Student Opportunities
Art Club
The Art Club provides a venue for a broad student population to discuss, plan, and participate in various art and art related activities both within and outside of the university. Examples of such activities include arranging visiting artists’ lectures, curating art shows, web design ideas for the arts, organizing workshops and field trips, and creating posters and card designs for various art-related events. Membership is open to all students, faculty, and staff interested in the arts.
If interested, please contact Dr. Lisa Ciresi: ciresi@uscb.edu
Visit: Art Club on Facebook
Student Internships
Internships are available to upper level studio art majors as 300-400 level courses. Supervised professional experience working within galleries, media companies, and graphic design studios looks great on your resume, and could lead to future employment. A contract approved by the employer, faculty sponsor, and department chair is required to arrange an internship course. Internships can be taken multiple semesters, for 1-3 upper level degree credits (50-150 contact hours per semester), and are available in the fall, spring, and summer semesters.
For-credit student internship courses are currently available with the following Beaufort employers:
- South Carolina Educational Television
- Beaufort Film Society and Festival
- PickleJuice Productions
- The Beaufort Inn
- Murr Printing
- The Kazoo Factory and New South Shirts
- Printology Signs & Graphics
- Beaufort Art Association
To apply for one of these internships, please contact Topher Maraffi: cmaraffi@uscb.edu
Students can also set up for-pay summer internships with employers by contacting them directly. USC-Columbia's Media Arts list of employers for paid summer Internships.
Annual Juried Student Art Show
Each spring semester students from all levels of the Studio Art program submit artwork for selection and exhibition in our Sea Island Center Gallery.