125 PAID! Internships in the Arts Available in LA this Summer

Los Angeles County, through its Arts Commission, has given grants
totaling $496,000 to 87 performing, literary, media and municipal arts
organizations throughout Los Angeles County to support paid internships
for college undergraduates in summer 2008.

Descriptions of and contacts for the 125 internship positions are posted
on the Arts Commission's web site. Go to www.lacountyarts.org
, click on Internships, then 2008
Internship Positions. The direct link is
http://www.lacountyarts.org/internship_2008.pdf

Full-time college undergraduates either resident in or attending school
in Los Angeles County are eligible for the internships. Interns must
also have completed at least one semester of college by June 2008 and
must not graduate before December 2008. Interns are paid $350 per week,
for 40 hours a week, for 10 weeks and take part in educational and arts
networking activities. Through the program, interns gain a deeper
understanding of the work involved in nonprofit arts administration and
the role of the arts in a community, and develop business skills that
can be put to use in their future careers. Internship host organizations
help mold and shape potential new workers in the arts field who may go
on to arts leadership positions on staffs, boards or as volunteers.

Interested undergraduates should apply directly to the organization
offering the internship, not the Arts Commission. General information on
the internship program is also available at
http://www.lacountyarts.org/internship.html