Lawrence R. Hoey Memorial Prize

The Chipstone Foundation supports a graduate student in the Department of Art History at UWM whose scholarly work aligns with their mission to promote and enhance appreciation and knowledge of American material culture, particularly the decorative arts.

The semester-long internship is at the Chipstone Foundation located in Fox Point, Wisc. Using social media platforms is central to fulfilling the Foundation’s mission to communicate new artistic research and innovative interpretative strategies to students, scholars, and the general public. Using Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, the student intern will share ongoing research, scholars’ visits, collections highlights, programming, and more. This work requires researching the collection, brainstorming points of connection between contemporary issues and historical art, writing posts, and maintaining best practices in museum social media strategies. This internship is intended to familiarize graduate students with curatorial practice, research, and programming, with a focus on promoting the Foundation’s work and collection on social media platforms. Students will be supervised by Curator of the Chipstone Foundation Ruth Dibble and will register for ARTHIST 891. Priority will be given to master’s students working toward the Art Museum Studies Certificate.