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Overview: Interference Arts is seeking a part time Artistic Associate to assist with upcoming arts project development and technical production work. Artistic Director Craig Harris is a composer, theater artist, writer and producer who creates music, multimedia performances, interactive sculptural environments and creative story spaces. The Artistic Associate will be helping with ongoing development and production related to the Legacy Dream Space interactive multimedia exhibition, and with upcoming performances and presentations. The Artistic Associate will also be assisting with website maintenance and social media activities.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: Mess Hall Arts

Title: Studio Manager/Teacher

Pay: $24-30/hr

Overview: The Studio Manager is the operational and cultural heartbeat of the studio. This role blends leadership, organization, customer service, creativity, and business management. The Studio Manager ensures smooth daily operations, supports instructors, maintains a welcoming environment for families and artists, and helps grow the studio’s programs and community presence.

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Organization: 24 Seven Talent

Title: Multimedia Designer

Pay: $36-42/hr

Overview: We are seeking a versatile and imaginative Multimedia Designer to craft engaging visual content that enhances brand storytelling and supports marketing and business development initiatives. This role combines video production, motion graphics, and graphic design to create impactful deliverables across digital platforms, proposals, and presentations. Ideal candidates are both creatively driven and strategically minded, with a talent for turning ideas into powerful visuals.

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Organization: Japs-Olson Company

Title: Color Control Specialist

Pay: $22-30/hr

Overview: The Color Control Specialist plays a key role in ensuring our customers receive beautifully printed, color accurate work every time. In this role, you’ll verify color during production, support customer press checks, and help maintain the calibration systems that keep our color standards consistent. You’ll partner closely with Prepress, Pressroom, and Quality teams—serving as a trusted resource for color guidance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. This is a hands-on, detail focused position where your expertise in color, communication, and problem-solving helps deliver the high-quality results Japs-Olson Co. is known for.

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Organization: KidzArt

Title: Part Time After School Art Teacher

Pay: $22/hr

Overview: This is a part-time on-site role as an After School Art Teacher traveling to different schools in Inver Grove Heights. As an After School Art Teacher, you will inspire and guide students in exploring their creativity and artistic potential through engaging art activities. Your day-to-day tasks will involve conducting art lessons, providing constructive feedback, and creating a supportive learning environment where students can express themselves through art.

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Organization: Mess Hall Arts

Title: Summer Art Camp Teacher

Pay: $16-20/hr

Overview: Mess Hall Arts is looking for energetic, creative Summer Art Camp Teachers to lead hands-on art camps for children. Teachers will guide campers through fun, messy, and imaginative art projects while creating a supportive and engaging environment. Mess Hall Arts summer camps are Monday-Thursday 9-4p. There are options for half days or full days for camps.

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Organization: Everyday Futuristic LLC

Title: Graphic Designer — Print Production

Pay: $40/hr

Overview: Seeking a graphic design student or recent graduate to finalize print-ready files for a spring community art installation. The project is largely designed; the work focuses on color correcting a raw photo of our felted lion mascot for print accuracy, finalizing postcard and magnet layouts, editorial layout for a two-sided black and white program sheet, t-shirt placement mockup, and exploring 2–3 font variations for the project name. The brand system is fully established (logo, fonts, and color palette provided). Must be comfortable with print production and product packaging. Lightroom/Photoshop and InDesign required. Please send a portfolio with examples of print and editorial layout work to amy@everydayfuturistic.com. Open to working with someone who can take on part of the deliverables if schedules require. The pay rate is $400 project-based for the initial scope. If additional work is requested beyond the agreed deliverables, compensation may continue at $40/hour with approval from both parties. Start asap with deliverables due between March 20 and April 2, 2026.

For more information and to apply, email amy@everydayfuturistic.com.

