Job Description: Summer Intern
Number of Hours per week: approximately 25
Payment: unpaid internship
Date of Internship: June 7 to August 22, 2010
Postmark deadline for application: April 2, 2010
Notification by: April 30, 2010.
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is a thriving, creative community that changes
each week during the Summer Program with the influx of new faculty members and students.
It is a wonderful opportunity for anyone with an interest in writing and/or the visual arts to
meet, share, and create with like-minded peers and established professionals.
The Fine Arts Work Center’s Summer Program Internship is designed to introduce students to
the workings of a nonprofit arts organization. The position involves a multitude of tasks
designed to give each intern a basic overall understanding of how the Fine Arts Work Center
(and many other nonprofit arts programs) operates. Responsibilities include: writing press
releases and event introductions; staffing readings, gallery openings and public events;
assisting in the Summer Program office with clerical work, mailings, and general office tasks;
assisting with the management, cleaning and set up of the print shop and arts studios; setting up
the Common Room for readings and slide talks; painting and spackling the gallery; tidying
classrooms and common areas; and tending the bookshop. The internship also requires setting
up the daily breakfast and cooking at the weekly BBQs. No prior experience is necessary, but
basic computer and office skills and a background in dealing with the public are assets. Interns
will be expected to work approximately 25 hours per week, and must be able to commit to
being at the Work Center for the full eleven weeks of the internship, June 7 through August 22.
Interns are welcome, though not required, to attend three Summer Program workshops free of
charge.
The Fine Arts Work Center is an internationally renowned organization dedicated to
providing a supportive and nurturing environment for emerging artists and writers. The
Winter Fellowship Program, founded in 1968, provides housing and a modest stipend for 10
visual artists and 10 writers for seven months each year (October 1 through May 1), the most
extensive program of its kind in the country. The Summer Workshop Program, now
approaching its fourteenth year, was developed in order to extend this spirit of
encouragement and inspiration to the general public. Weeklong and weekend courses, taught
by some of the most accomplished and recognized writers and artists working today, run
from June 12 through August 20.
For more information, please contact:
Dorothy Antczak
Summer Program Director
24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-9960 ext. 103
Dantczak@fawc.org
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POINTS
FAWC Summer Program courses have been approved for use toward Professional Development Points in the following states: Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey. Approval pending in other states; please inquire. Please let us know when you register if you'll be applying for PDPs as requirements vary for each state.
EARNING COLLEGE CREDITS
You must make arrangements for college credit before attending your workshop. College credits are awarded to students by the institutions where they are currently enrolled, at the institution's discretion, and often with stipulations.
Students who successfully complete three visual arts classes in eligible courses may earn three undergraduate elective credits through Maine College of Art or the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Students who successfully complete creative writing workshops may be eligible for up to three MFA internship credits, one per workshop, through the MFA Program in Creative Writing (Dept. of Literature, College of Arts and Sciences) at American University in Washington, D.C.. Students enrolled at other institutions should consult the registrar of their school to determine the transferability of these credits.
