Artist-Endowed Foundations:
Host an Arts Intern
Diversify Your Team and Bring New Voices to the Arts and Cultural Field
Background | Details
Background
Studio Institute’s Arts Intern program provides paid opportunities for skilled college students interested in exploring arts careers, who may otherwise lack access to vital experiences without this paid opportunity.
Since 1999, Arts Intern has placed undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need and diverse backgrounds in paid internships that can impact career paths in profound and lasting ways. Art institutions transform interns into future leaders through immersive mentorship by experienced staff. Under their guidance, Arts Interns gain practical experience across departments while discovering how each role advances the organization's mission and impact.
Interns drive innovation with fresh perspectives through dynamic project ownership while earning competitive pay. Beyond individual placements, the program fosters a vibrant peer network through required, curated seminars and events—creating lasting connections that enrich the arts ecosystem.
Arts professionals who mentor these students help to bring new faces and voices to the arts and cultural field. Arts Interns take away experience, skills, knowledge, and relationships that equip them for a future in that or other fields.
Giovanna Becerra, Artwork Research Intern (Summer 2024) Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s Catalogue Raisonné
Details
Program Structure
Kasssandra talks about their Studio Institute Arts Intern experience, namely their internships with the Warhol Foundation and the Brooklyn Museum.
2024 Artist-Endowed Foundation Partners*
The Arts Intern Artist-Endowed Foundations Consortium 2025 summer internship program runs from June 2 through August 1, 2025.
Baltimore Internship Period: June 13 – August 15; Program Day: Wednesdays
New York City Internship Period: June 2 – August 4; Program Day: Fridays
Timeframe
252 total hours over 9 weeks
5-day commitment, 28 hours per week: 4 days on-site; 1 Program Day
of cohort meetings
Eligibility
To participate in the Arts Intern program, students 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)
Invitation to Host an Arts Intern Summer 2025
Studio Institute’s Arts Intern welcomes host applications from Artist-Endowed Foundations (AEFs) who are participating as members of the AEF Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts, a project of the Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative | AEFI. Read about the Consortium HERE.
Apply to host an Arts Intern–Summer 2025 HERE.
Questions?
Contact Sophia Domeville, Senior Manager, Arts Intern College Program: artsintern@studioinstitute.org
Interested in the AEFI Consortium?
Contact AEFI Project Director Christine J. Vincent
New York: Al Held Foundation, Harpo Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Reversible Destiny Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Woodman Family Foundation
*These organizations are members 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.
Thank you for partnering with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. We are grateful to have worked with Arts Intern and to have found such a remarkable colleague in Valerie through your program.
Rachael Pullin, Project Associate, Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné;
Arts Intern Supervisor and Mentor
