1/1 Position Available
The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College has paid Academic Programming/Course Connection Intern positions, reporting directly to Academic Curator Salim Moore to support academic programs and integrate the Benton's collections and exhibitions into classes.
Tasks include:
- Researching the Benton's permanent collection and exhibition for virtual class visits
- Researching potential course connections with the museum
- Assisting with digital presentations of material for classes
- Assisting the Academic Curator with researching, planning, advertising and executing academic events, symposia, gallery talks and intern program events at the museum.
For specific questions about this internship, you may contact supervisor Salim Moore at salim.moore@pomona.edu. Interns can work up to 8 hours per week. Applications accepted through Handshake.
4/4 Positions Available
The Benton Museum of Art is offering paid, year-long internships in Education Outreach for the upcoming AY26-27 academic year. Supervised by K-12 Education Specialist Rich Deely, these internships provide a unique opportunity to develop and lead exhibition- and collection-based lessons, as well as contribute to new educational initiatives.
Interns will focus primarily on developing and delivering engaging content to area elementary classrooms and gallery-based on-site experiences for high school groups throughout the fall and spring semesters.
Responsibilities include:
- Researching the Benton's art collections
- Refining lesson plans
- Co-teaching with the education specialist
- Delivering current lesson series to grades 2, 3, 4, 6, as well as piloting lessons for other grades.
Beyond working with young learners, EO interns will create thematic tours and hands-on art activities for high school audiences based on the Benton's changing exhibitions. As part of this work, EO interns may also produce educational content videos or publications for use in either classrooms or galleries and collaborate with other K-12 audience-serving community organizations.
Candidates should have a background or strong interest in working with K-12 students and be available to meet and teach museum programs on Fridays during school hours. Individuals with prior experience or interest in public presentations, museum/art education, or art history are especially encouraged to apply.
For specific questions about the internship, contact Rich Deely at Richard.Deely@pomona.edu. Interns can work up to 8 hours per week, and applications are being accepted through Handshake.
Filled, no longer accepting applications
The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College has paid Gallery Talks Co-Director Intern positions, reporting to Director Victoria Sancho Lobis and Academic Curator Salim Moore to organize and run the ongoing gallery talk series from a student-centered perspective.
Responsibilities include:
- Organizing speakers to present recurring 20-minute focused talks in the museum galleries
- Researching exhibition content
- Researching and contacting potential speakers, including 7C students and faculty and the Claremont community
- Overseeing and moderating the talks and discussion
- Advertising the gallery talk series.
Interns will attend bi-weekly meetings with their cohort.
For specific questions about this internship, including when it might be posted again, you may contact supervisor Salim Moore at salim.moore@pomona.edu. Interns can work up to 8 hours per week. Applications accepted through Handshake.
Museum Ambassador
8/10 Positions Available
The Benton Museum of Art has a paid Museum Ambassador Internship, supervised by visitor services manager Nilofar Naraghi, available for both fall and spring semesters. This position will support the museum's front of house operations and will engage with audiences both public and campus-based on a regular basis. Students must be available for two 3 hour shifts per week during public hours from Thursday to Sunday.
Responsibilities include:
- Serving as attendants to protect artworks on view
- Staffing internal and external events
- Working with curatorial, collections, and education staff to draft talking points about current exhibitions
Museum Ambassadors should be highly personable in interacting with public and campus-based audiences while being attentive to protecting the artworks on view. Students who are multilingual are especially encouraged to apply.
For specific questions about this internship, you may contact supervisor Nilofar Naraghi at nilofar.naraghi@pomona.edu. Interns can work up to 8 hours per week. Applications accepted through Handshake.
1/2 Positions Available
The Museum is offering a paid internship position to support a myriad of programs and events produced at the Benton ranging from talks and lectures, artist-led workshops, festivals/fairs, student partnered events, guided tours and more.
Intern(s) are required to attend weekly planning meetings (day/time to be determined) as well as monthly internship development meetings culminating in a presentation at the end of the academic year. Interns must be able to accommodate shifts on late afternoons/evenings and weekends. Weekly commitment will vary, depending on the calendar of events at the Benton.
Responsibilities include:
- Publicizing Benton programs and events by distributing flyers across campus and posting on Engage
- Hosting, introducing, and supporting collaborative partners for co-sponsored events and artist-led workshops
- Reaching out to students/student groups across the consortium
- Contributing ideas to activate Benton exhibitions and collection through events and programs
- Engaging various audiences as event participant, host, and/or interlocutor
- Participating in production of programs and events from ideation to execution of logistics which may include setting up/breaking down tables and chairs to moderating Q&A
For specific questions about this internship, you may contact supervisor Justine Bae Bias at justine.bae@pomona.edu. interns will work an average of 4 hours/week. Applications accepted through Handshake.
