Internships
Position Announcement: Curatorial Research Intern, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
Number of Positions: 12
Pay Period: 9 Weeks
Hours Per Week: 30
Hourly Wage: Minimum wage based on provincial standards.
Location: Various (Please Read)
For over 10 years, the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ACC-CCA) has been developing and disseminating curatorial practices, innovative research and critical discourses on Indigenous arts and culture throughout Canada. ACC-CCA is an Indigenous national arts service organization that supports, promotes and advocates on behalf of Canadian and international Indigenous curators, critics, artists and representatives of arts and cultural organizations. The ACC-CCA provides support to Indigenous curators and artists through mentorships, research, curatorial exhibitions, commissioned writings, disseminations and large-scale colloquia and gatherings. Through fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, and embracing principles of Indigenous protocols, the ACC-CCA strives towards an equitable space for the Indigenous curatorial, artistic and intellectual communities.
Tasks and Responsibilities: These positions allow Indigenous interns to spend the summer researching Indigenous curatorial practices and engaging in regional arts actions including summer festivals, arts events, community celebrations, theatrical presentations and creation incubators. Interns engage in a variety of professional development activities working with an array of supervised interactions engaging regional not-for-profit groups, arts collectives, municipal partners and First Nations communities. Having Indigenous heritage is strongly encouraged. ACC-CCA is exploring the relationship between the current Indigenous curatorial sector and Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation as all major arts institutions are currently reflecting on this. Our evaluative look at the past 150 years connects Indigenous and settler methodologies to each other to form a better understanding of “our” Canada. Interns will be working along side of established curators to develop ideas, write reflection articles and publish their works professionally to be seen across the whole country.
Specific Tasks include:
• Research Indigenous curatorial trends and communicate with established Indigenous curators
• Assist in event coordination
• Engage in marketing and dissemination plans
• Contribute to arts action opportunities in development, implementation and documentation
• Write reflections on arts, culture and heritage in relation to art and action
• Promote all ACC-CCA events and programs through the various channels, online, website, social media
Supervision: ACC-CCA has 12 Indigenous mentors across Canada waiting to volunteer their time assisting in this process. Mentors typically hold positions as Canada Research Chairs, Department Heads or other major roles within Universities, Galleries and Arts Organizations. This team of mentors represents some of the most renowned Indigenous curators and academic minds in Canada, all eager to engage with emerging Indigenous artists, curators and writers.
Students: This Internship program has an Indigenous-specific focus and is best suited towards students that are currently pursuing fields of study relating to Indigenous Studies, Curatorial Practices, Arts Administration, Theatre, Performance, Fine Art, Craft, Writing, Storytelling or any study programs that have relevance to spending a summer researching and engaging in Indigenous specific actions. ACC-CCA is based within Ontario but research can take place wherever the Indigenous Intern resides as long as there is structure for their work placement and oversight with ACC-CCA representative mentors. Priority is given to students engaging with arts actions that bring multiple communities together and represent healthy Indigenous-controlled arts environments. With considerations being given to remote regions, language barriers and the importance of voices being represented that are currently absent, ACC-CCA is making every effort to increase this program to include more opportunities in the future.
Pay Period: 9 Weeks
Hours Per Week: 30
Hourly Wage: Minimum wage based on provincial standards.
Location: Various (Please Read)
For over 10 years, the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ACC-CCA) has been developing and disseminating curatorial practices, innovative research and critical discourses on Indigenous arts and culture throughout Canada. ACC-CCA is an Indigenous national arts service organization that supports, promotes and advocates on behalf of Canadian and international Indigenous curators, critics, artists and representatives of arts and cultural organizations. The ACC-CCA provides support to Indigenous curators and artists through mentorships, research, curatorial exhibitions, commissioned writings, disseminations and large-scale colloquia and gatherings. Through fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, and embracing principles of Indigenous protocols, the ACC-CCA strives towards an equitable space for the Indigenous curatorial, artistic and intellectual communities.
