Internship Report
Year in Review
Executive Summary The Career Center was centralized as a one stop shop for internships and jobs in fall 2016. Since its launch, students from all majors have received career and internship assistance from a dedicated team of advisors. Centralized career services also gave industry representatives a streamlined process for posting internships, jobs and recruiting students at Columbia.
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Moving forward The Career Center faces some challenges and opportunities:
In the 2017-2018 academic year, the internship program began gaining momentum. In collaboration with the Provost’s Office and Academic Affairs, the internship program transformed from thirtytwo department course-codes into three courses managed by the Career Center and the Business and Entrepreneurship Department. In addition, the Career Center team developed consistent standards for vetting and approving internships, improved the internship site evaluation process, and implemented policies and procedures that ensured approved internships would be valuable career-related experiences.
PARTICIPATION Only 8% of the current student population are participating in academic internships. Given this statistic, the Career Center will be focusing on increasing internships and developing relationships with industry partners who encourage students to participate in academic internships.
AWARENESS Students are likely participating in experiences that would qualify for credit by the College without opting into the internship program. The Career Center staff, along with our partners in Academic Advising will work to increase awareness of the various internship options.
One of the biggest accomplishments over the past two years has been the development of three new course options for students participating in an academic internship. In fall 2017, a three-credit internship course, titled Professionalism and Creativity, was introduced. The class is an online professionalism course that connects the on-site work done at the internship with coursework completed at Columbia. Participating students synthesize their internship experience, connect with a cohort of interns, create and update professional materials and develop a plan to take the next step in their careers.
SUPPORT Assistance is needed from faculty and college partners to encourage students to participate in internships for credit and connect to the Career Center.
TRENDS 75% of internships are unpaid. Promoting paid internships to students and encouraging industry partners to pay their interns will be a priority for the Career Center.
In addition, a one-credit internship course was developed to allow undergraduates to fit an academic internship into their schedule that would be tracked and supported by the Career Center staff. For full-time students enrolled in less than sixteen credits, this is a perfect option to maximize the value of their tuition.
SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS The high percentage of unpaid internships shows the critical need to expand the Columbia Internship Award, and the value it can bring to students. Increasing the funding and awareness of the scholarship would help serve more students.
The zero-credit course is similar to the one-credit course in that it adds the internship experience to the student’s transcript and is graded as a pass/fail course. This course is available to all undergraduate, graduate, and international students. The course is completely tuition-free and does not add any additional costs to the student. This is an attractive option for international students and students participating in a summer internship, who would not have taken their internship for credit previously due to the cost of tuition.
Even with the above challenges ahead of us, the Career Center staff is a professional and hardworking team poised to meet the challenges head-on and ensure that Columbia students are career ready upon graduation. By building and maintaining a strong and successful internship program, we will continue to help our students build solid career paths for their future and enhance the reputation of Columbia in the creative and media arts industries.
In the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 693 internships with 599 unique students participating. This is an 18% increase (587 internships) from the 20162017 academic year. While this growth is encouraging, we still have a steep hill to climb to increase participation in the internship program to ensure students get the most out of their Columbia education.
