Hello SAA,
I'm forwarding this email from Visual Resources Emerging Professionals & Students (VREPS) re VRAF internships -- please see below.
Thanks!
Sue Tyson
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Greetings,
I'm writing in regards to the Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) Internships in visual resources and image management. The VRAF is seeking host sites for the internship; if you are interested in hosting an intern at no cost to your institution, please read the information below.
We are very grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for so generously supporting our past Internship Award recipients. Contingent upon this year's funding from Kress, we will offer our seventh internship in 2019-2020. Click here to read about the 2018-2019 VRAF Internship Award Recipient, Adelaide McComb.
The award grants $3,000 to support an internship in archives, libraries, museums, visual resources collections, or other appropriate settings. It also provides a professional development account of $1,000 to be used for attending conferences or training events, including the VRA Annual Conference and/or Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI).
The student will provide 200 hours of service over the course of their internship. In order to be eligible for the internship, the student must have completed at least ten credits of graduate coursework in Library/Information Science, Art History, Architecture or Architectural History, Visual or Studio Art, Museum Studies, or other applicable fields of study.
Although this internship is available to non-US residents, the work must take place at an institution within the USA. While Canadian institutions are not eligible to host a VRAF intern, such internships might be of interest to any number of people who are seeking VR-related internships and can be included in our list of available opportunities.
If you and your institution are interested in hosting a student during the Fall, Winter, or Spring of the 2019-2020 academic year, please fill out the VRAF Host Institution Google Form.
With this information, a list of potential internship sites will be compiled and added to the Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students (VREPS) website to help student applicants find an internship in their geographical area.
We hope that you will consider being a host site for this wonderful opportunity for students just starting out in the fields of visual resources and image management.
More information about the internship can be found here: https://vrafoundation.com/internship-award/
Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions.
Best,
Kendra Werst & Julia Murphy
VREPS Co-Chairs
Visual Resources Emerging Professionals & Students (VREPS)