Art Enables welcomes interns and volunteers
Art Enables is an arts studio, a social service program. a gallery, an arts retailer. Art Enables does its own framing, produces its own graphic designs for brochures and reports, conducts its own fundraising campaigns among foundations and corporate and private donors, maps its own strategy, contributes in the larger arena to standards and strategies for arts and disabilities programming--sweeps its own floors.
In other words, whatever your interests or talents, we can use your energy and intelligence in the studio.
Volunteers
Potential volunteers are invited to come to the studio to talk with staff about their strengths and interests and to see if the program is a good fit for them.
Volunteers become an integral part of the Art Enables operation and need, above all, to be reliable
Internships
Art Enables offers unpaid internships linked to courses for credit and to the fulfillment of community service hours.
Interns often come from fine and studio arts programs, but interns from other disciplines are also welcome -- arts and nonprofit management, marketing, communications, social services.
Art Enables has hosted interns from George Washington University, Maryland Institute College of Arts, Gallaudet University, Maret School, the State Department, the Mayor's Office Summer Youth Employment Program.
Some typical daily tasks of a volunteer/intern...
Facilitate studio sessions
Assist artists in signing in, getting started, cleaning up
Help with supplies, visuals, technical questions
Supervise lunch and coffee break
Exhibits and presentation
Shrink-wrap and frame artwork, repaint walls, hang artwork,
Print/cut/fold greeting cards and brochures
Housekeeping
Pick up supplies, deliver artwork to outside venues
Prepare mailings
Bartend, write up sales, wrap artwork at studio shows
Other totally random duties as assigned (!)
To learn more or talk to us about interning/volunteering with Art Enables, call for an appointment -- 202.554.9455 -- or email us.
