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Blaffer Art Museum Student Association (BAMSA)


      

The Blaffer Art Museum Student Association (BAMSA) was founded in 2005 with the goal to increase student participation in the museum community, enabling students to enrich their educational experience and the museum to reach an important audience.

Today, BAMSA builds a creative community open to students across disciplines that sparks students’ quest for knowledge and pursuit of artistic endeavors.



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Committee on Visual Culture

The museum also engages faculty and staff through the Committee on Visual Culture (CoVC), a forum that not only provides information about upcoming museum programs and available resources, but also encourages collaboration and provides a networking opportunity to connect peers across campus.

If you are a UH faculty and staff member who is interested in joining the CoVC, please e-mail kveneman@uh.edu.


Blaffer Student Internships

Apply today for the Blaffer Art Museum Spring Internship | Deadline 1/15/24!


Spring 2024 Internship, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (Scholarship $2000)

The internship is open to applicants who are juniors or seniors and to Graduate students at the University of Houston.

The internship in contemporary art at Blaffer Art Museum is mentored by education staff as they undertake diverse responsibilities in professional-level work at the museum. The intern will hone their applied research skills by contributing to educational and curatorial projects and programs at the museum and learn about planning, implementing, and evaluating public and educational programs.

The intern will develop interpretive programs that build and expand engagement with contemporary art in a university setting. Special attention will be directed toward the organization of original programs that connect with fellow UH students, the work of the Blaffer Art Museum Student Association (BAMSA), and to projects incorporating archival research.

Other projects may include assisting in curatorial research for upcoming exhibitions and programs; conducting archival projects; learning to write interpretive or pedagogical materials such as lesson plans; assisting in developing community and educational partnerships; contributing to evaluation practices.

Internships are ten hours per week.

General Requirements:

    • Juniors, seniors, or graduate students at the University of Houston. Strong background in art, art history, arts education, arts leadership, cultural history, aesthetics preferred.
    • Strong Interest in contemporary art and initiative in learning museum practices.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    • Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills. Ability to set and meet deadlines.
    • Interest in learning library-based, archival, and online research for exhibitions and programs.

May include research for upcoming exhibitions, archival projects.

  • Flexible work style; ability to work collaboratively and individually.
  • Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: arts education/teaching; knowledge of Adobe software and/or digital platforms; language skills.

Application Deadline: January 15, 2024

To Apply: Fill out application available. Send with letter of interest, CV, unofficial transcript to Katherine Veneman, kveneman@uh.edu.



Docents

Blaffer Art Museum Internship University of Houston


In general academically focused internships are offered to University of Houston students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students are encouraged to seek academic credit.

In partnership with the UH School of Art, one graduate student in the Master of Art History program is awarded the Blaffer Art Museum Fellowship in Contemporary Art History in support of a stipend for a year-long curatorial internship.

Blaffer Art Museum welcomes applications for internships in the fall, spring, and summer semesters, and they may be renewed for an additional semester subject to review.

The museum docent corps provides University of Houston students and local arts professionals with valuable teaching experience. Docents give dynamic, interactive tours of current Blaffer Art Museum exhibitions to college students and K-12 school groups, as well as to community groups of adults and kids.

Students serving as museum docents may be eligible for The Minette and Jerome Robinson Scholarship.