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Getty Marrow Media Arts Intern

Getty Marrow Media Arts Intern works in the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC), which is dedicated to furthering JANM’s mission through unique documentaries, innovative exhibition components, and video life histories that preserve and share the Japanese American experience. Participates in the creation of media components for the museum’s upcoming films & exhibitions, educational/public programs, and website, social media, and YouTube channel. In addition, they will experience developing and producing their own short film/Capstone Project in line with JANM’s mission. Receives hands-on experience and training in preproduction development, cameras, sound, lighting, livestreaming, editing software, motion graphics, and archival media formats. 

The Internship will focus on exhibition media components for 3 upcoming exhibitions:

1. JANM’s reimagined core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. JANM’s redesigned main exhibit looking at Japanese American history from immigration to today. 

2. Cruising J-Town: Opening July 31, 2025, this exhibit explores the impact Japanese Americans had on the Southern California car scene, from box car racing and car clubs in the fifties, to the rise of import/tuner culture in the eighties and nineties, to the reappreciation of Japanese classic cars today. 

3. Eating Together: Food in Japanese America/ Little Tokyo Legacy Businesses: This exhibit will look at Japanese American’s long history with food, in California especially. 

For all of these projects, the intern will assist in conducting research and interviews, scouting and shooting B-roll footage, transcription, logging clips, digitization of archival materials, and editing, all of which will significantly contribute to the final pieces. 

Media Arts Intern Requirements: Video editing experience (using Final Cut Pro X and/or Premiere Pro) and experience with video cameras is strongly recommended. Competency in digitization/digital asset management, including scanning and editing photographs in Photoshop is desired. Strong research and written communication skills are critical. Attention to detail and strong organizational skills are essential. Familiar with Google Suite and MS Office.

Criteria for Intern Candidates: The internship opportunities are intended for students from backgrounds underrepresented in museums and the visual arts professions, Eligible candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for consideration. Candidates are sought from all areas of undergraduate study at any higher education institution and are not required to have demonstrated a previous commitment to the visual arts.  

In addition, each intern applicant must meet the following eligibility criteria: 

Be currently enrolled as a full-time undergraduate (bachelor’s or associate degree program) and have completed at least one semester or 2 quarters of college by June 2025. Students who graduated the semester or quarter immediately before the internship begins are also eligible.
Attend college in or be a permanent resident of Los Angeles County; and
Be a US citizen or permanent resident eligible to be legally employed in the US. Students with DACA status valid through the internship period are also eligible.

Please note that students who have previously served as Getty Marrow Undergraduate Interns at the Japanese American National Museum are not eligible for consideration.
Students enrolled in a second BA, BS, or higher degree not eligible. 
Staff members and relatives of staff or board members are not eligible. 

Intern Stipend:  $7,150 gross stipend for Full-Time (40 hours/week),10 consecutive weeks. 

Dates of Internship: 10 consecutive weeks, in-person, from June 9 – August 15 2025. Full-Time (40 hours a week).  Monday – Friday schedule. Require occasional evening & weekend hours. 

APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY: 5:00pm, Thursday, April 10, 2025.

To apply submit your cover letter, employment application form, resume, and 2 letters of recommendation. Candidates selected for interview will also need to provide proof of enrollment. 1 copy of undergraduate unofficial transcript(s). Transcripts must record at least one semester or 2 quarters of college by June 2025. 

Employment Application forms are available at https://www.janm.org/jobs/apply-internships

Send Email to: hr@janm.org (a word.doc format or pdf file) Indicating Getty MUI Media Arts Intern Application in subject line of email.

Mail application packets to:
Japanese American National Museum
Attn: Human Resources
Re: 2025 Getty MUI (Media Arts)
100 N. Central Avenue 
Los Angeles, CA 90012 

Finalists will be contacted for interviews the week after the application deadline.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program

The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2025 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice. The 2025 artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, In the Life LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community.

To support these core activities, the Archive will provide an honorarium of $10,750 for the selected artist-in-residence.

Core Activities

The residency will be a shared process for the Archive and the artist and will include the following core activities:

The residency will commence in advance of the two-week, full-time on-site visits in the form of planning meetings to perform research, identify potential titles for access, refine project scope and proposal as needed, and collaborate with Archive staff to create an on-site visit itinerary.
Research and identify materials for access from the Archive’s Hearst Metrotone News, In the Life and KTLA Newsfilm collections.
As accessible analog works are identified in the collections, the Archive will provide resources to digitize these analog holdings to enable the artist to use high-resolution files in their work.
An introduction to archival training to understand the process of conservation and digitization that will take place on-site at the Archive’s facility in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute.
The opportunity to meet with members of the Los Angeles community, the UCLA community and/or the archival community that could help advance their project, including filmmakers, archivists and faculty. This work will take place either on Zoom or in person during the two-week, full-time visits.
Between July and November, 2025, the artist will work independently in consultation with Archive staff.
By the end of 2025, the artist will discuss their residency at a public presentation, panel discussion or event in the Archive’s Virtual Screening Room.