Tasks and Responsibilities: These positions allow Indigenous interns to spend the summer researching Indigenous curatorial practices and engaging in regional arts actions including summer festivals, arts events, community celebrations, theatrical presentations and creation incubators. Interns engage in a variety of professional development activities working with an array of supervised interactions engaging regional not-for-profit groups, arts collectives, municipal partners and First Nations communities. Having Indigenous heritage is strongly encouraged. ACC-CCA is exploring the relationship between the current Indigenous curatorial sector and Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation as all major arts institutions are currently reflecting on this. Our evaluative look at the past 150 years connects Indigenous and settler methodologies to each other to form a better understanding of “our” Canada. Interns will be working along side of established curators to develop ideas, write reflection articles and publish their works professionally to be seen across the whole country.
Specific Tasks include:
• Research Indigenous curatorial trends and communicate with established Indigenous curators
• Assist in event coordination
• Engage in marketing and dissemination plans
• Contribute to arts action opportunities in development, implementation and documentation
• Write reflections on arts, culture and heritage in relation to art and action
• Promote all ACC-CCA events and programs through the various channels, online, website, social media
Supervision: ACC-CCA has 12 Indigenous mentors across Canada waiting to volunteer their time assisting in this process. Mentors typically hold positions as Canada Research Chairs, Department Heads or other major roles within Universities, Galleries and Arts Organizations. This team of mentors represents some of the most renowned Indigenous curators and academic minds in Canada, all eager to engage with emerging Indigenous artists, curators and writers.
Students: This Internship program has an Indigenous-specific focus and is best suited towards students that are currently pursuing fields of study relating to Indigenous Studies, Curatorial Practices, Arts Administration, Theatre, Performance, Fine Art, Craft, Writing, Storytelling or any study programs that have relevance to spending a summer researching and engaging in Indigenous specific actions. ACC-CCA is based within Ontario but research can take place wherever the Indigenous Intern resides as long as there is structure for their work placement and oversight with ACC-CCA representative mentors. Priority is given to students engaging with arts actions that bring multiple communities together and represent healthy Indigenous-controlled arts environments. With considerations being given to remote regions, language barriers and the importance of voices being represented that are currently absent, ACC-CCA is making every effort to increase this program to include more opportunities in the future.
Summer 2017 Internship Opportunity: Recovering Voices, NMNH
The Recovering Voices Program is currently accepting applications for the Recovering Voices Internship for Summer 2017! Applications due April 28, 2017.
This is an unpaid, part time internship for the summer of 2017. This opportunity provides a range of collections-related, audiovisual production, and administrative experience in a collaborative museum-community program setting. The intern will be primarily with the Recovering Voices Program Assistant for Collections in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.
The intern will be responsible for assisting with a summer community research group and creating a follow-up digital packet to be sent to the community group coming from Oregon and who are participating in the Recovering Voices Community Research Program in 2017. The location will be primarily in the Recovering Voices Office at the National Museum of Natural History, but will also be at the National Museum of the American Indian and the collections and archives at the Museum Support Center in Suitland, MD. The weeks of the community visits may involve more than part time hours; this is flexible.
The Recovering Voices Community Research Program makes the collections and archives of the Smithsonian accessible to indigenous communities who are working on language and/or knowledge revitalization projects. Most community visits are video recorded to document the research for the community’s purposes. This particular visit will take place during the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages and the community group will partially attend lectures and events of Breath of Life. The packet the intern will be responsible for creating centers around processing of the video and associated research materials. The intern will also be responsible for assisting during the research visit. The intern will gain first-hand experience of research in archives as well as learn about the tribes and communities that are participating in the Community Research Program.
QUALIFICATIONS
A qualified candidate will be a recent graduate or be currently enrolled in a graduate program. They should be interested in the use of museum collections and archives for research and be detail oriented. Cultural sensitivity and the ability to work with people from all backgrounds is a must. Knowledge of linguistics is not required.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
There are three core learning objectives.
1. Learn about the subject of language and traditional knowledge documentation and revitalization.
2. Learn about the uses and benefits of material culture and archival resources available at the Smithsonian, and museums in general, to understand the impact of resources in museum collections on revitalization efforts.
3. Learn about audiovisual documentation, standards for archiving born-digital products, and post-production of digital video.
This is an unpaid, part time internship for the summer of 2017. This opportunity provides a range of collections-related, audiovisual production, and administrative experience in a collaborative museum-community program setting. The intern will be primarily with the Recovering Voices Program Assistant for Collections in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.
