Internships 2011-2012
Interns must be in MA, MFA, or Ph.D. program or have completed their degree work. Internships are unpaid.
Applications will be accepted beween April 1 and May 1.
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Title: Visual Arts
Administrative Assistant
Number of intern
openings: 1
Starting date: Aug
1, 2012
Ending date: May
31, 2013
Main responsibilities:
marketing/promotion
and arts management
Hours per week:
3-6
Supervisor: Roberto
Muffoletto
Skills required:
Computer skills,
good written and
spoken communication
skills, and a high
comfort level with
collaboration. Fluency
in any language(s)
other than English
is helpful but not
required.
Description of Internship:
The administrative assistants will work closely with the VASA Director, Roberto Muffoletto.
The interns will be selected on their experience and interest in arts management, internet marketing, and social networking skills (mainly FaceBook and Twitter). Interns will be involved with the management of various VASA Projects such as our online bookstore, workshops and gallery talks in addition to working with visual artist and organizations around the world. Maintaining and developing social networking environments for marketing VASA projects. We are looking for proactive, self initiated interns that need minimal direction.
Intern coordinator: Visual Arts Administrative Assistant
Roberto Muffoletto is the director and founder of the VASA Project. He earned his MFA from the Visual Studies workshop/SUNY at Buffalo, founded and directed CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, edited and published Camera Lucida: Journal of Photographic Criticism, FrameWork: journal of images and culture (Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies), earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-founder and past director of CedarNet, an electronic community in Iowa.
Title: Curatorial Assistant:
Digital Art
Number of intern openings:
2
Starting date: Aug 1, 2012
Ending date: May 31, 2013
Main responsibilities: web
design, posting
calls for entry, editing site
Hours per week: 5
Supervisor: TBA
Skills required: web design
(html/php), photoshop, in
design, illustrator
Description of Internship:
The Curatorial Assistant position allows for qualified interns to assist in the process of putting a gallery exhibition online from beginning to end. Responsibilities include distributing calls for entry, participating with the process of selecting artists, promoting the exhibition through web-based advertising, assisting with the construction of the actual website, and assisting with the development of future exhibitions.
This position will require a general knowledge of transhuman and posthuman themes in art and technology and an understanding of the intersection between art and science.
Intern Coordinator: TBA
Title: Curatorial
Assistant: Photography
Number of intern
openings: 2
Starting date: Aug
1, 2012
Ending date: May
31, 2013
Main responsibilities:
Production of online
exhibitions
Hours per week:
4-6
Supervisor: A. D.
Coleman
Skills required:
General knowledge
of photo history
and basic familiarity
with current trends.
Basic computer skills,
ability to learn
new applications.
Good written and
spoken communication
skills.
Description of Internship
Each intern will work with the supervisor on two online exhibitions:
(a) an online version of an exhibition curated by A. D. Coleman, such as the “Light Quartet” show archived at the VASA site. This includes posting of images with captions, posting of curatorial texts and related text materials (artist’s bio & CV), and the development of supplementary materials for the online exhibition, such as an audio/video interview with the artist.
(b) a new online exhibition curated by the intern, supervised by A. D. Coleman. This includes selecting the artist(s) and images for the show, posting of images with captions, posting of intern’s curatorial texts and related text materials (artist’s bio & CV), and the development of supplementary materials for the online exhibition, such as an audio/video interview with the artist(s).
Intern Coordinator: A. D. Coleman
A. D. Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman has contributed to ARTnews, Art On Paper, Technology Review, Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), European Photography (Germany), La Fotografia (Spain), and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 31 countries. In 2010 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society (U.K.) for "sustained excellence in writing about photography." Coleman's widely read blog "Photocritic International" appears at photocritic.com. Since 2005, exhibitions that he has curated have opened at museums, galleries, and festivals in Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Rumania, Slovakia, and the U.S.
Title: Transmedia:
Contributing Writers
and Reviewers
Number of intern
openings: 5
Starting date: Aug
1, 2012
Ending date: May
31, 2013
Main responsibilities:
Writing, reviewing
exhibitions, web
sites, and books
Hours per week:
3-6
Supervisor: Heidi
Galloway and Patrick
Keough
Skills required:
Computer skills,
good written and
spoken communication
skills, and a high
comfort level in
collaboration. Language(s)
besides English
is helpful but not
required.
Description of Internship:
Transmedia Interns will work closely with a managing editor in preparing content for publishing to the Transmedia global writing project and supervising social media websites. The Transmedia Internship is an “unpaid” internship providing a professional development experience in social media. Interns must be familiar with various tools and environments on the Internet, especially social-media apps, and have broadband access. Applications from candidates with English as a second language are encouraged. Interns may work from anywhere in the world.
Transmedia Intern Responsibilities
● Assisting the managing editors in various aspects of administrating the website.
● Preparing articles and releases on featured artists and exhibitions for dissemination online.
● Actively participating in and monitoring Transmedia accounts on social media websites.
● Monitoring social media sites for spam, gathering user-generated content into helpful collections of stories and reflections that the VASA Transmedia team can evaluate.
Intern Coordinators: Heidi Galloway
Heidi Galloway has an MA in Educational Media/New Media and Global Education from Appalachian State University. She also has an MEd in Children’s Literature from Penn State University's World Campus. She currently works at Penn State’s Innovation Park as a photographer/journaler and CMS specialist.
Any questions concerning internships please email Roberto Muffoletto, Director of the VASA Project (roberto@vasa-project.com). The VASA Newsletter will publish announcements of internship opportunities.
Visual
Arts Administrative
Assistant
Exhibition:
Digital Arts
Exhibition:
Photography
Transmedia:
Writers and Reviewers
