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THREE SUMMER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE AT THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM
Funded by the Getty Grants Program: Grants to Los Angeles Area Museums and
Visual Arts Organizations for Multicultural Undergraduate Internships
COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT INTERN TWO POSITIONS
The interns will assist with aspects of collection management for the
Museum's permanent collection. Duties may include: rehousing of artifacts
from the Ancient Trails exhibit, preparation of artifacts for the
Reflections of Culture exhibit, preparatory work for the exhibit pertaining
to the Walter McClintock Collection of Blackfeet material, assist visiting
researchers, all aspects of cataloguing new accessions, conservation and
cleaning of the Museum's permanent collection, rehousing the Museum's
textile collection with archival materials, and entering catalog data into
the ARGUS system, and assisting the Assistant Curators in the Anthropology
Department.
EXHIBITS INTERN ONE POSITION
The intern will assist with aspects of the exhibit department including:
working on the de-installation of the exhibit, Ancient Trails, and
installation of the exhibit, Reflections of Culture. Duties may include:
removal of artifacts, preparation of the exhibit space, placing artifacts
in the exhibit, drawing case maps, and assisting the exhibit curator,
specialist, and preparators.
INTERNSHIP REQUIREMENTS
The Getty Grant Program is offering internships to undergraduate students
who are members of groups currently underrepresented in the professions
related to museums and visual arts organizations: individuals of African
American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander
descent. Eligibility for the internships will be limited to currently
enrolled undergraduates who either, reside or attend college in the Los
Angeles area, will have completed at least one semester of college by June
2000, and will not graduate before December 2000. Candidates can be sought
from all areas of undergraduate study and are not required to have
demonstrated a previous commitment to the visual arts.
THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM
The Southwest Museum, regarded as one of the earliest examples of
Mission-revival architecture, holds one of the country's finest collections
of Native American art and artifacts, with over 350,000 objects including
ethnographic materials, archeological collections, decorative arts,
paintings, and works of art on paper. Major concentrations, as reflected
in the Mississippi, including the Plains, Southwest, Northwest Coast and
California. The Museum also houses collections representing the work of
indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. Special strengths include a
13,000-piece collection of basketry with examples from all parts of North
America; 11,000 pieces of historic and pre-historic Southwestern pottery;
1,300 Navajo textiles representing all known styles including four classic
ponchos dating from before 1850; beadwork from the Great Plains, Plateau,
and Eastern Woodlands; costumes and textiles from Mexico and Central
America; and archaeological collections that reflect the Museum's early
history as a leader in Southwest, California, and great Basin prehistoric
research. In addition to its Native American collections, the Museum holds
materials relating to the Spanish presence in the new world.
Museum collections are supported and enhanced by the holdings of the Braun
Research Library, which houses more than 50,000 bound volumes and serials,
more than 140,000 historic photographic images, 800 manuscript collections,
1,400 sound records and 1,300 historic maps. Library materials pertain to
Native American subjects, the history of the American west, ethnology,
archaeology and the history of anthropology.
TO APPLY, SEND RESUME, AND COVER LETTER BY MAY 1, 2000 TO:
Ann Marie Donoghue, Assistant Curator
Southwest Museum
Box 41558
Los Angeles, CA 90041-0558
(323) 221-2164 extension 237
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