Erik J. Friedman Associate Dean of Career Development and Industry Relations
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Laura Daniels Assistant Director of Internships and Career Advising
2018-19 Year Internships by School Undesignated School
Liberal Arts & Sciences
School of Fine & Performing Arts
23
School of Media Arts
23
343
388
777 Total Internships
Fine & Performing Arts
School of Media Arts
50%
44%
Liberal Arts & Sciences
Students without Designated School
3%
3% 4
2018-19 Year Internships by Class
28
397
Graduate Students
Seniors
14
Freshmen
8
239
2nd Bachelors Students
Juniors
8
Exchange Students
3
Students At Large
77
2
Sophomores
Visiting Students
5
2018-19 Year Internships by Department
Business & Entrepreneurship
Cinema & TV Arts
1550
Students
10%
605
Participation
Students
w/o Semester in LA
Students
5%
550
Participation
Students
Theatre
835
Students
Students
3%
Participation
Fashion
3%
412
Participation
Students
Design
614
Participation
Interactive Arts & Media
Cinema & TV Arts
1496
21%
10%
Participation
Communication
11%
398
Participation
Students
6
19%
Participation
Audio Arts & Acoustics
397
Students
Dance
122
9%
Students
Participation
Music
371
Students
Students
Participation
Art & Art History
4%
100
Participation
Students
English & Creative Writing
270
2%
6%
Participation
Science & Math
07
7%
Students
Participation
14%
Participation
Student Population Photography 263
Students
% of Unique Student Participation in Internships
11%
Participation
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2018-2019
Unique Student Percentage
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Stats By Department STUDENT POPULATION
NUMBER OF INTERNSHIPS
UNIQUE STUDENT PARTICIPATION
% UNIQUE STUDENTS
Art & Art History
100
07
07
6%
Audio Arts & Acoustics
397
44
11
9%
Business & Entrepeneurship
605
170
28
21%
Cinema & Television Arts
1550
184
135
10%
Cinema & Television Arts
1469
103
78
5%
Communication
398
93
94
19%
Dance
122
03
03
2%
Design
614
77
65
11%
English & Creative Writing
270
22
18
7%
Fashion
412
50
43
10%
Humanities, History & Social Science
22
00
00
0%
Interactive Arts & Media
550
22
17
3%
Music
371
20
14
4%
Photography
263
37
28
11%
Science & Math
07
01
06
14%
Theatre
835
24
24
3%
Grad Students
257
28
26
10%
Undergraduate
6,568
749
602
9%
6,825
777
628
9%
(w/o SiLA)
Total
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Internships by Semester Freshmen
Fall
12
Grads 08 2BA 04
2018
Seniors
54
Sophomores
36
259 Internships
Juniors
145
Spring
Juniors
49
2019 Seniors
250
338 Internships
10
Sophomores
20
Grads 10 2BA 03 Exchange 03 Student at Large 03
Summer
2019
Seniors
93
180 Internships
Juniors
45 Exchange 05 2BA 01 Freshmen 02 IN 01 Visiting 02 Grads 10
Sophomores
21
Freshmen
Exchange (EX)
Sophomore
Visiting Student
Junior
Student at Large
Senior
IN
2BA
Graduate Student
11
2018-2019
Breakdown
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The Stats Paid vs. Unpaid
249 528 Course Code Breakdown
The most popular internship from 2018-2019 was the zero-credit internship.
32%
Paid Internships
68%
Unpaid Internships
267
34%
0 Credit
256 Students
33%
1 Credit
126
16%
3 Credits
Students
Students
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2018-2019
On-Campus Internships
Unique Students
63
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2018-2019 Internship Sites = Multiple Internships
Semester Breakdown
Academic Center for Tutoring 24 AustinTalks Career Center 8 Columbia Chronicle 11 CPS Live 11 Dance Department 2 DEPS
Design Group 2 Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department 2 MoCP 18 Student Activites Office 6 WCRX Radio 5
Summer
13
Fall
29
Spring
49
91
Total Internships
15
2018-2019
Semester in LA
16
Semester in LA Internships By Deparment
83
Cinema & TV
74
Total Internships
Business & Entrepreneurship 02 Theatre 03 Fashion 01 Communications 01 Interactive Arts & Media 01
2018-2019 Internship Sites = Multiple Internships
2656 Marketing 2 Absolutely Adaptive Apatow Productions 3 Artists First Blue Sky Films 5 BlueFox Buddha Jones Circle of Confusion 2 Circle8 Elevate Fancy Film Post Fourward FunHaus Gettin’ Rad Productions Ghost House Pictures Grey Matter Productions 2 Gunpowder & Sky 2 HBO Ideate Media
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Imperative Entertainment Jax Media 2 Joint Effort 2 Jump Editorial 2 Lifeboard Productions 2 Little Studio Films MACRO Mad Chance Productions Mocap Militia 2 Mosaic Atlas Mutesix Osprey Productions Partizan Entertainment Platform Media Red Hour Productions 2 Retrofit Films Revry Rideback Skydance Media 2 Sp Entertainment 2
Stagecoach Entertainment 3 State Street Pictures Studio 71 3 Style PR StyleHaul Team Downey Temple Hill Entertainment The Ellen Show 3 Threshold Entertainment Thunder Roads Films Tokyo Pop Tremolo Productions 2 Universal Music Group Vertigo Entertainment Vicious Buzz Walden Media 2 Warners WWE Studios
2018-2019
Internship Award
The Columbia Internship Award is a competitive scholarship that awards students up to $2,500 toward the tuition costs associated with an unpaid internship for credit. This award is honored each semester, and students can only receive it once. Students do not need to have an internship secured prior to submitting an application.
