Indigo Arts Alliance connects Black and Brown artists from around the world with Maine’s artists of African descent through a multidisciplinary artist-in-residency program that embodies a Black-led approach to creativity, community-building, and mentoring. We are an incubator for Black artists. We amplify the creative voices and visions of global and local artists and facilitate cross-cultural collaboration using a multidisciplinary approach. This approach is exemplified by Indigo’s Artist-in-Residence program and the mentorship relationships central to it.
We work with selected artists to design public engagement events, workshops, artists talks’ and symposiums. Programs are relevant to our artists’ creative practice in ways that honor their individual arts heritage, ethnic roots and expressions of cultural resilience. This effort can include partnering with organizations and institutions to strengthen and build connections to the global arts movement.
Another extension of our mentoring model is within our internship program. At the beginning of each semester, Indigo Arts Alliance offers two internships: Communication and Marketing Administration Internship and the Studio Arts and Programming Administration Internship. Applications for our 2024 Spring, Summer, and, Fall Communication and Marketing Administration Internship & our Studio Arts and Programming Administration Internship are now open on a rolling basis.
For questions on either internships, please contact info@indigoartsalliance.me
Communication and Marketing Administration Internship
The Communication and Marketing Administration Intern provides support to Indigo Arts Alliance through the creation, implementation and support of internal and external communication efforts. The selected interns are given projects that span across the organization, and grow transferable skills such as project management, copywriting, graphic design, system design, library sciences and more. They play a valuable role by creating new ways and assisting in maintaining methods for our audiences to remain engaged through social media efforts, newsletters, and printed materials.
Studio Arts and Programming Administration Internship
The Studio and Programming Administration Intern provides support to Indigo Arts Alliance by executing day to day tasks and representing Indigo in a positive manner to the community. Our interns play a valuable role in implementing our programming and utilizing skill sets such as program planning, event set up & breakdown, archive management, and more! They get hands-on learning in nonprofit management and are exposed to a wide range of artists, creative professionals, and project management tools that help fuel an exciting career in the arts. This position is available to currently enrolled students pursuing an undergraduate, or graduate degree as well as recent graduates who graduated within a year of the application period and offers a hybrid internship model (virtual and in-person), dependent on COVID-19 and CDC guidelines.
Internship Experience
Grace Deng holding up the book she sculpted at The Solidarity Book Workshop