 

For more information visit: https://cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archive-blog/2025-artist-in-residence-program

Open Call: Experimental Animation

Still Rendering is pleased to announce Experimental Animation, an online juried exhibition.  We are seeking submissions for our inaugural open call.  We envision this first exhibition as a broad survey of contemporary artists’ animation.  If you are an artist working in experimental animation, we want to see what you are making. 

Open Call: Experimental Animation will be curated by Darren Douglas Floyd, Founder and Executive Director of Still Rendering Production and a guest curator.  The selected works will be shown in an online exhibition at stillrendering.org.  

Still Rendering was founded in 2024 to provide open call opportunities for artists who animate.  While there are many animation festival opportunities, there are relatively few open calls that explicitly include or focus on animation.  This tendency shapes experimental animation towards what is screenable in the festival context (i.e. linear single channel works) and forecloses on wider experiments in animation art.  

Submit online at stillrendering.org. 

Open call for collage art: Measure Twice Cut Once: Collage Exhibition

La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, California, will be showcasing figurative, narrative and unusual works made of prefabricated materials also known as collage. Collage is different from assemblage in the sense that assemblage is made of 3-dimensional prefabricated objects while collage is 2-dimensional. We will only be accepting collages done by hand using physical medium. Including but not limited to; fabrics, photomontage, decollage, découpage, etc. Digital collages and mosaics will not be accepted.

Digital Channel Manager

Description

Winner of more than 40 Emmy Awards, ITVS is public media’s leading incubator and presenter of documentary film. We partner with filmmakers who bring untold stories to public media to make a difference in the world. For over 25 years, we’ve been committed to diversity on both sides of the camera, helping filmmakers tell and share vital stories that are reflective of our society.

 

Summary:

The person in this role works within the Audience Development department, reports to the Senior Manager, Content Marketing, and works in collaboration with a creative team of producers, designers, and marketing experts to develop strategies and tactics for engaging new Independent Lens audiences that stream the PBS documentary series on YouTube. Responsibilities include: Managing the delivery of the Independent Lens portfolio distributed on YouTube in partnership with PBS and public media stations; managing the operations and maintaining quality control of ITVS and Independent Lens YouTube channels; launching promotional, branded and original content on the ITVS and Independent Lens YouTube channels; and guiding brand cohesiveness as a key member of the Content Marketing team. 

 

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Brand Management

  • Partner with the Content Marketing team to develop audience and distribution plans both on YouTube and across social channels to increase viewing and subscriber numbers.
  • Maintain publishing schedules in partnership with internal content stakeholders, including Independent Lens production, distribution, creative services, and content marketing teams, and external partners like PBS.
  • Enforce branding guidelines on ITVS-owned YouTube channels.
  • Develop goals and derive insights from YouTube analytics, monitoring sentiment and comments on videos, creating reports as assigned. 
  • Drive YouTube Search Engine Optimization strategy, tags, and metadata, analyze audience and industry trends, and identify topics for video creation, such as optimization of titles, descriptions, and keywords for search and discoverability.

Channel Management

  • In partnership with PBS, manage the distribution of 15 to 20 long-form Independent Lens programs and 5 to 15 short-form programs annually on the PBS YouTube channel. 
  • Manage daily Independent Lens and ITVS YouTube channel operations, including reviewing and responding to comments, identifying cross-promotional opportunities, creating playlists, maintaining a content calendar, and retiring content with expired rights.  
  • Identify and execute publishing excerpts from Independent Lens and ITVS content on YouTube. 
  • Ensure all content uploads are on schedule and meet technical specifications, including but not limited to content titles, thumbnails, chaptering, and metadata.

Community Management

  • Serve as lead community manager, working with content producers to respond to audience questions, comments, and conversations on two-way platforms.
  • Support Content Marketing unit with social media preparation, community management, blog article creation, and newsletter campaigns as needed.
  • Collaborate with internal and external creators and agencies to ideate and manage Independent Lens-branded content.
  • Collaborate closely with the Marketing and Publicity team to ensure content deployed across Independent Lens digital platforms aligns with strategy to achieve targeted outcomes.
  • Write effective metadata and copy for content distributed on YouTube channels.
     

General Duties

  • Fosters and cultivates a culture of care and a high commitment to quality informed by ITVS values.
  • Contributes to culture by proactively participating in organization programs and staff events.
    Seeks and integrates constructive feedback to drive continuous improvement.
  • Works collaboratively with peers and staff; builds relationships through effective and compassionate communication.
  • Other duties may be assigned as needed.