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The Stats
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110
Scholarship Awardees
Scholarship Applicants
Applicants By Department
Avg. Award per Awardee
Total Amount Awarded
$2,306
$87,641 # APPLIED
# AWARDED
Art & Art History
01
00
Audio Arts & Acoustics
04
02
Business & Entrepeneurship
16
07
Cinema & TV Arts
40
13
Communication
04
02
Dance
03
01
Design
05
01
English & Creative Writing
04
03
Fashion
12
04
Interactive Arts & Media
05
02
Music
02
01
Photography
04
01
Science & Math
01
00
Theatre
04
01
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2016-2019
Internship Comparison
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3 Year Change 2016–2019 2018-19 777
190 32%
2017-18 693
Increase Since 2016
2016-17 587
Increase Since 2016
3 Year Change Internships By Year 2016–2017
587
Media Arts 275 Fine & Performing Arts 251 Liberal Arts & Sciences 43
2017–2018
106 Internships +18% Increase
693
Media Arts 343 Fine & Performing Arts 299 Liberal Arts & Sciences 23
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2018–2019
84 Internships +12% Increase
777
Media Arts 343 Fine & Performing Arts 388 Liberal Arts & Sciences 23
2016-2019
Internship Comparison
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3 Year Change
Paid vs. Unpaid Internships
249 170 14%
2018-19 32%
2017-18
2016-17
18%
17%
Total Paid Internships
Increase in Paid Internships
Increase in Paid Internships
Internships By Year, Paid vs. Unpaid 2016–2017
2017–2018
455
545
Paid 79 Unpaid 376
Paid 99 Unpaid 446
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2018–2019
777
Paid 249 Unpaid 528
2016-2019 Internship Comparison Art & Art History
2017-2018
07 04
2016-2017
06
2018-2019 2018-19 07 2016-17 06 2017-18 04
Audio Arts & Acoustics
2017-2018
44 55
2016-2017
24
2018-2019 2017-18 55 2018-19 44 2016-17 24
Business & Entrepreneurship
2016-17 128
2017-2018
170 140
2016-2017
128
2018-2019
2018-19 170
2017-18 140
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Comparison by Major Cinema & Television Arts
2017-2018
184 148
2016-2017
116
2018-2019 2018-19 184 2016-17 116 2017-18 148
Communication 2017-18 121
2016-17 132
2017-2018
93 121
2016-2017
132
2018-2019 2018-19 93
Dance
2017-2018
03 05
2016-2017
04
2018-2019
2017-18 05 2016-17 04 2018-19 03
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2016-2019 Internship Comparison Design 2017-18 54
2018-2019
77
2017-2018
54
2016-2017
33
2018-2019
22
2017-2018
12
2016-2017
33
2018-2019
01
2018-19 77
2016-17 33
English & Creative Writing 2018-19 22
2016-17 33
2017-18 12
Exploratory Students
2017-2018 2016-17 01
2016-17 01
2016-17 01
2016-2017
26
01 01
Comparison by Major Fashion 2016-17 50 2016-17 43
2016-17 40
2018-2019
50
2017-2018
40
2016-2017
43
2018-2019
00
2017-2018
04
2016-2017
08
2018-2019
22
Humanities, History & Social Sciences 2016-17 08
2016-17 04
2016-17 00
Interactive Arts & Media 2016-17 22 2016-17 19
2017-2018
2016-17 03
2016-2017
27
19 03
2016-2019 Internship Comparison Interdisciplinary
2017-2018
04 07
2016-2017
12
2018-2019
20
2017-2018
12
2016-2017
03
2018-2019 2016-17 07
2016-17 12
2016-17 04
Music 2016-17 20
2016-17 12 2016-17 03
Music Technology 2018-2019 2016-17 02
2016-17 05
2017-2018
2016-17 00
2016-2017
28
05 02 00
