With Who: Penland School of Crafts
Location: Bakersville, NC
Dates: Summer 2020
Position Description: This is a paid internship. For the full internship description, please visit https://penland.org/about/jobs-internships/. Special note: You may apply for more than one internship at Penland; however, you must include a separate cover letter indicating your interest in that particular internship with each application.
The Penland Gallery & Visitors Center Digital Media Intern works with Penland Gallery staff to create content, update, and maintain a wide variety of digital media platforms for the gallery & visitors center. The intern will provide extensive support for our e-commerce site and informational web pages, creating text and photo content, and assisting with generating e-newsletters and social media. The intern will have the opportunity to work with Penland School staff to develop and expand our digital media presence during the launch year of the renovation and expansion of the gallery and its exhibition programming. The digital media intern reports to the Director of the Penland Gallery & Visitors Center. The internship is a full time (40 hours per week) position from mid-May to mid-August.
A Penland internship offers a unique opportunity to live and work in a dynamic, creative educational community and work with accomplished professionals in a mutual learning and knowledge sharing environment. A $500 stipend for work is included. All housing and meals will be provided at no charge to the intern for the duration of the internship period with a $75 stipend for each week of the internship when the Pines dining hall is closed. Class and studio access is not provided.
Penland will work with applicants seeking educational credit for the internship. Details can be discussed in the interview process.
Application Deadline: Applications close on February 1st, 2020 at 11:55 pm
Apply (or see more information): Submit your application via Handshake today! (If you don’t have a Handshake account, select to create an account on the internship preview webpage. Questions? Contact us at commdept@cofc.edu)