Competencies

  • A commitment to ITVS’ mission and an ability to apply sensitivity to a variety of social, economic, and cultural perspectives. 
  • Cares about principles associated with diversity and inclusion; willing and wanting to support the voices and visions of underrepresented communities, and reflect the interests and concerns of a diverse society.
  • Outstanding communicator with exceptional written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • Strong analytical capabilities, sound judgment, practical, creative and solution-oriented problem-solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
  • Able to give valuable, definitive feedback on ideation and framing.
    Outstanding interpersonal skills and “can do” attitude; able to work effectively and collaboratively cross-functionally.
  • Proactive, self-motivated, and self-directed with demonstrated ability to take initiative, prioritize tasks, and think strategically.
  • Ability to stay focused, highly organized, strong attention to detail, and produce reliable results.
  • Adaptable and able to work in a fast-paced and constantly changing media environment and anticipate future needs. 
  • Innovative thinker willing to tackle matters outside of expertise and employ strategic thinking that manifests into actionable plans and outputs.
  • Outstanding creative thinker and idea generator. 
  • Passion for creating extraordinary video content aligned with brand, audience, and business strategies.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Enjoys working as a team member as well as independently.
  • Willing to support leadership’s decision and direction in a positive, professional and cooperative manner. Good sense of humor is helpful too

Requirements

  • Required: Two (2) years experience in a YouTube-oriented media production environment.
  • Required: Experience in video workflows and project management systems.
  • Required: A pulse on the Digital Channel landscape and experience creating YouTube-destined content 
  • Preferred: Proficient working in Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop
  • Preferred: Experience working within Google Suite, Asana, digital asset management software, and familiarity with camera and lighting equipment
  • Preferred: Experience working for a marketing, production, or editorial company.   

Compensation

ITVS is a financial steward of public funds and committed to pay transparency, as well as providing equitable and competitive compensation for staff. For this role the pay range is $74,168.87 – $82,894.62 and all incumbent new hires base pay will begin at $74,168.87. This is an exempt position that pays an annual salary and includes a robust benefits package. Advancement in the pay range is dependent on advancement in the role.

 

Hybrid Work

Creativity, collaboration and building community are essential to ITVS’ long-term health and sustainability. Our goal is to provide a flexible hybrid model of in-person and remote work that supports individual productivity, teamwork, and an organizational culture fueled in part by being present with one another. To achieve this goal in-office attendance, of at least eight (8) days a month, is a requirement of working at ITVS. 

 

Cover Letters

It’s important for you to know we love cover letters, they help us understand why you are interested in working at ITVS and they show us how you express yourself in writing. We will prioritize applicants who provide a cover letter.

 

ITVS aspires to make the online job application process accessible to any and all users.

 

If you have a disability that impacts your ability to complete the application process, and would like to request assistance or accommodation, please contact us at jobs@ITVS.org

 

We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any bias including race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability or national origin.

 

Lastly, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

 

Getty Marrow Media Arts Intern

The Getty MUI Media Arts intern will work in the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center (MAC), which is dedicated to furthering JANM’s mission through unique documentaries, innovative exhibition components, and video life histories that preserve and share the Japanese American experience. The Intern will participate in the creation of media components for the museum’s upcoming films & exhibitions, educational/public programs, and website, social media, and YouTube channel. In addition, they will experience developing and producing their own short film/Capstone Project in line with JANM’s mission.  They will receive hands-on experience and training in preproduction development, cameras, sound, lighting, livestreaming, editing software, motion graphics, and archival media formats.

Upcoming Exhibition Media Content:

1.             Reimagined Core Story: JANM’s redesigned main exhibit looking at Japanese American history from immigration to today will feature many new media components, including installation pieces tied to specific artifacts, videos of modern day solidarity and protest, and short documentaries focused on cross generational stories.

2.             Nikkei Car Culture: This exhibit explores the impact Japanese Americans had on the Southern California car scene, from box car racing and car clubs in the fifties, to the rise of import/tuner culture in the eighties and nineties, to the reappreciation of Japanese classic cars today.  The media components will include interviews with car aficionados from multiple decades, footage of classic car shows, and archival racing footage.

For all of these projects, the intern will assist in conducting research and interviews, scouting and shooting B-roll footage, transcription, logging clips, digitization of archival materials, and editing, all of which will significantly contribute to the final pieces.

Media Arts Intern Requirements: Video editing experience (using Final Cut Pro X and/or Premiere Pro) and experience with video cameras is strongly recommended. Competency in digitization/digital asset management, including scanning and editing photographs in Photoshop is desired. Strong research and written communication skills are critical. Attention to detail and strong organizational skills are essential. Familiar with Google Suite and MS Office.

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