{
  "id": 15907364,
  "title": "MassArt Graduate Assistantships Provide Hands-On Experience to Launch Your Career",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/massart-graduate-assistantships-provide-hands-on-experience-to-launch",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-21T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hyperallergic",
    "slug": "hyperallergic",
    "url": "https://hyperallergic.com/massart-graduate-assistantships-provide-hands-on-experience-to-launch-your-career/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "MassArt graduate programs offer comprehensive assistantship opportunities each semester to their graduate students. These paid positions not only build professional and academic skills but also provide mentorship and connections beyond one's specific graduate program. Assistantships are designed to be more than just jobs, offering invaluable hands-on experience in teaching, research, studios, galleries, and administration. They are intended to serve as a vital launching point for students as they seek employment in their chosen fields or apply for other competitive opportunities.\n\nLucy Bennett, an MFA Studio Arts graduate, attests to the importance of these assistantships. Through her teaching assistantships, Bennett has worked alongside faculty and undergraduate students, observing various artistic approaches to making, problem-solving, and learning. She explains, \"Teaching has become another way of learning for me.\" Bennett's second assistantship positions her within MassArt's Graduate gallery, MassArt x SoWa. She notes that working at the gallery has been one of her graduate experience's highlights, including engaging in First Fridays, meeting artists, assisting with installations and de-installations, and contributing to the gallery's curatorial side through jurying exhibitions. Bennett has also built relationships with artists, staff, faculty, and other gallery professionals, further enriching her involvement in the arts community.\n\nThe graduate assistantships at MassArt are divided into two categories: teaching and technical. The technical category offers a wide range of possibilities, from skill-building in MassArt's various studio facilities, such as ceramics, digital fabrication, printing, and more, to work centered on cultural change in the Justice Equity & Transformation office or social media management and design in Marketing. This diverse array of assistantship opportunities allows students to gain practical experience across multiple areas, providing them with a solid foundation as they pursue their professional goals.",
  "summary": "MassArt’s Graduate Assistantships support students’ interests and professional development beyond graduation.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}