INTERNSHIP STORIES

My name is Calvin Blue and I was an intern at National Geographic Television Digital Studio. Jason Kurtis was my supervisor and his title is Operations Producer. An Operations Producer typically deals with all of the client meetings, contracting and legal work, finding cast and crew, managing the Digital Studio itself, and is a supervisor to all of the editors and producers within the department. Scott Ressler and Jennifer Quilo were the two primary editors in the department. They typically edit the video content that goes onto NatGeo websites. Most of my time at NatGeo was helping with the legal side of things since they had just finished a kids’ show. I  completed of the Music Cue Sheets (MCS), which are logs of the usage of each song/score that is used in an episode. MCS are a way to keep track of billing for the amount of the audio used. Occasionally I would get a couple of random breaks from completing the MCS to help ...

I found out about the internship at Oxman Studios from the Career Development’s  listing on the MICAnetwork website. I was interested in it because it seemed like an  opportunity to apply some of my mold making skills and learn more about casting. I  emailed the artist, Zachary Oxman, and introduced myself and explained that I was  interested in interning in his studio. Zach was my main supervisor throughout the entirety of the internship. He mostly makes and sells bronze cast figure sculpture. Zach work in his own studio, which also functions and his personal gallery. His wife, Jana, works from their home office and is responsible for the marketing and selling of Zach’s work. I worked both in the studio/gallery and in the home office. In the studio I spent several weeks applying rubber and plaster to a life size clay sculpture that Zach has made as a commissioned piece and later helped him fill the molds with wax that would eventually be replaced with bronze...

  In the fall of 2012 my drawing teacher , Raphael Sassi told me of a former MICA painting chair and professor who was on the lookout for an intern. I was encouraged to visit this one time chair, Paul Moscatt, at his studio in the Cork factory up in Station North, the arts and entertainment district of Baltimore. Paul was holding an open house showcasing some of his more recent paintings. After successfully snaring his attention from a throng visitors, mostly friends and  fellow artists, we discussed my intentions and his needs around the studio.    Reflecting on what I consider to be my main three tasks at Paul Moscatt's studio, it would be impossible for   me to decide which was the most rewarding. Each of these duties soared above and beyond my expectations, pushing me to learn more about each topic than I had previously thought possible. From this  experience  at the  studio  I fee...

Hello my name is Connie Chong; I am usually  addressed as Frost. I am an interdisciplinary Sculpture student with a concentration in Ceramics. Over the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 semester I was lucky to be the properties assistant and intern for the Lyric Opera House of Baltimore. I found this job purely out of luck. After having visited my friend’s apartment and talking about a possible career choice in theatre and film making weapons and props I happened to see two people taking a break outside the Lyric Opera House. These two people were Lisa Mion and Andrew Esposito. I got the nerve to ask them if they worked at the opera house and if there was maybe a chance I could intern for them. Delighted they told me that they were just talking about having a properties assistant. After that night I began to work for the Lyric Opera House. Although the Lyric Opera House hosts many shows there are two Opera performances per year. In Fall 2012 I was involved in La Boheme and th...

My name is Paul Angelo and I am a Painting Major, and during the spring Semester of 2013 I interned at Sinclair Broadcast Group.  The Sinclair Broadcast group is a telecommunications company that owns the largest number of local television stations in the United States.  The station I worked at was Fox 45 Baltimore, located in Hampden.   For my internship, I worked as part of the floor crew for the production of the Fox 45 Baltimore Morning News.  Each shift I worked was from 4:30-10:00 am, as the show runs live for 5 hours. Most of my duties included basic floor crew work, which involves operating live cameras, running the teleprompter, making sure guests are ready to go, acquiring scripts and run-downs hour by hour, and directing the anchors.  All of my time was spent either in the studio or the control room.  Everyone in the floor crew and control room are connected via wireless headphones and can communicate in order to make live changes to the...

My name is Mia Fiorentino, and I am a senior Painting major with a concentration in Theatre. This past semester I was lucky enough to secure an internship with the Baltimore Theatre Project on Preston Street. I have attended a few performances there and always kept the Theatre Project in the back of my mind as a place to check out when the time came to look for an internship. I have become very involved in MICA theatre, and last year I was head of props for our two productions. After this experience, I thought I should do my best to acquire a wellrounded education in how a theatre works. I applied by sending in a resume and cover letter to Chris Pfingsten, the General Manager, and over the summer I had an interview with him and Anne Cantler Fulwiler, the Producing Director of the  Theatre Project.  I was given the position right at my interview. Baltimore Theatre Project is a nonprofit organization that hosts local and ...

