INTERNSHIP STORIES

My name is Oliver Hollis and this fall I worked with the folks at Studio Unknown , shadowing the engineers and producers of feature film production audio and music recording. Studio Unknown is a full fledged recording, foley, and mixing studio. For about a year now I have been heavily interested in sound production and I reached out to Jason Sloan, head of MICA’s sound concentration, and asked him if he knew about anybody this coming year that needed free help in a recording studio. He directed me to Studio Unknown. The two people I worked most closely with were Mandisa Henry, the office manger, and Stephen Antonelli, the owner of SongBuilder Studios, which shared the space with Studio Unknown. I am interested in Music production and mixing and worked closely, for the couple of months I was there, with Stephen. Stephen works with artists from rap to country to music production for film trailer. He is a versatile producer and engineer and I learned a great deal from hi...

My name is Madina Nakashima and I am a senior Film and Video major at MICA. During the summer of 2017 I interned in Catonsville, Maryland at a post-production sound studio called Studio Unknown. I found out about this opportunity through several different people, including my professors, visiting artists, and though the Career Development Office. Since the Film and Video professors at MICA tend to work locally, several of my professors including Kirsten Hollander, Allen Moore, Nadia Hironaka, and Richard Chilsom had all connected with Studio Unknown and had mentioned their work in class. Even though I had known about the studio a year before applying for the internship, I wasn't sure, until after taking sound courses my junior year, that I wanted to apply. I reached out to Richard Chilsom to inquire about the best ways to get an internship and I also set up a meeting at Career Development. With help from both of these resources, I was able to tour the studio and then appl...

My name is    Rachel Guardiol a  and  I am c urrently between the first and second years as a graduate candidate at Maryland Institute College of Art Mount Royal Multidisciplinary Program.  During the summer of 2014, I participated in the Smithsonian Institution Archives Summer  Internship Program with the Digital Services Division.    My studio practice utilizes a variety of analogue and digital technologies to investigate the means in which di f ferent tools alter our perception, extend our physical limi t ations, and allow us to see the invisible.   I  I wa s initially interested in conducting an internship w ith in the archives of a museum institution to gain access to academic resources for thesis researc h , and further learn about the means in which the apparatus shapes the way we create systems of documentation or truth , to construct our own simulacra. While on winter brea k during the a...