The Norval Foundation is a privately funded art institution dedicated to the research, education, and exhibition of twentieth and twenty-first-century visual art from South Africa and beyond. 

  • The Norval Foundation and Middlebury College are partnering to offer two funded six-week internships in Summer 2022. 
  • Dates: July 4-August 12, 2022 (arrive in South Africa on July 1).
  • Spend 5 weeks in Cape Town, 1 week in Johannesburg.
  • Exposure to Curatorial, Art Education, Collections Management, Public Programming, and Marketing & Communications.
  • Seeking students with prior exposure to art history, museum work, or African culture.
  • Each internship is funded with a $5000 grant from Middlebury’s Center for Careers and Internships and The Arts Council to cover transportation, housing, and food.
  • The two Middlebury interns will be housed together in housing to be secured by the Norval Foundation and paid for by students from their $5000 grant.   
  • Apply on Handshake (key word search Norval Foundation). Deadline: Feb. 14, 2022. 
  • Once selected, students will be CCI-Funded interns and must complete an application for funding on Handshake. Contact Cheryl Whitney Lower, CCI Associate Director of Internships (clower@middlebury.edu).
  • For more information, contact Pieter Broucke, Associate Dean for the Arts (broucke@middlebury.edu), or Alicia Gomez, CCI Arts Advisor agomez@middlebury.edu), or make an appointment with Alicia on Handshake.