Keep checking for more Emerging Professional Positions for Summer 2025!
- Document Currents New Media Festival The Photographer & Videographer Intern will capture and edit high-quality photos and videos of festival installations, performances, and events. They will work closely with the exhibition coordinator, assist with artist interviews, and support digital asset management. Interns will also gain hands-on experience in post-production editing, refining visual content for promotional and archival use. Through this role, they will develop technical skills, build a professional portfolio, and learn about visual documentation in arts programming, marketing, and archiving.
- Pubic Art Collection Management Assist with the digitization and collection management of public art acquisitions across the state of New Mexico through the statute-mandated Art in Public Places program at the State’s Arts Agency – New Mexico Arts. Duties may include: Records research/collection/input/upload to the web-based collection management system Artwork Archive, traveling to photograph artwork missing quality images in the collection, assisting with the establishment of best practices for collection management of the public art collection, and assisting with the launch of a searchable web-based public-facing version of the NM Art in Public Places collection.
- Designing a statewide map for New Mexico Historic Sites
- Making Los Luceros More Accessible to Guests. Los Luceros Historic Site seeks to make the site and its collections more accessible to visually challenged and neurodiverse guests. By scanning and 3D modeling the three historic structures, select unique artifacts, and a Navajo-Churro ram, the site can offer guests a more tactile and interactive experience. These models can also travel with our Education staff to schools and outreach throughout the state of New Mexico to extend the reach of the site. Los Luceros Historic Site seeks to reach our audiences in new ways and this will be a new and innovative step in that direction.
- Santa Fe Children’s Museum Creating Promotional Video(s)
- Albuquerque Museum: Prepare the visual descriptions for approximately 72 master works of art from the Neuenationalgalerie in Berlin as a transferrable affordance in the exhibition gallery, the Museum website, and social media platforms: attend all Museum meetings with the Assistant Director to observe and contribute to the daily work floors that bring a $1M exhibition to realization with all its attendant public programming; assist the Marketing and Comms Consultant with the monthly newsletters, 3rd Thursday newsletters, and content creation for social media in collaboration with the City’s Gov TV media team.
- Albuquerque Museum Partially catalog new and existing collections objects from our art, history, and photo archive collections into our searchable online collections database, eMuseum for an IMLS grant. Promote the progress of the IMLS project by creating web-based content like an E-newsletter, monthly social media posts, updates to the eMuseum web page design, and updates to the Collections section of the museum’s website.
- Museum Hill Interactive mapping, interpretive trail signage, and (maybe) mobile app for 5 museums and cultural sites operating as Museum Hill in Santa Fe (museumhill.net): Despite robust offerings by both nonprofit and state of New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs museums and cultural sites, Museum Hill in Santa Fe has great potential to expand visibility, increase visitation, and unify branding / marketing efforts through projects such as creating an online interactive map of the complex using ArcGIS or other mapping software, developing interactive signage for the existing trails that connect each museum and site, and perhaps creating an app that could be populated with educational content for visitors of all ages. We are also in need of a data gathering tool that allows us to understand visitor behavior and demographics, and which sites they attend or don’t attend during their visit to Museum Hill.
- Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has a series of trails and structures in the grounds of the museum. The structures represent a range of Indigenous architecture and structural techniques, including: brush ramadas, pit house, woven corrals, and waffle gardens. The trails run through these, along an arroyo, and include some interpretive elements, which need updating. Topics of the interpretation could include:
• Techniques of Indigenous architecture such as: brush weaving, rammed earth, stone masonry, molded adobe, and others
• Local plants and their uses in Indigenous communities • Food and agriculture in the Indigenous Southwest
• Climate change and impacts on Santa Fe, Indigenous communities, and the Southwest Given the range of topics and their seasonality, as well as the nature of the location, we propose a project that would result in an app or website that would contain a range of interpretive modules containing text, images, videos, or audio that could constitute a self-led walking tour or continued learning at home.
To launch the project, students would create a social media campaign and documentation for the museum to assist visitors in locating the trails, structures, and accompanying interpretation. - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Ancient Life Interactive and Outreach design: This intern would work on two overlapping design projects for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The first is for developing content for 1-3 interactive labels in our new Ancient Life exhibit, offering in-depth exploration of selected objects on display. The second would be to design templates for flyers and activities used for outreach programs by the Museum education team.
- Communications and Marketing, El Palacio Magazine We have four specific projects for an Emerging Professional-The idea is to learn a bit about all the aspects of communications and marketing at DCA
1) Assisting Emily Withnall, Editor of El Palacio Magazine, with editing and assembling the Fall Edition (publishing Sept 1)
2) Working with Daniel Zillmann, DCA’s Director of Communications & Marketing, on a comprehensive photo/video/audio guidelines document for the use of the agency;
3) Creating a marketing and branding campaign strategy for the fall opening of Taylor-Mesilla Historic Site with Julia Baca, DCA’s Marketing & Brand Manager; and
4) Collaborating with Greg Gurule, DCA’s Communications Manager, and his PR team on a photo and video project (which would include assembling materials for Historic Sites newsletter, organizing photo content for future news releases and media alerts, and creating a plan for photo/video asset collection for the entire agency). - Moving HPD Into the 21st Century – The website for the Historic Preservation Division design is dated and not customer friendly. It is clunky and hard to use and hard for users to find information. It also is not ADA compliant. Since we do not have an IT professional in our division that can dedicate their time and efforts to an upgrade or redesign, staff are responsible for the ADA compliance by April 2026. HPD seeks an intern to help us with this process. The intern will review our current website, interview all staff, and create a plan for us to move forward with redesign and ADA compliance.