Internships are valuable experiences for students and help many businesses and organizations in the area. Almost seventy-five percent of Art and Design students complete an internship or field experience sometime in their four years. Many complete more than one within their undergraduate careers.
Examples of on-campus internships include:
Adrian College offers many opportunities to participate in an internship. Here are some of the on-campus internships that are available through the Art Department:
- Heritage Room Internship (arts management, gallery work interest)
- Theatre Dept. (scene and backdrop painting)
- Publications Office (photographer, illustrator, arts management, public relations, design and layout)
- Bookstore (retail and art supply retail and display)
- College World Newspaper (photographer, arts writer, layout and design, cartoonist, illustrator)
- Painting murals
- Designing web sites for campus-based entities
Off campus, Adrian Art and Design students have participated in a broad variety of internships.
- Pre art therapy students have interned in hospital settings such as Mott ChildrenŐs Hospital at the University of Michigan and Foote Memorial in Jackson, in counseling settings at Arbor Hospice in Ann Arbor and GildaŐs House in Detroit, and at The Adrian Training School, a residential state facility for adjudicated girls.
- Art education students have worked with every district in the county including the Milton Porter Center for disabled children, the Summer Migrant Art Camp, and Tecumseh High School, one of the top art programs in the state.
- Photo, Digital or graphic design students have worked in Design Studio creating billboards, websites, brochures, and posters for a variety of non-profits. Internships at Spectrum Printers, the Daily Telegram newspaper, and Image Gallery help give those students an understanding of the business of design.
- Students interested in arts management have interned for a variety of arts organizations, including the Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts, the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Toledo Museum, the Ann Arbor Art Association, and Flatlanders Galleries in Blissfield.
- Artist Entrepreneur program students have interned with a wide variety of working artists: ceramic sculptor Duane Bastian, internationally known clay artists Dick Lehman and Susanne Stephenson, blacksmith Mike Wolfe, Broadway set and costume designer Tobin Ost, sculptors Ken Thompson and Lucy Slivinski, and potters Elizabeth Lurie, Ann Tubbs, and Deb LaPlante. In addition to a great line on their resumes and a real letter of reference, a number of students have even gotten jobs from their internships!