Stanford in New York Internships

We are neither ivory-tower elitists nor superficial stylists. We believe in both ideas and profitability. While we are well-versed in the ongoing development of architectural theories, our expertise and ambition extends beyond the discussion and design of buildings. We look at an entire project and consider the site, the cultural and economic environment, a client's physical needs and budget constraints, as well as construction techniques, branding, marketing, and post-occupancy issues. We use evolving computer-aided design technologies not only to produce innovative architectural forms but to streamline the design and construction process and create new efficiencies and cost-savings. Great architecture demands that design, finance, and technology work together - we're combining these forces in innovative ways to create a new model for the profession. Seventeen years ago we set out to prove that intelligent, exciting, evocative architecture can be made in the real world, with real world constraints. We believe our work presents a convincing argument that we were right.

Opportunities available in building models, graphic presentation, participating in a design charrette for competition, participating on a design team, supporting firm for a globally significant project, help with marketing and putting together RFPs and RFQs, and more.

Partnerships with additional architectural firms are in the process of being developed.

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The Municipal Art Society is New York’s leading organization dedicated to creating a more livable city. For 120 years, MAS—a nonprofit membership organization—has been committed to promoting New York City’s economic vitality, cultural vibrancy, environmental sustainability and social diversity. Working to protect the best of New York’s existing landscape, from landmarks and historic districts to public open spaces, MAS encourages visionary design, planning and architecture that promote resilience and the livability of New York. Opportunities in civic engagement, policy, and planning and design.

Opportunities to work in the Murals & Monuments program, the Brownsville neighborhood community project, zoning issues, the Penn Station planning project, the Urban Design and Planning Library, education programs through the NYC Housing Authority, preservation policy, communications, event planning, and more.

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The Department of City Planning promotes housing production and affordability, fosters economic development and coordinated investments in infrastructure and services, and supports resilient, sustainable communities across the five boroughs for a more equitable New York City.

Opportunities in physical and land planning, policy, zoning, public-private partnerships, neighborhood studies, and urban design. Projects are both citywide and within boroughs and include sustainable community initiatives, climate resilience planning, green initiatives, public space design, active design, waterfront plans, pollution control, and much more.

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New York Restoration Project (NYRP) is a non-profit organization driven by the conviction that all New Yorkers deserve beautiful, high-quality public space within ready walking distance of their homes. Since our founding in 1995 by Bette Midler, NYRP has planted trees, renovated gardens, restored parks, and transformed open space for communities throughout New York City’s five boroughs. As New York’s only citywide conservancy, we bring private resources to spaces that lack adequate municipal support, fortifying the City’s aging infrastructure and creating a healthier environment for those who live in the most densely populated and least green neighborhoods.

Opportunities available in areas such as the Arts ACE program in Brooklyn or the Bronx, urban planning (landscape design and construction, community gardens), and neighborhood development projects.

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Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A Brewer

Gale A. Brewer is the 27th Manhattan Borough President, responsible for advising the Mayor and City Council on borough concerns, commenting on all land-use matters in the borough, advocating for the borough in the municipal budget process, and appointing members of Manhattan's 12 Community Boards. The Borough President also chairs the Borough Board, made up of City Council Members and Chairs from the Community Boards, and the Borough Services Cabinet, composed of senior officials from City agencies delivering services in the borough.

Fourth Arts Block

Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) is leading the development of the East 4th Street Cultural District, the only cultural district in Manhattan. Together with our members, we are building a permanent home for the arts and preserving the block's unique creative environment. Opportunities for art and advocacy in relation to urban planning.

Project for Public Spaces

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design and educational organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities. Our pioneering Placemaking approach helps citizens transform their public spaces into vital places that highlight local assets, spur rejuvenation and serve common needs.

Visual AIDS is a highly respected art/activist organization that uses creative practice to provoke dialogue around HIV/AIDS and support of HIV+ artists.

Opportunities to take on specific projects from start to finish, such as working alongside the web developer for the digitalization of the Archive Project, or work on multiple projects, such as helping with exhibition preparation, and daily administrative duties. As an organization with a small staff, interns have the opportunity to engage with all aspects of the organization on an intimate level and have quite a bit of creative license over the type of work and projects that they would work on.

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Judd Foundation maintains and preserves Donald Judd's permanently installed living and working spaces, libraries, and archives in New York and Marfa, Texas. The Foundation promotes a wider understanding of Judd’s artistic legacy by providing access to these spaces and resources and by developing scholarly and educational programs.

