Peace Calendar Intern - Spring 2025

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) is seeking an intern to work on our 2026 Peace Calendar Committee. The internship runs from early January through the end of April 2025 and requires 5-10 hours per week.

The ideal candidate is someone who pays close attention to progressive politics and social movements and has an eye for powerful graphics. The Calendar Committee develops ideas, searches for appropriate images and works with artists to develop artwork for the calendar. This is an unpaid internship.

Specific Responsibilities

• attend weekly committee meetings from mid-January through late April - how much we utilize ZOOM will depend on the state of the pandemic.
• search for art based on your interests and priorities which emerge from the committee
• assist with notetaking and record-keeping for the committee
• reach out to artists about possible art for the calendar
• take on additional tasks from the committee
• assist with research and writing related to calendar art

SCW sells about 11,000 Peace Calendars each year, making it one of the largest annual small press publications in the US. The 2026 edition will be the 55th!

Founded in 1982, Syracuse Cultural Workers is a national, progressive publisher committed to peace, sustainability, social justice, feminism and multiculturalism. We create and publish visual materials: calendars, posters, T-shirts, cards, buttons and stickers, and distribute them across North America.

Mentorship

• the student intern will learn from being a full participant in a collaborative team that develops the full content for a product
• Syracuse Cultural Workers staff will mentor the student in outreach to potential artists and the process of conceptualizing the calendar
• the intern will receive guidance and oversight in managing the communications of the committee
• the interns writing will be reviewed by the committee with opportunities for input and then revision

About Syracuse Cultural Workers

Syracuse Cultural Workers’ mission is to nourish communities that honor diversity and creative expression, and inspire movements for justice, equality and liberation while respecting our Earth and all its beings.

We see cultural work as an essential part of and support for political and economic change. Many of our materials celebrate movements for social change and their leaders, thus helping to legitimize history that is largely ignored or trivialized by commercial media and school textbooks. SCW also helps to unite socially concerned artists with a growing audience hungry for meaningful artwork.