Immersive Environments Design Studio Internship
About The Position
EPACENTER is seeking interns for its inaugural Immersive Environments Design Studio, a design-build internship focused on creating immersive environments for EPACENTER and potentially other public institutions. Interns will learn the skills necessary to operate as a design studio-for-hire, including client scouting, consultation, concept development, fabrication, installation, and assessment. The program utilizes a socially engaged, materials-based approach to public art, aiming to create participatory, site-specific installations. The goal for the first year is to build and prove a working prototype at EPACENTER, establishing the studio as both a design-build practice and a Creative Workforce pipeline. Interns will also learn principles of arts education and incorporate student art into designs.
Requirements
- Desire to learn through doing, with a commitment to a growth mindset.
- Interest in community-centric design, immersive exhibition design, environmental design, or a related creative field.
- Comfort working collaboratively and adapting to real-world constraints.
- Ability to represent the organization professionally in front of clients.
- Willingness to engage in hands-on fabrication and site installation work.
- Openness to giving and receiving feedback.
- Experience working with children and adults in an arts environment.
- Aged 18-25.
Nice To Haves
- Spanish speaking, or multilingual.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and solution-oriented approach.
- Prior experience with a studio-based, community-facing, or client-facing creative project (student or professional).
- Familiarity with sketching, illustration, digital software, basic fabrication tools and materials handling.
- Experience gathering or synthesizing community/stakeholder input.
- Interest in pursuing a career in the arts, environmental design, exhibition design, museum or hospital art programs, or public art administration.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize and create immersive environments.
- Learn to function as a working design studio-for-hire.
- Scout clients, run consultation meetings, and read a site.
- Develop concepts rooted in community identity.
- Fabricate installation components.
- Install work on location.
- Assess how installations perform for stakeholders.
- Incorporate student art into final designs.
- Assist classroom arts teachers across various media.
Benefits
- Work closely with artists, design professionals and administrators in an apprenticeship capacity.
- Learn fundamentals of program design and engagement.
- Learn to read a client brief and translate community input into a design concept.
- Learn to budget and fabricate to real constraints.
- Gain experience installing work safely in an occupied public space.
- Formal evaluation and assessment process.
- Develop portfolio design examples.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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