INTERNSHIP STORIES

My name is Estelle Kline and I am a senior Photography major and Graphic Design concentrator. This fall I interned in the newsroom of 88.1 WYPR Baltimore’s NPR News Station. National Public Radio is non profit media organization with headquarters based in Washington D. C and 900 member stations across the country. I learned of this internship by checking their website constantly for openings. I have been a listener of WYPR for the past four years and securing this position was a dream come true. As a newsroom intern I researched and pitched relevant Maryland news topics that I would then write for the web. During my research I would also assist in the audio production of the show Inside Maryland Politics. On Election Day I was able to go into the field and interview voters and then spend the remainder of the day in the studio reporting numbers our live coverage of the race. Being able to work in a position involving news and politics has been exhilarating. My direct supervisor ...

I found out about the opportunity to intern at Friends of The Web when Andy Mangold reached out to me directly. I had been recommended by a previous MICA intern, and Andy made the first contact with me. After a few emails, I visited Friends of The Web to meet the team and do an interview. During the interview, I was asked to take Andy and a few other members of the team through my portfolio, and was asked to explain both design decisions and technical solutions for interactive work. At the end of my interview, Andy expressed to me that I would be welcome to join the team, and that they would send some details to me about hours, pay, etc within a few days. Andy is a founding member of Friends of The Web, an interactive consultancy based in Mt. Vernon. FoTW was started by Andy, Anthony Mattox (a fellow MICA alumnus), Dan Martens, and Josh Hepworth after they all graduated in 2011. Andy, Dan, and Josh grew up together in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and Anthony and Andy lived tog...

M y na m e is D a v e A n g i l e ll a and I am a seni o r p ho t o g r ap h y m aj o r w ith a co n c ent r ati o n in f i l m + v i d eo and m in o r in cul t ur e and p ol iti c s. Dur ing t h e Sp r ing o f 20 1 5 , I w as lu c k y en ou g h to inte r n as a j our na l i st, se co nd c a m e r a, e d it o r and co - p ro d uc er w ith B a l ti m o r e nati v e, G a be D ins mo o r . G abe is a fr ee l an c e j o ur na l ist w h o co nt r ib u tes fr eq u ent v i d eo pie c es to b o th C ity Paper and t h e B a l ti mor e S u n, a mo ng o t h er m e d ia ou t l ets. I h a v e been cur i ou s w h et h er o r n o t j our na l ism is a d i r e c ti o n I am inte r ested in ta k ing m y w o r k in te rm s o f m y c a r ee r . I be g an at M I C A as a d ocum enta ry - m in d ed p ho t o g r ap h e r , and at t h e end o f m y f o u r y ea r s h e r e I am at a cro ss ro a d s bet w een d o cum enta r y w o r k and m o...

My name is Sami Alwani and I am a second semester junior Drawing major. This Fall I interned for working fine artist Tony Shore as a studio assistant. I had a friendly teacher student working relationship with Tony for about a year and a half prior to starting on the internship and had taken his painter Drawing studio class and his six credit, self-directed Themes and Narrative class and so we got to know each other pretty well. In my winter semester of last year he approached me and asked me to intern for him in the following Fall semester of this year, which I thought would be a fabulous opportunity to learn and work under a practicing artist with a developed studio practice. Tony is a fine art painter who has two main bodies of work as an artist. The body of work he is most well-known for and has been developing for most of his artistic career are his black velvet paintings of his lower-middle class white family in Baltimore. His second body of work is a series of sporting ar...

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