The Emerging Art Leaders Internship is a museum-wide effort to provide students from diverse backgrounds, including those underrepresented in the museum field, the opportunity to gain experience, career awareness, networks, skills that will together position them to succeed as future art museum leaders. Those selected join an intern cohort and have access to a range of programs to support their development in addition to their specific departmental placement. Mentorship is provided throughout the intern experience. Interns are also encouraged to remain connected to the museum and to other interns as part of an alumni network.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Investigate and research special collection material
• Write brief reports on research and objects
• Create metadata for different types of material including archives images and catalog links to images
• Research past museum exhibitions and write brief descriptions for museum website
• Digitize Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalogs and create machine-readable text data with OCR; also work on digitizing exhibition images for online exhibition archive

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate or graduate student in the Chicago metropolitan area; recent graduates (within one year of graduation) with relevant experience will also be considered
• Committed to the goal of promoting inclusive, pluralistic museums
• Demonstrated interest in libraries or information science and/or an interest in art history
• Ability to execute tasks with attention to detail
• Experience with researching in a library and writing in a clear succinct style
• Skill in multi-tasking and working on many different projects