INTERNSHIP STORIES

My name is Emily Hunter and I am a senior Illustration major. Du r ing F all o f 2015 , I was an Editorial/Art Intern at Baltimore Magazine. I had always wanted to see what i t’s l ik e to work at a publication, as my previous internship was more of an experience of working with comics. Towards the end of Spring Semester of my junior year, I had been emailing and ap p l yi ng to internships constantly. After consulting with Career Development, I established a contact at the magazine (Stephanie Shafer) who is the Editorial Design Assistant at Baltimore Magazine. After checking out her website, I sent as email asking about a possible internship. She later gave me Amanda White-I s eli’s information (the magazine’s a r t direc t o r), and I was able to s nag an i nt er v ie w with her over the summer. Th e in t ernshi p i t se lf wa sn ’t as s t ressf ul as I t ho ug h t i t w o uld b e , but I s t i ll  l e a r n e d a l o t ab o ut magazine la yo ut and t...

M y n a me is C a ss L u b b e r ts a nd I a m a S e nior F ilm  &  V id e o a nd H um a nistic Studi e s m a jo r . D u r ing t h e summ e r of 2015, I w a s a P r odu c tion A ssist a nt I n t er n f or Shine C rea tive Studio, a c omp a n y b a s e d in B a ltimo re , M a r y l a nd. I w a nt e d to be in B a ltimo r e w hilst doing m y int er ns h ip so th a t I c ould c ontinue to s u ppo r t m y s e lf o v e r the s u mm e r th r ou g h ind e p e nd e nt f r e e l a n c e vid e o w o r k like I h a d done in p re vious y e ar s . D u r ing t h e sp r ing s e m e st er , w hile I wa s still a b r o a d in P r a g u e , C Z , I s t ar t e d l ooki n g f or i nt er nships both in B a ltimo r e a nd e v e n a b r o a d.  W hile r eac hi n g out to m y t eac h er s a nd fr i e nds, I re m e mb e r e d th a t I h a d m e t Dr u r y a y e a r e a r li e r on a shoot I  had  h e lp e d PA f or M...

My name is Esther Kim and I am a junior Architectural Design major. During the Fall of 2015, I was a research intern for Hazard SEES. H azard SEES is a research grant that focuses on how hazardous weathers, such as hurricanes and flooding, influence housing developments on the East Coast. MICA has been a partner with SEES for years now, integrating historical and  dynamic  demographic GIS mapping analysis using  databases  of hazardous weather modeling scenarios created by neighboring institutions such as Johns Hopkins, George Mason, and many others. In the spring of 2015, I took an Art History course with Katie O’Meara, a faculty member of MICA's Architectural Design department. As a part of final project, I analyzed how architecture and landmarks play very important roles in shaping the current city of Lugo in Spain. The work that I produced in the class led to this internship the following semester, the fall of 2016. With the task of analyzing a l...

My name is Austin Green Weinstein and I am a junior photography major and filmmaking concentrator at the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the summer of 2015, I was a staff photographer for the Maryland Conservation Job Corps, a summer conservation youth program that works side by side with the Maryland Parks Service to help maintain Maryland state parks. For the majority of my life, I have spent all of my free time fishing, hiking, and photographing in our state parks—and I have always considered working to maintain these parks as a ranger, or to document them for the government as a photographer. My outdoor skills combined with my work as an environmentally concerned photographer made me a strong candidate for the job as a staff photographer for the 2015 CJC program. Alumni Scott Bradley agreed and recommended me as the guy for the job—and I enthusiastically signed my contract to take the job. I worked alongside Scott Bradley to photographically document the progra...