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: City Paper

 

 

 

 

www.citypaper.com

It’s the thing in the yellow boxes! Since 1977, CITY PAPER is Baltimore’s Authoritative Answer for the eternal question: WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO THIS WEEK? News, Arts, Community Events, ADS, we have it all, and it’s all FREE, in print and on your handheld Google Machine.

 

Internship Positions:

Internships available to help produce Photography, Graphic Design, and our vast Website.

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.

Portfolio Reviewer: Erin Treacy, Fulbright Advisor

MICA Fulbright Scholarship website

Do what you love, in another country, with a Fulbright Fellowship. 

Fulbright Fellowship participants pursue graduate or professional study, advanced research or English teaching in elementary and secondary schools or universities. Each year approximately 1,500 Americans traveling to more the 130 counties receive support from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The U.S. Student Program is designed to give recent B.S./B.A./BFA graduates, master’s and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience.

Most grantees plan their own programs. Projects may include university coursework, independent library or field research, classes in a music conservatory or art school, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination. An essential component of the grant is how the Fulbrighter “engages in the community” of their host country. The program promotes cross-cultural interaction and mutual understanding through engagement in the community and on a person-to-person basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom.

Recent MICA projects have involved traditional methods of weaving and natural dying in Peru, documentary photography in Panama, textile design in Cambodia, landscape painting in Iceland, a study of trade materials and their source cultures in Mauritius, and contemporary artistic expression in India.

If you are interested in applying for a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2013-2014 cycle, NOW is the time to begin your application. 

Stop by MICA’s Fulbright table to learn more. You are welcome to bring proposal ideas, contact names you have made in your country of proposed application, or your portfolio for review. I am happy to help you begin your application process.

To learn more about the Fulbright program visit https://us.fulbrightonline.org/about.html

Jack Kent Cook Grant

Erin Treacy is also the Jack Kent Cooke (JCK) Adviser for MICA. The JCK Graduate Arts Award enables students or recent alumni with exceptional creative promise and significant financial need to pursue up to three years of study at an accredited graduate institution in the US or abroad. The application cycle for 2013 will open in November 2012. If you have questions, please feel free to stop by.

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!

Employer Profile: Discovery Communications

www.careers.discovery.com

Are you ready to gain hands on experience with the leading global, nonfiction media entertainment company?

Discovery Communications is the world’s number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries representing the brands Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Investigation Discovery and HD Theater, as well as leading consumer and educational products and services, and a diversified portfolio of digital media services.

At Discovery Communications interns are exposed to all areas of the business through a solid foundation of learning through training and work experience. Discovery is proud to provide interns with an opportunity to gain an understanding of our mission, values, departments, employees, culture and commitment to quality programming, products and services.

Full-time Positions:  Please go to our careers page for each job description: http://careers.discovery.com

• 5298  Associate Producer
• 5273  Director – Programming
• 5207  Executive Producer
• 5194  Sr. Producer – Digital Media
• 4972  Director – Production East Coast
• 4839  Executive Producer
• 4814  Director of Digital Advertising
• 4552  Producer
• 4491  Writer/Producer
• 4305  VP – Programming
• 3865  Art Director

Internship Positions:  Additional internship opportunities beyond listings below are available

• Photography Department

This internship covers topics related to editorial and advertising photo shoots, photo searches, editing, and the management of a virtual library.

• Graphic Design

This internship covers the creation of production-ready artwork, the branding of products and packaging, and developing creative concepts.

• Digital Media

This internship looks for students interested in merging the digital media space with mobile apps. It exposes interns to market research and the process needed to take to launch a digital product.

Employer Profile: Art with a Heart

www.artwithaheart.net

Art with a Heart is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people in need by providing visual art classes to a wide range of underserved populations.

Part-time Positions:

• Teachers - Art with a Heart always has an open call for kind, caring and nurturing adults to lead and assist in its year-round classes in and around the Baltimore area.  Offering unique, custom programs at a variety of sites throughout the Baltimore area, Art with a Heart visits: group homes, senior citizen centers, assisted living facilities, community centers homeless shelters and drop-in centers, schools, hospitals and more.

Internship Positions:

• Program Assistants help implement the Art with a Heart core program.  Duties include, but are not limited to: creating art samples, managing and distributing art supplies to teachers, assisting at a site, promoting the organization at special events and more.
• The Graphic Design intern creates publications and promotional materials for the Art with a Heart organization and the HeARTwares store.
• The Summer Job Program Assistant supports this special and intensive summer session of working with youth in East and West Baltimore to create marketable art and learn soft job skills.

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