Program Description

The Digital Media and Design program is responsible for developing and improving the presence of ARTogether online and in the community. Dedicated to informing the public of potential events or projects Artogether is working on, the Digital Media and Design program will work diligently to make sure that promotion of these events is effective and is accessible to all community members. Finally, the Digital Media and Design program revolves around work with print design, web design, and animation. All in the effort to make our events as inclusive and accessible to the community.

About the Internship

The Digital Media intern will be responsible for developing innovative and effective forms of design and promotion for the ARTogether and our oral history project currently revolving around the documentary titled From Killing Fields to Sanctuary: Voices of Oakland’s Cambodian Refugees. Furthermore, the intern will work through social media outlets, websites, and any other publicly accessible outlets to promote events held by ARTogether in order to develop the relationship between the public and ARTogether. At ARTogether, it is important for our interns to have the freedom and liberty to design their projects without constant supervision and control from their supervisor, therefore, the intern can expect to have creative control over their projects.

• Experience with communications
• Strong communication skills that will be used with other staff members or during outreach attempts
• Dedication and commitment to the projects being worked on

ARTogether provides a link between the two communities of refugee and immigrant youth and artists. Giving these youth tools to express themselves and connect through art contributes to a community that thrives, and in which all of its members are fully participating in its formation, writing its history, and shaping its future.

ARTogether is a community-building creative arts project, guided by the principle that art can serve as a means of expression that transcends language and culture, while it lays a foundation for managing and overcoming trauma.

ARTogether facilitate social gathering, family picnics, and other social activities to raise awareness about refugee situation and also to make connection between the refugee community and the general public. ARTogether forms partnerships with artists and refugee organizations in the Bay Area , to develop and host regular free creative arts workshops that are 90 minutes to two hours in duration. ARTogether designs one-time workshops as well as ongoing regular series. Workshop themes cover a broad range of media and purpose. Activities take place onsite or at the partner refugee organization’s facility, and wherever possible.