We welcome connections with CCS students who are interested in learning more about:

• Ethnographic and oral history research and interviewing
• Collaborative approaches to creating non-fiction comics
• Cultural practices in Vermont, past and present
• Creating comics from archival recordings of interviews and music, photographs, manuscripts and other archival resources

These topics can be explored through participation in ongoing VT Folklife projects, through projects developed with VT Folklife, or via self-directed work originating with the intern that supports VT Folklife’s mission. Though this internship is unpaid, we hope the training and experience it provides will be enriching and provide lasting benefits.

Students interested in exploring an internship with VT Folklife should connect with us to discuss your interests, explore your strengths and determine if they align with VT Folklife’s mission and goals, ongoing work, immediate programmatic needs and staff capacity to provide supervision. 

For more information, please contact:

Andy Kolovos Ph.D., MLS (he/him)

akolovos@vermontfolklifecenter.org
Associate Director and Archivist Vermont Folklife.
Please include (or link to) samples of your work.

About Vermont Folklife

Vermont Folklife is a statewide cultural research & education nonprofit. Our mission is to deepen Vermonters’ understanding of each other by engaging with communities across the state to document and share expressions of tradition, innovation, and culture. We serve individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities through four major areas of work: Archives & Research; Living Traditions (Traditional Arts Apprenticeship & Young Tradition VT); Education; and Vision & Voice Exhibitions. Our work is grounded in collaborative ethnographic engagement and documentation with cultural communities in VT.  Vermont Folklife has offices in Burlington and Middlebury.

Vermont Folklife has worked on several cartooning projects, including the El viaje mas caro/The Most Costly Journey project with the Open Door Clinic, a collaborative ethnographic cartooning and graphic medicine effort that used collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms. In addition we undertook the National Endowment for the Arts-funded Vermont Cartooning and Culture Project, through which we created a series of comics about our Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and Turner Family Stories, a graphic history of Vermonter Daisy Turner and her family drawn from materials in our archives. Each year we co-organize The Non-Fiction Comics Festival with the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

To learn more about VT Folklife visit our website: http://vtfolklife.org

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