Aiming to encourage greater diversity in the professions related to museums and the visual arts, the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship Program in Los Angeles supports substantive, full-time summer work opportunities for college students or recent graduates from cultural backgrounds that have traditionally been underrepresented in the arts.
The Vincent Price Art Museum is pleased to offer the following paid internship opportunity for Summer 2024:
Curatorial Internship (1 POSITION) JUNE 17 – AUGUST 23, 2024
VPAM’s Getty Marrow Curatorial Internship will acquaint the intern with the structure of the museum and its daily operations, including the planning and production of upcoming exhibitions over an intensive 10-week period. The work plan will be structured around VPAM’s fall exhibitions schedule with an emphasis on the PST ART exhibition, We Place Life at the Center, an exhibition featuring the work of Los Angeles-based Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo, whose multi-disciplinary art practice and activist networks engage with issues related to water rights and land stewardship, food sovereignty, and fair energy transition. The project is presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, an initiative of the Getty.
As the museum continues to invest resources to interpret its collection and institutional archives, the intern will also have the opportunity to participate in the new Chicano Art Exhibitions Archive and Digitization Project, focusing on historic Chicano art exhibitions held at the Vincent Price Art Gallery (and later Museum) since the 1970s.
The intern will work closely with VPAM’s Curator of Exhibitions and the entire curatorial team. They will also have the opportunity to interface and work with other museum staff, emphasizing how the work of curators intersects with collections, education and public programming, marketing/communications, and development.
An interest in art, art history, and Chicano/Latinx studies is preferred. The Intern will utilize a shared workspace with museum staff and will also conduct work in our Thomas Silliman Collections Vault, exhibition galleries, preparation areas, and conference rooms.
Program Eligibility
Getty Marrow Undergraduate Interns must:
- Be a member of a group underrepresented in careers related to art conservation, museums, and/or visual arts organizations, which can include groups defined by – among other things – socioeconomic status, cultural background, physical or other disability, geographical origin and/or any life experiences that add diverse and underrepresented perspectives.
- Be currently enrolled as a full-time undergraduate in either a bachelor’s degree program or an associate’s degree program. Students must have completed at least one semester or two quarters of college by June. Students who graduated the semester or quarter immediately before the internship begins are also eligible. (Students who are enrolled in a second BA or BS program are not eligible.)
- Attend college in or be a permanent resident of LA County; and
- Be a United States citizen or permanent resident (non-citizen authorized to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis; also known as a "green card" holder). Students with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) status valid through the internship period are also eligible.
Note: Students can participate in the program multiple times but must intern at a different organization each summer.
Compensation
The selected intern will be paid $6,925 over a 10 week period.
Application
Interested applicants will submit an application, including: a cover letter and resume.
Applications will be submitted to Victor Parra at parravj@elac.edu with the subject line: “2024 Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship Application.”
The application deadline is Friday, April 19, 2024 at 5:00pm PT.
This program is made possible with support from the Getty Foundation through the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship initiative.