The Amistad Center's culture-based educational programs include lectures, workshops, film, children and family programs, seminars and tours related to The Center's collections and exhibitions. To view objects in the collection, researchers and scholars may arrange an appointment by writing to The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103. To arrange special tours of The Amistad Center's exhibitions, or to explore themes of African American art and history as they related to the museum. Group Tour Office (860) 838-4046.

Education
Check the Calendar section for upcoming programs and events.

Internship Opportunities
The Amistad Center's Education Department is looking for interns to provide the Curator of Education with creative and administrative support with educational and interpretive programs, projects, and written materials.

Qualifications

• Major in one of the following (preferred) fields: African American Studies, American Studies, Art History, Education, Museum Studies, or History. Majors not within these fields should have a sincere interest in African American culture.
• Graduate students or recent grads, though undergraduate seniors will be considered.
• Self-motivated with strong writing and organization skills.
• Able to take direction well and work independently or with a team.
• Responsible and willing to devote most of the academic year to the internship (school breaks, midterms, finals, etc. are exempt).
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly to changes.

Click here for a detailed description.
For an application, click here.

TAG
The Amistad Center created TAG (Teen Advisory Group) in order to provide culture-based educational opportunities for youth and to enrich the cultural lives of all segments of the community in which we are housed. An innovative and exciting look at youth culture in Hartford, I Am Whatever You Say I Am, a video documentary about hip hop culture and skateboarding, was the first project created by TAG. TAG is composed of high school students from the Greater Hartford area who assist the Center in engaging their peers while expanding their own knowledge and relationship with the museum, and building their fundamental and creative skills.

For more information about the TAG Team, click here.

For an application, click here.

Neighborhood Studios
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture hosts a six-week Neighborhood Studio Summer Youth Apprenticeship program for the Greater Hartford Arts Council. The Amistad Center chooses ten teen apprentices to create a photography exhibition thematically linked to the Amistad exhibition on view. STAY!: Perspectives of Hartford, For the Love of the Game and No Boundaries are past Neighborhood Studio exhibition themes. Apprentices have created a websites, Myspace pages, artist statements, poetry and view-books, all highlighting ideas and images from their exhibition. Throughout the process the teen apprentices: met with different museum professionals to learn how the museum functions and about museum careers, toured neighborhoods in Hartford taking pictures of all they found interesting, created a theme for the exhibition, manipulated their images using Adobe Photoshop, framed and hung their own images, wrote statements and text for the exhibition, and spoke about their work with visitors.

To see sample of 2009 Neighborhood Studios students, click here.

Visit Letsgoarts.org for more information about the Neighborhood Studios program.

Neighborhood Studios is sponsored by the Greater Hartford Arts Council.