ART 422 - Intern/Commercial Gallery

Unit(s): 1 to 4

This internship serves as an opportunity for students to develop patterns of professional behavior in the commercial art world setting. Students will be placed in a Bay Area art gallery where they will learn skills such as client interaction, cataloguing of works of art, shipping and insuring art, sales techniques, curating exhibitions, planning receptions, art fairs, and other public events, etc. Partner art galleries in San Francisco include: Franklin Bowles, Braunstein/Quay, Catharine Clark, Christopher Clark, Frey Norris, Haines Gallery, Hespe Gallery, Robert Koch, and Toomey Tourrell Fine Art.

Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Art History & Museum Studies, Art History/Arts Management, Museum Studies Major
College of Arts and Sciences