Los Angeles-Area College Students Explore Careers in the Arts:

This summer 95 college students from diverse cultural backgrounds are
organizing art exhibitions, teaching children in galleries, researching and
cataloging works of art, and handling and helping to conserve rare
objects in museums and visual arts organizations throughout Los
Angeles.  And they are not volunteering their time--they are getting paid!
The Getty Grant Program has given more than $320,000 this summer to
local cultural organizations, enabling them to offer paid internships to
college undergraduates for a ten-week term from June to August, 1996.

Students from various ethnic backgrounds are getting the opportunity to
experience and explore a broad range of museum and visual arts
professions.  As these are fields that are traditionally hard to break into,
the students get a head start through learning highly specialized skills.

The Getty Grant Program initiated the multicultural internship grants to
open a window of career opportunities for students, to increase staff
diversity in the visual arts and museum fields, and to provide
programmatic support to local institutions, including the Black Gallery,
Plaza de la Raza, 18th Street Arts Complex, Skirball Cultural Center,
Downey Museum of Art, Pacific Asia Museum, and Rancho Los Alamitos.

For more information, contact:
Libby Rogers, Public Affairs Associate
J. Paul Getty Trust
Tel:(310) 440-6616
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