The School for Advanced Research, Indian Arts Research Center (IARC)
offers two nine-month internships to Native individuals who are recent
college graduates, current graduate students, or junior museum
professionals interested in furthering their professional museum
experience and enhancing their intellectual capacity for contributing to
the expanding field and discourse of museum studies. The internships,
located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, include a $2200 monthly stipend, housing,
book allowance, travel to one professional conference, and reimbursable
travel to and from SAR. The deadline to apply is March 30, 2011.
Established in 1978, the IARC houses a collection of over 12,000 items of
Native art of the Southwest. The goal of IARC is to bridge the divide
between art/creativity and research/scholarship by supporting initiatives
and projects that illuminate the intersections of the social sciences,
humanities, and arts. For more about the IARC, visit [
http://iarc.sarweb.org/ ]http://iarc.sarweb.org
Interns will devote their time to working on IARC education and programs,
directed research and writing activities, and collections management and
registration. In addition to daily duties, specific requirements include
presenting a research paper at the SAR Colloquium Series; attending a
national conference; providing tours of the IARC collection; and working
on outreach initiatives to Native communities.
The deadline to apply is March 30, 2011. All application materials
must be postmarked or time stamped by this date. There are no exceptions.
The internship period is September 1, 2011-May 31, 2012. Visit the website
to download the application: [ http://internships.sarweb.org/
]http://internships.sarweb.org.
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