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The Bloomberg Arts Internship Application Guide

 

This guide has been created to help you prepare to complete the 2022 Bloomberg Arts Internship application. Many of the most important application prompts, including the essay questions, are available in the guide. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with interviews to be held in April. The deadline to submit your application is March 30.

 

The 2022 internship application has seven (7) sections:

  • Basic contact and demographic information

  • Self-assessment of skills

  • Self-assessment of interests

  • Access Needs

  • 4 writing prompts: "Interest in the program"; "Arts Experiences"; "Collaborations"; “Future Plans”

  • Artistic work sample (optional)

  • References

 

Basic Information

This section will ask for your name, contact information, address, demographic information and vaccination status (all interns must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 2022 in order to participate).

 

Personal skills assessment

This section will ask you to rank your skill level (ranging from very comfortable to not comfortable) across a number of areas related to workplace, technical skills, and artistic skills. Your responses DO NOT impact your acceptance into the program. Instead, they are used to help place interns at worksites that match their skills and interests.

 

Personal interests assessment

This section will ask you to rank your interest level (ranging from very interested to not interested) across a number of areas related to workplace, technical skills, and artistic skills. Your responses DO NOT impact your acceptance into the program. Instead, they are used to help place interns at worksites that match their skills and interests..

 

Access Needs

This section will ask you about your access to digital tools, transportation, and comfortability with an in-person or hybrid internship for the months of June 2022 - August 2022. Your responses DO NOT impact your acceptance into the program. If you do not have access to any digital tool, it will be provided for you. Please answer honestly so we can provide you with the tools needed to participate in the program.

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Writing Prompts

There are four writing prompts in the application. This section isn’t meant to test your grammar or sentence structure, but to learn a little more about you as a person in your own words. There are four prompts to answer:

 

Why do you want to participate in the Bloomberg Arts Internship? What are you hoping to get out of this program? Please answer in two or three sentences.

 

Thinking back on your own experiences, please tell us about a significant or memorable encounter you had with an artwork, book, performance, or other arts experience. Note that this does not have to have been a formal or ticketed experience--it could be listening to a choir, looking at a mural on the street, or reading to a sibling. Please answer in a few paragraphs (no more than 500 words).

 

Collaboration can be essential to success, creatively and professionally. Describe a time when you had to collaborate with a group on a school or art-related project. What challenges did you face? What did you learn as a result of that collaboration? Please answer in a few paragraphs (no more than 500 words).

 

What are your plans after high school? If you have thoughts about a possible career direction, please share those as well. (2-3 sentences)

 

Artistic Work Sample  (Optional)

If you have a sample of your artistic/creative work that you would like to share, you can upload it here. (Examples could include photos, paintings, poems, fiction or nonfiction, poetry, animations, videos, songs, etc.) Artistic work samples are welcomed but NOT REQUIRED. Submitting an artistic work sample DOES NOT make you more likely to be invited to interview. If you have trouble uploading your sample in the application, you can email it to BAIi@philaculture.org

 

References

Think about your favorite supervisors, teachers, and mentors. Who is someone who would give you a good reference for this internship opportunity, and be able to speak about your creative and academic skills? Please provide their names and contact information. Make sure you have their permission, first! Please note, this cannot be your parents/guardians. NOTE: If you are homeschooled and not sure who could be a reference, you can contact the Cultural Alliance for help at BAI@Philaculture.org

 

Ready to begin? Great! Click here to start your application

 

Still have questions? You can email BAI@philaculture.org for help with getting your application started.