Position: Museum/ Education Intern
(Part-time, Temporary, Unpaid Internship)
Reports to: Director of Education
Start date: June 19, 2012

Position Summary:
The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum’s Education department is looking for motivated and energetic undergraduate or graduate students to assist in a variety of departmental functions.  The summer intern will assist with planning and facilitating adult and family programs throughout the summer and will also develop a culminating project based upon his/her interests.  The Education Intern will gain experience working within multiple contexts of a small historic house museum, including managing memberships, giving guided public tours, and assisting with garden programs.

Position Responsibilities:

• The Education Intern’s primary responsibilities will be to support the Director of Education with:
  • researching and contacting potential performers and speakers for museum events
  • assisting staff at museum-wide events and public programs
  • collaborating with designing pre and post visit materials for school lessons.  
  • designing and leading guided house tours to public audiences
• Intern will also assist other members of the staff on a variety of projects such as updating the membership database, assisting with garden programs, and planning/distributing marketing materials
• Over the course of the internship program, the Intern will design a culminating project based on his/her academic or professional interests.  Such opportunities may include, but are not limited to, developing small exhibitions, working within the museum archives, drafting interpretive labels, or developing new community programs.  

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have a background and interest in history, arts and/or education as well as an ability to work flexibly with a team of colleagues. Candidates should possess a B.A in a related field, be working towards an M.A or a recent graduate.  Undergraduate students entering Junior and Senior years will be considered based on experience. The summer intern will report directly to the Director of Education.

Schedule:  June 19- August 17, 2012, three month summer internship with dates negotiable.  Part time position, 20 hours a week (2-3 days) including some weekend dates.

To Apply:  Please submit a resume and cover letter detailing your interest and availability by May 1, 2012 to Melissa Branfman, Director of Education at education@wyckoffassociation.org

This new program provides one deserving curator with the necessary time and resources to realize an innovative project, with the aim of encouraging curatorial research in tandem with exhibition planning. CUE will provide institutional guidance to the curator, who will produce a group exhibition in CUE’s space with related public programming and an accompanying exhibition catalogue in June 2013.

- group show proposals that are conceptually rigorous and focus on artists, projects, and themes that are innovative, challenging, and engaging
- a clearly demonstrated, unique, and creative approach to both curatorial research methods and the exhibition plan
- ideas that are not well represented in the commercial sector.

- proposals must include four or more artists, half of whom must qualify as under-recognized
- curators may not include their own work in the exhibition
- extra consideration will be given to those who are in the beginning stages of their curatorial careers
- applicant must reside in NYC, or be capable of making arrangements in the area; selected applicant will be required to attend meetings with the CUE staff throughout the year
- we welcome proposals that contribute to our on-going commitment to diversity

For more information on the submission requirements and to apply, visit cueartfoundation.submishmash.com. 

“An Analysis of Diverse Medieval Images within Their Cultural Context,” Medieval Perspectives, XXIV, 2009 [2011], pp. 88-126.

In the article Dr. Edwards examines medieval art through the lens of humor. The article was presented as a paper at the annual medieval Congress in Kalamazoo in 2008 and at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association in St. Louis, also in 2008.

The scheme is open to all student members of the society, together with a sponsor who is also a DRS member.  Please see the DRS website for further details and an application form:

http://www.designresearchsociety.org/

The deadline for applications is 31st March 2012.

If you are not a DRS member, and would like to apply for a bursary, the cost of joining as a student member is 30GBP for three years membership.  Full membership is 30GBP per year.
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The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an
exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland
(SC 038302).

If you are interested, applications are due March 5th. If you decide you would like to apply, please contact Prof. Jonathan Martin at prattstudio@gmail.com.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Summer Course Offering: Tokyo Design and Urbanism (Summer 2012)

Estimated Cost: $1,500 + Credits

Supported by a grant from The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, this course introduces students to the theory, spectacle and sensibility of Japanese design and urbanism, including surveys of Japanese architecture, urban design and planning, art, film, fashion, literature and contemporary culture. The course includes a two-week study tour in Japan with visits to historic and contemporary sites in Tokyo, Kamakura, Tsukuba City and Kyoto. The course also includes opportunities to meet with professors and students from Japanese universities. Students will be exposed to Japanese contemporary culture and participate in shared-learning opportunities through coordinated activities with their classmates and Japanese colleagues. Student activities range from short lectures/seminars, guided walking tours of areas of key historical and urban importance in Tokyo, Kamakura and Kyoto. In addition, the professor will lead a variety of excursions to national museums, historic places, and important and interesting urban neighborhoods in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

For more information, please contact Professor Jonathan Martin at jmarti18@pratt.edu

