Internship is the core course for master of art administration students. When I decided to study this degree I already knew that internship was a big challenge for me. There were two reasons to explain why it was a challenge. First one was I have no visual art background, so how to learn more knowledge as soon as possible was a big question. Another one was work experiences. I believed that all art organizations preferred to take someone who has work experiences. Therefore, I started to collect internship information from the first session.
In fact, maybe I can get a full-time job if I undertook my internship in China. However, gain more local experiences were also important for me. Finally, I decided to work in Australia. In the past few weeks, I applied for many art organizations, including main art galleries & museums, commercial art galleries, private art companies and so on. Some of them did not give me responses. Others told me there were no available positions. I felt unhappy and frustrated for a long time.
To be honest, I was really interested in education and public programs. To work in this specific area was the best choice for me. Although some galleries and museums can offer me different projects, I still wanted to do something real interesting. Finally, one regional art museum offered the public program for my intern. Lucky me! I visited this museum and provided my resume to the curator. At the same time, I also wrote a work plan to talk about my ideas about that project. This regional museum & gallery belongs to a very important department of city council. All museum staffs were friendly to me. I will finish some special public programs in the next 10 weeks. Hope everything goes alright.