INTERNSHIP: Summer Internships at the 15th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture
FilAm ARTS, the premiere Filipino American arts and cultural services
organization, is offering two paid summer internships: Festival
Administrative Assistant and Visual Arts Curatorial Intern.
The intern will play a key role in the larger FPAC team efforts and
will be expected to communicate with many segments of the community,
from planning and production committees to artists and vendors.
Eligibility :
· Intern candidates can be sought from all areas of undergraduate
study and are not required to have demonstrated a previous commitment
to the arts.
· In addition, each intern candidate must meet the following
eligibility criteria: (1) s/he must be a currently enrolled
undergraduate and have completed at least one semester of college by
June 2005; (2) s/he will not graduate before December 2005; and (3)
s/he must be a resident of or attend college in Los Angeles County.
· Please note that students who have previously served as LA County or
Getty Multicultural summer interns at our organization or who have
served as such at more than two other organizations are not eligible
for consideration.
· Finally, staff members and relatives of staff or board members are
not eligible for these internships.
Intern Salary:
Each intern will receive a gross salary of $3,500 for a full-time
position for a consecutive ten-week period period from June to
September, with specific start and end dates based on student
availability. In addition to the responsibilities of the position,
interns must attend four mandatory events coordinated by the Arts
Commission and the Getty.
Nature of Training
Interns who work at FilAm ARTS will understand the link between
administration and curation for the community. Interns will garner
first-hand knowledge of the community, while learning to equally
prioritize aesthetics and timeline management. Working with visual
arts practitioners, arts administrators and community organizers, the
intern will gain experience in curation, production and community
organizing while having insightful interactions with leaders in the
community. FilAm ARTS also partners with many community organizations
to produce the Festival, so that the intern will also have the
opportunity to learn how to negotiate with people from other fields.
Successful interns will also learn the value of becoming team players,
having a willingness to learn and explore new experiences, having a
positive attitude and a sense of humor.
To apply for an internship:
Complete the following application questions and then send a resume
and one letter of recommendation from a supervisor or advisor to:
Vanessa Vela Lovelace, Administrator
FilAm ARTS
607 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
(323) 644 - 6251 FAX
vvela@filamarts.org
Deadline: April 21st, 2006
Application Questions:
1. Name, Address, Phone, Email,
2. College, Date of Graduation, Major/Minor
3. Which Internship Position are you Applying for?
4. In a one page Letter of Intent, please answer the following
questions and attach to your completed application.
a. Please describe your community organizing skills and your
experience in event coordination.
b. What would you contribute to the FilAm ARTS team?
c. What would you like to get out of your experience as a FilAm ARTS
intern?
5. Circle all applications you have a working knowledge of
a. MS Word
b. MS Excel
c. MS Access
d. MS Powerpoint
e. Photoshop
f. Illustrator
g. FinalCut Pro
h. Filemaker Pro
i. Other
6. How did you learn about our internship program?
a. Website
b. Email
c. Faculty Counselor
d. Friend
e. Other
For more information about FilAm ARTS visit www.filamarts.org
For more information about the Los Angeles County Arts Commission
visit www.lacountyarts.org
For more information about the Getty Foundation visit www.getty.edu
DESCRIPTION OF INTERNSHIPS:
Festival Administration Assistant
Intern will work with the Festival Director and staff in all aspects
of special event production including resource development, volunteer
coordination and community arts programming, while actively
collaborating with community and student orgs, city and county
offices, vendors and businesses, artists and volunteers for Festival
production.
· Responsible for assisting in Festival production, volunteer
coordination, administrative and accounting support.
· Assist in production logistics, including filing permits, contacting
government liaisons.
· Assist in coordination of production meetings for the curators and
key volunteers.
· Coordinate progress with city and county offices, community
organization partners and vendors.
· Provide support in organizing vendor booths.
· Update volunteer recruitment materials to distribute.
· Direct recruitment and outreach efforts to find new volunteers.
· Contact past volunteers and invite to participate again.
· Coordinate volunteer orientations.
· Create volunteer information packets and schedules.
· On-Site volunteer coordination.
· Provide general administrative support to the Festival Director.
· Assitance with maintaining festival budgets, supporting documents
and accounting practices.
· Assist in coordinating wrap up actions including Staff and Volunteer
Appreciation event, post-festival assessments, and filing.
Curatorial Intern
The Curation Intern will be responsible for assisting in the curation
of the Pilipino Artist Network Pavilion at the Festival of Philippine
Arts & Culture. The PAN Pavilion is the center of all Visual Arts
programming of the festival and has similar components on the Festival
website and printed souvenir program book.
· This intern will be working primarily with the Executive Director
and Visual Arts Curator in conceptualizing the exhibits; outreaching
for artists; administering submissions; collecting artwork for the web
and for print; designing the site plan, operating and accounting
procedures; as well as providing on-site supervision of the area
during the festival. The intern will also be responsible for
contributing to overall production of key curating components of the
Festival, which includes artist contract administration, reception and
follow-up post festival.
