The Central Park Conservancy (CPC), with grants from Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Inc. and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, is offering summer internships in outdoor sculpture conservation. The CPC is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the maintenance and preservation of Central Park. Interns will be involved in the examination, documentation, preservation and conservation of the bronze and stone sculpture in Central Park, New York City. For more information, visit the Central Park Conservancy website at www.centralparknyc.org .
Applicants must be active graduate students or recent graduates in historic preservation or objects conservation. Applicants must possess a current United States issued driver’s license or equivalent and must be physically able to lift 50 lbs.
The internship period will start on Monday, June 4th and will conclude on Friday, August 10th, 2012. Pay is approximately $14 dollars per hour. Interested candidates should respond (preferably via email) with a cover letter and C.V. or resume no later than April 16, 2012 to:
M.C.Reiley, Associate Director of Preservation and Conservation, Central Park Conservancy, 14 E. 60th Street, 8th floor, New York, NY 10022.
Cell: 347 236-9461. mreiley@centralparknyc.org