Getty Marrow Curatorial Internship
Summer 2023
This full time paid 10 week internship position will offer an undergraduate student with the opportunity to support developing and organizing upcoming exhibitions, artists' projects, and other programs at Sovern LA that feature emerging women and gender expansive artists of color. If interested, intern will have the opportunity to curate their own public program, the development for which will take place during the internship tenure.
The internship will take place in a consecutive 10 week period from June to August 2023.
With dedicated mentorship with Sovern’s artistic director, intern will assist in curatorial tasks related to building future exhibits and artist residencies - meeting with artists and learning the process of developing a cohesive exhibit; support in communication with team of collaborators producing exhibits; and assist in developing and coordinating culturally relevant public programming and engagement activities. Intern will support on site during public programs and will build administrative skills by supporting key internal processes to maintain day to day needs. Intern will also have the opportunity to develop grant writing and arts nonprofit fundraising skills.
At Sovern, we believe in art's power to bring communities together to grow and we build spaces to dismantle oppressive systems that promote individual and collective healing. Intern should be interested in healing justice and decoloniality in the arts.
Applicants must be of a group underrepresented in museums and visual arts organizations, including, but notlimited to, individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent. Applicants must be currently enrolled as full-time undergraduates (bachelor's degree program or associate degree program). Students must have completed at least one semester or two quarters of college by June 2023. Students who graduated after April 1, 2023, are also eligible. (Students who are enrolled in a second BA or BS program are not eligible.) Applicants must reside or attend college in Los Angeles County and be a United States citizen, permanent resident, or with DACA status valid through the internship period.
35-40 hours per week.
To apply, please provide résumé, cover letter, one letter of recommendation and direct it to info@sovern.la
Deadline: April 12
The internship will take place in a consecutive 10 week period from June to August 2023.
With dedicated mentorship with Sovern’s artistic director, intern will assist in curatorial tasks related to building future exhibits and artist residencies - meeting with artists and learning the process of developing a cohesive exhibit; support in communication with team of collaborators producing exhibits; and assist in developing and coordinating culturally relevant public programming and engagement activities. Intern will support on site during public programs and will build administrative skills by supporting key internal processes to maintain day to day needs. Intern will also have the opportunity to develop grant writing and arts nonprofit fundraising skills.
At Sovern, we believe in art's power to bring communities together to grow and we build spaces to dismantle oppressive systems that promote individual and collective healing. Intern should be interested in healing justice and decoloniality in the arts.
Applicants must be of a group underrepresented in museums and visual arts organizations, including, but notlimited to, individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent. Applicants must be currently enrolled as full-time undergraduates (bachelor's degree program or associate degree program). Students must have completed at least one semester or two quarters of college by June 2023. Students who graduated after April 1, 2023, are also eligible. (Students who are enrolled in a second BA or BS program are not eligible.) Applicants must reside or attend college in Los Angeles County and be a United States citizen, permanent resident, or with DACA status valid through the internship period.
35-40 hours per week.
To apply, please provide résumé, cover letter, one letter of recommendation and direct it to info@sovern.la
Deadline: April 12
