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Event Planning Intern [Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA]

Event Planning Intern [Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA]

Event Planning Intern Description: The Fuller Craft Museum offers a unique venue for special events such as weddings, showers, fundraising and corporate retreats. We are looking for an Event Planning Intern to assist the Rentals Coordinator with planning of a bridal fair as well as 

Free Event: MA Museums Day – October 7

Free Event: MA Museums Day – October 7

Current students and museum professionals – consider attending the FREE Massachusetts Museums Day, hosted by NEMA on October 7. The event, located at the State House in Boston, strives to “build awareness and advocacy for the museum field. This is a great opportunity for museum studies 

Tufts Art Gallery: Fall Exhibitions

Tufts Art Gallery: Fall Exhibitions

As of Thursday, September 10th, the fall exhibitions at the Tufts University Art Gallery are open to the public! The public reception is Thursday, September 17th from 5:00-7:30 in Remis Sculpture Court.

 

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Installation view of Shahzia Sikander’s Parallax. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

The upstairs Tisch Gallery again features a multi-media installation, this time by internationally-recognized artist Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969, Pakistan). Her immersive animation Parallax, with music and sound by composer Du Yun, was conceived in the United Arab Emirates and first appearing at the Sharjah Biennale in 2013. Related paintings, drawings, and photographs are also included in the Tufts exhibition.

 

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Installation view of Last Folio. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Downstairs, the Koppelman Family Gallery features Last Folio, a part of international commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with previous displays at the United Nations in New York, the National Library of Germany in Berlin, the Mark Rothko Museum in Latvia, and the New Museum of Tolerance in Moscow. Canadian-Slovakian photographer Yuri Dojc teamed with British media producer Katya Krausova and a documentary film team to document their travels to abandoned Jewish spaces in present-day Slovakia. Last Folio features photographs on paper and large sheets that create a contemplative environment.

 

Detail of Sophia Ainslie (MFA 2001). Ainslie's seven-panel mural, In Person—574. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.
Detail of Sophia Ainslie’s seven-panel mural, In Person—574. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

The exhibition in Remis Sculpture Court explores the creation and installation of a monumental site-specific art commission for the new Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex at 574 Boston Avenue on Tufts’ main Medford campus by Boston-based artist and Tufts alum Sophia Ainslie (MFA 2001). The displays feature original paintings, materials, and photographs from the creation of her seven-panel mural, In Person—574.

 

Development Internship [MASS MoCA]

Development Internship [MASS MoCA]

Development Internship Description: Intern will be working directly with the Manager of Foundations and Corporate Grants and the Membership Coordinator on all aspects of MASS MoCA’s fundraising activities, including research, grant-writing, direct mail, special events and database management. Intern will also assist in the preparation 

Calling All Writers!

Calling All Writers!

Now that fall is starting to get under way (sorry to say), we’d like to put out a call for any students or museum professionals who might want to write a guest post for this blog! Whether you have a vague idea of a topic 

Development Internship [MASS MoCA]

Development Internship [MASS MoCA]

Development Internship

Description:

Intern will be working directly with the Manager of Foundations and Corporate Grants and the Membership Coordinator on all aspects of MASS MoCA’s fundraising activities, including research, grant-writing, direct mail, special events and database management. Intern will also assist in the preparation for the upcoming New York City Benefit. Interns will be required to work up to 50 hours per week, although some weeks could be longer.  In an average week, you will spend two days working on grants and general development duties and two days on membership, with the remaining day alternating as workload requires.

Qualifications:
Must be over the age of 18 and a strong interest in Development.
How To Apply:
Must send cover letter, resume, and 3 references via email – internapplications@massmoca.org
Apply by:
September 14, 2015
Salary:
$100week stipend + housing