My Experience at Salem Art Association

On the last week of my internship, I was finishing up some duties like the jury presentation for the future exhibition Radius 25. After loading the finishing touches and putting it on a disk to submit to the juror, I did other sorting tasks as well as helping James with random Art Fair things. My last couple days were finishing up my overall internship tasks that were goal objectives for my internship as a whole. Once I finished everything on Wednesday, I had a meeting with Catherine, my site supervisor about my overall success as SAA's art intern. We talked of my ending credentials as well as what my future holds and it made me very happy I chose the Bush Barn Art Center for my spring internship. I ended up meeting some very important and amazing people during my experience and I am sure I made friends and connections for life. Every staff member was very nice and supportive of me as I helped them through the busy art season in Salem. Not only did I gain experience for my future career, but I also gained great tips and information on working in an artistic profession. For me, this internship was sort of a spur of thought as the idea came to me and I was instantly intrigued. If any others out there either in the late high school age, in college, or still on the boat of what career path you should take, I would recommend an internship in any field of interest you have. Some people tell me that art is a hobby and not a realistic profession choice and I think that is false. I believe there is a career choice in every subject and if you love something enough, you can find a working profession you love in a similar realm. I would of never thought of art in this sense if it wasn't for my great experience at Salem Art Association. 

Get Your Art On!

This week is technically my last week being the intern at SAA through my school and while at the morning's meeting, I realized how wonderful the whole staff really is. Individually they are all fabulous and have all helped me in a way grow during my learning experience at the Bush Barn. After the meeting and routine laughs, I went back to attack the rest of the pile of submissions for the Radius 25 show. After a while I finished the stack and had almost 300 slides in the jury presentation along with about 74 artists who have entered. This isn't even finished! I made a small stack of ones that were missing certain details and problems with their image that would soon be emailed back to us and those I will finish up next week. I will also continue next week as I want to review my overall internship experience with my site supervisor Catherine as well as finishing the edits and last submissions on the juried Radius 25 show. It was great to wrap up my overall learning experience with helping set up and look through submissions of a up and coming show after learning the basics of the Bush Barn Art Gallery. I also got my "Get Your Art On" tee shirt as I have decided that I enjoy this organization so much that I will volunteer throughout the summer and help out with the Art Fair & Festival that I have been helping out with periodically. I thank anyone who has taken the time to read my blog about this internship and I hope to keep posting more about art and the opportunities for me to come. 

Radius 25 Submissions

Thank you all who have contributed your entries into the upcoming Radius 25 show we will have this summer at the Bush Barn Art Center! The due date for submissions ended with the month of May and I begin June with gathering and organizing every entry. I walked into the Barn on Monday to a GIANT pile of submissions. That was what I did all day. Manila envelopes on small packages on white envelopes on paper clipped papers on endless CD's created the vast pile I sorted through. I have been on the intern computer putting the art images on our computer's files as well as typing up the artist's process statements and information on the jury PowerPoint. About 40 artist submissions in, I still have a pile to go Wednesday as I continue filing every submission (even some of the SAA staff have entered). Seeing all of the artwork first, I am very excited to help curate this show as well as visualize the finished product.