Lauren's Week at Lawndale

My name is Lauren, and I just spent a week interning at Lawndale Art Center, as a school assignment. I am a student at Woods Middle School. During the last month of school everyone is required to partake in an internship as part of our school curriculum. The 8th graders have to go out and find a business and apply for an internship for that week. Basically it is a fun practice for preparing for job searching when you enter the real world. After we are accepted for the internship we write a résumé and a business letter, and then mail it to the business.

My experience here at Lawndale Art Center has been an interesting one. Everyday I would work with a different member of the staff and see what they do and assist them with various tasks. Like on Monday I worked with Zach, and since Monday was a slow day, all I really did was help them set up for a workshop that was going on that night. On Tuesday I worked with Karen, and then later that day I helped the artist Kevin Curry with his giant quilt by putting some of the designs together. On Wednesday I helped Christine copy many different papers for their board meeting that evening. Thursday I got to watch the downstairs while every one else was up in a meeting which was cool, because normally a teenage is not allowed to watch an art studio while everyone else is upstairs.

I personally found this to be a really fun and interesting experience that I would defiantly want to do again!

posted by: Lauren, School of the Woods Intern