Employer Profile: Rift Studio

Rift Studio is an interactive art space that explores the multi-facets of what art truly can be. Founded by artists, Mika Eubanks and Kelli Williams, the studio serves as a platform for emerging artists to express their creative voices in a collaborative space.The art showcased is a collision between fine and contemporary art ranging from performance garment and animation to painting and sculpture. Rift studio has three main functions: gallery, studio, and store.

Internship Position:

Intern, Baltimore Arts district, MD

Rift Studio is currently looking for qualified Interns to be part of  the art team of the newly founded studio. There are dual requirements to this Internship: First, Interns will be required to create one successful community event or project that will take place or be displayed in the studio. Second, Interns will work in the studio revitalizing the space, supporting in the fabrication of art, and promoting the studio to the Baltimore area. Qualified applicants must be strongly self motivated,posses great communication and time management skills, and the ability to successfully work in a team environment.

Employer Profile: Current Space

www.currentspace.com

Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, and a headquarters for cultural production, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Internship Positions:

• Interns will help gather and research ideas, and information for possible events/exhibitions curated by Current.
• Interns will help construct, fabricate, and maintain the gallery, studio and workshop spaces.
• Interns will help organize and up-keep files, documents, and general office duties.
• Interns will participate in meetings to discuss and help contribute exhibition and event ideas.

Employer Profile: Center Stage

www.centerstage.org

The State Theater of Maryland, CENTERSTAGE will announce its 50th Anniversary Season in April. The not-for-profit company serves as Maryland’s hub for smart, provocative, and entertaining theater and as a catalyst for conversation with the community. Each year, a consistently broad range of productions in two intimate performing spaces attracts highly diverse audiences of more than 100,000 people—including more than 8,000 fiercely loyal members, many of whom have been with the theater during its entire history. Additionally, CENTERSTAGE offers a variety of dramaturgical, community, and educational programs to broaden access and enhance the theatergoing experience.

Production Internship Positions (8):   click here to download PDF of full descriptions CenterStageInternships

• Audio Intern
• Carpentry Intern
• Costumes Intern
• Lighting Intern
• Production Management/Stage Management Intern
• Properties Intern
• Scenic Art Intern
• Stage Management Intern

Administrative and Artistic Internship Positions (9):  click here to download PDF of full descriptions CenterStageInternships

• Artistic Director’s Intern
• Audience Relations Intern
• Community Programs and Education Intern
• Company Management Intern
• Digital Media Intern
• Dramaturgy Intern
• Graphics Intern
• Management Intern
• Marketing/Public Relations Intern

Employer Profile: BrickHaus Art Space

www.brickhaus.org

Located in an old storage warehouse in Baltimore’s Harwood neighborhood, BrickHaus Art Space houses affordable artists’ studios, with access to shared shop facilities, a recording studio, and a professional exhibition space. With its weekly seminar program, BrickHaus promotes a collaborative community where artists can share ideas, benefit from constructive critiques, and find the support and inspiration necessary to move their artistic and professional practice to the next level. Through engaging public programs and events showcasing local artists, BrickHaus Art Space strives to further diversify and strengthen Baltimore’s already rich arts culture.

Internship Positions:

The internship at BrickHaus will include event planning, gallery maintenance, construction work, fundraising, promotion, and a look at the business side of running an art organization.

Employer Profile: Area 405

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www.area405.com

Located in a 160 year-old artist-owned warehouse within Baltimore’s Sation North Arts and Entertainment District, AREA 405 is committed to demonstrating and strengthening the vitality of the arts community within Baltimore. Since 2003, AREA 405′s mission is to produce, present and promote arts and cultural programming by providing a venue for artists from Baltimore and beyond. Area 405 is run solely by volunteers.

Over the last 9 years, Area 405 has featured hundreds of artists, performers, and artisans, and hosted thousands of audience members.

Internship Positions:  

Below are some of our needs that interns can help with… Please note we have no paid staff

• website maintenance: revamping our web site and collating information on artists who have shown at Area 405 over the last 9 years, linking the artists to our site, etc.
• gallery assistant: gallery sitting, promoting, etc.
• artist assistant
• installation assistant: lighting, painting, bar tending events, etc.
• office assistant: emailing, professional artist stuff
• and much more!

Portfolio Reviewer: Alex Fine, Illustrator

 

www.alexfine.com

Alex Fine is a full-time freelance illustrator living and working in Baltimore.  He focuses mostly on editorial assignments for a variety of publications.

Past clients include The Washington Post, WIRED, O Magazine, ESPN Magazine, and the City Paper here in Baltimore.

 

 

Student & Alumni Portfolio Review:

Alex will be available to review portfolios and art samples and to give advice on how to break in to the illustration field.

