Application Deadline
March 30, 2013
Applications must be received at the Sitka Center by this date.
The Art Center Intern position is available for 2013; the Studio Technician position is not available.
The Sitka Center's Intern Program began in 1993 as a way to improve service to our workshop instructors and students. In 2011, the program was changed to include a Studio Technician and an Art Center Intern.
Art Center Intern
The Art Center Intern position begins in Mid-May or Mid-June and goes through Mid-August or Mid-September. (The dates are flexible to coordinate with the student's school schedule.) The Art Center Intern works on a mutually agreed upon graduate or undergraduate level internship project for three days per week. This project offers valuable experience working for an art center in the student's specific area of interest. In addition, experience in the daily operation of an art center is provided when the Art Center Intern relieves the Studio Technician two days per week. In return for his/her work, the Art Center Intern receives housing on the Sitka Center campus, a small stipend, and the opportunity to work in our studios (as available).The Art Center Intern has an opportunity to interact with Sitka staff and approximately 1000 students who attend workshops at Sitka during the summer program. For more details, please open this PDF document of the Art Center Intern Description and Application. This includes the 2011 schedule, responsibilities, benefits, and application.
The application deadline for this position, is March 30, 2013 and notifications will be sent in late April. If you have questions, please contact Caroline Brooks, Program Manager, at carolinebrooks@sitkacenter.org or 541-994-5485.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
56605 Sitka DriveOtis, OR 97368
Phone: (541) 994-5485
Fax: (541) 994-8024
E-mail: office email
About the Sitka Center
Founded in 1970, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology fosters creativity, intellectual inquiry, and education. By helping others discover more about their core creative selves and their connections to nature, the Sitka Center works to fulfill its mission of expanding the relationships between art, nature and humanity.The Sitka Center offers workshops, residencies and community events, while maintaining a facility appropriate to its needs in harmony with its inspirational coastal environment near Cascade Head and the Salmon River estuary.
Literally a center at the edge, where land meets sky, saltwater meets freshwater, the Sitka Center is a place where a diverse group of people and ideas converge, co-mingle and depart transformed.
