Internships

Zygote’s internships are geared toward early career artists looking to gain experience at a community nonprofit printshop. Each year, we offer shop, gallery, social media, community programming, nonprofit management, and special projects internships.

About

Zygote’s internship program is essential to our organization’s mission, and interns provide ideas and energy that are crucial to our success.

Zygote’s internship program provides participants with fulfilling experiences that have led to positions as gallery directors, shop technicians, contract printers, resident artists and adjunct positions in schools and universities.

 Zygote offers a wide array of internships varying in length and requires a commitment of at least 20 hours each month. Interns work directly with a department to determine their schedule.

  • Free 24/7 access to the shop

  • Free Printmaking instruction

  • Group classes at no cost (if space is available)

  • Paid Teaching and community engagement opportunities

  • Special shop activities, networking and projects

  • Year long Zygote Membership

Types of internships

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  • Zygote Press is excited to offer a 12 week Shop Internship, with a focus on green printmaking research, and proper print shop maintenance. Shop interns will work directly with our Print Shop Manager to maintain Zygote’s facilities, research new green printmaking techniques, staff Zygote events, and assist community member or resident artists in the making of their work. Prospective interns should be pursuing a career in fine art, design, art history, art education, or a related field—and have a love of the arts. Printmaking experience is required. 

  • If you are interested in gaining experience in grant writing, arts nonprofit management, community building, development, special event planning, fundraising, and executive leadership, this is a great opportunity to work alongside the executive director of Zygote Press. Applicants should be pursuing a career in the nonprofit sector, have excellent written and oral communications skills, attention to detail, and have the ability to engage with the public as a representative of Zygote Press.

  • Zygote Press is excited to offer a community engagement/marketing internship this fall/winter. This internship will be focused creating physical and digital marketing materials and managing a social media calendar. The student should be pursuing studies in communication, journalism, writing, marketing or a related field – and have a love of the arts. It would be a hybrid position, working mostly remotely, but would involve coming in to Zygote's Shop one day a week to work with our Marketing & Development Coordinator or Executive Director. 

  • Our Team of year long community programming interns work directly with our Community Engagement Manager to bring printmaking to Cleveland. Assisting at different events throughout the year.

  • Zygote Press is excited to offer a Gallery Internship. The gallery internship is a year long commitment and is ideally awarded to a former shop intern who is interested in continuing their work at Zygote while working directly with our Senior Program and & Gallery Manager.

  • The shop Tech Internship is a year long position awarded to a former shop intern. During this internship you will work directly with the Shop Manager to maintain the presses and studio as needed. After this year long internship you will leave zygote as a certified print shop technician.

Zygote Press Internship Inquiry Form

**Applications for Fall 2026 are currently closed. Please check back in January 2027 for the next application cycle.