Collections Data and Information Metcalf Internship
Summer 2021
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2021 BY 11:59PM CENTRAL TIME
This position works with the Assistant Registrar to assist in all aspects of database and collection documentation, working directly with the electronic and paper systems that catalog, document, and report on both the permanent collection and loans to the Smart Museum. The Collections Data and Information Intern will learn how museum staff use digital resources to archive and provide access to information about the collection and will develop skills in collections management and documentation.
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Development Metcalf Internship
Summer 2021
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2021 BY 11:59PM CENTRAL TIME
The Development Intern will help support the Museum’s fundraising and stewardship activities. Duties include institutional funder research and reporting; assisting with SmartPartners/Annual Fund acknowledgements, campaigns, and renewal mailings; gathering program data, statistics, and anecdotes; data entry; annual report coordination and survey development and reporting.
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Teen Engagement Metcalf Internship
Summer 2021
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2021 BY 11:59PM CENTRAL TIME
This student intern will be a vital member of the Public Practice team to support projects across the museum, focusing intensively to support teen engagement. Teen programming at the Smart Museum provides multivalent opportunities for South Side youth to access their lived experience, step into their creative brilliance, and contribute to civic dialogue through artful expression.
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Media Aesthetics Exhibition Undergraduate Research Associates (2 positions)
Summer 2021
DEADLINE: MARCH 7, 2021 BY 11:59PM CENTRAL TIME
The Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art seeks two undergraduates to support an upcoming exhibition, Smart to the Core: Media Aesthetics. This project is the second in a series of exhibitions designed by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry to expand object-centered teaching across all fields and disciplines in the University of Chicago’s celebrated College Core. Bringing together paintings, photographs, prints, and new media, this conceptually-driven exhibition will speak to the historicity of Western civilization’s relationship with media and examine notions of the gaze and gendered modes of seeing, mimesis and indexicality, the politics of aesthetic reception, and racialized representations of beauty in visual culture. Working closely with the Director of the Feitler Center and the Assistant Curator for Academic Initiatives, the Associates (2 positions) will provide key support in ongoing research and coordination efforts for the exhibition.
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