The Department of Art and Art Education offers you an opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Studio Art, Visual Studies, or Digital Media or a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Art Education.
More than half of the enrollment in studio art courses each semester are students majoring in areas other than art. The Department responds to this opportunity to contribute to a wide range of educational goals by basing course content and pedagogical approach on a view of studio experience as part of education in a broad sense rather than primarily as training for the profession. Those students who want additional emphasis on professional aspects of study in the arts will find enthusiastic instruction and encouragement.
The Art and Art Education Department is pleased to announce that Antawan Byrd, has been selected to participate in the highly competitive Museum Studies Internship Program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this summer. Additionally he was awarded one of only two Diversity Fellowships to attend.
Antawan Byrd preparing for a gallery talk on Brancusi
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Museum Studies Internship Program
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a leader in the training and mentoring of young museum professionals and future museum colleagues. The Museum Studies Internship Program provides interns with exposure to the inner workings of a major metropolitan museum, promoting an awareness of museum careers through experiences not available in most academic settings.
The Museum selects a diverse group of talented undergraduate and graduate students from a highly competitive regional, national and international pool of candidates.
The Museum Studies Internship Program offers internships each summer to qualified students who have completed at least their sophomore year of college by the spring of 2008 and have maintained a 3.0 grade point average. The program runs Monday through Friday for nine weeks. Interns work in their departmental placements for three and one-half days per week. The rest of the week, they participate in a Museum Studies course which includes collection tours with curators, departmental orientations, field trips, and seminars.
Interns are placed according to departmental needs that vary from year to year. In past summers, placements have included the following departments: Development, External Affairs, Library, Marketing and Public Relations, Registrar, American Art, East Asian Art, Costume and Textiles, European Painting, Indian and Himalayan Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Education placements are made in two divisions: public programs for adults and college students or programs for youth and family. Recent project descriptions are listed on this web site.
Diversity Internship Program
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in partnership with the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations has created The Diversity Internship Program to introduce students to professional opportunities in museums with the goal of increasing the diversity of professional employees throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Two student internships will be funded at the Philadelphia Museum through this program.
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