Internships

Southern Exposure Internship Opportunities

Southern Exposure (SoEx) is a 48 year-old artist-centered non-profit organization committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm.

For those looking to hone their skills and engage with the Bay Area arts community, Southern Exposure's internship program is a vital part of the organization's operating structure. The internship program provides training within a nonprofit visual arts organization, allowing participants to assume professional-level responsibilities, receive training and guidance from SoEx staff, and understand how a nonprofit arts organization functions. We view the program as an extension of our education and outreach services that help to expand and diversify community interaction. 

Internship applications for Spring Semester 2023 are open now! Follow us on social media to stay updated.

Spring 2023 Communications Internship

Engaging in a wide variety of professional activities under the instruction and supervision of the Marketing and Communications Coordinator, with additional instruction from the Operations and Development Coordinator, the Communications Intern helps to manage Southern Exposure’s social media channels, assists with social media campaigns, and recruits followers. The intern curates compelling content, including content from SoEx friends and allies, to highlight issues affecting artists and art spaces via Southern Exposure’s social media networks. The intern will also learn to perform monthly data analysis of web, email, and social media reach, and provide project-based support, such as researching press contacts, promoting events, communicating with partners, gathering and processing images, maintaining projects and events on the website, and archiving PR materials. 

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Spring 2023 Community Arts & Development Internship

Engaging in a wide variety of professional activities under the instruction and supervision of the Operations and Development Coordinator, the Community Arts & Development Intern assists in coordinating all aspects of our annual fundraiser and art auction, digital content management, database management, artist coordination, volunteer coordination, and donor fulfillment. Responsibilities of the Community Arts & Development Intern will include collecting and organizing information for the auction website; sending out event postings and calendar listings; uploading photos and text to the SoEx website; supporting the live streamed event; and data entry.

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