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YUAG - Hume Intern - ADA
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Job ID 26388
Employer Art Gallery, Yale
Employer Type On Campus
Category Office / Administrative
Job Type On-Campus Jobs
Job Description

The Department of American Decorative Arts seeks an undergraduate student to serve as the 2024-25 Hume Research Intern. The intern will work in the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center under the direction of Eric Litke, Museum Assistant, with additional instruction from the curators of American furniture. The intern will work with the collection as well as with the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, b.a. 1971, Sack Family Archive, located in the Hume Furniture Study. The range of tasks may include undertaking infrared and regular photography to record marks, inscriptions, and salient construction and decorative features, to be made available through the Gallery’s website, and digitizing archival film and photographs toward developing content on the Israel Sack, Inc., Archive, now available on JSTOR. The internship will be based at Yale West Campus.
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Eligibility and Requirements
Internships will be awarded to students who demonstrate superior performance in their respective fields. Applications must include the following:

  • A cover letter describing the relevance of the internship to your larger goals
  • A résumé or CV
  • An unofficial transcript of your undergraduate or graduate record
  • Two letters of recommendation (submitted directly by your references)

Letters of recommendation should be submitted directly by the recommenders to yuag.interns@yale.edu. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.

For more information or to apply, visit: artgallery.yale.edu/careers-and-fellowships.

**All candidates applying for jobs at the Art Gallery will be subject to pre-employment screening. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
Compensation $15.75/hour
Job Level FY24: Level I
Hours 10.0 hours per week
Primary Contact Eric Litke
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