UNDERGRADUATE MULTICULTURAL SUMMER INTERNSHIP
The Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is
pleased to announce the availability of a Getty Undergraduate Multicultural
Summer Internship in preservation.
Those students with an interest in pursuing conservation as a profession are
especially encouraged to apply. Working under the general direction of the
Chief Preservation Officer and under the daily supervision of the
Conservator, the intern will learn how to care for works on paper using
basic conservation techniques. Through readings from the conservation
literature and through hands-on exercises, the intern will become familiar
with the underlying principals of conservation, techniques for handling,
exhibiting, and housing rare and fragile materials, and the basic tools and
treatments used in paper conservation.
The primary focus of the internship will be on learning practical
conservation hand skills and developing decision-making ability. The intern
will work closely with the Conservator in the Paper Conservation Lab who
will provide detailed instruction and evaluate the intern's progress. The
intern will work on materials from a Huntington collection in need of
treatment. At the conclusion of the ten week internship, the intern will
present a brief report about their internship experience.
Conditions of the Internships
1. The internships are intended for outstanding students who are
members of groups underrepresented in the museum professions and fields
related to the visual arts and humanities: individuals of African American,
Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American and Pacific Islander descent.
Candidates are sought from all areas of undergraduate study and are not
required to have demonstrated a previous commitment to the visual arts.
2. Candidates must be undergraduates who will have completed at least
one semester of college by June 2002 and who will not graduate before
December 2002. Interns must be residents of, and/or attending college in
the Los Angeles area. Students who have previously served as Getty Interns
for The Huntington are not eligible for consideration. Huntington staff
members and relatives of Huntington board members are not eligible.
3. Applications should include a statement (not to exceed two pages
typed, double-spaced), which delineates the applicant's interest in cultural
institutions or museums and what he or she expects to get out of the
internship. If the applicant has a prepared resume, he or she is welcome to
include it.
4. Each intern will receive a gross salary of $3,500 for a full-time
position for the ten-week internship period in June, July, and August.
More information about the Huntington may be found on the website:
www.huntington.org <http://www.huntington.org>
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2002:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Attn: Undergraduate Multicultural Summer Internship
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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