INTERNSHIP STORIES

Running the Junior Ranger Ecology Camp at Congaree National Park in Hopkins, South Carolina required a lot of work, everything from throwing on a pair of waders and collecting aquatic macro-invertebrates from a lake, to inventorying supplies, scheduling activities, becoming first aid/CPR and AED certified, and becoming aware of educational standards put in place through the public school system. I now have experience working as part of teams with a number of specialists, researchers, park rangers and other government employees, and other people from all backgrounds and professions. I’ve participated in many different programs including the North American Butterfly Count, conducting hydrology research and measuring cross-sections of creeks and rivers, and bird banding for data collection, just to name a few. In addition to participating in these programs, I had an obligation to document them and provide professional photographs of ...

I’m from Miami and I had already visited Bernice Steinbaum Gallery a few times before, and at Art Basel 2010 she represented the artist Hung Liu, whose tapestries I stood in awe of. I knew that this was a gallery I was interested in working with and I just went online, found out who to contact and sent her an email. I contacted Johanna Moneserratte (Assistant Director) a few months prior to my arrival in Miami, and we agreed to schedule an interview with her and Juan Griego (Chief Preparator) when I was in town. Fast forward to summer and I had the interview. I believe I made a solid impression on them and as a result of that I started my internship the following week. Since the gallery was closing I had the job of cleaning out the upstairs closet in which Bernice kept multiple copies of extensive catalogs on each of the gallery's artists, both former and present. Included in these catalogs were slides, articles, resumes, aw...

My name is Caitlin Alicia Roberts and I am a senior Photography major/ Art History minor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the summer of 2012, I had the opportunity to complete an internship at Redline Gallery in Denver, CO.  Redline is a working studio and gallery, as well as a non-profit organization geared towards using art as a vehicle for social change, improvement, and awareness. I was fortunate enough to gain insight of this internship through a friend from home in New Mexico. I contacted the director of Redline, sent in the required forms, and landed the internship. During this time I assisted both the resident artists and the exhibition development team through a variety of tasks. While working with the resident artists I helped with everything from their studio and creative process to their research and material gathering. I also worked with the exhibitions team installing and de- installation two shows “ Off...

The Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm is a co-housing community located in Peterborough, New Hampshire, with Green homes and a green philosophy in mind as a way of life. Adjacent to the housing units lie the organic farm fields in which support the CSA shares. The CSA, or community supported agriculture, connects people and the organic foods they eat to the farm directly. Todd Horner, my site sponsor, is a self employed farmer who plans and runs the farm project. There were about 1 to 2 other interns other than myself, along with the people from the neighborhood and community who had working shares. As an intern I worked about 32 hours, 4 days a week. My job as an intern was to complete tasks in the fields to maintain the gardens, fields, crops, and prepare for the harvest. The tasks assigned varied on a day to day basis, and I followed under my site sponsor’s, instructions. In the fields I completed jobs such as planting see...

My name is Caitlin Cawley and I am a current graphic design major. The Life is good company is one that I grew up with and am very familiar with. I completed an internship during my freshman year of college at an advertising company. Afterwards, I began brainstorming places I would like to complete internships with; Life is good was one of them. I am a fan of their page on Facebook and noticed that they had recently posted job positions for graphic designers. Although there were no internship postings made I still decided to email my packet containing my resume, a cover letter and samples from my portfolio to the contact listed. I heard back immediately, however, there were not going to be any internships for graphic designers that summer. The Human Resources representative included information about an internship for apparel designers and thought that I may be interested. I set up a phone interview with the two designers I would ...

My name is Evan Roche and I am a Junior Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Painting double major. Over the summer I worked as an intern for Artspeak, which is a not for profit artist-run center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Artspeak allows an opportunity for artists to publish, exhibit, perform and speak and has been doing so for 26 years. The gallery exhibits work by contemporary artists and focuses on creating a dialogue between visual art and writing. An example of this dialogue is the production of a postscript after each gallery show. The postscript is published by Artspeak and is essentially an objective response to the previous exhibition written by another artist/writer in the community. This person is given freedom in their writing format and to be critical.  Artspeak is run by a board of artists who are prominent in the Vancouver arts community and also by the gallery director, Peter Gazendam, and the c...

