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Internship | Research Opportunity at MOCA for 2024 - 25

Beginning Fall Semester 2024, and running through Spring Semester 2025, MOCA has two paid internship positions available, intended to give the opportunity for UNF students to participate and support scholarly research related to the upcoming exhibition at MOCA Jacksonville, called “The Armory South: The 1924 Jacksonville Woman’s Club Exhibition Rediscovered.”

As part of MOCA’s 100 year anniversary events, UNF professor Dr. Scott P. Brown has been researching a forgotten but seminal Modernist exhibition mounted in March 1924 by the Woman’s Club of Jacksonville and the newly founded Jacksonville Fine Arts Society (now MOCA). The exhibition included nearly 200 works by more than eighty cutting edge Modernist artists, including George Ault, Peggy Bacon, Charles DeMuth, John Dos Passos, Wood Gaylor, Marsden Hartley, Thomas Hart Benton, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and many more. The Armory South will reassemble core works from this 1924 exhibition that in many ways marked the beginning of Modern art in the South.

Submissions accepted through August 9. Please see the application link below. The selected students will garner a stipend of $1,000 per term. The internship may be taken as a directed independent study for academic credit.

For a full description of the internship, review the Armory Fellows Internship on the MOCA Jacksonville website. 

Qualtrics link: https://survey.unf.edu/jfe/form/SV_ctEA2giy4kAzwsS

 

Internship | Art With A Heart at Wolfson Children’s Hospital 2024 - 25

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and their families? Do you dream of working in a dynamic healthcare setting where you can learn from experienced professionals and develop your skills in pediatric care? If so, the Wolfson Children's Hospital internship program through the University of North Florida could be the perfect opportunity for you.

The Art With A Heart Internship at Wolfson Children’s Hospital allows students to work with the nonprofit Art with a Heart in Healthcare (AWAH) at Wolfson Children's Hospital. In this internship, students work alongside AWAH staff creating a fine art experience for pediatric patients. Students are expected to complete four hours a week on their desired day for 50-60 hours by the end of the semester.

Requirements:

AWAH Intern Coordinator Jillian Swanson contacts students who Professor Jason John has selected with all the set-up details for the internship. Students are expected to complete requirements, such as records of vaccinations, Tuberculosis tests, COVID vaccination (unless exempt), background tests, drug tests, and Flu shots. Students create an account through the myClinicalExchange medical portal. All requirements will be uploaded and approved by an Internship Leader. Once approved, students must sign the Wolfson Children’s Hospital Student and Faculty Compliance Manual. Once the set-up process is complete interns will come to the hospital a week before the internship start week for an orientation covering all aspects of the internship and choose what day of the week they would like to come in.

Goals of the Internship:

  1. Teach children how to draw and paint: Interns teach students painting and drawing techniques either in their room or in a community room at the hospital. 
  2. Perform bedside drawings for the students: Interns draw upon request for patients who cannot leave their room due to severe medical conditions.
  3. Expose children to art: The intern's teaching involves lessons in art techniques in specific mediums. 
  4. Instill the importance of art to children: A few of my students were patients at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and went on to be interns.
  5. Exhibit an art piece that expresses your experience in the internship: At the end of the semester, students must complete an art piece in whatever medium they choose encompassing their experience and what they witnessed during their internship. The painting and drawing program meets with the students to provide feedback on the work. 

If interested in the Art With A Heart internship, please reach out to Jason John

Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at j.john@unf.edu