The Penobscot Marine Museum seeks two full-time museum interns for summer 2019. These are general museum internships providing hands-on work experience in the daily operations of a medium-sized museum. Interns will actively participate in multiple departments including visitor’s services, education, curatorial, marketing, and photo archives. This is an excellent opportunity for a student who would like to learn more about the variety of jobs available in the museum field, and also can be tailored for a more specific experience. About 40% of the internship will be public programming and the remaining 60% will be spent on other projects. These internships will include visits to local cultural institutions.

Internship Duties:

•  Lead daily public programming 3 or 4 days a week
• Attend daily front line staff meetings
• Assist with or lead 2 weeklong children’s camps
• Contribute to PMM’s Facebook and Instagram accounts
• Assist with special events
• Complete a short-term curatorial project such as cataloguing, numbering, and rehousing new acquisitions or identifying objects and writing interpretive labels for the 2020 exhibit
• Complete a short-term photo archives project such as scanning and cataloguing a selection of the Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
• In the second half of the internship, complete a larger project in the department of the intern’s choosing
• Open and close the Savage Education Center
• Staff the front desk for a half hour 3-4 times a week

Internship Length and Dates:

• 8 weeks
• June 13 - August 8, 2019
• July 4^th is a work day
• Work some nights and every other weekend
• 40 hours a week

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from an undergraduate program or graduate program in museum studies, history, public history, archival studies, library science with concentration in archives and special collections, education, material culture, or related field
• Coursework in history and/or education
• Interest in museums and/or maritime history
• Experience working with children
• Experience working with the public
• Excellent computer skills
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and social media
• Familiarity with PastPerfect a plus, training available
• Must be willing to work some weekends

Compensation

• $12/hour
• PMM will provide assistance locating housing, if desired. On-site housing may also be available.

Review of applicants will begin February 15^th, 2019 and will continue until the positions are filled. Please submit cover letter, resume, writing sample, transcripts (official or unofficial) and one letter of recommendation to Jeana Ganskop at jganskop@pmm-maine.org.

The Midwest Archives Conference is soliciting applications for the 2019 Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Minority Students. The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival administration and to encourage ethnic diversification of the MAC membership and of the archival profession as a whole. Two $750 scholarships, accompanied by one-year memberships to MAC, will be awarded. Applications are due in March 1. Further details can be found at this site http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley.

YOU'RE INVITED

WHAT: A Day of Service for Maine Citizens, part of inauguration activities for Gov-Elect Mills.* Agencies and organizations organize a volunteer project that aligns with their needs and role in the community. As part of the inauguration activities and call to service, citizens will be asked to go to a website, select a project, and sign up to show up.

*this is a nonpartisan opportunity for all Maine organizations.

WHEN: Saturday, January 5, time determined by you.

WHERE: The location you designate for your project.

 

YOUR OPPORTUNITY: Showcase your organization, the power of citizen service, and get something done!

WHY: 

- Give Mainers an immediate opportunity to respond to the call for service from Gov-elect Mills;

-  Give local organizations a chance to reach new potential volunteers

- Highlight the essential and varied volunteer-driven services in communities

WHAT TO DO, ASAP:

- Identify a project or significant task that could be accomplished in 4-8 hours with the help of volunteers.

- Register that project here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/jan5maine

HOW TO ENSURE VOLUNTEERS FIND YOU: Register the project as soon as possible. The inauguration committee wants to start promoting the day of service around Dec 13. The early bird will catch the worm!

 

WHAT WEBSITE WILL HAVE THE LIST: Stay tuned. That decision is in the works. One thing to know is that you can specify how many volunteers you need. The site reportedly will close the project as “sold out” when your volunteer opportunities are filled.

QUESTIONS? Contact Adrienne Carmack, Maine Commission for Community Service, 207-624-7785, January5ServiceDay@volunteermaine.org

Saturday, December 8, 2018, 10:00 a.m. 

Waterville Public Library and Alfond Commons Chase Forum

Join the Colby College Museum of Art in a full day of activities. Starting at the Waterville Public Library from 1:00-2:00 p.m. the artist, Carly Glovinski will be present to sign copies of the newly published Currents 8: Carly Glovinski catalogue. From 2:00-4:00 p.m., join us at the Alfond Commons Chase Forum where you can create, design, and write your own storybook.

Saturday, December 1, 2018, 10:00 a.m. 

Mirken Education Center

The Museum invites adults and children of all ages to drop in and make glowing holiday ornaments using decorative paper, LED lights and button batteries. This free workshop is open to ages 5 and up. No RSVP required.

Saturday, November 17, 2018, 11:00 a.m. 

William D. Adams Gallery

After a brief exploration of the Museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art.

Thursday, November 15, 2018, Noon 

Paul J. Schupf Wing

In 1996, interdisciplinary artist, Gustavo Aguilar, experienced a moment of psychic disequilibrium that prompted him to examine what it meant to identify himself as an American artist. Set against the backdrop of Aguilar’s bordertown hometown of Brownsville, Texas, Ah, Raza! The Making of an American Artist traces a line of continuity to the spaces that have mapped themselves out onto him, and to the people whose dispositions are also his own.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018, Noon 

Museum Galleries

Diana Tuite, curator of the exhibition Self and Society: The Norma Boom Marin Collection of German Expressionist Prints, will be joined by Katherine Hollander, Faculty Fellow in History, for a discussion of Germany’s social, political, and cultural upheaval during and after World War I.

Saturday, November 3, 2018, 11:00 a.m. 

William D. Adams Gallery

After a brief exploration of the Museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art.

Friday, November 2, 2018, Noon 
Colby College Museum of Art

Artist and writer Jenna Crowder will speak with Carly Glovinski about the list of books, essays, and poems that Crowder developed in resonance with Glovinski’s exhibition Currents 8. Introduced by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibition.