INTERNSHIP STORIES

I`m Mengyang Wang from Illustration Practice. I am an international student. Since I want to gain some working experience and improve my language skills during the summer, I checked the MICANetwork website to look for some internship positions. I found an internship as a gallery guide at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. I prepared all the documents I would need and, after a phone interview, I was informed I got the internship. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, named after the founding donor Joseph H. Hirshhorn, belongs to the Smithsonian Institution and is located in Washington D.C. It houses more than 12,000 pieces in its collection and aims to exhibit both modern and contemporary art works. A gallery guide`s job is to help audiences have a better understanding of the artworks through conversation. There are two ways of guiding: one is daily guiding which means approaching viewers randomly and speaking with them while the other way is to lead a schedul...

My name is Ash Turner, and I’m a Junior Interactive Arts major. During the summer of 2016, I was a CoderGirl Programming and Marketing Intern for LaunchCode, a nonprofit organization started and based in St. Louis, Missouri. I originally was searching online and through MICA’s Career Development Office for internships in nonprofit and socially ­active organizations that were connected to coding. While searching, a family member directed me toward a meet-up in St. Louis called “CoderGirl,” which was LaunchCode’s weekly meet-up for women interested in programming. After that, I looked into if they had any internships open, but still didn’t find an internship position that fit quite with what I wanted to do. I applied online to be an Education Intern, and submitted a cover letter and resume, explaining my interest in interactivity, code, and art, and how these would be useful skill...