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  • My MAPH Internship Experience — MAKE Literary Magazine, by Alessandra Stamper

    Last summer, Alessandra Stamper (MAPH ’15) interned at MAKE Literary Magazine. Here’s her insight into working for a small, creative non-profit, and the perks that came with the job! Alessandra writes: Interning for MAKE Literary Magazine has given me an insight into the local, independent literary community in Chicago. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know…

  • Meet an Alum – Jeff Gilliland (MAPH ’13)

    Below is a blog post from Jeff Gilliland, who during his MAPH year, completed a creative thesis and worked for the Illinois Humanities Council through a Maph Summer Internship (which you can read about here!). Jeff currently works in Washington D.C. as the Communications Associate at Young Playwrights’ Theater. Bringing Arts Education to Life AfterMAPH The…

  • Meet an Alum- Jenny Gavacs (MA ’05)

      What was your favorite thing about your MAPH year? Although Jay’s eyebrows and Candace’s cats are up there, I think my favorite times were when I was sitting in Third World Cafe writing and other MAPHers would end up coming by to share their work or talk over the Core readings.   What were…

  • Meet an Alum- Alissa Smith (MA ’12)

    Check out this interview with Alissa Smith, who graduated from MAPH in 2012. Since MAPH, Alissa has worked in the nonprofit sector and speaks about her experiences in MAPH and how they lead her to her current position. What is your current job? I currently serve as the Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager for City…

  • Greg Lawless on the print issue of Colloquium

    Greg Lawless (MAPH ’03) shares this lovely reflection on his MAPH experience, our own Hilary Strang, and being included in the recently-released print issue of Colloquium magazine. An excerpt: Colloquium collects, as disparately as MAPH itself, a bizarre but beautiful array of contents and people, and manifests something of the original stakes—the desire to know, to write something…

  • EdTech: Emily Schickli(’14) on her Internship with PinkThink

    Instead of writing about my experience as the MAPH-sponsored Programs and Partnerships Intern at the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) this summer, I thought I would share a second, unique-to-UChicago opportunity that I enjoyed. In addition to interning at IHC, I worked as a content writer/editor for PinkThink, a startup formed in 2013 by Booth student…

  • Brandie Madrid (’14) on her MAPH Internship

    After I graduated high school in ’99 in the Chicago suburbs, I moved to Chicago proper where there was simply more happening in terms of art, music, and culture. I would frequent thrift and vintage stores like Ragstock and Hollywood Mirror, where alternative magazines like Lumpen and Newcity exposed me to communist politics and early…

  • Hannah on History: 2014 MAPH History Museum Internship

    From day one of the program, my fellow MAPHers and I were told about the coveted MAPH Internships and what great opportunities they offered upon graduation; just nine months away! I was eager to apply to these internships (indeed I planned on applying to ALL of them; I had jobs on my mind from the…

  • Moments that Make a Museum: Mike O’Malley (’14) on his Internship with the Smart Museum

    “That’s my claim to fame,” he said. “I took Frida Kahlo to the movies.” It was 1937. Leon Despres, Chicago alderman and activist, was visiting Mexico, sitting on a couch chatting in French with Diego Rivera while the artist painted a portrait of Despres’s wife, Marian. “I sat there in the morning while he painted…

  • Continued Education in Chicago: Ellen Mueller (’14) on her Internship with The Odyssey Project

    I began the Odyssey Project internship knowing its reputation for being a choose-your-own adventure process and an exercise in multitasking. I left the summer feeling like the internship had transformed in ways I never had imagined. Unlike the interns before me, I didn’t teach a class as part of my summer internship, but I was,…

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