This summer I was and intern at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, in Dallas, Texas. The museum displays work from artists all over the world, and focuses specifically on geometric and MADI artists. The MADI movement began in the 1940s by Carmelo Arden Quin and continues today through out the world. Dorothy Masterson and her husband Bill opened the museum in 2003 after they had been introduced to the movement and had a growing collection of art from that genre. I was assigned by my sponsor, Dorothy Masterson, to document any of the artwork belonging in the permanent collection that was not on the website. I also created artist biographies and formatted pictures of each artist for the ‘artist pages’ on the website: these pages included images of each artist’s work that belong in the permanent collection. Another task I had was to photograph events like artist talks, exhibit openings, and student workshops for the museum’s mont...

My Name is Taylor McMahon I am a senior fibers major with a concentration in experimental fashion at MICA. This past summer I was lucky enough to find an internship with a MICA alumnus. Alison Mazur attended MICA and was also a fiber major. She is currently working as a freelance stylist in New York City. I met her at a MICA alumni panel on fashion in the spring of 2012 and reconnected with her later on when I was home in New York for the summer. She had just gotten hired as Martha Stewart’s personal stylist and asked me to intern for her and Martha. This summer Martha was working constantly on shooting a new show that will air on PBS this coming spring. The show is a cooking and show and each episode focuses on a theme and Martha teaches the viewer how to cook and prepare several dishes (for example one episode is only on meat and butchery while another focuses only on grains). Working with Alison I got to see how styling for telev...

My name is Mike Chiarella, and I am a Junior Environmental Design (Object Track) student. From June 4th through August 8th, I was one of five Design Interns at TerraCycle, a Trenton, NJ-based company that makes consumer goods out of non-recyclable materials, and encourages corporate partners to establish green practices. They also launch some community-based recycling initiatives as prototypes of how they could work on a larger, nation-wide scale. Essentially, they are selling the idea/inspiration of green design/practices to show how possible such practices actually are to companies who wish to pursue them. I was searching for internships through several websites, including micanetwork.com and internships.com, but ended up finding this one independently of these sites. While working at TerraCycle, my direct supervisor was Brad Sherman, who was part of a team with two other "Design Junkies": Lori Anselm and Tiffany Threadgould....

My name is Katherine Stankewicz and I ʼ m a Senior Drawing Major with a Printmaking Concentration. Over the summer of 2012 I was one of the two interns working for Flat Vernacular, a Brooklyn based wallpaper company. Flat Vernacular specializes in original hand-drawn and hand-printed wallpapers. As a student focused on drawing and printmaking, I knew that I wanted an internship that specifically utilized printmaking processes as an element in their production. Flat Vernacular was a perfect match for me being a company that specialized in both of my fields of study.   I discovered Flat Vernacular through MICA ʼ s “Connect Internship + Career Fair.” Flat Vernacular was one of the fifty companies participating on campus during the event. While attending the fair I met the company ʼ s founders, Payton Cosell Turner and Brian Kaspr, and had the opportunity to introduce myself, ask questions about the company and internship, a...

     M y time at 15Four was honestly pretty amazing. Like most things it started out slow and with a  lot of getting to know people and finding out where I could fit into the machine that is their  organization. But from about day 2 I had people treating me as if I had always been there, coming to me  with creative questions and seeing what new ideas I could bring to the table.         One of the first things I was  doing was animating titles for the MICA orientation video they debuted for this year’s freshman class. It  was somewhat surreal having just ended a MICA semester to then having MICA as a client. After a few  days myself and another animation intern were given a project just for the two of us: a small 30 second  commercial for a local dog walking company. Most of my internship was spent on this project as me and  the other intern scripted the a...