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COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:

University Loans Project Intern

The University Loans (ULoans) project intern will assist with identification, photography, and physical inventory of artworks on loan to departments across Harvard University.

Responsibilities:  The successful candidate will work directly with the Collections Administrator/Assistant Registrar and Collections Management staff responsible for University Loans to:

• Identify and prioritize location visits across campus for on-site inventory
• Coordinate site-visit appointments with campus borrowers
• Take digital photographs of art on loan from the museum collection
• Assist with collections care, using museum best practices and materials and under direction from Painting Conservator and/or Preparator, including dusting frames and cleaning glazing
• Tasks may also include recording environmental conditions, and confirming the presence of mounts, glazing, and hardware.
• The intern may also be responsible for uploading image files and inventory data to the museums’ database or archiving digital image files.

Term: 

• Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semester candidates are encouraged to apply
• Hours are flexible, but a minimum of 10 hours a week is highly desired

Qualifications: 

• The unpaid internship is open to undergraduate and graduate students receiving academic credit from a degree granting institution.
• Since this internship is unpaid, candidates must be able to receive course credit in exchange for their internship (not just enrolled in a program).
• Candidates must be organized, detail oriented, and able to work independently.
• A basic knowledge of digital photography and prior experience in museum administration is helpful, but not necessary.

Location:

• Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
• Various sites on Harvard campus

How to Apply:

• Please forward a cover letter and resume to Vanessa Marcoux at vanessa_marcoux@harvard.edu before August 1, 2017.

Internship Opportunity

Where: The Bostonian Society – Old State House Museum, Boston

When: Summer 2017

What: Unpaid internship

Description: Interns needed to complete a comprehensive collections inventory on our large and diverse historical collection.

Under the supervision of the Collections Manager, you will take the lead on an inventory of more than 6,000 objects of all types dating from the seventeenth century to today. Together the team of interns will be responsible for recording location and condition information for every object in our diverse collection.

This internship would be ideal for anybody interested in working Collections Management, as it will give you crucial experience with a foundational aspect of collections management, the baseline inventory. It will also give you experience handling a wide range of object types, from paintings to fish bones and everything in between.

About the Bostonian Society: The Bostonian Society is dedicated to explaining, studying, and preserving Boston’s uniquely important history, embodied in materials, records, and structures such as the Old State House, and in sharing an understanding of the revolutionary ideas born here.

Requirements:

• A background in museum studies (ideally you will be working towards a certificate or a degree in museum studies)
• Some object handling experience
• An interest in American history and material culture
• An eye for detail

How to apply: Please send a resume and a cover letter indicating availability to collections@bostonhistory.org by April 15th, 2017.

Project Intern: Spring / Summer 2017 Cambridge Arts: Public Art

Cambridge Arts is seeking a spring and summer intern to assist with all aspects of its upcoming contemporary art series Common Exchange. A group exhibition of sound installations and performances, Common Exchange will feature 10 artist projects in and around the Cambridge Common from May – September 2017. Organized in honor of the park’s recent pathway renovations, each project that constitutes Common Exchange reiterates the park’s physical and ideological function as a connective space. Over the course of the summer, time-based and participatory works will occupy the Cambridge Common and its surrounding buildings to address connectivity and exchange in the twenty-first century, moving from interpersonal to communal and historical relationships. The public remains the central figure in each artwork to emphasize that it is participation and public discourse that ultimately shapes our civic spaces. Featured artists include: Andy Graydon, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Carmen Papalia, Aki Sasamoto, Kelly Sherman, Xaviera Simmons, Allison Smith, Julianne Swartz, and Lee Walton and Jon Rubin.

Common Exchange is made possible through multiple partnerships and sources of support, including the National Endowment for the Arts ArtWork Grant, VIA Art Fund, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Cambridge Agassiz Harvard Community Fund, Berkshire Taconic, Artists’ Resource Trust, Massachusetts Cultural Council the Community Design Studio of LUCAD, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, the City of Cambridge, and Holosonics.

Description:
The Common Exchange intern will work closely with the Director of Public Art at Cambridge Arts, Lillian Hsu, and the exhibition guest curator Dina Deitsch. Duties will include organizing and keeping schedules for events and artists’ travel, project research for artists’ projects, attending meetings and public presentations, and providing general administration assistant to the curator and director.

Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have some prior experience in project management and/or in public programs in the arts as well as excellent organizational skills. An interest and knowledge of contemporary public art practices is a plus. A great and flexible attitude is absolutely required.

This position is funded by a stipend and would require an average of two days a week, which may include weekend or evening hours. Schedules are flexible and can be modified as needed. Course credit can be attained for select academic programs.

