Arts Intern
Explore careers in the arts and expand your possibilities for a better future with a paid summer internship in an arts and cultural organization in your city.
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Background
Founded by Agnes Gund in 1999, Arts Intern provides opportunities for skilled college undergraduates with financial need to experience arts professions through paid internships.
Explore careers in the arts and expand your possibilities for a better future—no matter what path you take—with a paid summer internship in visual and performing arts and cultural organizations in your city. Full-time summer internships are available in a range of departments, including archives, community engagement, curatorial, collections, design, education, marketing, education and others.
eligibility
Who Can Apply?
To participate in Arts Intern, you must:
Be a full-time Sophomore, Junior, or Senior in a Bachelor’s degree program
This program does not accept international, community college, or graduate students;
Reside or attend college/university in the city for which you are applying; — and —
Have a Student Aid Index up to $6,250 (This can be found via your FAFSA Submission Summary)
Watch our information session on demand & get all the internship details you need!
For more information:
Kailey Duran, Program Coordinator, Arts Intern College Program
kduran@studioinstitute.org
Want to meet with our team? Sign up here.
APPLY
Program Duration: 9 Weeks | 252 Hours | June—Mid-August
Click your city and apply today!
Internship program dates vary by city.
Materials required to apply:
Cover Letter
Résumé/CV
Transcript (unofficial transcripts permitted)
Student Aid Index (SAI) Number Found on FAFSA Summary
Work Samples
Kasssandra talks about their Studio Institute Arts Intern experience, namely their internships with the Warhol Foundation and the Brooklyn Museum.
Future Arts Intern Partners
Are you a nonprofit arts and cultural organization interested in hosting a summer 2025 Arts Intern? Learn more.
Are you an Artist-Endowed Foundation interested in hosting an Arts Intern in the summer of 2025? Learn more.
For more information:
Sophia Domeville, Senior Manager, Arts Intern College Program
artsintern@studioinstitute.org
Schedule a meeting with Sophia HERE.
Ready to host an intern? Watch our info session to discover the benefits and how to apply!
Summer 2024 Arts Intern Partners
Baltimore: Art with a Heart, Baltimore Museum of Industry
Boston: Boston Children’s Chorus, Celebrity Series of Boston, EdVestors,
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Spoke Art, Inc., WBUR (Boston University)
Chicago: ART WORKS Projects, Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, Haitian American Museum of Chicago, Media Burn Archive, National Public Housing Museum, The Polish Museum of America, Smart Museum, Swedish American Museum
Cleveland: Art House, Inc., Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Public Theatre, Inlet Dance Theater, Julia De Burgos Cultural Art Center, Roots of American Music
Memphis: Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Metal Museum, Soulsville Foundation
New Jersey: GlassRoots, Newark Arts Council, Newark Public Library, Newark School of the Arts
New York: A.I.R. Gallery, Artists for Humanity, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Harpo Foundation*, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation*, The Juilliard School, Madison Square Park Conservancy, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Chinese in America, National Dance Institute, New-York Historical Society, New York Transit Museum, The Noguchi Museum, Poster House, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation*, Rubin Museum of Art, Signature Theatre Company, Staten Island Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Tenement Museum, Theatre for a New Audience, Woodman Family Foundation*
Philadelphia: Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Founder’s Hall Museum at Girard College, Free Library of Philadelphia, InLiquid, Ministry of Awe, Mural Arts Philadelphia, The Rosenbach, Tiny WPA, Women’s Coalition for Empowerment, Woodmere Art Museum
Providence: RISD Museum
* This organization is a member of the Artist-Endowed Foundations Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts, a project of the Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative | AEFI. Learn more.
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