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What’s Up?

Happy Thanksgiving and a Reminder about Various Opportunities & Deadlines:

Huntington Museum and Library Internship W17 is Deadline Monday, November 28th: UCI’s Department of Art History and the Huntington Library and Gardens offer a three-month Curatorial Internship for Course Credit at the Huntington Museum and Library Winter Quarter of 2017 exclusively available to UCI art history majors, an unequaled opportunity to gain behind the scenes access and experience in curatorial work for students considering a museum career path. See additional details below.

Thursday December 1st, 2016 at 5:00 p.m: “Masterpieces of California Art” at the Irvine Museum<http://www.irvinemuseum.org/masterpieces_4.html>: Private tour and reception: View some of the amazing art coming to UCI’s new museum. See the invitation below, read about Irvine’s generous donation ( Joan Irvine Smith donates her California Impressionist Painting Collection to UCI Irvine for a new museum on campus <http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/tn-wknd-et-1106-irvine-impressionist-paintings-20161105-story.html> ) and RSVP today

Fall 2016 Sawyer Seminar Documenting War Series<http://sites.uci.edu/documentingwar/>: All events in this year-long program are free and open to the public. Explore the genres, rhetoric, and real effects of wartime documentation and postwar reflection, as carried out by journalists, soldiers, civilians, and artists in verbal, visual, and mixed media forms. The seminar is led by project co-directors Carol Burke, Professor of English, and Cécile Whiting, Chancellor’s Professor of Art History and Visual Studies.

Through November 29 in the Viewpoint Gallery, Student Center: War Diaries Exhibit and Panel<http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/calendar/events.php?recid=5988&dept_code_val=all&event_cat=current&file_name=events>

Wednesday, November 30, 4:00-5:30 p.m.: David Morris, "What We Talk About When We Are Talking About PTSD<http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/calendar/events.php?recid=5998&dept_code_val=all&event_cat=current&file_name=events>":

Documenting War continues winter and spring 2017 with lectures, symposia and exhibitions. Read more about the Sawyer Seminar here.<http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/about/press_release_det.php?id=201>  Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Huntington Internship Details: The intern will assist James Glisson (the Bradford and Christine Mishler Assistant Curator of American Art) with a variety of curatorial projects and various aspects of an upcoming exhibition on Frederick Eversley, the Los Angeles-based sculptor (currently the subject of a one-man show at Art + Practice) as well as researching potential acquisition candidates.

Duties may include handling photography and photo permissions, catalog research, and organizing archival research materials. The intern will learn how budgets, schedules, and exhibitions checklists come together during the crucial phase of planning exhibition. (S)he will have the opportunity to write a blog for the Huntington’s site on a topic relevant to his/her interests.

The student will enroll in a 199 Independent Study (4 units) with an art history faculty mentor while interning at the Huntington. The student will work at the Huntington one day a week for ten weeks, meet weekly with his/her mentor, and complete a short paper based on the internship experience. The total time commitment for this internship will run 10-12 hours a week including visits to the museum, offsite research and work with your faculty mentor.

Application Materials:
1.            1-page letter of interest explaining interest and qualifications for internship
2.            Combined GPA of 3.0 or higher in art history courses at UCI
3.            Resume (of no more than 2 pages) to include previous internships, work experience and art history courses completed at UCI (with final grades)
4.            Name of a member of the art history faculty who will provide a reference if needed (student must contact reference in advance and ask if he/she is willing to act as reference).

Note: The internship requires a candidate with discretion and good organizational skills.

Application Due Date: Monday, November 28, to Cecilia Flanagan, Undergraduate Coordinator, Humanities Gateway 2010 c.flanagan at uci.edu

Visit our website<http://www.humanities.uci.edu/arthistory/> and facebook page<https://www.facebook.com/ArtHistory.UCI/>, AHUA’s website<http://uciahua.weebly.com/about.html>, instagram<https://www.instagram.com/uciahua/> and facebook page<https://www.facebook.com/uci.ahua/events/>, follow us on twitter<https://twitter.com/UCIArtHistory>, mark your calendars with what interests or inspires you, RSVP, and join us!

For example:

First week of December: Getty Multicultural Undergraduate 10-week Summer 2017 Internship<http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/mui/mui_organizations.html> applications live.

Free and fun Illuminations Events coming up: http://illuminations.uci.edu/events/

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