The Corita Art Center, preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice. Today, the Corita Art Center supports exhibition loans and public programs, oversees image and merchandising rights, sells Corita’s original prints, and serves as a resource of information about her life and work.

The Corita Art Center is seeking an intern to support our ongoing endeavors to preserve, organize, and engage the archives and artworks of Corita Kent. Our goal is to make these collections accessible to historians, curators and generations of enthusiasts to come.

The Getty Marrow Collections and Research Intern will primarily be focused on supporting the Curator/Collections Manager in the organization and management of the Corita Art Center’s collection of
artworks and archives as well as assisting with preliminary historical research and data collection for an upcoming catalogue raisonné of Corita Kent’s serigraphic prints.

General duties will include assisting with handling, relocating, and assessing the condition of prints for the purposes of: general collection maintenance; exhibition loans; sales; and acquisitions. Additional catalogue raisonné responsibilities include confirming collections information for prints using the Center’s historical materials and external resources; reviewing and editing FilemakerPro database records into a standard format; contacting organizations for collections information; and performing other miscellaneous research tasks to ensure the quality of the database records.

Ideal candidates will have a background and interest in art history, library science, or fine arts; excellent computer and communication skills; experience performing research in art libraries, archives
and online; experience with Microsoft Office and Google G Suite.

The internship is a full-time (35 hours/week) position with a salary of $6,000, for a consecutive ten-week work period to be arranged by the Intern and the Corita Art Center, but no sooner than June 8 and ending no later than August 30th, 2020.

Please submit resume, cover letter (that includes how you meet eligibility requirements, two references (either letters of recommendation or contact information).

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