Curatorial & Publications Intern
Curatorial Intern
Working under joint supervision from PAMM’s Chief Curator and PAMM’s Curatorial Assistant/Publications Coordinator, the Curatorial Intern assists PAMM’s curatorial team with research and development of current and upcoming exhibitions, publications, curatorial presentations, and general departmental functions. The Curatorial Intern works collaboratively across the department and is an integral part of the curatorial team at PAMM. Duties will include compiling information about artists, preparing digital materials and presentations, composing interpretive texts, gathering support materials, creating mockups of artworks, and various administrative tasks. This curatorial internship offers an opportunity to conduct research related to artworks and artists featured at PAMM. The intern may on occasion be asked to work collaboratively on tasks and projects for the Museum’s registration and education departments.
Once a month, all PAMM interns will take networking field trips to neighboring cultural organizations to hear from their administrators about various institutions’ practices. They will also have the opportunity to network with PAMM employees and learn about career paths through brown bag lunch meetings.
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Internship will provide an active training ground for participants to gain new skills and knowledge of arts administration to apply to future employment in museums and cultural institutions.
This is a paid internship provided through the Citi Foundation Museum Management Internship program. Interns should be available for 18-20 hours per week, for 18 weeks (total 320h) during business hours, 9am-5pm, Monday through Friday.
*Note that the internship will start remotely for employees’ safety but may move to a hybrid format (some remote work, some site work). Candidate must be available for both scenarios.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will explore curatorial career tracks in the museum world.
- Students will gain insight into the process of putting a catalogue/publication together and work with the Publications Coordinator to assist with the editorial and design process.
- Students will gain understanding of the planning process involved in creating art exhibitions and publications while gaining insight and practical work experience with respect to other functions of the Museum’s curatorial department, as well as those of other departments.
- Students will gain hands-on experience with software used in collection management.
- Students will have the opportunity to network and learn about career paths in the Museum.
- Student will build a portfolio of curatorial writing samples.
Requirements:
- College/University Senior or Graduate Students with a degree in Art, Art History, Museum Studies, Curatorial Practices, or related fields.
- Graduate students are preferred and strongly encouraged to apply.
- Excellent English composition and editing skills (formatting and standardizing).
- Attention to detail and follow through.
- Can work on multiple projects at a time and prioritize
- Familiarity with checklists/exhibition descriptions and other types of Curatorial texts
- Comfortable working at a quick pace and managing their own time and tasks
- Academic knowledge or practical experience in performing the essential functions listed below.
- Flexibility and curiosity with assignments.
- Pride and initiative in one’s work.
- Computer skills and ability to learn (collection management system).
Essential Tasks may include, but are not limited to:
- Write short descriptions (blurbs) of artworks for upcoming exhibitions and other contexts.
- Compose catalogue text.
- Create checklists for upcoming exhibitions.
- Write bios for artists.
- Create scaled replicas of artworks for use in modeling exhibitions.
- Research the collection and create lists of artists/artworks per specific parameters (thematic grouping), for education or research purposes.
- Other research and administrative duties as required.
- Work on publications and keeping track of edited material.
Teamwork Skills:
- Be an enthusiastic, helpful and positive member of the team.
- Be professional, responsible and mature in conduct and behavior.
- Be understanding of, encouraging to and friendly with all co-workers.
- Be self-motivated and use time wisely.
- Maintain open line of communications with each department on pertinent information.
- Maintain effective communication.
- Adhere to all work rules, procedures and policies established by the company including, but not limited to those contained in the associate handbook.
- Candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
Physical Demands:
- Finger dexterity to pick up paper and use computer keyboard.
- Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing artwork, data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading and writing.
Application Deadline:
- December 15th. (Internship start date January 5th)
Contact:
Send resume, writing sample (approximately 500-1,200 words), unofficial school transcripts, and cover letter explaining your interest and qualifications for this internship (in one attached document) to internship@pamm.org with "Curatorial Intern" in the subject line.
*Applications with missing components will not be reviewed.