Organization: Urban Ventures

Title: Summer Ventures Art Elective Teacher

Pay: $20-25/hr

Overview: The Summer Ventures Art Elective Teacher delivers steady, systematic, multisensory instruction to classes of approximately 10–15 students. This educator provides project-based lessons across a variety of art forms, incorporates opportunities for career exploration, and guides students in creating a final project to be showcased at the end of the summer. In addition to teaching responsibilities, the Art Elective Teacher participates in program-wide activities—including lunch, recess, assemblies, field trips, and enrichment experiences—to help ensure a meaningful, enjoyable, and impactful summer program. Summer Ventures serves students entering grades 1–7 from the Central and Phillips neighborhoods of Minneapolis, offering academic instruction along with elective courses and enriching experiences that support the whole child.

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Organization: Calico

Title: Project Coordinator (Part Time)

Pay: Not specified

Overview: Working both at the store and in the home of customers, our Designers use their inspiring design expertise to guide customers in the selection of fabrics, trims, custom designed window treatments, bedding, and upholstered furniture to create the rooms of their dreams. We seek individuals with strong fabric knowledge, custom labor experience, proven sales ability and excellent time management and organizational skills. Our Designers have an innate understanding of color, design and custom home furnishings. After completing our extensive training, our Designers have all the resources they need to build a meaningful and rewarding career.

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Organization: Thread Art

Title: Embroidery Machine Operator

Pay: $ 18-22/hr

Overview: We are looking for dedicated Embroidery Machine Operators to join our team. The ideal candidates will have experience operating embroidery machines and handling various tasks associated with apparel production and other promotional products. Candidates must be detail-oriented, capable of working as part of a team. (Start ASAP)

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Organization: 612 SIGNS

Title: Manufacturing + Graphics Production File Setup

Pay: $ 25-30/hr

Overview: The Manufacturing + Graphics Production File Setup Specialist is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and optimizing digital artwork and production files for manufacturing and large-format graphics output. This role ensures that all files are accurate, production-ready, and aligned with material, equipment, and installation requirements to support efficient, high-quality manufacturing. This position can be hybrid; more time on site will be required at the start of employment.

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Organization: Shea, Inc.

Title: Junior Designer

Pay: $ 25-27/hr

Overview: As a Junior Designer at Shea, you’ll collaborate with other experienced Designers, Architects, and leadership in developing creative solutions through all phases of design, approaching each project with a strategic mindset to help our clients reach their goals. You’ll work within the realms of hospitality, retail, and workplace, pulling best practices from across industries to create one-of-a-kind spaces and experiences.

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Organization: Robert Half

Title: Production Artist

Pay: $17.10 - 19.80/hr

Overview: We are looking for a skilled Production Artist to join our team in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This is a long-term contract position that offers the opportunity to work on-site from Monday through Thursday with Fridays off. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in print production, digital press operations, and marketing collateral creation.

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Organization: Softline Brand Partners

Title: Decoration Specialist (Embroidery)

Pay: $17/hr

Overview: As a Decoration Specialist at Softline, you will be responsible for creating and executing detailed and artistic designs on various fabrics and materials. Your exceptional attention to detail and creativity will play a crucial role in producing beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces that exceed our clients’ expectations. You will collaborate with our design team to bring their visions to life through your embroidery and stamping skills. Embroidery experience is required.

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Organization: H&M

Title: Visual Merchandiser

Pay: $19.78 - 23.58/hr

Overview: As a Visual Merchandiser, you contribute to an inspiring, elevated, and consistent customer experience by implementing visual standards and commercial excellence. You will be responsible for executing the visual, commercial, and styling curation according to visual & commercial guidelines for the store. You will also use your trend and competitor awareness to provide colleagues with the correct information, coach, upskill and develop the store team to contribute to a great customer experience.

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INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Organization: East Side Arts Council

Title: Artmobile Intern

Pay: $700/ Stipend

Overview: The Artmobile program is East Side Arts Council’s most popular summer program. Each summer the Artmobile, a van packed with art supplies, winds through the streets of the East Side of St. Paul to offer free, drop in art classes at a variety of locations across the community. The Artmobile intern is integral to the success of this program, providing assistance with gathering supplies, documenting the days by taking photos and recording comments from participants, and assisting the lead and guests artists throughout the day. The Artmobile internship is an opportunity to experience working with a grassroots arts organization and six local, professional, and diverse artists.

