Below are the currently available Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance applications.
Please note:
- You will need to create a free Submittable account in order to submit to these forms.
- You can save a draft of your work if you would like to finish filling out the form at a later date.
- We will follow up with you about your application by email. Please make sure the email address you used to sign up for your Submittable Account is one that you check regularly.
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- For questions about eligibility and funding, please contact grants@philaculture.org.
The BAI School Year (BAISY) program and here is your chance to apply. Take a few minutes to fill out this application to register your interest in possibly becoming a member of the BAISY 26-27 cohort.
Quick Facts:
- Pay will remain the same throughout the school year program ($23.16)
- Expected to work no more than 10 hours per week.
- Your summer worksites is NOT guaranteed even if admitted to BAI:SY
- At least bi-monthly in person programming covering including:
- Artist panel talks
- Alumni panels
- Resume workshops
- Post secondary readiness
Program tentatively starts on September 21st, 2026 and ends May 14th, 2027
- Applications due: August 7th, 2026
- Notifications sent out by September 4th, 2026- TWO BUSINESS DAYS TO CONFIRM via email.
If you have any questions, please reach out to BAI@philaculture.org
This school year 50 seniors (graduating spring 2027) from Philadelphia schools will be selected for the 2026-27 Bloomberg Arts Internship: School Year. During this 35-week paid internship, participants will work at Philadelphia’s leading arts organizations, attend rigorous professional development workshops and tour our region’s most important cultural sites.
Interns work up to 10 hours per week and are paid a highly competitive wage for their time--that includes (re)orientation, worksite hours and professional development sessions.
The internship provides the following benefits:
-$200 transportation stipend (~$170 post taxes)
- Free, behind-the-scenes access to cultural institutions
-$23.16 hourly wage
- Snacks at all professional development activities
- Expanded opportunities to connect with alumni
-Required final presentations
Interns are expected to be able to attend all regular workdays, cultural site visits, and professional development sessions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline to submit your application is August 7th, 2026.
Upon submission of this application (August 7th), if you are contacted about being accepted you will have 2 business days to respond or your spot will be forfeited.
The BAI:SY program is meant to deepen interns to a world that surrounds and keeps art going, not explicitly the making of art for themselves.
Interns may also be contacted ad hoc for individual interviews.
The BAI School Year (BAI:SY) program is here! Please take a few minutes to fill out this application to indicate your interest in possibly becoming a worksite for the BAI:SY 26-27 program.
Quick Facts:
- Worksite stipends will be paid per intern ($3,500)
- Intern(s) expected to work no more than 10 hours per week.
- Program tentatively starts on September 21st, 2026 and ends May 14th, 2027
- Applications due: September 7th, 2026
- Supervisors participate in a mandatory virtual monthly check-in each month.
- Interns will have the last week of December and first week of January off. Starting work in the New Year on January 4.
- **NEW** A final (5-10min) presentation will be required in May for all BAI:SY Interns.
This school year 50 seniors (graduating spring 2027) from Philadelphia schools will be selected for the 2026-27 Bloomberg Arts Internship: School Year. During this 35-week paid internship, participants will work at Philadelphia’s leading arts organizations, attend rigorous professional development workshops and tour our region’s most important cultural sites.
Worksites may be paired with new interns if indicated in the application and are encouraged to think deeply about staff capacity for the entire nine month period of the BAI:SY program.
Worksites will be required to attend a monthly virtual check in with fellow supervisors to check in, ask questions and, engage with each other as another from of networking.
Worksites may also be contacted for individual interviews and/or worksite visits throughout the school year.
Interns work up to 10 hours per week and are paid a highly competitive wage for their time--that includes (re)orientation, worksite hours and professional development sessions.
Organizations selected to host interns will have three business days to confirm participation. After that time, we will place the interns at another organization.
The BAI:SY program is meant to deepen interns to a world that surrounds and keeps art going, not explicitly the making of art for themselves.