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Twelve-Month Internships
Full-time, twelve-month internships with stipends are offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career. The focused departmental training is integrated with the fall, spring, and summer lecture series and complemented with financial provisions for the interns to attend an international art event related to their field of interest. Twelve-month internships provide training in specific museum fields through close work with a professional staff member, familiarity with modern and contemporary art through seminars and discussions, and an educational program that exposes interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole and considers the role of museums in the broader cultural context. Twelve-month interns will also be given the opportunity to develop and regularly deliver public gallery talks about the Museum's collection.

Length: Twelve months beginning in mid-September
2010–11 term: September 13, 2010–September 09, 2011
Application Deadline: May 14, 2010
Applicant Notification: by August 6, 2010
Required Commitment: Full-time (Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility: Recent graduates of bachelor's or master's degree programs. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend: approximately $22,000, based on available funding. Standard health benefits, two weeks paid vacation, and an additional $1,000 to cover travel expenses and registration fees for one approved professional conference, are also included.

The Museum of Modern Art is offering five Twelve-Month Internship positions. Below please find descriptions of and requirements for each position.

Digital Learning Intern, Education Department
The Education Department is looking for an intern with facility in creating and producing multimedia and in social networking. Responsibilities include adding to and organizing a content-management system, helping to coordinate blogging for the deptartment, creating and editing video content, assisting with online courses, and optimizing images and video for Web publication.

The intern will need to have the following:

1. Facility and comfort with social networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube)
2. Facility and comfort with multimedia creation and editing, knowledge of or ability to learn applications such as iMovie and Screenflow
3. Knowledge of MS Office applications (primarily Word, Powerpoint, and Excel)
4. Experience with online learning environments (from the position of a student is fine)
5. Experience with Blogger or Wordpress (or other blogging applications)
6. Experience using iTunes and YouTube for uploading and downloading content
7. Experience capturing and optimizing video and still images
8. Knowledge of Photoshop (or at least Photoshop Elements)

Education Department Intern
Description: The intern will work across the Education Department, namely with Community and Access Programs. Major responsibilities include organizing and coordinating various Access Programs, including those for individuals who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, hard of hearing, or have developmental disabilities or Alzheimer’s disease. The intern will coordinate volunteers, sign language interpreters, and educators related to Education programs, and will help to administer programs across the department. This intern will be responsible for office tasks such as managing art supply inventory and orders, documenting programs and partnerships, taking reservations for programs, and transcribing materials for exhibitions. The intern will also have the opportunity to participate in educator training and teach in the galleries, as well as put together his or her own program, executing all of the steps of organizing a program from conception to realization.
Requirements: The ideal candidate must have an interest in accessible art museum programming, enjoy interacting with the public, and have experience working with people with disabilities or community groups. The candidate should have the ability to multitask, be extremely organized, and be able to successfully execute both administrative and program-oriented projects.

Kress Fellow, Education Department
Description: The Kress Fellow will provide support to the Adult and Academic Programs area of the Education Department. Tasks include coordinating monthly gallery talks, maintaining daily correspondence, monitoring Brown Bag Lunch Lectures, assisting in research and set-up for evening programs, and liaising with program participants, MoMA Staff, volunteers, and Audio Visual Staff. The intern will learn all of the details implicit in making a program run successfully, including marketing and ticketing. The intern will also have the opportunity to put together his or her own program, executing all of the steps of organizing a program from conception to realization.
Requirements: The ideal candidate has the ability to multi-task, is extremely organized and is able to successfully execute both administrative and research-oriented projects. The intern works collaboratively and helps to create new ways for audiences to engage with modern and contemporary art. The position requires a candidate who enjoys interacting with the public and with a range of staff and program participants and confronts last-minute, logistical, or personnel challenges with ease.

Painting and Sculpture Intern
Description: The Painting and Sculpture intern will work across this curatorial department, conducting research on a wide range of topics, from works in the Museum’s collection to upcoming exhibition subjects. The intern will assist in the planning of gallery changes and will maintain general office correspondence.
Requirements: The intern should have a demonstrated interest in curatorial practice. Attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to multitask and prioritize are essential to the position. Strong research skills are a plus.

Prints and Illustrated Books/Fluxus Collection Intern
Description: The Fluxus intern will assist in the unpacking, identification, cataloging, photographing, and research of objects in the Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, which is one of the world’s largest repositories of material by artists associated with the Fluxus movement, which was active in the United States, Europe, and Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Many artistic mediums are represented in the collection, including prints, books, multiples, sculpture, painting, film, photography, drawings, and sound, among others.
Requirements: An ideal candidate will have experience working in both curatorial and collections management/registrar settings. The intern will have completed scholarly research for academic and/or museum projects, and possess knowledge of proper art-handling techniques and cataloging procedures (measuring works and identifying materials). Experience using CEMS or a similar collection database is very important. The candidate should also know how to operate a digital camera and manage images in Photoshop. Experience researching artist biographies and object provenance is a plus. Experience working with Fluxus material is not essential, but a general understanding of interdisciplinary art forms from the postwar period is important.

Apply online for the 2010–11 Twelve-Month Internship Program.

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