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Organization: Gammelgården Museum of Scandia

Title: Spring/Summer intern

Pay:$3.000/ Stipend

Overview: Each Spring/Summer intern gains skills in managing a small museum. The individuals chosen for the role are on-site during the open season as staff people who are able to be helpful in any role/position. Gammelgården values diversity and seeks talented interns from diverse backgrounds and experiences. This includes, but is not limited to, those who are the first generation in their family to attend college, who come from low-income backgrounds, and/or have had limited access to museum experiences.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: Wallin Education Partners

Title: Videography & Photography Internship

Pay: $15.97/hr

Overview: Wallin Education Partners is seeking a creative and detail-oriented Videography & Photography Intern to support our marketing and storytelling efforts. This part-time, hybrid role is ideal for someone passionate about visual storytelling and capturing meaningful moments that highlight Wallin’s impact. The intern will produce photo and video content for events, digital platforms, and campaigns while collaborating with the marketing team to strengthen Wallin’s brand and advance our mission of college and career success.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: Hearth & Home Technologies

Title: Creative/Production Design Intern

Pay: $22/hr

Overview: Hearth & Home Technologies is looking for a Creative/Production Design Intern to join our Fireplace Business team in Lakeville, MN. Our internship will run approximately 12 weeks during the summer of 2026 and is a paid internship at $22.00 per hour. We are the nation’s leading manufacturer and supplier of hearth products, including a wide variety of gas, electric, wood and pellet burning fireplaces, inserts, stoves, and accessories.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: Lakeville Area Arts Center

Title: Arts Center Intern

Pay: $16.74-19.96/hr

Overview:The Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC) is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic individual to join our team as summer Intern. In this role, you will support camp instructors, engage with campers, prepare art materials, assist with administrative tasks, and ensure a safe and fun learning environment. Experience working with children and a passion for the arts are highly valued. First review of applicants will begin on February 4, 2026.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: Perkins&Will

Title: Summer Intern - Interior Design

Pay: $23-26/hr

Overview:Join us in creating a world that restores, nurtures, and protects life on our planet through sustainability, resilience, diversity, inclusion, and well-being, while also giving back to our communities. During their internship, students will have the opportunity to work on various projects that provide valuable exposure and experience. Tasks may include revising Revit drawings with mark-ups, detail and schematic design, among other responsibilities. Interns are invited to participate in design and project meetings, onboarding sessions, and may attend client and consultant meetings to enhance their learning and growth. They will have the chance to interact daily with their project manager, who is a senior representative of the firm, while working on their projects.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: Baldwin Supply Company

Title: Graphic Design Intern

Pay: $18-20/hr

Overview: The Graphic Design Intern / Contract Designer will be responsible for creating compelling visual content that supports Baldwin Supply’s sales and marketing efforts. This role focuses on producing professional graphic design deliverables including sales sheets, advertisements for industry publications, apparel designs, presentations, and event branding materials. The ideal candidate brings strong design skills and a creative eye—Baldwin’s team will provide coaching and context on the industrial distribution industry. This is an excellent opportunity for a talented designer to gain hands-on experience in a B2B environment while building a diverse portfolio.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Organization: EBSCO

Title: Community Education Marketing Intern

Pay: $20-26/hr

Overview: EBSCO invites you to apply to participate in our Marketing internship program, running June 1st through August 7th 2026. Marketing interns will take on a variety of Marketing responsibilities and tasks to acquire and practice practical marketing skills, as well as gain experience using leading marketing techniques. As part of the EIS Summer Intern Program, you’ll enjoy dedicated intern orientation programming, experience the benefits of joining a cohort, and participate in enrichment events with fellow interns across the company.

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