Brief Description
of the Internship
Among the many other opportunities for our unpaid Internships include web site
design; working with artists; fundraising and general administration. After
Interns become familiar with the Furnace and its diverse activities, they may
request time to work on a special project of their own design.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of word processing (WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows) and HTML and/or web
site construction experience helpful but not essential. Previous arts administration
and/or archiving/cataloguing experience useful. Knowledge and/or course work
in contemporary art history a plus, but not necessary. All that's really required
is a burning desire to work with cutting-edge arts. We offer a rare opportunity
to work closely with the staff of a vital avant-garde organization, a chance
to get an insider's view while providing much-needed assistance for our continued
growth.
Application
procedure
Please send resume with cover letter by e- or snail-mail. Franklin Furnace will
reply to all applications, and if appropriate, an interview may be arranged.
Salary
Unpaid. School credit can be arranged.
Room and Board
You must make your own housing arrangements. If you are coming from overseas,
you are responsible for arranging your Visa requirements.
Brief Description
of the Organization
Since its inception in 1976, Franklin Furnace has boldly presented performance
art, temporary installations and other forms of temporal art. Ida Applebroog,
Eric Bogosian, David Cale, Willie Cole, Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Peña,
Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Tehching Hsieh, Theodora Skipitares, Michael Smith,
Annie Sprinkle, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Paul Zaloom are among the many artists
first presented in New York by Franklin Furnace. Franklin Furnace also functioned
as an artist book archive until 1993 at which point our collection of 13,500
works was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art to form the Museum of Modern
Art/Franklin Furnace/Artist Book Collection.
Franklin Furnace
supports performance artists with our Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance
Art; and is developing mainstream access to avant-garde art on the world wide
web in our live art on the internet program, THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT . We
are in the process of cataloguing and digitally preserving the seminal stories
of avant -garde art since the 1970s.
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