Publishing Genius is a small publishing company in Baltimore founded by Adam Robinson. Their mission is to publish off-beat writings that really wow their audience. They publish books, novels, poetry, and comics. Most of the authors are local and come from around Baltimore as well as the artists who do the cover art for books. I found out about this internship opportunity through Stephanie Barber, my  Elements of Visual Thinking professor from freshman year. Last semester she  had asked me to do the cover art for her new book Night Moves. Through that,  she introduced me to Adam. After all the extensive work I put into doing the  cover, he offered me the opportunity to be a graphic design intern with Publishing  Genius. I worked directly under Adam Robinson. He is the main editor of the  company and decides what books get published along with making the final  creative decisions. Throughout my internship wit...

My name is Thomas Colley and I am a Senior Video Major.  I heard about the film 12 O’clock Boys several years ago from Larry Jackson, a fellow student and close friend of mine who contributed to the film in various ways.  I was later reintroduced to the film last year by Patrick Wright, the head of my department and my advanced editing teacher at the time. He was editing the film and used some of the footage in our class to help teach us the software and processes used to edit. He showed us a rough cut of the film he had been working on and I was blown away. I realized that this film was something I should be a part of. At the end of the year I was invited by Larry to a party the main characters in the film were having and attended. I immediately meshed with them and began filming them. I met Lotfy Nathan, the director and offered my help on the film. We became close and spent the entire summer together working on the fi...

My name is Sol Moon, and I am a Senior Graphic Design Major with a Book Arts Concentration. Over the Spring of 2013, I interned at the Maryland Department of Planning (MDP) under the Communications unit. I found the internship on MICAnetwork, and submitted my resume, cover letter, and a PDF portfolio samples to the HR person listed in the job posting. I had an on-site interview with the Personnel Director, the Public Information Officer, and the graphic designer, and I received an email shortly after the interview saying that I was hired for the internship position. MDP provides guidance, analysis, outreach and support to ensure that all of the State’s natural resources, built environment and public assets are preserved and protected as smart and sustainable growth goals are attained. I was the first graphic design intern from MICA, and I mainly worked with the Public Information Officer and a full-time graphic designer who graduated from MICA in the 70s. As a desi...

My name is Natalie Fitzgerald and I’m a senior Graphic Design major with a concentration in Book Arts. I spent the winter and spring of 2013 as a graphic design intern for Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore, MD. Port Discovery is an interactive funhouse that teaches through playing. I found the position through an old listing on the MICA career services website and sent an email inquiring about current internship openings. I was interested in Port Discovery because I hope to make a career of designing for children and I specifically wanted experience in doing work with educational content.  My supervisor was Segrid Pearson, the Director of Design and Publications. She handled nearly all of the print and promotional design for the museum, and the rest of the design department was comprised on an exhibition designer and a web designer. During the course of the internship, I worked mostly on spot illustrations as needed and layout for print materials such as flye...

My name is Theo Pinto and I'm a senior Environmental Design Major. In November last semester I received a email from Under Armour college recruiter Kevin Wright who asked me for an phone interview. Three weeks later I was stepping foot at Under Armour's HQ down in Fort McHenry. Under Armour is a relatively new athletic apparel company that is mainly focusing on hi-tech  sportswear. In less than 15 years has become a competitor with world's elite brands such as Nike and Adidas and it keeps growing exponentially. The company's vision is to "Make all athletes better". The company's creative teams are divided into specific kinds of apparel or areas of marketing such as footwear, accessories and such. I was invited to work on the retail brand team. This team is responsible for the development of everything that has to do goes into a UA's store or a in store. From the fixture design, and display design to the graphics that s...

My name is Andrew Lucas and I am a Senior Animation major. Over the course of the spring 2013 semester, I acquired an internship at FleishmanHillard’s Creative Studio in Washington D.C. as a motion designer.  FleishmanHillard is a Public Relations Company that claims to be the company that made public relations into the business it is today. They have 88 offices across 6 continents. Their headquarters, where the company started, is in St. Louis. The company is predominantly focused on the business side of public relations and would hire other advertising agencies and artists to make the video/website/print etc. to make the brand/face/look and feel of their client. What set FleishmanHillard apart from other PR films is that a while back they started putting in house print designers in their St. Louis office creating their first in-house, creative studio. This became a huge success, which led to other offices starting their own creative studios. St Louis is still th...