MoMA:
9 Scripts from a Nation at War, Jan. 25 – Aug. 6, 2012
Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes,” Feb. 6 – April 9, 2012
Cindy Sherman, Feb. 26 – June 11, 2012
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 13, 2011 – May 14, 2012
Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda, Nov. 17, 2011 – Feb. 20, 2012
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence, Dec. 18, 2011 – Mar. 26, 2012
Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990–2010, Feb. 19 – May 14, 2012

WHITNEY:
Whitney Biennial 2012, Mar. 1 – May 27, 2012

GUGGENHEIM:
John Chamberlain: Choices, Feb. 24 – May 13, 2012
Being Singular Plural, [film in India] Mar. 2 – June 6, 2012

NEW MUSEUM:
The Ungovernables, Second New Museum Triennial, Feb. 15 – April 22, 2012
Enrico David: Head Gas, Jan. 18 – April 22, 2012

BROOKLYN MUSEUM:
Keith Haring: 1978-1982 Mar. 16 – July 8, 2012 [Preview Mar 15 11-2pm]
Raw/Cooked: Shura Chernozatonskaya, Jan. 27 – April 8, 2012
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Nov. 18 – Feb. 12, 2012

MET:
Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City, April 24 – Nov. 4, 2012

PS 1:
Clifford Owens: Anthology, Nov. 13, 2011 – March 12, 2012
Henry Taylor, Jan. 29, 2012 – April 9, 2012

QUEENS MUSEUM:
Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle, Feb. 4 – May 20, 2012
Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses [Gregg Scholette], Feb. 5 – May 20, 2012

STUDIO MUSEUM:
The Bearden Project, Nov. 10, 2011 – Mar. 11, 2012

JEWISH MUSEUM:
The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, Nov. 4, 2011 – Mar. 25, 2012
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures, Nov. 4, 2011 – Mar. 25, 2012
Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel, Mar. 9, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, May 4 – Sept. 23, 2012

ICP:
Weegee: Murder Is My Business, Jan. 20 – Sept. 2, 2012
The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet, Jan. 20 – May 6, 2012

NEUE GALERIE:
Ronald Lauder Collection, Oct. 27 – Apr. 2, 2012
Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle, Apr. 26 – Aug. 27, 2012

MUSEO DEL BARRIO:
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression [permanent collection show], Feb. 1 – May 6, 2012

SCULPTURE CENTER:
Scene, Hold, Ballast: David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, Jan. 15 – Mar. 19, 2012
In Practice: You never look at me from the place from which I see you: A.K. Burns, Yve
Laris Cohen, Michael DeLucia, Aleksandra Domanović, Takashi Horisaki, Sean Raspet,
Christine Rebet, and Keith Connolly, Ethan Ham, and Tom Thayer, Jan. 15 – Mar. 19, 2012

GREY ART GALLERY/NYU:
Soto: Paris and Beyond 1950–1970, Jan. 10 – Mar. 31, 2012

WHITE COLUMNS:
Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual, selected by Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi, Dec. 10, 2011 – Feb. 18, 2012

THE KITCHEN:
Simone Leigh: You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been, Jan. 18 – Mar. 11, 2012

ART IN GENERAL:
Mournira Al Solh: Dinosaurs, Jan. 28 – Mar. 17, 2012
Katrin Sigurdardottir: Stage, Jan. 28 – Mar. 17, 2012
Theresa Himmer: All State, Jan. 28 – Mar. 17, 2012

ARTISTS SPACE:
DUOX4Larkin, DUOX, Jan. 29 – Mar. 18, 2012

APEX ART:
A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance, curated by Mark Feary, Jan. 11 – Mar. 10, 2012

BRIC ARTS:
The Bricoleurs: The Fourth Annual Artists from the Registry Exhibition, curated by
Christian Fuller and Risa Shoup, Jan. 26 – Mar. 3, 2012

SMACK MELLON:
Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, Heeseop Yoon, Jan. 21 – Mar. 4, 2012

SWISS INSTITUTE:
Nicolas Party, Still Lives, Stones, and Elephants, Mar. 7 – April 15, 2012
Jimmie Durham, Maquette for a Museum of Switzerland, Mar. 7 – April 15, 2012

PARTICIPANT INC.:
Jeffrey Gibson, one becomes the other, Feb. 19 – Mar. 25, 2012

BRONX MUSEUM:
Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect, Feb. 12 – May 20, 2012

AMERICAS SOCIETY:
Observed: Milagros de la Torre, Curated by Edward J. Sullivan, Feb. 8 – Apr. 14, 2012

COMMERCIAL GALLERIES [further information about exhibitions in commercial galleries in New York can be obtained at http://dks.thing.net/, http://oneartworld.com/, http://artcards.cc/, and http://www.artcat.com/openings/allfuture