Comparison by Major Photography 2016-17 37
2016-17 19
2016-17 17
2017-2018
37 19
2016-2017
17
2017-2018
06
2016-2017
02
2018-2019
Science & Mathematics
2016-17 06
2016-17 02
2016-17 01
Theatre 2016-17 25
2017-2018
24 25
2016-2017
17
2018-2019 2016-17 24
2016-17 27
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2018-2019
Internship Sites
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ART AND ART HISTORY Aftab Comittee Chicago Artists Coalition 2 Columbia College Chicago: DEPS 2
Elmhurst Art Museum Luum Textiles Pop Ink
Richard Norten Gallery
Gravity Studios 2 Jungle AE 4 Lincoln Hall/Schubas 6 Mystery Street Recording 11 Noise Floor 3 PVTSTCK Studios Rush University Sing Me a Story Foundation Soundscape Studios Stonecutter Studios 2
Uptown Recording VSOP Studios WLS-AM WLS-FM
Cumulus Media 4 Curate Plan Style Deeply Rooted Productions DIY By Jane Earhole Studios 2 Elmhurst Art Museum Entercom (KS) Expo Chicago Frontier Events Get In Tune Studios 3 Giordano Dance Company Goodman Theatre Gravity Studios Havas Inc. Heritage Museum of Asian Art 4 Hope for the Day 5 Hubbard Street Dance Hyde Park Art Center Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association Intune Music 2 JB Chicago JBTV 2 Justin Tranter/Facet (Los Angeles) Karen Stanhs Enterprises & Corporate Presenters KMA Management Le Consortium Dijon Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Light Up Your Holidays
Lincoln Hall/Schubas 2 Live Nation (NYC) Live Nation 3 LOLA Entertainment Louis Carr Foundation Manhattan Theatre Club Metro Chicago 2 Muntu Dance Company Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2 Museum of Contemporary Photography Music Garage 3 My Music Taste Naked Gallery Peer Music Pink Shark Music Pop KTV Primary Nightclub Pusher Co. 2 Ravenswood Special Events, Inc. Ravinia Music Festival React Presents 4 Red Clay Dance Company 2 Reggies 3 Remy Bumpo Theater Co. Rogue Talent Agency 2 Ruby Hornet Shopping Gives Sofar Sounds Sony Music/RCA Music (New York)
AUDIO ARTS AND ACOUSTICS ARU Bloodshot Records Chicago Recording Company 2 Club 210 Conway Recording Studio Cumulus Media Dynasty Podcasts Earhole Studios 8 Electric Audio 4 Fox Den Studios
BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 210 Live 2 Afrobang American Airlines Apiece Apart Audiotree Best Buddies Blank Theatre & Cuckoo’s Theatre Project Bluetone Studio Center for Companies That Care Chicago Artists Coalition Chicago Events Chicago History Museum Chicago Literacy Alliance Chicago Music Exchange 2 Chicago Opera Theater Chicago Sky Basketball Team Choose Chicago City of Chicago/Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events CMS Chicago Columbia College Chicago: Columbia Chronicle Columbia College Chicago: DEPS Columbia College Chicago: HHSS (Kamoinge-Freeman) Concord Music Hall Cook County Housing Authority Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat = Multiple Internships
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2018-2019 Internship Sites BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTD. Sooper Records, LLC 2 Stage 18 Chicago State of Illinois StoryTellers The People’s Music School Superfly The Ark Media Connnection The Empty Bottle
The Living Room The Mid/Prysm Ulta Beauty Universal Music Group 2 USSSA Baseball Vera Wang WGN Media 2
