[Reader-list] Arts Management Internship Diploma Program

[Anupama Sekhar]

The DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum (Muttukadu, Tamil Nadu) and the Madras 
Craft Foundation Institute of Arts Management (Chennai) offer an Arts 
Management Internship Diploma Program. Applications from are now being 
invited for admission to the third batch of the program (which will 
commence in end-June 2007 and end in late May 2008).

The eleven-month multidisciplinary Internship Diploma program aims to 
create professional managers with a deep and real understanding of culture 
to take on leadership roles in cultural & arts organizations in India. The 
program specially prepares candidates for careers in museums, art 
galleries, arts & crafts promotional bodies, Indian & international 
cultural centers and the tourism & hospitality industries.

Taught over three trimesters in Chennai, this full-time program includes 
courses in cultural studies, art appreciation, management, mass 
communication and design. Courses taught include Approaches to Cultural 
Studies, Appreciation of Indian and Western Art, Performing Arts, Cultural 
Tourism, Changing Notions of Museums, Media & Communication, Video 
Documentation (with Field Studies), Design Movements, Graphic Design and 
Management. 

The course is project work oriented. Interns will be expected to assist 
with and work on projects at the DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum 
concurrently with their course work. 

Fellowships (comprising of full tuition waiver plus a stipend) are 
available to meritorious applicants. Scholarships covering full and 
partial costs of tuition are also offered.

Prospective students must: be Indian nationals; hold a Bachelor’s degree 
in any subject; be under 35 years of age; and, and possess deep interest 
in art and culture. 

The Madras Craft Foundation Institute of Arts Management is an initiative 
of the Madras Craft Foundation, a Chennai-based registered non-profit 
organization established in 1984 for the preservation and promotion of the 
arts with special emphasis on the culture of south India. 

Established in 1996, DakshinaChitra is a heritage museum and contemporary 
cultural centre for the living traditions of art, folk performing arts, 
crafts, contemporary art and architecture of India with an emphasis on the 
traditions of south India. Showcased at DakshinaChitra are 17 heritage 
homes from the four states of south India, each of which has been 
relocated to its present location from its original site. A project of the 
Madras Craft Foundation, DakshinaChitra occupies ten undulating acres 
overlooking the Bay of Bengal at Muttukadu, Tamil Nadu (approx. 25 km. 
south of Chennai on the East Coast Road to Mamallapuram).

For more details & application forms, visit 
http://www.dakshinachitra.net/scripts/internshipdiploma.asp

Deadline for receipt of application is 15 April 2007

Anupama Sekhar
Program Officer, DakshinaChitra 

DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum 
East Coast Road, Muttukadu, Tamil Nadu 603 118
+91.44.2747 2603

Madras Craft Foundation 
G-3, No. 6, Urur Olcott Road, Besant Nagar, Chennai 600090 
+91.44.2491 8943

E: mcfdak at md3.vsnl.net.in
W: http://www.dakshinachitra.net