Artpace Development Intern-Bexar County Arts Internship Program

Eligibility: 

• Bexar County resident
• Current Undergraduate

Requirements:

• appearance at Comissioner's Court during internship period
• final presentation of time at internship at end of internship period

Hours: 

• full-time (40hrs/week)

Internship Period: 

• June 2- August 8, 2025

Stipend: 

• $4,400

Program Overview: 

Bexar County Commissioners Court established an arts internship
program for local nonprofit arts organizations to provide one paid internship to an undergraduate student to assist with seasonal or special projects. GenerationNEXT of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts (GenerationNext) will facilitate the program. Fourteen organizations will be selected to receive a grant to pay the interns. The program will be open to currently enrolled undergraduate college students who are Bexar County residents attending a college or university. As long as the student is a resident of Bexar County and able to show proof of the same. The college or University is not required to be in Bexar County. Students who have already earned a bachelor’s degree or higher are not eligible.The program is a ten-week engagement beginning on June 2, 2025, and ending on August 8th, 2025. Purpose: To give undergraduate students meaningful on-the-job training and experience
working with a nonprofit arts organization and to foster future leaders and advocates for the arts sector in Bexar County. Selected students will develop a closer understanding of how the arts benefit their community along with real-world applications of business skills that can be applied to their careers.

Role at Artpace: 

The Bexar County Arts intern will work directly with the Director of Development and other staff, assisting with two Artpace programs/events in 2025. First, the Bexar County Arts intern will help plan various aspects of Artpace's 30th Anniversary gala, The Happening, which will take place on October 4, 2025. Artpace's largest fundraiser of the year, The Happening 2025 production and evening program, will focus on 30 years of Artpace's mission, vision, and programming, requiring data-gathering and research through our digital organizational and archival files. The Bexar County Arts intern will learn the history of Artpace's founding and the breadth of its contributions to local and regional arts communities. They will work directly with the Director of Development and staff from multiple departments (communications, residency manager, studio manager, education coordinator) to plan the gala's evening program and additional engagement opportunities for broad audiences, press releases, messaging, and programming related to Artpace's 30th Anniversary.

The Bexar County Arts intern will also take the lead in developing Artpace's Big Give 2025 campaign, providing critical creative input, learning campaign strategies, and management tools necessary for this favorite annual September grassroots funding opportunity. The selected intern will work closely with the Development staff to learn the potential benefits and mechanics of this popular peer-to-peer fundraising platform. These basic skills are easily transferable to other grassroots, crowdfunding, social media-based philanthropy, and cause-based activism. While Big Give 2025 is September 17-18, the campaign is created well in advance and goes 'live' on the designated days. 

This year, the Bexar County Internship schedule coincides with critical event preparation for Artpace's largest-ever anniversary celebration and a grassroots fundraising campaign, providing the selected intern with meaningful on-the-job training and experience evaluating a nonprofit organization's mission, programs, and community benefits. They will learn the mechanics of creating and executing a nonprofit mission, nonprofit event planning, and essential communication skills, learn the invaluable and enjoyable process of creating a social media-based fundraising campaign, and gain a deeper understanding of how the arts benefit their community with real-world applications of business skills that can be applied to their careers. This intern will work with Artpace staff in multiple departments to complete work on both assignments planned.