· The Curation intern will also be asked to coordinate a point of
engagement activity related to the PAN Pavilion, focusing on the
collaboration between artists and the community, aiming for the
greater valuing of Visual Arts in our community. The intern is
expected to focus on creating the best possible point-of-sale
interaction between visual artists and the art buying festival
audience on the weekend of the Festival.
Getty Eligibility:
· The internship opportunities are inteded for members of groups
underrepresented in professions related to museums and the visual
arts: individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native
american, and Pacific Islander descent.
Following Internships are available at a non-paid basis. If
available, we are willing to support school credit.
Community Liaison
The Community Liaison intern will be working with many community,
governmental and professional contacts in order to better coordinate
public relations activities. The Community Liaison intern will not
only serve for large-scale Festival production but also for the
benefit of all the organization's programs in order to campaign for
the awareness of the importance of arts and culture.
Responsibilities
· Responsible for community, media and governmental relations. Will
help to implement campaign for the awareness of the importance of arts
and culture.
· Develop contact database, distribute letters, onsite reception at
festival, follow up and thank yous.
· Responsible for updating, renewing, improving contact database.
Responsible for outreach efforts by attending relevant community
meetings and events from all over Southern California.
· Assist in corporate support solicitations.
· Responsible for distributing press releases and publicity materials
to broadcast and print media for all Filam ARTS events and programs.
· Responsible for creating, collecting and reporting on audience
surveys for all FilAm ARTS events and programs.
· Assist in the coordination and administrative support of the
Festival Program Book.
· Coordinate onsite press and community info booth.
Publications Intern
The Publications Intern will be responsible for the educational
component of the print and web efforts of the 15th Annual Festival of
Philippine Arts & Culture. Primarily, the intern will learn through
their efforts the integration of education, curation, marketing and
production, four significant areas in the business of publications.
The intern will be responsible for
· assisting in the organization and overall production of Souvenir
Anniversary program book and website of the Festival, which will
include developing editorial content as well as the logistical
knowledge required to produce the project.
· In collaboration with these parties, the intern will be responsible
for managing project timelines; collecting information; preparing
content for the Festival graphic designer and webmaster; liaising with
the product printer for the completion and delivery of the product
prior to the festival; and preparing products for press packets and
distribution at the festival.
· Intern will work with the Artistic Director, Graphic Designer, and
Administrator in the visioning of the products' goals, direction,
content, layout and completion.
· Intern will also be working directly with Marketing and Production
committee members to coordinate print and web material in conjuction
with their timelines.
About FilAm ARTS:
The Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts &
Culture, also known as Fil-Am ARTS, is a multidisciplinary community
arts organization whose mission is to advance the understanding of the
arts and diverse cultural heritage of Filipinos in the Unites States
through presentation, education and arts services.
organization, is offering two paid summer internships: Festival
Administrative Assistant and Visual Arts Curatorial Intern.
The intern will play a key role in the larger FPAC team efforts and
will be expected to communicate with many segments of the community,
from planning and production committees to artists and vendors.
Eligibility :
· Intern candidates can be sought from all areas of undergraduate
study and are not required to have demonstrated a previous commitment
to the arts.
· In addition, each intern candidate must meet the following
eligibility criteria: (1) s/he must be a currently enrolled
undergraduate and have completed at least one semester of college by
June 2005; (2) s/he will not graduate before December 2005; and (3)
s/he must be a resident of or attend college in Los Angeles County.
· Please note that students who have previously served as LA County or
Getty Multicultural summer interns at our organization or who have
served as such at more than two other organizations are not eligible
for consideration.
· Finally, staff members and relatives of staff or board members are
not eligible for these internships.
Intern Salary:
Each intern will receive a gross salary of $3,500 for a full-time
position for a consecutive ten-week period period from June to
September, with specific start and end dates based on student
availability. In addition to the responsibilities of the position,
interns must attend four mandatory events coordinated by the Arts
Commission and the Getty.
Nature of Training
Interns who work at FilAm ARTS will understand the link between
administration and curation for the community. Interns will garner
first-hand knowledge of the community, while learning to equally
prioritize aesthetics and timeline management. Working with visual
arts practitioners, arts administrators and community organizers, the
intern will gain experience in curation, production and community
organizing while having insightful interactions with leaders in the
community. FilAm ARTS also partners with many community organizations
to produce the Festival, so that the intern will also have the
opportunity to learn how to negotiate with people from other fields.
Successful interns will also learn the value of becoming team players,
having a willingness to learn and explore new experiences, having a
positive attitude and a sense of humor.
To apply for an internship:
Complete the following application questions and then send a resume
and one letter of recommendation from a supervisor or advisor to:
Vanessa Vela Lovelace, Administrator
FilAm ARTS
607 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
(323) 644 - 6251 FAX
vvela@filamarts.org
Deadline: April 21st, 2006
Application Questions:
1. Name, Address, Phone, Email,
2. College, Date of Graduation, Major/Minor
3. Which Internship Position are you Applying for?
4. In a one page Letter of Intent, please answer the following
questions and attach to your completed application.
a. Please describe your community organizing skills and your
experience in event coordination.
b. What would you contribute to the FilAm ARTS team?
c. What would you like to get out of your experience as a FilAm ARTS
intern?