White Mystery Willow Creek Church WLEY-FM WLS-AM 2 Yvette Mayorga’s StudioARU
CinemaJaw Cleveland Int’l Film Festival Daufenbach Camera Fox 32 Chicago Gabmaster Photgraphy Gene Siskel Film Center Gray Talent Group Gunpowder & Sky 2 Hawaii Assoc. for Marine Education & Research 5 Hilton Asmus Contemporary Hootenanny Ideate Media 3 Intrigue Entertainment 2 Joint Effort 2 Kartemquin Films Kindling Group 2 Kinzie St. Studios 2 Kurtis Productions Matrix Partners Metro Chicago Moasic Media Group (LA) New Vision Media Nickelodeon NuZoo Media Oddlot Entertainment (LA) Ora TV/Larry King Now (LA) PacSun Paonessa Talent Agency 2
Paper Star Video PF100 Principato-Young Entertainment Pritzker Military Museum & Library Production Craft Publicis Group Revry Inc. 3 RSVP Gallery Ruthless Films 2 Sara Janz Showtime Networks 2 Sofar Sounds Soft Cage Films Southside Filmmaking Youth The Foxhole Chicago The Mid/Prysm The Orchard (Sony Entertainment) The Whitney Reynolds Show TimePiece Entertainment United Center 2 Universal Music Group Voltage Pictures (LA) We are the Mighty (LA) Whitehouse Post WTTW Check, Please! Young Chicago Authors
Being Single magazine Brainchild Studios C200 3 Candice Cusic Photography Chez-Chicago Chicago Blackhawks 2
Chicago Feminist Film Festival 2 Chicago Fire Chicago Justice Project Chicago Splash Chicago Sun-Times (editorial page)
CINEMA AND TELEVISION ARTS 3 Daughters Productions 321 Fast Draw 2 71 Degrees North 7Beyond (LA) 826Chi Abelcine Allison Sheamur Productions 2 American Pavillion 3 Anderson Group PR 2 Angela Finney Productions (Mr. Roger’s Reboot) AnswersMedia Inc. 2 APA Agency 2 APA Agency Aurora Community Television BCV Social LLC Big Shoulders Video Production 2 Bigfoot Media 2 Bridges Media Bridges Media/11 Dollar Bill Camera Ambassador 2 Cards Against Humanity Columbia College Chicago: Design Group Columbia College Chicago: Humanities, History and Social Sciences Chain Camera Pictures Chicago Feminist Film Festival Chicago Film Archives Chollette 2
COMMUNICATION 1871 3 AIDS Foundation of Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society AustinTalks Author project (veteran journalists)
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(continued) COMMUNICATION CONTD. Chicago Sun-Times (photo) Chicago Sun-Times (reporting) 2 Chicago TwentySomething College Fashionista Committee of 200 Cook County Sheriff’s office Cumulus Media 4 CUSP Magazine DiSanti Hicks Dunamis Partners Energy BBDO Frankfort Law Group Frequency TV Good Circles Clothing Great North Magazine Hello Nuvo Hubbard Radio Human Capital Media iConceptMedia
Journalism Research Assistant with Chicago Magazine’s Noah Isackson 6 Kurtis Productions 3 Lakeside Bank 2 Live Nation Maek Music Magnificant Mile Association Mancow Morning Show 5 Melody Joy Public Relations Modern Luxury 2 Mosaic Sales Solutions MyWhy marketing agency NBC Investigative Team NBC Midwest Bureau NBC Sports NBC.com NR Media Orchidea Pat Quinn (former Governor)
Playground Theater Prysm Night Club & Private Events Publicity Club of Chicago 2 She Did it Her Way (Podcast) Skirt PR 2 Social Gaines Soft Cage Films South Side Weekly Sta’ Phocused Media The Image Studios The Movement Worldwide Treble Monsters WBEZ Chicago Public Radio WCIU-TV WFAN (WI) WGN-TV (Newsroom) WGN-TV (Sports) WLEY-FM 2 WLS-AM 4
