James E. Lieber Art History Internship Fund

Established in 2019 by James E. Lieber ’84, and awarded by the Art History Program, the Lieber Art History Internship Fund provides grant support to Art History majors or minors for summer work experience as rising juniors and seniors through unpaid or underpaid internships with non-profit visual arts-related institutions in the United States or abroad, such as museums, cultural foundations, collections, publications, and visual arts education programs.

Application deadline for 2026: February 27, Friday, 12 noon (Applications received by the deadline will receive full consideration.)

Students who received Lieber Internship funds in the past would not be eligible to receive them again.

The Fund has two branches:  

1) support for internships secured independently by eligible students. Click here for additional details and application instructions. 

2) support for a Wesleyan-sponsored Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship in Venice, Italy. Click here for details and a description of the program along with application instructions.

2026 Lieber Art History Internship Fund Recipients:

  • Nell Brayton '27, Art History and Environmental Studies double major
With the generous support of the James E. Lieber Art History Internship Fund, I will be interning at the Henry Sheldon Museum, located in my hometown of Middlebury, Vermont. My role is positioned within the Stewart-Swift Research Center, the Sheldon Museum’s archival and research division. As an intern, I will work extensively with the museum’s library and archives to analyze materials for publications and future exhibitions, research archival collections, and catalogue artworks while taking a deep-dive into the material history of my home-state. I look forward to reconnecting with the folk art of Vermont, considering how its landscape has impacted its artistic practices, and I am incredibly grateful for the support of the Lieber Fund award in this endeavor.

 

2026 Wesleyan-sponsored Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship Recipient:

  •  Dinah Landsman '27, Art History and Art Studio double major

 

Recipients since the fellowship's founding in 2019:

 

2025:
Maggie Leeming '26, Art History and Film Studies double major
Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Find out more about Maggie's internship at MALBA here.

Theo Lockrow '27, Art History and East Asian Studies double major
Gibbes Museum Vibrant Leaders Program, Charleston, South Carolina
Click here to read Theo's post (you will be directed to the Gibbes Museum website).

Eden Porter '27, Art Studio and Government double major, Art History minor
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Learn more about Eden's experience at the PGC here.

 

2024:
Vansh Kapoor '26, Art History and Art Studio double major (Painting Concentration)
New York Transit Museum, New York City

 

2023:
Emma Kendall '24, Art History and English major
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New York City

 

2022:
Luz Rivera '24, Art History and Art Studio major
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, New York City
Carter Burden Gallery, New York City

 

Rebeca Trevino '24, Art History, Art Studio and Dance major
The Latino Arts Project with The African American Art Musuem of Dallas, Dallas, Texas

 

2021:
Yu Qin '21, Art History major, College of East Asian Studies minor
VeritasChina, online

 

2019:
Natalia Gomez Vazquez '21, Art History major
Galería Toro in Granada, Spain