5. Circle all applications you have a working knowledge of
a. MS Word
b. MS Excel
c. MS Access
d. MS Powerpoint
e. Photoshop
f. Illustrator
g. FinalCut Pro
h. Filemaker Pro
i. Other
6. How did you learn about our internship program?
a. Website
b. Email
c. Faculty Counselor
d. Friend
e. Other
For more information about FilAm ARTS visit www.filamarts.org
For more information about the Los Angeles County Arts Commission
visit www.lacountyarts.org
For more information about the Getty Foundation visit www.getty.edu
DESCRIPTION OF INTERNSHIPS:
Festival Administration Assistant
Intern will work with the Festival Director and staff in all aspects
of special event production including resource development, volunteer
coordination and community arts programming, while actively
collaborating with community and student orgs, city and county
offices, vendors and businesses, artists and volunteers for Festival
production.
· Responsible for assisting in Festival production, volunteer
coordination, administrative and accounting support.
· Assist in production logistics, including filing permits, contacting
government liaisons.
· Assist in coordination of production meetings for the curators and
key volunteers.
· Coordinate progress with city and county offices, community
organization partners and vendors.
· Provide support in organizing vendor booths.
· Update volunteer recruitment materials to distribute.
· Direct recruitment and outreach efforts to find new volunteers.
· Contact past volunteers and invite to participate again.
· Coordinate volunteer orientations.
· Create volunteer information packets and schedules.
· On-Site volunteer coordination.
· Provide general administrative support to the Festival Director.
· Assitance with maintaining festival budgets, supporting documents
and accounting practices.
· Assist in coordinating wrap up actions including Staff and Volunteer
Appreciation event, post-festival assessments, and filing.
Curatorial Intern
The Curation Intern will be responsible for assisting in the curation
of the Pilipino Artist Network Pavilion at the Festival of Philippine
Arts & Culture. The PAN Pavilion is the center of all Visual Arts
programming of the festival and has similar components on the Festival
website and printed souvenir program book.
· This intern will be working primarily with the Executive Director
and Visual Arts Curator in conceptualizing the exhibits; outreaching
for artists; administering submissions; collecting artwork for the web
and for print; designing the site plan, operating and accounting
procedures; as well as providing on-site supervision of the area
during the festival. The intern will also be responsible for
contributing to overall production of key curating components of the
Festival, which includes artist contract administration, reception and
follow-up post festival.
· The Curation intern will also be asked to coordinate a point of
engagement activity related to the PAN Pavilion, focusing on the
collaboration between artists and the community, aiming for the
greater valuing of Visual Arts in our community. The intern is
expected to focus on creating the best possible point-of-sale
interaction between visual artists and the art buying festival
audience on the weekend of the Festival.
Getty Eligibility:
· The internship opportunities are inteded for members of groups
underrepresented in professions related to museums and the visual
arts: individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native
american, and Pacific Islander descent.
Following Internships are available at a non-paid basis. If
available, we are willing to support school credit.
Community Liaison
The Community Liaison intern will be working with many community,
governmental and professional contacts in order to better coordinate
public relations activities. The Community Liaison intern will not
only serve for large-scale Festival production but also for the
benefit of all the organization's programs in order to campaign for
the awareness of the importance of arts and culture.
Responsibilities
· Responsible for community, media and governmental relations. Will
help to implement campaign for the awareness of the importance of arts
and culture.
· Develop contact database, distribute letters, onsite reception at
festival, follow up and thank yous.
· Responsible for updating, renewing, improving contact database.
Responsible for outreach efforts by attending relevant community
meetings and events from all over Southern California.
· Assist in corporate support solicitations.
· Responsible for distributing press releases and publicity materials
to broadcast and print media for all Filam ARTS events and programs.
· Responsible for creating, collecting and reporting on audience
surveys for all FilAm ARTS events and programs.
· Assist in the coordination and administrative support of the
Festival Program Book.
· Coordinate onsite press and community info booth.
Publications Intern
The Publications Intern will be responsible for the educational
component of the print and web efforts of the 15th Annual Festival of
Philippine Arts & Culture. Primarily, the intern will learn through
their efforts the integration of education, curation, marketing and
production, four significant areas in the business of publications.
The intern will be responsible for
· assisting in the organization and overall production of Souvenir
Anniversary program book and website of the Festival, which will
include developing editorial content as well as the logistical
knowledge required to produce the project.
· In collaboration with these parties, the intern will be responsible
for managing project timelines; collecting information; preparing
content for the Festival graphic designer and webmaster; liaising with
the product printer for the completion and delivery of the product
prior to the festival; and preparing products for press packets and
distribution at the festival.
· Intern will work with the Artistic Director, Graphic Designer, and
Administrator in the visioning of the products' goals, direction,
content, layout and completion.
· Intern will also be working directly with Marketing and Production
committee members to coordinate print and web material in conjuction
with their timelines.
About FilAm ARTS:
The Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts &
Culture, also known as Fil-Am ARTS, is a multidisciplinary community
arts organization whose mission is to advance the understanding of the
arts and diverse cultural heritage of Filipinos in the Unites States
through presentation, education and arts services.
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