art and visual culture; the Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for the study of the traditions of American art; the Sara Roby Fellowship in Twentieth-Century American Realism; the Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art; the Joshua C. Taylor Fellowship; and the James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft. The museum also hosts fellows supported by the Smithsonian’s general fellowship fund.
Research resources at the museum include extensive photographic collections documenting American art and artists and unparalleled art-research databases. An estimated 180,000-volume library specializing in American art, history and biography is shared with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. An active publications program of books, catalogs and the critically acclaimed journal American Art complements the museum’s exhibitions and educational programs. To request a brochure with information about museum fellowships, call (202) 633-8353 or write to americanartfellowships@si.edu. The deadline for applications is Jan. 15, 2011.
Please quote Global Museum Jobs in your application. Posted June 5th
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