The intern will be responsible for assisting with a summer community research group and creating a follow-up digital packet to be sent to the community group coming from Oregon and who are participating in the Recovering Voices Community Research Program in 2017. The location will be primarily in the Recovering Voices Office at the National Museum of Natural History, but will also be at the National Museum of the American Indian and the collections and archives at the Museum Support Center in Suitland, MD. The weeks of the community visits may involve more than part time hours; this is flexible.
The Recovering Voices Community Research Program makes the collections and archives of the Smithsonian accessible to indigenous communities who are working on language and/or knowledge revitalization projects. Most community visits are video recorded to document the research for the community’s purposes. This particular visit will take place during the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages and the community group will partially attend lectures and events of Breath of Life. The packet the intern will be responsible for creating centers around processing of the video and associated research materials. The intern will also be responsible for assisting during the research visit. The intern will gain first-hand experience of research in archives as well as learn about the tribes and communities that are participating in the Community Research Program.
QUALIFICATIONS
A qualified candidate will be a recent graduate or be currently enrolled in a graduate program. They should be interested in the use of museum collections and archives for research and be detail oriented. Cultural sensitivity and the ability to work with people from all backgrounds is a must. Knowledge of linguistics is not required.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
There are three core learning objectives.
1. Learn about the subject of language and traditional knowledge documentation and revitalization.
2. Learn about the uses and benefits of material culture and archival resources available at the Smithsonian, and museums in general, to understand the impact of resources in museum collections on revitalization efforts.
3. Learn about audiovisual documentation, standards for archiving born-digital products, and post-production of digital video.
Internship Opportunity: The Friends of Royal Alberta Museum Society Indigenous Student Museum Internship Program
The Friends of Royal Alberta Museum Society (FRAMS) is pleased to once again to offer its Indigenous Student Museum Internship (ISMI) program.
The ISMI program offers a hands-on placement at the Royal Alberta Museum for a paid intern to work in any of the following sections of the museum this summer: Archaeology, Botany, Communications and Marketing, Conservation, Education, Ethnology (Native Studies), Geology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Paleontology and Western Canadian History.
The summer learning experience lasts 16 weeks (May through August) and takes place at the Royal Alberta Museum. If you are a First Nations, Métis, or Inuit student enrolled in college or university, with academic interests related to any of the museum studies listed above, this opportunity could be for you.
The ISMI application form is available below. The deadline for applications is Friday March 31, 2017. Please include a letter of outlining your field of study and why you would like a museum learning experience, two references, your most recent grade transcript, and your resume. Your package can be sent to frams.office@gmail.com or by mail to:
· Friends of Royal Alberta Museum Society
· 12845 102 Avenue, Edmonton AB T5N 0M6
Questions? Please contact: Leigh-Ann Peddie, FRAMS Administrator, at: 780-453-9103 or frams.office@gmail.com
This opportunity for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students is sponsored by FRAMS with additional support for this program from the Royal Alberta Museum and Peace Hills Insurance.
The ISMI program offers a hands-on placement at the Royal Alberta Museum for a paid intern to work in any of the following sections of the museum this summer: Archaeology, Botany, Communications and Marketing, Conservation, Education, Ethnology (Native Studies), Geology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Paleontology and Western Canadian History.
The summer learning experience lasts 16 weeks (May through August) and takes place at the Royal Alberta Museum. If you are a First Nations, Métis, or Inuit student enrolled in college or university, with academic interests related to any of the museum studies listed above, this opportunity could be for you.
The ISMI application form is available below. The deadline for applications is Friday March 31, 2017. Please include a letter of outlining your field of study and why you would like a museum learning experience, two references, your most recent grade transcript, and your resume. Your package can be sent to frams.office@gmail.com or by mail to:
· Friends of Royal Alberta Museum Society
· 12845 102 Avenue, Edmonton AB T5N 0M6
Questions? Please contact: Leigh-Ann Peddie, FRAMS Administrator, at: 780-453-9103 or frams.office@gmail.com
This opportunity for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students is sponsored by FRAMS with additional support for this program from the Royal Alberta Museum and Peace Hills Insurance.
