Paid internship opportunity at the Saint Louis Art Museum (Summer 2025)
Listing Start Date: January 7, 2025
Expires: February 28, 2025
The Saint Louis Art Museum is pleased to offer two 10-week summer internships for current graduate students in paper or paintings conservation. The internships are part of a multi-year initiative to treat 24 large scale panels of late 18th-century Arthur & Robert wallpaper for installation in the museum’s Decorative Art galleries. The wallpaper, block-printed and stenciled gouache on paper, is in need of surface cleaning, consolidation, tear mending, lining, loss filling, mounting and inpainting. The Summer 2025 session will be heavily focused on the cleaning, repairing and lining phases of one large panel. While the primary emphasis will be the wallpaper treatment, the internship will be supplemented with other routine departmental activities including producing examination and condition reports, engaging in preventative maintenance, photo-documentation, and treatment. Interns will also participate in a series of presentations and lectures with interns from all museum departments to gain an in-depth understanding of the institution as a whole.
The Saint Louis Art Museum has an encyclopedic collection of more than 33,000 works. The Conservation Department includes a 9-member team working in labs dedicated to Objects, Paintings, Paper, Textiles, and Matting/Framing. The summer interns will work most directly with our paper and paintings conservators.
Start and end dates are targeted for June 2 – August 8, 2025. Some flexibility based on the intern’s academic schedule may be accommodated. The museum will provide compensation of $19.25/hr. to each intern. While the museum does not supply housing, summer sublets from local university students may be available.
Please submit a letter of interest and CV with references to Sophie Barbisan, Associate Paper Conservator ([email protected]). Applications received by February 28, 2025 will be given preference and qualified candidates will be contacted for phone or virtual interviews. Following their interview, final candidates will be required to complete an application through the museum’s website. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States and pass a background check and drug screening prior to employment.