Hubbard Street Dance Legacy Dance Association
Sherwood
Fashion Bar Chicago HOK Jen Talbot Design Jennigs Creative Studio Linework Issue 8 4 Live Nation Longchamp Paris Luum Textiles Misha Mann NAACP Newell Brands PAWS Chicago Perkins + Will Planted Sky
Pop Ink Editions Private Stock Producers vs Show React Presents RSVP Gallery Skidmore Owings & Merill Steve Dahl Network Stock MFG Co Susan G Koman The Design Museum of Chicago Time Zone One World Business Chicago Wuhoo Digital Group
Lily’s Talent Agency New York Minute magazine Publishing Lab
YourTango
DANCE Ballroom Dance Chicago 2 Continuing and Community Education
DESIGN Bates Meron Design Beacon Lane Inc Big Screens on the Go Bucketfeet BVC Social Columbia College Chicago: Design Group 3 Chicago Architecture Foundation Chicago Children’s Museum Creative Promo CTA Columbia College Chicago: DEPS DiSanti Hicks + Partners DO312 Every Stylish Girl LLC
ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING Blacksheep Online ChiArts Chicago Literary Alliance 2
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2018-2019 Internship Sites FASHION Anastasia Chatzka Anthropologie Aviva Bellevie Bridal BloOuts Blow Dry Bar Brideside Bridge to Success Chicago History Museum Columbia College Chicago CR Fashion Book CS Modern Luxury Factor Chosen Model 2
Fete Business Group Ikram Jenny Yoo Collection Le Chic LIAPULL SRL Lily’s Talent Agency Local Eclectic Maria Pinto Michaela Erlanger Styling Nordstrom 2 Once Upon a Dollhouse PAWS
Rebellion Bags Reiss RSVP Gallery Sears Sophia Forero Design Stock Manufacturing Style by Deco Trending Above Vary Form Design Vera Wang Windy City Blogger Collective
HUMANITIES, HISTORY, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Columbia College: The College Archives and Special Collections
The Chicago Feminist Film Festival 2
Soft Cage Films
INTERACTIVE ARTS AND MEDIA Answers Media 2 Below Your Belt BMW Technology Cartoon Network Chicago Humanities Festival Comma Music/Particle
Daily Planet Dark Catt Studios 2 Dark Sheep Inc Freenters Full Spectrum Features Noise Floor
Showpad The Mill Vamped Games 2 Women Tech Founder
MUSIC ARU Bourbon on Division
Fox Den Studios My House Music Festival
Rax Trax Recordings
PHOTOGRAPHY Ali Stone Ascendece Dance Company Baaba Holland Agency 2 BMG Models Candice Music Photography Clarissa Bonet Photography
Columbia College Chicago: DEPS Factor Chosen Models Gabmaster Photography 2 Museum of Contemporary Art 3 MP Factor Paul Ellege Photography
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Richard Norton Gallery Sarah Matheson Photos 2 Schawk Photography Skylark Editions Those White Walls Womens March Chicago 2
(continued) SCIENCE AND MATH Chicago History Museum Goodman Theatre
Microcosm Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
THEATRE Actor’s Gymnasium Black Sheep Chicago Dramatists Comedy Sportz Conan O’Brien (LA) Dream Big Performing Arts
Funny Bones Improv Giordano Dance Chicago Little Theatre of Alexandria Lookingglass Theatre Mina Shah Enterprises (Chicago/Miami) Norweigan Lutheran Church 2
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O’Connor Casting Plainfield Central High School Raven Theatre 3 Rivendell Theatre Ensemble