Upcoming Deadline: Anne Ray Internship, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
The School for Advanced Research, Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers two nine-month internships (September 1–May 31) to individuals who are recent college graduates, current graduate students, or junior museum professionals interested in furthering their professional museum experience and enhancing their intellectual capacity for contributing to the expanding field and discourse of museum studies. The internships include a monthly salary, housing, book allowance, travel to one professional conference, and reimbursable travel to and from SAR. One internship is open to an indigenous individual from the U.S. or Canada, and one internship is open to any U.S. or Canadian citizen meeting the application requirements.
The interns will devote their time to working on IARC educational programming, research and writing activities, and collections management and registration. Other requirements include presenting a research paper at the SAR Colloquium Series; attending a professional conference; assisting with IARC seminars, symposia, and collection tours; and working on outreach initiatives to local Native communities. Interns will also participate in interviews, photo sessions, video recordings, and exit interviews to document their experience. During the internships, the Anne Ray Resident Scholar provides mentorship and academic support to the interns.
For more information, download the Anne Ray Internship Application (PDF, 420 KB). The deadline to apply is March 1st.
Internship Oppurtunity: Museum Studies Internship, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
Call for Applicants: SAR Museum Studies Internships
The School for Advanced Research, Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers two nine-month internships (September 1–May 31) to individuals who are recent college graduates, current graduate students, or junior museum professionals interested in furthering their professional museum experience and enhancing their intellectual capacity for contributing to the expanding field and discourse of museum studies. The internships include a monthly salary, housing, book allowance, travel to one professional conference, and reimbursable travel to and from SAR. One internship is open to an indigenous individual from the U.S. or Canada, and one internship is open to any U.S. or Canadian citizen meeting the application requirements.
The interns will devote their time to working on IARC educational programming, research and writing activities, and collections management and registration. Other requirements include presenting a research paper at the SAR Colloquium Series; attending a professional conference; assisting with IARC seminars, symposia, and collection tours; and working on outreach initiatives to local Native communities. Interns will also participate in interviews, photo sessions, video recordings, and exit interviews to document their experience. During the internships, the Anne Ray Resident Scholar provides mentorship and academic support to the interns.
For more information, download the Anne Ray Internship Application (PDF, 420 KB).The deadline to apply is March 1st.
More information here.
National Musuem of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming Undergraduate Internship
Internship Summary
The Museum has a need for assistance in the curatorial department preparing for loans, collections management activities, and future exhibits. The Registrar will prepare a schedule of projects that will benefit the Museum and offer the intern a positive, educational experience. This internship acquaints a student with the Museum’s collections and programs and provides the opportunity to explore a variety of career possibilities.
Click here for a job description.
Compensation
Full-time, seasonal. Eight weeks, 40 hours a week between mid-June and mid-August. $12/hour. Housing assistance my be available from Native American Jump Start. Please indicate in your application if housing assistance is requested.
2014 Collection Internship Announcement, Musueum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) is offering a collection management internship that will occur between May 1st and September 30th 2014. The first review of applications will begin April 14, 2014.
The duration is flexible but will be for a minimum of 10 weeks and maximum of 6 months. Housing and a stipend of $300 a week are provided to offset expenses. This internship will provide on the job experience to students that are seeking or have recently completed a certificate or masters in museum studies, biology, natural science, or other appropriate field of study.
The Natural Science Collections Intern will work with the Natural Science Collections Manager on an IMLS funded project to address environmental improvements in the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Zoology Collections (specifically the avian osteology, avian egg and nest, mammal osteology, and mollusk and entomology holdings). This internship offers students an opportunity to gain experience rehousing specimens, labeling and inventorying holdings, updating database records, testing for contaminants in the study skin collections, assisting with packing and move of collections into a new collection facility (Easton Collection Center), and participating in policy and procedure development.
Founded in 1928, MNA is an AAM accredited, private 501(c)3 museum. Its mission is to “inspire a sense of love and responsibility for the beauty and diversity of the Colorado Plateau through collecting, studying, interpreting, and preserving the region’s natural and cultural heritage”. The collections include cultural (ethnology, archaeology, and fine art) objects and natural science (botany, zoology, geology, and paleontology) specimens, archives and a Library. In 2009 MNA completed the construction of the new Easton Collection Center (more information at http://www.musnaz.org/) a platinum level LEED certified building.