Opportunities in development (fundraising, including grants writing, correspondence with donors, developing promotional materials and reporting visitor service); visitor services (escorting Guided Public Visits and working directly with the public); catalogue raisonné (exhibition catalogue research, in-depth research into possible Judd collectors, both private and public, scanning of archival materials, administration); administration (gain valuable administrative skills and learn the day-to-day operation of an arts non-profit; projects include the maintenance of our eTapestry constituent database, website development, editing transcripts from our Oral History Project and working with the press archive). Interns can focus on one area or a few areas depending on the intern’s interest and Judd Foundation’s needs.

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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation fosters the legacy of the artist’s life, work, and philosophy that art can change the world. We increase access to Rauschenberg’s art and archives, promote and support new scholarship on his work, offer a residency program for artists of all disciplines, and support initiatives, through grants and programs, at the intersection of arts and ideas.

Opportunities in the curatorial department and in the artist’s archives. The foundation has just hired its first senior archivist and they are just beginning to process the artist’s archives. The intern will be involved in all aspects of this important and exciting project: handling archival documents, conducting related research, entering corresponding data, etc. Depending on the candidate’s abilities, they may involve him/her in generating new content for our website. They will discuss with the candidate a potential independent research project, possibly related to an interest sparked by the unplumbed depths of the archives, which would then be featured on the website.

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High Line Art presents a wide array of artwork including site-specific commissions, exhibitions, performances, video programs, and a series of billboard interventions. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator & Director of High Line Art, and produced by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the uniqueness of the architecture, history, and design of the High Line and to foster a productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape.

Opportunities to work with the curator and communications manager on social media, internal communication, research projects, interaction with artists and galleries for materials, on-site production help for performances, visitor interaction, and more.

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Chelsea Restoration is a widely recognized and respected restoration studio in New York and throughout the country. For the past 10 years Chelsea Restoration has provided excellent and valuable service to art dealers, private collectors, institutions, auction houses, galleries, corporations, insurance companies and many others with a love of paintings. During their partnership John and Amy have treated as many as 10,000 paintings from Old Master to Minimalism. The chief goal of each project is to remain true to the artist’s vision while preserving the work and ensuring it is presented as closely as possible to its original state.

Opportunity to learn the ins and outs of a painting restoration studio and participate in a wide array of projects, working closely with owners/restorers.

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Artsy's mission is to make all of the world's art available to anyone with an Internet connection. Our platform allows users to discover, learn about, and purchase art by building the world's largest online database of contemporary art, furnished by art galleries, museums, foundations, and fairs around the world.

Internships are available at Artsy across our various teams. Positions include: Gallery Relations Intern, Curatorial Intern, Art Fair Relations Intern, Artwork Sales Intern, Editorial Intern, Communications Intern, Operations Intern, and Research Intern on The Art Genome Project.

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Rhizome

Rhizome supports contemporary art that creates richer and more critical digital cultures. As an arts organization based on the internet, we re-think artistic creation, distribution, and reception in relation to changing conditions associated with network technologies: shifting attentions, uncertain objects, multiple authors, casual labors. An affiliate in residence at the New Museum in New York, we are a leading international organization to support art and technology, online since 1996. 

Pioneer Works

Pioneer Works Center for Arts and Innovation is dedicated to the creation, synthesis and discussion of art, science and education. Located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Center gathers artists, scientists and creative thinkers to collaborate outside the boundaries of traditional institutions where specialization often limits the application of ideas across disciplines. Through a community devoted to creative discourse and collaboration, Pioneer Works is a platform where ideas can manifest into their fullest expression. The Center enacts its vision for a more complex, creative and productive society through educational programming, exhibitions, publications, residencies, lectures and performances.

Storefront for Art & Architecture

Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Our program of exhibitions, artists talks, film screenings, conferences and publications is intended to generate dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries. As a public forum for emerging voices, Storefront explores vital issues in art and architecture with the intent of increasing awareness of and interest in contemporary design.

Sothebys

Sotheby’s is an innovative global art business serving the most discerning clients. Auctioneers since 1744, today Sotheby’s is so much more, offering clients extraordinary opportunities to transact: S|2 private sales galleries, worldwide selling exhibitions, retail wine and diamonds, financing, art education and digital engagement any time, anywhere, on any device. We bring a world of art to a new world.

The Drawing Center

The Drawing Center is the only fine arts institution in the U.S. to focus solely on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. It was established in 1977 by curator Martha Beck (1938-2014) to provide opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists; to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history; and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture.

