Call for Applications!
The Lowe Art Museum Internship Program provides students with opportunities to gain knowledge, skills, and professional experience for careers in museums and other cultural organizations. We offer five internships for the fall 2023 semester. The time commitment is on average 10-15 hours per week, totaling 120 hours for the semester.
Interns earn college credit for their work at the Lowe through two pathways:
- Earn 3 credit hours towards your degree by signing up for the relevant course. Please check with your department for specific requirements.
- Earn 1 credit hour (not towards your degree) through the UM Toppel Career Center program.
How to Apply:
- Submit a cover letter and resume or CV to tolaporter@miami.edu by Tuesday, August 1st, 2023. Indicate which department you would like to intern in and why.
- Selected candidates will be notified the week of August 7th.
- Registration for appropriate course must occur before August 30th.
- Interns’ first day is the week of August 28th.
Internship Programs
Curatorial Department (2 Internships Available)
Curatorial Department interns will work on a variety of research-based projects including collating research on collection artists, exhibition histories, and past exhibition didactics and catalogues. The intern will also help to provide access to digital archival collections by creating finding aids to assist online researchers.
Collections and Exhibitions (1 Internship Available)
The Collections and Exhibitions Interns will work on a variety of projects which might include research assignments, material gathering, database entry, document drafting and preparation, and rights and reproductions assignments, among other tasks as needed.
Musuem Education (1 Internship Available)
The Museum Education Intern will learn about museum education methodologies and work on projects such as planning and facilitating Community Days and Family Workshops; researching artworks in the collection; assisting with public programs; conducting program evaluations; analyzing survey data; and working on academic engagement initiatives.
Marketing & Communications (1 Internship Available)
The Marketing and Communications Intern will work on projects such as social media research, management, and analysis; editorial tasks; the preparation of documents and other materials; event documentation; or graphic design tasks.
Deadline to apply is August 1st, 2023. Submit your cover letter and resume/ CV to tolaporter@miami.edu and indicate which department you’d like to intern in and why.