Artists Talk on Art, a 501C3, is the art world’s longest running and most prolific aesthetic panel discussion series. Founded in 1974, ATOA has conducted and recorded over 1,000 talk events featuring over 8,500 artists, critics, curators and other art world figures. Our historic archive resides at the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.
Among the many artists and others who have appeared at ATOA have been: Will Barnet, Robert Blackburn, Louise Bourgeois, Herman Cherry, Judy Chicago, Allan Coleman, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Arthur Danto, Robert De Niro, Agnes Denes, Leon Golub, The Guerrilla Girls, Grace Hartigan, Wolf Kahn, Hilton Kramer, Ellen Koment, Lucy Lippard, Robert Longo, Alice Neel, Vernita Nemec, Robert Mapplethorpe, Knox Martin, Marisol, Ana Mendieta, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Pat Passlof, Judy Pfaff, Larry Poons, Milton Resnick, Larry Rivers, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Jerry Saltz, David Salle, Irving Sandler, Andres Serrano, Peter Schjeldahl, Miriam Shapiro, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Carolee Schneemann, Marcia C. Sheer, Kenneth Snelson, Calvin Tomkins, Lilly Wei, Hannah Wilke, Kehinde Wiley and Fred Wilson.
Organization Website: https://www.atoanyc.org/
Organization Address: 12 West 12th Street, 2nd floor, Parlor Room, New York NY 10001
Contact Name: Douglas Sheer
Contact Phone: (917) 692-0975
Contact Email: dougsheer@gmail.com
INTERNSHIP INFORMATION
Industry: Arts/Arts Management, Graphic Design, Marketing, Media/Video Production, Social Media
Keywords: Web Design, Computer Science, Graphic Design
Preferred Academic Level: No preference
Description of Internship: SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN
Globally known and venerable visual arts panel discussion series with weekly virtual events, via Zoom, seeks savvy social media creation and placement person to craft and place messages on a number of major platforms during our 2022 — 2023 season, commencing after Labor Day.
Typical weekly tasks:
* Write social media posts focused primarily on the weekly ATOA Zoom event panels, dialogues and “open studio” subjects, for which our programming director will supply the components … there are periodic ‘special events’
* Attach or embed images
* Post them to the ATOA Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and occasionally other platforms (our website gets its materials posted by our webmaster)
* Track visits, opens, clicks and other key metrics
Desired Skills: Qualifications include: Experience writing and posting social media messages, proficiency in Photoshop and Canva, a respect for and interest in the visual arts and artists and a willingness to commit to the assignment for the full academic year.
Other Requirements: The right person will have experience with utilizing available templates for web design, be familiar with common, often used, platforms and software such as, but not limited to, Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, etc. Other useful skills would include the Adobe suite, MS Office and similar. Enthusiasm about the visual arts is a plus!
