W2W Interns Working The Works!

Our Works to Works (W2W) interns worked hard this summer bringing The Works Art & Design Festival to life!

Working as a small team made the experience especially rewarding. Over the course of the internship, we became close friends and got to know one another well while collaborating toward a shared goal.

With less than two months from our start date to the opening of the festival, it was truly all hands on deck from beginning to end. Along the way, we discovered just how much goes into creating a festival—from connecting with local community members and partners to building exhibitions, coordinating with artists, and managing countless details behind the scenes.

Our team of 15 supported every aspect of the festival, from curatorial and production to volunteer coordination and marketing and communications. Each participant in the Works to Work program received a scholarship from The Works Art & Design Festival and the Edmonton Business Council for Visual Arts in recognition of their participation.

Here are a few photo highlights from everything we accomplished together 😊

Say Cheese! A quick snap after our group art session. Our Works to Work Sessions include various activities that encourage personal, career, and artistic growth throughout the internship.  
If you look closely in the middle, you can see the cat that one of the teams made for the Upper Gallery. 

Breaking for lunch after scouting the Churchill Square site to plan exhibit and art activation spaces!

Field trip! We like to travel together to get snacks! Lol. 

Olivia and Calvin hard at work setting up the Art Gallery of Alberta’s Community Gallery. This exhibition is called Here I Am by Paddy Lamb—The AGA is one of the partner galleries for this year's festival!

Before the festival starts, the production team practices putting together the installations to make sure we stay on schedule. They can now assemble the iconic Festival Gateway in record time! 

Erin, our Curatorial Assistant, picking up some artwork! 

Break time! Bananagrams is THE GAME of The Works. We take it quite seriously around here.   

Our inters will be facilitating the WorksShops during festival, so of course we all wanted to try making our own first! 

All the departments came together to help production take everything down after the festival. Here’s a photo of us unloading, and putting stuff back in our storage for next year!

We did a debrief after festival, where we all wrote/drew some of our most memorable experiences from the festival.