About Cambridge Arts:
Cambridge Arts (CA), also known as the Cambridge Arts Council, is the official arts agency for the City of Cambridge, MA. Established by City ordinance in 1974 and incorporated as a public non-profit in 1976, CA’s mission is to ensure that the arts remain vital for people living, working and visiting Cambridge. As both a service and presenting organization, CA accomplishes this mission by stimulating public awareness of and support for the arts, preserving and celebrating the City’s diverse cultural heritage, displaying art in public places, and developing opportunities to improve the overall aesthetic experience for residents and visitors of Cambridge.

Cambridge has one of the oldest percent-for-art public art programs in the country, established through the Cambridge Public Art Ordinance in 1979. To date, over one hundred artworks have been publicly sited in Cambridge. Commissioned for capital improvements, the art is lasting evidence of the City’s ongoing pursuit to enhance its physical environment. For more information, please visit www.cambridgeartscouncil.org.

Please email inquiries and applications to lhsu@cambridgema.gov with the subject: Attn: Dina Deitsch / Common Internship.

The Andover Historical Society is working with Cuseum (https://cuseum.com/) on what they’re calling a Virtual Andover App. They’re bringing history into the community while partnering with local organizations to build and promote the application.

They need a motivated intern to work on content development and management. It’s a writing and social media position (not a research position) to transform hundreds of stories, images, and objects into the content. The position is paid. They would love someone to start immediately. Andover is located North of Boston and accessible by public transportation. Work site location can be negotiated. Please contact Cara Iacobucci at cara.iacobucci@tufts.edu for more information and the contact information.

The Emily A. Laird Graduate Student Internship in Museum Studies for Summer 2017

Deadline: February 20, 2017

The Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF) is accepting applications for its 2017 summer internship for graduate students in museum studies, public history, art history, and related fields. Interns will learn and work in a team-based, collaborative environment and play a crucial role in advancing one or more areas of NRF’s mission. The 2017 interns will be based at Doris Duke’s Rough Point, an NRF property open to the public as a house museum. This year, NRF is seeking one graduate intern to work on curatorial projects and one graduate intern to work on education projects. Interns will work with departmental staff and devote approximately half their time to training, participation in daily operations, and general internship assignments. The remainder of their time will be devoted to independent work on a substantive project, to be developed in consultation with their supervisor. Successful interns will possess exceptional interpersonal skills, an enthusiasm for making art and history accessible to the public, intellectual curiosity, and good humor.

NRF excels in three areas:

• Preserving, researching, and interpreting Doris Duke’s collections of fine and decorative arts
• Presenting over 200 public programs annually, including walking tours, workshops, lawn programs, lectures, and performances
• Preserving, researching, and interpreting Newport’s 18th- and early 19th-century vernacular architecture

The interns will work across departmental lines in support of these efforts and can expect to spend time interacting with the public, as well as contributing to general museum business. Specific to the 2017 internship is the likelihood of working on programming for the 2017 exhibition, Nature Tamed in the Landscapes, Gardens, and Collections at Rough Point.

Compensation and living arrangements:

Interns work a minimum of 35 hours per week at a rate of $14.50/hour. Some weekend and evening hours are required. Holidays and other time off are not paid. The 10 week internship typically begins the first week of June and ends in late August, with exact dates to be determined at time of offer. Housing in Newport is available at a reduced rate of approximately $100-125 per week.

Application:

Applicants must be graduate students, or those completing their program of graduate study in the semester immediately prior to the internship.

A complete application consists of:

1. A short personal statement (700-800 words maximum) that outlines a professional or research interest in one or more of NRF’s areas of operations;
2. A resume of no more than two pages;
3. Contact information for three references.

Please send all materials in a single PDF to Kelsey Mullen, Public Programs Manager, at kelsey@newportrestoration.org.

NRF is an equal opportunity employer.

Closing date is February 20, 2017; applicants will be notified by mid-March.

About the Newport Restoration Foundation

The Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 by Doris Duke to preserve, maintain, and interpret Aquidneck Island’s 18th- and early 19th-century architectural heritage. In addition to a collection of more than 70 early American houses, now rented to tenant-stewards, NRF operates three museum properties: Rough Point, Doris Duke’s Newport mansion and home to a significant collection of European paintings, furniture, and textiles, and other European and Asian decorative arts; Whitehorne House, featuring a collection of 18th- and early 19^th-century Newport furniture (which will be closed to the public in 2017); and Prescott Farm, a public park and historic site with ties to the Revolutionary War. The foundation is actively engaged in historic preservation, public programming, and scholarly research.

For more information: www.newportrestoration.org

Emily A. Laird was an M.A. student in museum studies at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, N.Y. when she came to Newport as a Newport Restoration Foundation collections intern in 2011. During her time at the NRF, Emily displayed a passion for scholarship, dedication to her work, and a keen interest in her museum colleagues, the local community, and the unique qualities of Newport and environs. She worked closely with staff and had made an excellent start on her individual project before falling critically ill in mid-summer. She died on September 29, 2011.