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Interested in a career in museums or galleries? We play an important role in the Centre for Curatorial Studies modules here at the University of Essex. Working closely with the students, we share our knowledge of working for a Collection helping them to gain practical experience, employability skills so they can fulfil their future career goals.

We're looking for two University of Essex students to work with us through the Frontrunner internship scheme. The two internships are for Collections Care and Object-Based Learning. The deadline to apply is 23 November at noon.

We've loaned Jorge Macchi's Vidas paralelas to the exhibition Mirror Images in Art and Medicine at the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité.

David Murrieta Flores, a University of Essex Art History PhD student, has curated a small display of Mexican prints from our Collection at FlipSide Festival from 2 - 4 October 2015.

Our amazing interns Hannah, Gisselle, Jasmine and Seb have now finished their current projects with ESCALA (although they are still finishing their MA dissertations) and so we asked them what had been the highlights of their internship and how their work with us had helped them with their future career plans.

We've compiled the list of Latin American art focussed sessions at the 2016 College Art Association annual conference.  Proposals are due 8 May 2015.