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: 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

Employer Profile: Baltimore Clayworks

www.baltimoreclayworks.org

Baltimore Clayworks is the region’s only 501(c)3 non-profit cultural institution dedicated solely to the ceramic arts and is attentive to its community possessing a national and international reputation for artistic excellence, artists’ support, and community involvement for over 30 years.  Baltimore Clayworks has four program areas: exhibitions, artist residency program, education, and community arts.  To this day, Clayworks operates on its original mission:

Baltimore Clayworks exists to develop, sustain, and promote an artist-centered community that provides outstanding educational, artistic, and collaborative programs in the ceramic arts.

Internship Positions:

Baltimore Clayworks has provided opportunities for college students through Summer Internship Program for more than 20 years.  The interns will have an opportunity to work and gain hands-on experience in the following departments and fields: development, public relations, marketing, special events, gallery, exhibition design, graphic communication, education, children’s program, studio maintenance and technical support, community arts, finance, etc.  After this internship with us, many of previous interns have acquired jobs in non-profit art organizations and other agencies.   We can be your great additional reference for your future career.

While this position is non-paying, college-credits can be arranged with an approval from your academic advisor.  Interns may enroll in one adult class free of charge through our Mt. Washington education program.  Interns must receive approval from his/her supervisor and Education Coordinator before qualifying for a complimentary class.

Employer Profile: Baltimore Museum of Art

www.artbma.org

The Baltimore Museum of Art is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works of art—including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world. Throughout the Museum, visitors will find an outstanding selection of European and American fine and decorative arts, 15th- through 19th-century prints and drawings, contemporary art by established and emerging contemporary artists, and objects from Africa, Asia, the Ancient Americas, and Pacific Islands. Two beautifully landscaped gardens display an array of 20th-century sculpture that is an oasis in the city.

Full-time Positions:

• Director of Public Programs & Community Outreach
• Manager of Interpretation
• Manager of Family Programs
• Curator for African Art
• Visitor Services Associate

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: Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts

www.bop.org

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, tasked with producing events and arts programs as well as managing several facilities.

 

BOPA coordinates Baltimore’s major events including New Year’s Eve and July 4th celebrations at the Inner Harbor, which routinely attract hundreds of thousands of spectators; Artscape, which serves more than 350,000 people each year; Baltimore Book Festival, Baltimore Farmers’ Market & Bazaar, Baltimore Open Studio Tour and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade.

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts manages the Baltimore Mural Program, Free Fall Baltimore, PNC Neighborhood Grant Program and Bright StArts Workshops For Children. In additional, BOPA oversees historic attractions and sites including the Top of the World Observation Level, School 33 Art Center, The Cloisters and the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower.

Internship Positions:

BOPA is seeking interns for the following areas… please check MICAnetwork.com for full descriptions!

• School 33 Art Center Internships - graphic design portfolios especially welcome here
• Visual Arts Internship with Jim Lucio for Artscape 2012 – experience networking with Baltimore art community and artists, as well as familiarity with local galleries is a plus
• Graphic Design Internship – please bring your design portfolios to the fair

Employer Profile: The Baltimore Museum of Industry

www.thebmi.org

Discover Baltimore’s firsts!  Housed in the historic Platt Oyster Cannery the BMI explores the stories of Maryland’s industries past and present and the people who created and worked in them.

Internship Positions:

Searching for individuals to assist in the following departments:

• Marketing
• Archives and Collections
• Education Departments

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!

Employer Profile: The Walters Art Museum

www.thewalters.org

The Walters Art Museum brings art and people together for enjoyment, discovery, and learning. We strive to create a place where people of every background can be touched by art. We are committed to exhibitions and programs that will strengthen and sustain our community. Since its opening, the Walters has been a national leader in scholarship, conservation, and education. In 2006, the Walters trustees made the transformational decision to make access to the permanent collection free.

Part-time Position: Museum Education Events Assistant

Museum Education Events Assistants facilitate family festivals, weekly drop-in art activities, hands-on gallery activities, birthday parties, scout programs, preschool workshops, and family tours for Children and Family Programs. Assistants facilitate courses, lectures, seminars, workshops, performances, and receptions for Adult Programs. Evening and weekend hours are required. 1 year experience dealing with the public and working with children required.

Candidates must be extremely outgoing, customer service focused and able to deal with people at all levels; possess strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills. Community arts, art education, or museum experience required. Maturity, ability to work well within a team, and flexible schedule a must. Monthly trainings and gallery teaching are required.

Internship Positions:

Internships are offered throughout the year. Please consult our website for greater details - thewalters.org/about/jobs/intern/

VISIT MY BALTIMORE – Gary Vikan talks about The Walters Art Museum from Walters Museum on Vimeo.