Employer Profile: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

www.midatlanticarts.org

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation was established in 1979 to promote and support multi-state arts programming. Over the years, MAAF has built a core of program initiatives designed to address specific issues of regional, national and international arts support. We do this by:

• Expanding access to the arts
• Exploring new forms of creative expression and presentation
• Providing leadership in the development of new models and partnerships
• Expansion of markets for artists and their work
• Providing resources to enable organizations to expand audiences
• Exploring new ways for artists and organizations to enhance operational and creative practices
• Representing best practices in management and governance

 

Our programming focuses on performing arts touring, jazz, the traditional arts, international engagement, filmmaking and touring, and artist fellowships.

Among its many services, MAAF administers the Individual Artist Awards (IAA) program for the state arts councils of New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.  This artist fellowship program recognizes artistic excellence across disciplines with awards given in alternating years in visual arts, music, dance, theatre, literary arts and interdisciplinary arts.  Annually over 2,000 applications are received and processed for the various states.  We hold 20+ peer review panels in the fall, using highly recognized jurors from across the United States.  The states participating in this partnership award over $1 million to fellowship winners annually.

Internship Positions:

Internships for the IAA program begin in mid-to-late June and continue through August.  Exact start and end dates are negotiable.  MAAF recruits three interns annually and provides each a stipend of $1,000.  Interns gain an understanding of the grantmaking process for individual artists and have a chance to interact with artists from a range of disciplines.  They have primary responsibility for, or participate in: receiving applications and reviewing for completeness; providing technical assistance for applicants; contacting applicants for supplemental materials; and assisting in preparations for panel review.  Interns also receive a broad introduction to other functions of the organization.  While at MAAF, interns are considered staff members for the duration of the internship and attend all staff and board meetings, workshops, etc. as feasible.

Baltimore, MD

Employer Profile: Single Carrot Theatre

www.singlecarrot.com

The Single Carrot Theatre ensemble is a driving force for theatrical innovation in Baltimore—championing new, diverse, and socially significant works; reinvigorating the classics; creating vibrant theatrical experiences; and fiercely supporting the growth of young artists.

 

Internship Positions:

Single Carrot Theatre internships are tailored to the special interests and skills of the interns. Come work alongside the ensemble at Single Carrot and learn by doing. Summer internships available.

Employer Profile: Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship

www.hamiltonianartists.org

Hamiltonian Artists is a 501c (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing professional development opportunities for creative artists in their early careers. We offer a competitive two-year fellowship program for new innovative visual artists in all media, which are awarded through an annual competition.

The So Hamiltonian Fellows Program will function as a creative incubator for artists who have finished their academic training and may still be exploring their artistic directions in alternative art spaces, but have not yet transitioned into a career path as an exhibiting artist. It is our hope that artists represented by the gallery will learn some of the basic entrepreneurial skills necessary to achieve success as an exhibiting artist while they continue to grow artistically. At the same time, they will also gain valuable experience in the administration of both a non-profit art space and a commercial gallery.

We allot four to five slots per year, which is renewable once for one year (two years total) to emerging artists to be a Hamiltonian Fellow.  Fellows are required to participate in approximately 5 exhibitions in two years, one critique per month, one opening per month, one artist talk per month, one Professional Development Lecture per month, plus various other Fellowship activities, such as museum tours, art fairs and curator visits.  Artists are required to relocate to the greater Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area to benefit fully from the program.

Artist Fellowships:

We allot four to five slots per year, which is renewable once for one year (two years total) to emerging artists to be a Hamiltonian Fellow.  Fellows are required to participate in approximately 5 exhibitions in two years, one critique per month, one opening per month, one artist talk per month, one Professional Development Lecture per month, plus various other Fellowship activities, such as museum tours, art fairs and curator visits.  Artists are required to relocate to the greater Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area to benefit fully from the program.

Employer Profile: Red Dirt Studio

www.margaretboozer.com

Red Dirt Studio is the workshop of sculptor Margaret Boozer and the site of Red Dirt Seminar located in Mt. Rainier, Maryland.  It is a working studio that doubles as a teaching resource.  With both students and artists-in-residence on site, Red Dirt Seminar is a graduate school with no grades. It is a sculpture studio with a taste for ceramics. It is a collective work environment with shared resources. It is a critique group.  It is a business-of-art incubator.  It is an exhibition space, a project space and a site for visiting artist workshops.  At its core, Red Dirt is about what can happen with the coming-together of talented, smart and curious artists, working toward greater accomplishment in their professional practice.

Internship Positions:

Red Dirt is seeking interns for carpentry, accounting, purchasing, ordering, welding, clay digging, photography, photo editing, studio cleaning, tool maintenance, equipment repair, kiln loading and firing, errand running, critiquing, art installation, grant writing, and wet clay work. The intern will be Margaret Boozer’s studio assistant, helping facilitate all aspects of studio work, as well as be available to assist other artists-in-residence in the studio periodically.  Whether it is teaching, making art, marketing or networking, don’t worry if you don’t know how to do it, we’ll teach you.  Red Dirt is very active in local arts development. We just helped to open the new Gateway Arts Center nearby (a 3 year project) and continue to be involved in exhibitions and programming there.  Red Dirt Studio is located in a vibrant and growing area with lots of opportunities to make cool new stuff happen, and we love to create opportunities for emerging artists with drive!