Summer 2025
Hip Hop Time Capsule V:
The Innovation Plant Application

$1,200 Internships
for High School and College Students
July 7 – 18, 2025

Hosted by Kohl Gallery, Starr Center, Chesapeake Heartland, Minary’s Dream Alliance, and the Washington College Innovation Plant 

With Generous Support from the Philip E. & Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation and Kent County Local Management Board 

Applications are due by
March 31, 2025

Application Instructions

Both HIGH SCHOOL and WASHINGTON COLLEGE STUDENTS should fill out the application form found at the bottom of this page. If you have any questions, please email Pat Nugent at pnugent2@washcoll.edu.

Hip Hop makes its mark on the future by sampling sounds and images from the past. Like Hip Hop artists over the past five decades, this program will draw from Kent County’s history and culture, interpreting and passing on the past for both the present moment and future generations. 

This summer, the Hip Hop Time Capsule will explore the past, present, and future of 800 High Street in Chestertown, MD. Using hip hop, art, and advanced design we will leave our mark on this historic site of innovation and manufacturing for Kent County and lend our voices to critical planning conversations for our community. 

Interns will work in teams to honor the site’s history, beautify the space for our community, and prepare performances for a fall groundbreaking event. Throughout the process, interns will gain workplace skills in audio engineering, music production, advanced manufacturing, woodworking, metalworking, digital design, silk-screening, mural art, and public speaking.  

Our goal is to select and hire at least 20 paid high school interns ($1200 stipends for two-week full-time work) as well as collaborate with public high schools and non-profits on summer programming. 

To check out what interns have produced in past summers, click here. 

To apply, please fill out the application form below. Please elaborate with detailed and/or creative responses to the four open-ended questions below (writing a short paragraph in response to each question).