Personal Assistant to Art History Scholar Roni Feinstein

Contact Name: Cecilia Flanagan
Contact Email: c.flanagan@uci.eduPersonal Assistant to Art History Scholar Roni Feinstein Application Deadline: Monday, October 8th

Current Art History majors have first priority followed by Art History minors, 4+1 MA Art History students, and Visual Studies PhD students.  In exceptional cases, other current School of Humanities majors and Art Department majors will be considered.
            
The Personal Assistant Intern would work with Roni at her home (10 minutes from UCI) for approximately two mornings per week for about two hours each. The schedule is flexible.

An intern interested in learning not only about art, but about collection management and the art business (cataloguing, evaluations, consignments, and more), would benefit from the experience of working with Roni on these projects.

The intern would assist Roni with maintaining her personal website which includes an art blog and two art collections she manages, which includes her collection of contemporary art (which includes editions by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Carroll Dunham, and others as well as paintings, sculptures, and sculptures by a range of international artists) and The Maurice and Suzanne Vanderwoude Collection, which is based in New York (which she has curated for the past three years, and consists largely of early American Modernism, works by Marsden Hartley, George Ault, Joseph Stella, Elie Nadelman, Ralston Crawford and includes some Ash Can School pieces (Robert Henri, George Luks, and others) as well as mid-century works (i.e., Franz Kline, Jan Muller, Lester Johnson, Alice Trumbull Mason) and still more recent pieces.) The intern will assist Roni with selling or otherwise dispersing the collection, both through sales through New York dealers or donations to museums.
            
Application Materials and Qualifications: Submit the following application materials for this internship and award to Cecilia Flanagan at c.flanagan@uci.edu:

·         Cover letter (one-page maximum) describing your interest and qualifications.
·         Your unofficial transcript reflecting a combined GPA of 3.0 or higher in art history courses at UCI and/or 3.0 overall GPA
·         Your resume (one-page maximum) including art history courses completed at UCI (you may attach a list of classes separately if needed), any previous internships, and any other relevant work, travel or volunteer experience.
·         Your art history faculty reference(s). You may also submit other references if you think they would be useful to our selection process.

The successful applicant should plan to spend a total of 60 hours at the internship and will receive a $1000 award to be processed and paid following completion of the internship and submission of:

•           A one-page summary to be written by the intern upon internship completion describing what was learned, what skills were developed, what the intern specifically appreciated about the internship and how the experience could be improved, and

•           A confirmation email from the intern’s supervisor to c.flanagan@uci.edu

Roni Feinstein is an independent scholar specializing in 20th- and 21st-century art. She has resided in and reported on the art scenes of New York, Miami, Toronto, Sydney, and, most recently, Los Angeles.  She has worked as a museum director and curator, university professor, museum educator, arts journalist, and collection manager. She is currently Co-chair of ArtTable, Southern California, the local branch of a national organization of professional women in the arts, and serves on ArtTable's National Board.  She is also an instructor at UCLA Extension and curates a New York-based private collection of 20th century American art.

Roni is a specialist on the art of Robert Rauschenberg, the subject of her dissertation at the Institute of Fine Arts, and has curated exhibitions and authored over two dozen catalogue essays on this and other artists.  She served for many years as Corresponding Editor for Art in America and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Print Quarterly, and a host of other publications.  She maintains a blog on her website, ronifeinstein.com, which also offers links to more than 90 of her publications.