I recently got around to reading the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) special report on internships in arts fields. There is a lot of interesting findings in the 23 page report, including the (to me) dismaying news that 87% of those who did at least one arts administration internship were unpaid. That is the … Read more
For the last year or so, non-profit arts organizations have been somewhat nervously wondering whether the criteria being used to define what constituted an internship might be applied to the non-profit industry as well. The concern arose over a ruling against Fox Searchlight pictures in a case where interns on the film Black Swan where … Read more
There was a post on the Harvard Business Review blog site about a recent leadership study – Why You Lead Determines How Well You Lead. According to the study, people with an internal motivation to lead are more effective than those with external motivations. More surprising, a person who has a mix of internal and … Read more
I recently misread the title of a post on Museum 2.0. But in that second of misapprehension, my brain flooded with assumptions about the subject of the post. I misread “A Shared Ethics for Museum Internships” to be something like “Ethics for Shared Museum Internships.” In that moment, I thought shared internships was a great … Read more