Highlighted Events and Opportunities
Arts Administration Internship (apply by April 15)
The Bee Vradenburg Foundation is committed to furthering career opportunities for emerging arts leaders and advancing equity in the Pikes Peak Region’s arts sector. To support this commitment, the Foundation provides support each year for up to two paid internships at arts organizations in El Paso County, Colorado, with emphasis on young professionals identifying with, and arts organizations serving, minoritized communities. Interested applicants and arts organizations interested in hosting an intern are strongly encouraged to email BVF Executive Director Claire Swinford at claire@beevradenburgfoundation.org to learn more.
Denver Museum of Nature & Science Internship (apply by April 16)
This internship will be a mixture of activities that diversify students’ exposure to research, collections, and/or outreach, grounded in the outwardly-focused environment of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The intern will spend much of their time focusing on one project in the Earth Sciences Department, and pending student interests could catalog fossil, mineral, and rock collections and/or make paleogeographic geology and fossil maps spanning the last 500 million years of earth history. Their experience will be augmented by short-term opportunities to work in our preparation labs, in the field, and to participate in events where they will engage directly with the public. This internship offers a unique opportunity to work in a large nonprofit institution, gain experience with museum collections and/or databases, develop relationships with scientists from a diverse array of fields, handle world-class fossil and mineral specimens, conduct some fieldwork, and engage in informal education and museum life.
Invertebrate Paleontology Curation Internship
The intern will participate in the Noblett-Witter intern program through the Colorado College Department of Geology to catalog the Columbia University Invertebrate Paleontology Systematic Collection of Phylum Echinodermata in order to broaden access to the collection.
The intern will work in a team of two, under the supervision of a Museum Specialist and AMNH collections staff, to rehouse, conserve, and catalog @5000 lots of marine fossils. Rehousing and conservation will protect the physical specimens while cataloging, databasing and imaging will ensure essential tools are in place for effective collection management - retrieving specimens, monitoring the collection for risks, and maintaining an accurate inventory. It will provide a valuable resource for special exhibitions and education programs for students, teachers, and the general public. Project results will be disseminated through the museum's website, interns' blogs, staff presentations, and posters at professional meetings.
