Job Responsibilities

 The collections intern will work with the Registrar to:

• Accession and catalog the museum’s material culture collection in anticipation of a new exhibition. Provides an opportunity to work hands on with the collection. Tasks including accessioning, object marking, photography, cataloging, condition reporting, re-housing, and database entry.
• Assist in the conversion to a new database including data entry and cleanup, and working with curators to improve cataloging standards and data.
• Assist in the day to day tasks of the registrar’s office as needed.
• Potential to assist in the installation of an exhibition opening in June and in other aspects of the museum’s active loans and exhibitions programs.

Deadline: May 15, 2012

The Historic Odessa Foundation owns five houses open for public tour in the historic area of the small town of Odessa, 25 miles south of Wilmington.  Odessa, named after the port city in Russia, was an 18th century wheat, produce and leather goods shipping port on the Appoquinimink Creek that feeds into the Delaware River.  The houses and their out-buildings date from the late 18th to mid 19th century.  The Corbit house is a fine Georgian brick structure on the National Landmark Register and the Collins house is one of the earliest extant houses in Delaware.   The houses are furnished with period collection objects, many inherited from the descendents of the families who lived here.  HOF’s collection also includes photographs and documents relating to the town’s history, the historic houses and their families. A major focus of the Foundation is living history and education programs that interpret the tannery, general store and shipping businesses of the Quaker families that lived here.

Deadline: April 30, 2012

The Carpenter Museum, the history museum of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, offers a paid summer internship running ten weeks, from mid-June through mid-August 2012. 

The intern will work one day per week, conducting tours for visitors and working with the curator on a storage reorganization project and in planning the reinstallation of one of the permanent exhibition galleries. 

The internship will culminate in a public program and reception highlighting the intern's accomplishments.

Deadline June 1, 2012

The Worcester Art Museum is offering a pre-graduate program position in art conservation with health and vacation benefits for a 5-day / 37.5-hour workweek at an hourly rate of $12.14 to $14.27, depending on experience. The successful applicant will assist the Museum’s conservators in the preservation, examination, documentation and treatment of collection objects. Responsibilities will also include organization of conservation records and files, purchasing of conservation supplies and equipment, maintenance of the conservation studios, equipment and instrumentation, preparation of materials and reagents, and dusting of art objects on display.

Deadline: May 11, 2012

Job Categories:

Administrative, Development, Marketing & Public Relations, Volunteer & Intern, Philadelphia County (PA), Community Art/Cultural Organization, Dance, Folk & Traditional Arts, Historic/Cultural Preservation, Media Arts (Film/Radio/TV), Music, Visual Arts

 Position Description:

In many internships, interns will file papers, make copies, answer phones, etc. which will be part of our internship program, too, but we've added the addition of the Summer Internship Project. You will have the unique opportunity to manage a project for an 8-10 week period, under the direction of our Director of Development & Communications, and bring it to fruition in the Latin American arts & Culture community. We're looking for 3 interns for our Community Outreach, Communications & Marketing, and Development efforts, respectively.

 The general schedule for all interns will be 2-3 days per week from 11 am - 5 pm, however, there is room for flexibility as we produce events and programs that we in the evening and would appreciate the intern's support. Interviews for internships will begin immediately and we hope to secure our Interns by or before May 11, 2012. We offer an end-of-year stipend for all participants who have successfully completed their project, as well as, public transportation reimbursement. This internship can be used for college credit as well. The internship will run 8-10 weeks.

Application Deadline: March 30, 2012

Supported by NSF REU Sites Program

The IMA offers two categories of internship programs:

Application Deadline: March 26, 2012

Application Deadline:  April 1, 2012

The Judd Foundation (www.juddfoundation.org) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to maintain and preserve the late artist Donald Judd's (1928-1994) permanently installed living and working spaces, libraries, and archives in New York and Marfa, Texas. The Marfa office is looking for a conservation intern to assist the conservator for 8-12 weeks between June-September 2012.