MNA is located in Flagstaff, AZ (pop. 61,270) at an elevation of 7000’ in the cool Ponderosa pine forests at the base of the San Francisco Peaks. The area includes several national forests (Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott), National Parks and Monuments (Grand Canyon, Wupatki, Walnut Crater, and Sunset Crater), a ski resort (Snow Bowl), Arboretum, Lowell Observatory, Northern Arizona University, and numerous other attractions.
To apply submit a letter of interest, resume, and 3 letters of reference to:
Human Resources Manager
Museum of Northern Arizona
3101 N. Fort Valley Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
or email in MS Word Format to jmoan@mna.mus.az.us
2014 Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (deadline March 1)
The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) is now accepting proposals from prospective graduate student participants for summer 2014 from June 23-July 18.
SIMA is a graduate student summer training program in museum research methods offered through the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History with major funding from the Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation.
Program description
During four weeks of intensive training in seminars and
hands-on workshops at the museum and an off-site collections facility, students
are introduced to the scope of collections and their potential as data.
Students become acquainted with strategies for navigating museum systems, learn
to select methods to examine and analyze museum specimens, and consider a range
of theoretical issues that collections-based research may address. In
consultation with faculty, each student carries out preliminary data collection
on a topic of their own choice and develops a prospectus for research to be
implemented upon return to their home university. Visiting faculty members for
2014 will be Dr. Jason Baird Jackson (Indiana Univ.), Dr. Jennifer Kramer
(Univ. of British Columbia), and Dr. Marit Munson (Trent Univ.). Local faculty
will include Dr. Joshua A. Bell and Dr. Candace Greene of the Smithsonian
Anthropology Department.
Who should apply?
Graduate students preparing for research careers in cultural
anthropology who are interested in using museum collections as a data source.
The program is not designed to serve students seeking careers in museum
management. Students at both the masters and doctoral level will be considered
for acceptance. Students in related interdisciplinary programs (Indigenous
Studies, Folklore, etc.) are welcome to apply if the proposed project is
anthropological in nature. All U.S. students are eligible for acceptance, even
if studying abroad. International students can be considered only if they are
enrolled in a university in the U.S. Canadian First Nation members are eligible
under treaty agreements.
Costs:
The program covers students’ tuition and shared housing in
local furnished apartments. A small stipend will be provided to assist with the
cost of food and other local expenses. Participants are individually
responsible for the cost of travel to and from Washington, DC.
Application deadline - March 1, 2014
SIMA dates for 2014: June 23 - July 18
For more information and to apply, please visit http://anthropology.si.edu/summerinstitute/
Additional questions? Want to discuss a project proposal?
Email SIMA@si.edu
Department of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution MRC 112
Washington, DC 20013-7012
P: 202.633.1952 F: 202.357.2208
Anne Ray Internship, School for Advanced Research (application due March 1)
Anne Ray Internships
The School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico invites recent college graduates, current graduate students, or junior museum professionals to apply to its Anne Ray Internship program. All submissions must be received by March 1, 2014.
The School for Advanced Research, Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers two nine-month internships (September 1–May 31) to individuals who are recent college graduates, current graduate students, or junior museum professionals interested in furthering their professional museum experience and enhancing their intellectual capacity for contributing to the expanding field and discourse of museum studies. The internships include a stipend, housing, book allowance, travel to one professional conference, and reimbursable travel to and from SAR. One internship is open to an indigenous individual from the U.S. or Canada, and one internship is open to any U.S. or Canadian citizen meeting the application requirements.
Established in 1978, the IARC houses a collection of more than 12,000 items of Native art of the Southwest. The collection includes pottery, jewelry, textiles, works on paper and canvas, basketry, wood carvings, and drums. IARC supports research and scholarship in Native studies, art history, and creative expression. IARC accomplishes this by providing opportunities for artists to engage in uninterrupted creativity through artist fellowships; fostering dialogue among artists, researchers, scholars, and community members through special seminars and programs; nurturing future arts and museums professionals through experiential training; and promoting study and exploration of the IARC collection of Native arts.
The interns will devote their time to working on IARC educational programming, research and writing activities, and collections management and registration. Other requirements include presenting a research paper at the SAR colloquium series; assisting with IARC seminars, symposia, and collection tours; and working on outreach initiatives to local Native communities. During the internships, the Anne Ray Resident Scholar provides mentorship and academic support to the interns.
For more information or to download the application, visit internships.sarweb.org