About this Job
Located in the heart of downtown Austin, Mexic-Arte Museum seeks university students to participate in internships for academic credit and educational enrichment. Spring, summer, and fall internships are unpaid and run for 12 weeks with a minimum commitment of 10-15 hours per week during office hours (Monday-Thursday 9am-6pm and Friday 9am-5pm). Mexic-Arte Museum also encourages interns to attend its Public Programs.
Mexic-Arte Museum recognizes the importance of interns and seeks flexible, positive, organized, and self-motivated candidates that can work both independently and collaboratively in a professional setting. Interns will apply their creativity, critical thinking skills, and enthusiasm to a wide range of projects under the mentorship of Mexic-Arte Museum professionals.
Internships opportunities under Museum Marketing & Event Planning:
Development: Working with Development team to assist with donor and media relations, generation of revenue, special events, and database management. Tasks may include data entry, general administrative work, and correspondence.
Social Media and Graphic Design: Assists in the production of video and/or electronic media resources created for a variety of audiences that help create visibility and awareness for Mexic-Arte’s exhibitions, lectures, public programming, and upcoming events. Other opportunities include the design of signage, programs, and invitations for Mexic-Arte’s educational programs.
Content Development: Duties include planning and writing social media posts, posting blurbs to websites, optimizing content for search engines, planning visual content using editorial social media planner and Hootsuite, creating and implementing content strategies for the various events and programming events coming up, creating content outlines, writing website content, and much more!
Laptops are not required but it is greatly appreciated if you are able to work in a mobile capacity.
Don’t forget to submit a resume, cover letter and application. Please click here to access the MAM Internship Application.
If you have any questions, please email Mario Villanueva at mariov@mexic-artemuseum.org.
About Mexic-Arte Museum
Mexic-Arte Museum is dedicated to cultural enrichment and education through the collection, preservation and presentation of traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art and culture to promote dialogue and develop understanding for visitors of all ages.
