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Inner-City Arts is founded on the belief that the arts and creativity are transformational. The organization's mission is to engage young people in the creative process in order to shape a society of creative, confident, and collaborative individuals. For K-12 students, we offer age-specific, sequential arts education across all art forms, both during and outside the school day. Students work alongside professional teaching artists in our well-equipped visual, media, and performing arts studios. For educators, caregivers, and parents, we provide strategies for arts education integration as well as a season of performances for the community in our theater.

Through the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program, Inner-City Arts seeks an intern with a strong interest in arts education and a desire to empower the creative development of youth in a variety of art forms offered in our various summer programs.

For nearly 30 years, the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program has funded paid summer internships at museums and visual arts organizations across LA. The internships are for outstanding students who are members of groups underrepresented in museums and visual arts organizations, including but not limited to individuals of African American, Asian, Latinx/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent.

Responsibilities
The primary focus of this internship position is to support the successful implementation of our programs for the summer:

SPLASH: Waves of Creativity – a full-day experience for elementary students completing grades K-5. The two-week program allows their imaginations to blossom through the visual, performing, and media arts with experienced teaching artists.

• Serve as a camp counselor to a selected age group
• Participate in the studio as needed
• Design and facilitate activities for students between classes
• Support administrative duties

Summer Institutes – daily art classes for grades 6-12 over two weeks. Students can self-select from a wide variety of classes, from ceramics and photography to rock band and graphic design.

• Support administrative duties
• Participate in the studio as needed

Historical arts archive project

• Review and curate decades of student artwork from Inner-City Arts' school-day and after-school programs
• Develop curatorial themes and select representative pieces in drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, and other visual art forms
• Research historical context and draft interpretive labels that tell the story of Inner-City Arts' artistic legacy
• Collaborate with program staff on exhibition layout, presentation, and visitor experience
• Conduct interviews with teaching artists and former staff to provide narrative context for the archives

Work of Art – a college and career exploration program designed to prepare creative teens with the skills, training, and real-world experience necessary to prepare them for life beyond high school.

• Support with curation of Permanent Collection Exhibition Opening

The interns will work alongside arts education professionals and nonprofit leadership to develop an understanding of the various roles and responsibilities in nonprofit youth programming. Inner-City Arts will collaborate with selected interns to design an individualized work plan that supports the interns’ career goals while supporting the youth we serve. The intern will also support the curation of various artworks created by youth across our programs.

In addition to completing supervisor-assigned projects and tasks during the summer, Getty Marrow Undergraduate Interns must attend three mandatory educational events organized by the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program and submit an end-of-internship evaluation.

Desired qualifications and skills

• Passion for supporting arts education initiatives that foster youth development
• Keen interest and/or ability to work with K-12 youth and other young adults
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and technical skills
• Project management
• Initiative to take leadership and support a team
• Ability to work well independently and with colleagues
• Willingness to support curation procedures in both digital and physical spaces

Eligibility
To be eligible for the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program, students must:

Be a member of a group underrepresented in careers related to art conservation, museums, and/or visual arts organizations, which can include groups defined by — among other things — socioeconomic status, cultural background, physical or other disability, geographical origin, and/or any life experiences that add diverse and underrepresented perspectives.

Be currently enrolled as a full-time undergraduate in either a bachelor’s degree program or an associate’s degree program. Students must have completed at least one semester or two quarters of college by June. Students who graduated the semester or quarter immediately before the internship begins are also eligible. (Students who are enrolled in a second BA or BS program are not eligible.)

Attend college in or be a permanent resident of LA County; and be a United States citizen or permanent resident (non-citizen authorized to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis; also known as a "green card" holder). Students with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) status valid through the internship period are also eligible.

Getty Marrow Undergraduate interns can participate multiple times, but must intern at a different organization each summer.

Candidates are not eligible if

• They have previously served as Getty Marrow Undergraduate summer interns at Inner-City Arts
• They have received a prior bachelor’s or higher degree

Terms
The internships are full-time (40 hours/week) positions, with a consecutive ten-week work period between June 1 and August 7, 2026. Each intern is paid $7,150 for the summer.

General hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

To apply
Please send a resume and cover letter to the Hiring Committee via email to artsedjobs@inner-cityarts.org with the subject “Getty Marrow Arts Education Internship.”

Department: Development
Reports to: Senior Director of Development

Inner-City Arts is an oasis of learning, creativity, and achievement in the heart of Skid Row and is a vital partner in creating a safer, healthier Los Angeles. Since its inception in 1989, Inner-City Arts has provided hands-on arts instruction to more than 210,000 public school students and 10,000 educators in the Los Angeles area. Every year, more than 5,000 elementary and middle school students from the most underserved urban neighborhoods receive high-quality arts experiences during the school day on the Inner-City Arts campus. After school, on weekends, and during the summer, more than 1,000 middle and high school students engage in self-select workshops at Inner-City Arts. In all this time, Inner-City Arts has partnered with LAUSD and countless community collaborators to provide transformational learning that meets the needs of area students.

The position: The Development and Fundraising Intern will be a pivotal member of our fundraising team and gain first-hand experience in stewarding individual donors, performing grant research, writing four– to six-figure grant applications, learning best practices for fundraising, and navigating the user interface and key features of Salesforce. The intern will gain a comprehensive understanding of the functions of an arts education organization. This position is expected to entail 30-40 hours of work per week between June and September. To learn more, please visit the LACDAC website.

Position requirements:

2026 Arts Internship positions will be open to currently enrolled undergraduate (2– or 4-year) and community college students who reside or attend college in Los Angeles County. Recent graduates may apply as long as they have completed their degree between May 1 and December 1, 2025. The LA County Department of Arts and Culture encourages eligible students from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as disabled students to apply. Eligible students may participate in the program only once.

• Students who have already earned a BA, BS, or a higher degree are not eligible for the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program.
• Students who have previously participated in the program are not eligible to participate a second time.
• Students must be legally qualified to work in the United States.
• Students who are invited to participate in the program will be asked to provide verification of eligibility via college transcripts, driver’s license, and other documents to show enrollment status and/or LA County residence.

Minimum qualifications:

Strong candidates will possess the following:

• Interest in arts education programming and addressing the needs of underserved youth
• Strong writing, research, communication, and critical-thinking skills
• Strong sense of professionalism and personal responsibility
• Willingness to take initiative, ask questions, and learn new skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask
• A basic understanding or willingness to learn project management, along with being comfortable working with a project team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and experience with or willingness to learn Excel
• Willingness to learn or grow knowledge of Salesforce CRM, Squarespace, Asana, social media, and other relevant software

Location
720 Kohler Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Compensation
Hourly rate of $18.47 for 400 hours

To apply
Please email your resume and cover letter as a single PDF document to Inner-City Arts Development Operations Associate Sarah Tytus at sarah@inner-cityarts.org with the subject “Development and Fundraising Intern.”

Inner-City Arts engages employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition or information, family care status, military caregiver status, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. All who believe they meet the stated qualifications are invited to apply. Inner-City Arts is an equal opportunity employer.