{"id":104,"date":"2013-02-27T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2013\/02\/27\/museum-galleryinternships\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T18:53:08","slug":"museum-galleryinternships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2013\/02\/27\/museum-galleryinternships\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum &amp; Gallery Internships!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are coming into the season when applications for internships in Art History&#8211;and all areas in Art&#8211;come to be due.\u00a0 Here is some further information and some links about some internships that might be of interest to various majors in the Art Department.\u00a0 We will also be updating this list as we learn of more opportunities, so check back often!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chicago Area<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/employment\/internships\" target=\"_self\">Art Institute of Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.mcachicago.org\/employment\/internships\" target=\"_self\">Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kansas City Area<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelson-atkins.org\/support\/JobInternOpps.cfm\" target=\"_self\">The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">For those of you especially interested in curatorial work, see the Nelson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelson-atkins.org\/get-involved\/careers\/\">Mellon Summer Academy <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kemperart.org\/involved\/volunteers.asp\" target=\"_self\">Kemper Musuem of Contemporary Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toyandminiaturemuseum.org\/internships\/\">The National Museum of Toys\/Miniatures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Contact Dr. Jason McDonald\u00a0in History at Truman (jasonmcd@truman.edu) about internships for Truman students at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kirksville<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirksvillearts.com\/newsite\/?page_id=8\" target=\"_self\">Kirksville Arts Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tsup.truman.edu\/about\/interns.asp\" target=\"_self\">Truman State University Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">For more information on the Conservation Internship in Special Collections (Pickler Memorial Library), please contact Ms. Amanda Langendoerfer (Director, Special Collections) at <a href=\"mailto:alang@truman.edu\">alang@truman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>St. Louis Area<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">St. Louis Art Museum:\u00a0 check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slam.org\" target=\"_self\">website <\/a>in January for more information or check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiretrue.com\/hiretrue\/showJobBoardPositions.do?jobBoardPK=54\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camstl.org\/about\/work-at-cam\/\" target=\"_self\">Contemporary Art Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The Pulitzer Foundation:\u00a0 check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzerarts.org\/\" target=\"_self\">website <\/a>for more information<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Contact Dr. Jason McDonald in the Department of History at Truman (jasonmcd@truman.edu)\u00a0about internships for Truman students at both the Missouri History Museum and the Mercantile Library in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Other nearby areas<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesartcenter.org\/default.aspx\" target=\"_self\">Des Moines Art Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/engling.truman.edu\/Truman%20Library%20Internship%20Flier.pdf\" target=\"_self\">Summer Internship at the Harry S. Truman Museum and Library <\/a>(Independence, Missouri) (before applying, please contact Dr. Jason McDonald\u00a0in the Department of History at Truman to discuss possibilities to work on art-related projects:\u00a0jasonmcd@truman.edu).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daummuseum.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Daum Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a> (they often have a Collections Internship on offer;\u00a0 please contact them for more information)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>National Internships<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasmuseumofart.org\/AboutUs\/Internships\/index.htm\" target=\"_self\">McDermott Internships, Dallas Museum of Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewalters.org\/about\/jobs\/intern\/diversity.aspx\">The Walters\u00a0Art Museum, Diversity in the Arts Internships, Baltimore, MD<\/a> (paid!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianofi.com\/internship-opportunities\/\">Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>International Internships<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Truman offers various opportunities for internships overseas.\u00a0 Check <a href=\"http:\/\/studyabroad.truman.edu\/internship.asp\" target=\"_self\">here <\/a>for information about overseas internships through Truman&#8217;s Center for International Education, or <a href=\"http:\/\/twp.truman.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">here <\/a>for information about the Truman in Washington program which also offers interships overseas!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Archival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medici.org\/jane-fortune-research-program-women-artists-age-medici\" target=\"_self\">internship <\/a>in Florence, Italy at the Medici Archive Project (scroll down to &#8220;Opportunities&#8221;;\u00a0 reading ability in Italian is likely required).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, any urban area (or rural too!) will have art galleries, not-for-profit arts organizations, and the like so check Google to see what might be available.\u00a0 Listed above are some of the places where Truman students have found internships, but lots more are available.\u00a0 Students, please talk with your academic advisors, also, about more opportunities, including those outside the Midwest if you are interested!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are coming into the season when applications for internships in Art History&#8211;and all areas in Art&#8211;come to be due.\u00a0 Here is some further information and some links about some internships that might be of interest to various majors in the Art Department.\u00a0 We will also be updating this list as we learn of more&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2013\/02\/27\/museum-galleryinternships\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Museum &amp; Gallery Internships!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22008,22180,26450,23284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-history","category-department","category-gallery","category-website"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}