In fall of 2016, the City University of New York (CUNY) partnered with New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs and The Rockefeller Foundation to launch the CUNY Cultural Corps, which creates opportunities for CUNY students to work in the City’s cultural sector. Modeled after the CUNY Service Corps, which provides hundreds of CUNY students with paid work experience in civic-oriented jobs in community-based organizations and government agencies, the Cultural Corps aims to be a strong student pipeline for successful alumni into New York City’s arts and culture institutions. This internship program was created as a response to a report released that year by the Department of Cultural Affairs highlighting a lack of diversity in NYC cultural institutions.
Partnering institutions include non-profit cultural organizations involved in the visual, literary and performing arts as well as public-oriented science and humanities institutions including zoos, botanical gardens and historic and preservation societies.
Click Here to see the full list of institutions that are participating in CUNY Cultural Corps for the 2021-2022 school year.
Sample of Our 2020-2021 Participating Organizations:
| 9/11 Memorial & Museum |
| A.I.M by Kyle Abraham |
| A.I.R. Gallery |
| Americans for the Arts |
| Art Beyond Sight |
| ArteEast, Inc. |
| Artists Alliance Inc. |
| ArtsConnection |
| Asian American Arts Alliance |
| Bridging Education & Art Together (BEAT) |
| Bronx Council on the Arts |
| Brooklyn Arts Council |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange |
| Brooklyn Children’s Theatre |
| Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. |
| Community-Word Project |
| Cool Culture |
| Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum |
| CUE Art Foundation |
| CUNY Creative Arts Team |
| Dance/NYC |
| Dancewave |
| Dia Art Foundation |
| Dreamyard Project |
| El Museo del Barrio |
| Flux Factory |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts |
| Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. |
| Girl Be Heard |
| Haiti Cultural Exchange |
| Harlem Stage |
| Hip-Hop Theater Festival Inc. DBA Hi-ARTS |
| Independent Curators International |
| KODA |
| Kundiman |
| Lambda Literary |
| Latsky Dance Inc (DBA Heidi Latsky Dance) |
| LEIMAY |
| LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum |
| Lower Manhattan Cultural Council |
| Ma-Yi Theater Company |
To learn more about the Academic Year Internship for students:
For Description & Eligibility, click here.
Have questions? Go here: Prospective Corps Member FAQ
Corps Member Applications:
The corps member application for the 2021-2022 CUNY Cultural Corps Academic Year Internship has been RE-OPENED! Please apply by the deadline of July 19th at 11 AM.
https://cunysud.formstack.com/forms/culturalcorps_studentapp
Host Site Applications:
The 2021-2022 Partner Application is now open.
Applying is a two-step process.
1) Register as an employer here:
https://servicecorps-csm.symplicity.com/employers/
2) Once your registration is approved, you will receive instructions on how to complete the application process by entering service placement descriptions.
Questions? Contact us at [email protected]
Learn more about the program for host sites and why you should partner with us here.
Read our Prospective Partner FAQ for more details here