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 email: [log in to unmask]