Organization:
Access Gallery is a non-profit artist-run-centre and acts as an important platform for emergent
and experimental art practices in Vancouver. Our mandate is to enable critical conversations
and risk-taking through new configurations of audience, artists and community. For more
information about Access Gallery, please visit our website at: www.accessgallery.ca
Description:
Internships are project specific and are structured around one or more of the following
focuses, in consultation with the Director/Curator (* denotes the position of most significance
for this time frame)
* Residency Administration Assistant: the role of this position is to assist the Director/Curator
in administrating the organization’s new travelling artist residency, Twenty-three Days at Sea.
Tasks will include correspondence with selected residency artists, booking flights, hotels etc,
updating website and social media with residency info and announcements, and assisting the
Director/Curator and Development Committee on running the Residency Kickstarter
fundraising campaign.
Qualifications:
- strong written and verbal communication skills
- experience with databases an asset
- ability to work to deadline
- self-directed work ethic
- ability to work independently or in a team
Other possible positions:
Exhibition and Event Documentation: the role of this intern will be to photo- and videodocument the numerous programming events and exhibition held throughout the spring
season
Qualifications:
• Strong photo skills, particularly of installation/exhibition documentation and working
under lights
• Strong post-production skills, adobe photoshop, illustrator, video editing
• Self-directed work ethic, ability to work to deadline
Digital Archive Management: We have spent summer 2014 reorganizing, preserving and
cataloguing Access' significant material archive. The next step will be to organize and
catalogue the digital archive. This position will have the opportunity to curate from the digital
archive a series of images to feature on the online archive/access website
Qualifications:
• strong organizational, time-management and communication skills
• experience working with administrative or archival systems or similar projects
• self-directed work ethic
• archiving experience an asset
Communications Assistant: the role of this position is to assist in generating and circulating
the Director/Curator in all communications emanating from the Gallery, including press
releases, social media, e-mailouts, website updates.
Qualifications:
• excellent written and oral language skills
• proven experience with wordpress, tumblr
• proven experience with twitter, instagram
• self-directed work ethic
• highly sensitive to timelines and deadlines
• excellent communication skills
Access is seeking Internship applicants for the Summer 2015 semester. This is a 16-week
contract (May-August 2015) with a possibility to extend, if appropriate. The successful
candidate will be expected to complete 120 hours of service (7-10 hours/wk) over the course of
the term. Must be willing to work Saturdays.
Organization contact:
Kimberly Phillips
Deadline to apply:
Send applications to Chelsea Hunter, Internship coordinator, by no later than April 20, 2015,
4:00pm.