partner with ArtS INTERN this summer

 Artist-Endowed Foundations: Bring New Voices to the Arts and Cultural Field

Background | Details

Background

Studio Institute’s Arts Intern program provides early-career opportunities for skilled college students interested in arts careers, who may otherwise lack access to such 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.

In addition to fully funding students’ stipends, the program includes an educational component that provides time for face-to-face interactions with seasoned professionals across the field, increasing students’ knowledge of, connection with, and investment in museums and cultural institutions.

 

Details

Artwork Research Intern Valerie R.
at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Past Arts Intern Partners Have Included:

We believe in the power of internship-based learning. Through the Arts Intern program, interns meet experienced staff involved in all facets of an institution’s functions and apply new skills under a supervisor’s guidance. They learn how each department, in its own way, supports an organization’s mission. 

Within the scope of specific, time-bound assignments, interns are encouraged to take initiative and shape projects with a fresh approach. They are treated as professionals, and earn a competitive wage. 

In addition, Arts Intern also provides interns with opportunities to interact with their peers in the program. Through required special events and seminars at participating institutions, interns meet, compare notes, and learn from each other’s insights. 

Coming from many different backgrounds, interns bring unique perspectives that enhance and enrich cultural organizations. The arts professionals who mentor these students are helping to bring new faces and voices to the arts and cultural field. 

Arts Interns come away from the program having gained experience, skills, knowledge, and relationships that equip them for a future in the field. 

internship program dates

The Arts Intern Artist-Endowed Foundations Consortium 2025 summer internship program runs from June 2, 2025 through August 1, 2025.

Student Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for internship positions offered through the Arts Intern program, students must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree and must:

  • Be currently enrolled as one of the following: a full-time rising junior (a current sophomore), a full-time junior, or a full-time senior graduating by fall 2025

  • Either reside or attend college in the same city as the host organization. (Boundaries vary in each of Arts Intern's participating cities.)

  • We collect information about students’ Expected Family Contribution (EFC).
    (This number is on the Student Aid Report on the FAFSA form.)
    See a sample form here.

An Arts Intern staff member will contact students who are selected to move forward with the application process to schedule an interview with the host organization. Interviewing and hiring are conducted by host organizations to ensure that they screen and select preferred candidates themselves.

INVITATION TO HOST
a Summer 2025 Arts Intern

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, Manager of College Internships: artsintern@studioinstitute.org

Interested in the AEFI Consortium?
Contact AEFI Project Director Christine J. Vincent

Baltimore: Evergreen Museum & Library
Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Science
Chicago: Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, Field Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Polish Museum of America
Cleveland: Art House, Inc., Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland Clinic Art Program, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Foluké Cultural Arts Center, Rainey Institute, Waterloo Arts
Memphis: Art Museum of the University of Memphis, ArtsMemphis, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Metal Museum
Newark: AACA Creates, Gallery Aferro, GlassRoots
New York: Al Held Foundation*, Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Harpo Foundation*, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation*, The Kitchen, Madison Square Park Conservancy, The Noguchi Museum, Reversible Destiny Foundation*, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation*, Rubin Museum of Art, Staten Island Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Woodman Family Foundation*
Philadelphia: Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Founder’s Hall Museum at Girard College, Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenbach, Taller Puertorriqueño, 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.

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