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.
Details
Program Duration: 9 Weeks / 252 Hours
Offered in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, and Providence. Internship program dates vary by city.
AUTHENTIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Earn a competitive hourly rate while completing meaningful work as a professional team member.
COMMUNITY OF PEERS
Share ideas and experiences through regular meetings with cohorts based in your city and nationwide.
MENTORSHIP AND APPRENTICE-BASED LEARNING
Work alongside experts who will help you hone existing skills, learn new ones, and develop a professional network.
PROGRAMMING & SPECIAL EVENTS
Participate in programming with unique access to arts professionals through seminars, career panels, and in-depth conversations.
Arts Intern 2024 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.
Arts Intern Winston Kam describes his experience as a Conservation Frame Intern at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Watch Now.
Arts Intern alumna Jinelle Thompson, currently Project Manager, Community Partnerships & Initiatives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, describes her Arts Intern experience and how art can be a tool for activism. Watch Now.
Learn about the Arts Intern Summer 2025 Paid Internship!
Special Opportunity for Bloomberg Arts Internship (BAI) Alumni
Are you ready for the next step in your arts career journey?
If you participated in a high school BAI program and are currently a college sophomore or junior in Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, or Washington, DC, you are eligible to participate in the summer 2025 Arts Intern program. Learn more.
Future Arts Intern Partners
Are you a non-profit 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 summer 2025? Learn more.
Questions? Contact Program Manager Sophia Domeville at: artsintern@studioinstitute.org
Eligibility
To participate in Arts Intern, you must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree and currently enrolled as a full-time:
Rising junior (sophomore year completed)
Junior — or —
Senior graduating by fall of 2025.
You must reside or attend college in the city in which you are applying. You must have a Student Aid Index of up to $6,250.
Click your city to confirm eligibility:
Baltimore: June 13–August 15
Boston: June 9–August 8
Chicago: June 4–August 7
Cleveland: June 16–August 18
Memphis: June 13–August 15
New York: June 2–August 4
Newark: June 3–August 5
Philadelphia: June 11–August 13
Providence: June 13–August 15
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