Educating the next generation of museum professionals is an important goal for the Akron Art Museum. The availability of internships varies according to department needs. The internship program is open to college students, recent college graduates and graduate students who majored (or are majoring) in art, art history, art education, library science, communications or marketing. Interns are unpaid volunteers.
Although there are no fixed starting or ending dates, internships typically run for the length of a semester.
Fall (September - November); application deadline: July 15
Spring (February - April); application deadline: December 15
Summer (June - August); application deadline: March 31
Art and Education
Internships are available in curatorial affairs, education and the library.
The duties of a curatorial intern might include research on art objects, clerical assistance on existing exhibition projects and art handling. Art education interns might help organize lectures and workshops and provide administrative assistance for the museum's docent and school outreach programs. Library interns could help maintain the museum's archives and library databases as well as assist with the cataloguing and filing of books and periodicals.
For more information or to receive application guidelines for an art or education internship, please email Curatorial Assistant Allison Tillinger Schmid or call at 330.376.9186 x241.
Communications and Development
The communications and development internship allows the student to work on various public relations, promotion, marketing, special events, development and fundraising projects. Interns are exposed to museum publications as well as strategies and methods used to promote a museum and its programs, exhibitions and fundraisers.
Duties might include editing museum publications, assisting with marketing and advertising projects, compiling press kit materials or distributing promotional materials throughout the community. On the development side, an intern might prepare aspects of a grant application, work on a variety of duties for a museum fundraiser or help maintain the museum's development database.
For more information or to receive application guidelines for a communications and development internship, please email Communications Assistant Lindsey Gainer or call at 330.376.9186 x214.
