Internships

Beginning Fall Semester 2024 and running through Spring Semester 2025, MOCA has two paid internship positions available, intended to give UNF students the opportunity to participate in and support scholarly research related to the upcoming exhibition at MOCA Jacksonville, 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 80 cutting-edge Modernist artists including George Ault, Peggy Bacon, Charles DeMuth, John Dos Passos, Marsden Hartley, Thomas Hart Benton 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. Selected students will receive a stipend of $1,000 per term. The internship may be taken as a directed independent study for academic credit.

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and their families? 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) creating a fine art experience for pediatric patients. Students complete four hours a week for 50-60 hours by the end of the semester.

Requirements

AWAH Intern Coordinator Jillian Swanson contacts students selected by Professor Jason John with set-up details. Students must complete vaccination records, a Tuberculosis test, COVID vaccination (unless exempt), a background check, drug test and flu shot. Students create an account through the myClinicalExchange medical portal and sign the Wolfson Children’s Hospital Student and Faculty Compliance Manual before attending orientation.

Goals of the Internship

1. Teach children drawing and painting techniques either in their room or in a community room at the hospital.
2. Perform bedside drawings for patients who cannot leave their room due to severe medical conditions.
3. Expose children to art through lessons in specific mediums and techniques.
4. Instill the importance of art in children — several former patients have gone on to become interns themselves.
5. Exhibit an art piece at the end of the semester that expresses your experience and what you witnessed during the internship.