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.
Who Can Apply?
The application process for Summer 2025 has now closed.
Please check back in January 2026 for available paid internship positions in your city.
eligibility
Watch our information session on demand & get all the internship details you need!
APPLY
We are no longer accepting applications for our Summer 2025 program.
Have questions?
Kailey Duran, Program Coordinator, Arts Intern College Program
kduran@studioinstitute.org
Want to meet with our team? Sign up here.
Kasssandra talks about their Studio Institute Arts Intern experience at The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Brooklyn Museum.
Future Arts Intern Partners
Are you a nonprofit arts and cultural organization interested in hosting a summer 2026 Arts Intern? Learn more.
Are you an Artist-Endowed Foundation interested in hosting an Arts Intern in the summer of 2026? 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 2025 Arts Intern Partners
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Industry, The Valerie J. Maynard Foundation
Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Chicago: ART WORKS Projects, Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Haitian American Museum of Chicago, Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Media Burn Archive, Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Public Housing Museum, The Polish Museum of America, Smart Museum, Ukrainian National Museum
Cleveland: Art House, Inc., Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Play House, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Public Theatre, Foluké Arts, Inlet Dance Theatre, Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center, Waterloo Arts
Memphis:
Newark: EqualSpace, GlassRoots, Newark Arts Council, Newark Public Library, Newark Symphony Hall
New York: A.I.R. Gallery, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Developing Artists, 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: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Founder’s Hall Museum at Girard College, Free Library of Philadelphia, Paul Robeson House & Museum, The Rosenbach
* 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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