Creative Time

Over the past four decades, Creative Time has commissioned and presented ambitious public art projects with thousands of artists throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and now even in outer space. Our work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression. We are acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects we have commissioned, from Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated lower Manhattan six months after 9/11, to bus ads promoting HIV awareness, to Paul Chan’s production of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, and much more. In partnership with a variety of well-known cultural institutions and community groups, we have commissioned art in unique landmark sites from the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Governors Island, and the High Line, to neglected urban treasures like the Lower East Side’s historic Essex Street Market, Coney Island, and New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward. We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

David Zwirner Gallery

Gagosian Gallery

From its lower Manhattan home, Battery Dance Company has connected the world through dance for nearly 40 years. The Company pursues artistic excellence and social relevance by creating vibrant new choreography, performing on the world's stages, presenting dance in public spaces, serving the field of dance and teaching people of all ages with special attention to the disadvantaged and areas of conflict. Battery Dance Company is committed to enhancing the cultural vibrancy of its home community in New York City, extending programming throughout the U.S., and building bridges worldwide through international cultural exchange.

Battery Dance Company seeks highly motivated students who wish to work with a small staff of expert cultural diplomats, exploring the inner workings of a vibrant arts organization that is deeply committed to social impact. Among the many individually tailored internship opportunities at Battery Dance Company’s Tribeca offices and studios, the Company offers hands-on programs that combine program management, arts management, finance (budgeting and strategic planning), program evaluation and statistical analysis, social media, writing and editing.

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Choreographer Parijat Desai creates and performs contemporary dance that engages boundaries of culture and nation — and moves beyond them. She develops new vocabularies by blending old and new forms, and is currently exploring intersections between movement, site, and film in India.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming.

Opportunities exist in all aspects of the museum’s work: from working in the education department with high school students who want to be designers or teachers doing “design thinking” training; to all sorts of public programming around the museum (e.g., designer meet ups, hands on workshops and demonstrations, design by hand projects); to technology and the arts around badging projects, for example; to working with curators on upcoming exhibits, and more.

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For 20 years, LaPlaca Cohen has helped many of the world's leading cultural and creative organizations build powerful connections and achieve greater impact through strategy, design, and advertising solutions. We have been privileged to work with clients who span the spectrum of the cultural and creative fields, including leading museums, theaters, orchestras, dance companies, architecture firms, foundations, corporate sponsors and collectors. Our integrated range of services includes identity positioning, strategic planning, mission and vision development, market and audience research, as well as graphic design of organizational identity systems, advertising campaigns, communications collateral materials, websites and signage.

Position: Strategy & Trends Intern will be an integral part of a small Strategy & Branding team, a role that requires enthusiastic teamwork, adventurous thinking, and powerful research and writing skills. The Intern will gain valuable insight into the dynamics of the relationships between cultural organizations and the consulting firms they retain to support their artistic missions and engage broader audiences, in addition to the macro-level trends of 21st century cultural audiences at large.

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The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition.

Potential opportunities to work with preparators or building models with 3D designers.

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Museum of Arts & Design

Smart Design

Quirky

Founded in 1970, MTC is committed to the creation of new plays and musicals through an intensive Artistic Development Program that offers commissions, script evaluation, dramaturgical support, readings and workshops. Using the work on its stages, MTC’s Education Program promotes active participation in the arts through in-class instruction, student and family matinees, teacher training, internships and internet-based distance learning. In constantly seeking new ways to innovate, MTC keeps theatre alive and relevant.

Opportunities exist to experience the business side of the theater and see how a theater company functions by working, for example in institutional giving and marketing.

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The 52nd Street Project is an organization that creates original theater with inner-city children and volunteer theater artists.

Opportunities in all aspects of production, classes, and administration. This position is extremely hands-on. The intern will work closely with the staff, with children in classes and rehearsals, as well as with a number of professional actors, directors, designers, and stage managers from the New York theater community.

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The only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, contemporary, and experimental pieces in equal measure, The Public serves as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force in leading and framing dialogue on important issues of our day. These core democratic values, set in place by its visionary founder, Joseph Papp, inform all aspects of The Public’s activities.

Opportunities available in areas such as producing, development, management, Joe’s Pub, the literary department, special events, the Mobile Shakespeare Unit, Public Works, and Under the Radar.

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PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons' 43-year-old mission is unique; we are the only major theater in New York with this specific mission. We have distinguished ourselves by the caliber of our work and our steadfast commitment to the voice of the American writer. It is a mission that is always timely, and it is essential to the future of the American theater.

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BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) is a multi-arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. For more than 150 years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters.

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Roundabout Theater Company

Songza