Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution seeks to contract 1 number of individuals to provide Collections Assistant, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design services.

The Request for Quote and Statement of Work, which contain the details regarding this contract opportunities are available upon request until November 3, 2025. Requests to obtain these documents will not be accepted after that date.

Bids are due by 5pm EST, November 10, 2025.

All correspondence regarding this request should include the subject line “Collections Assistant, DPGD”.

Please submit your request for the RFQ, SOW, and any questions to:
Jamie Kwan
Assistant Curator, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
HRcuratorDPGD@si.edu

Reporting to the Director of the School of Art, the Gallery Director/Curator is administratively responsible for the overall operations of the School of Art Gallery, including activities, programming, financial management, and supervision of gallery staff. The Gallery Director/Curator is responsible for ensuring that the research and focus of exhibitions, collections, and events reflect the needs of the School of Art and align with the strategic goals of the University of Manitoba. The programming of the Gallery should make a significant contribution to the contemporary culture and the art history of Manitoba and Canada, representing its diversity, with particular attention to ensuring that Indigenous voices and cultures are represented in the Gallery's activities.

The Gallery Director/Curator is responsible for ensuring that contemporary museological standards are applied to the production of temporary exhibitions as well as to the care, management, exhibition and expansion of the School of Art's Permanent Collection, through exhibitions, research, and collections management. The Gallery Director/Curator will ensure the ongoing progress of the digitization of the Gallery's collection and the creation of a collections database available to the professoriate and the public.

The Gallery Director/Curator is expected to work with faculty and gallery staff to ensure that the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions are used to support the teaching of art history, curatorial studies, and studio. A core responsibility of the Gallery Directory/Curator is to support teaching at the School of Art.

The responsibilities of the Gallery Director/Curator encompass research, programming, collections management, education, and administration. The Gallery Director/Curator is responsible for organizing and producing exhibitions, as well as their ancillary educational programs and events. Exhibition production includes but is not restricted to research, grant writing, administration (general production, advertising and promotion, catalogue production, installation, hiring of guest contributors), education, extension, and partnership with other Canadian cultural institutions on collaborative projects. Collections management includes but is not restricted to the acquisition, documentation, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of the School of Art Permanent Collection, as well as assistance with the University of Manitoba Collections - a separate entity within the University. Research in this context is understood as supporting the curatorial needs and purposes of the presentation of artworks and curatorial projects that serve the mandate of the Gallery, and as supporting the use of the Permanent Collection in the teaching of art history, curatorial studies, and studio.

The successful candidate will hold, at minimum, a Master's degree in Art History, Museum Studies, Curatorial Studies, Visual Arts, or another similar program, combined with substantial experience in curatorial work, catalogue publishing, grant writing, collections management, museum education, and administration within a public or university art gallery.

Application materials should include a letter of interest and curriculum vitae. Three letters of reference should be sent directly by the referees. Canadian and permanent residents should clearly indicate their citizenship or residency status in their cover letter or CV. Review of applications will begin on September 19, 2025 and continue until the position is filled. Materials should be sent to Sarah Rout at Sarah.Rout@umanitoba.ca.

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Beinecke Library at Yale University is currently searching for four open curatorial positions, including in the field of European history and culture, pre-1800. Please consider applying or sharing this post with colleagues who may be interested.

Kenyon College, a highly selective, nationally ranked liberal arts college in central Ohio, invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History. This is a two-year appointment that will begin in August 2023. The successful candidate will specialize in the art and architecture of the early modern world (c. 1400–1800).

The successful applicant will be able to teach broadly in their field. The selected candidate will teach five total classes. In addition to teaching ARHS 111 Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary, the selected candidate will teach four additional courses that emphasize their research and teaching specialties. Applicants should complement, not duplicate, current expertise of the department. The selected candidate may have the opportunity to provide mentorship to honors projects.

To apply, candidates should visit the online application site found at http://careers.kenyon.edu. All applications received by Sunday April 16th will be fully considered.

The Princeton University Art Museum has announced the appointment of Jun Nakamura as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings. He began his appointment on February 20.

At Princeton, Nakamura will work with the Museum’s extensive collections of more than 15,000 prints and drawings, comprising European, British, Latin American, and North American works from the fifteenth century to the present.

Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Nakamura was Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he curated Macho Men: Hypermasculinity in Dutch and American Prints (2022–2023), and co-curated Pictures in Pictures (2022), Expressions (2021), and Of God & Country: American Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection (2023). Previously, he held positions at Leiden University and the National Gallery of Art. He earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan, with a dissertation on the use and meaning of professional engraving style in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and beyond. He has an MA in art history from Southern Methodist University and a BFA in fashion design and art history from Washington University in St. Louis.

“Jun brings to the Museum an unusually wide range of expertise and interests, from seventeenth-century Dutch art to twentieth-century American printmaking, to the techniques of printmaking themselves, affording a rare combination of depth and breadth,” said James Steward, the Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director. “We’re thrilled to have him join our Museum as we prepare for the launch of our new building and the first years of exhibitions and collections installations.”

APS member Lisa Pon and her colleagues, Tracy Cosgriff (The College of Wooster), Andreas Kratky (USC Media Arts + Practice), Curtis Fletcher and Erik Loyer (USC Libraries), were awarded a January 2021- December 2022 NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for "Remastering the Renaissance: A Virtual Experience of Pope Julius II's Library in Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura". Through this project, they will develop a software connector between Unity and Scalar and the publication of a virtual reality experience of Pope Julius’s Stanza della Segnatura.

Clare Kobasa recently joined the Saint Louis Art Museum as assistant curator of prints, drawings and photographs. Kobasa also will manage the museum’s Print Study Room, where students, scholars and members of the public can make appointments for free viewings of more than 14,000 works on paper in the collection.

“Clare brings a wealth of relevant experience and curiosity to the position,” said Elizabeth Wyckoff, curator of prints, drawings and photographs. “We look forward her fruitful collaborations with colleagues throughout the Museum and with the many visitors to the Print Study Room.”

Kobasa recently completed a two-year appointment as the Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she helped run the museum’s study room for works on paper. She also curated several exhibitions and installations, including “Woodcuts: Groove and Grain,” which explored the variety and malleability of the oldest printmaking medium.

Prior to her position in Philadelphia, she was a predoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, and held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Art Gallery.

Kobasa received a doctorate and a master’s degree in art history from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in art history and history from Swarthmore College.

Saint Louis Art Museum, "Clare Kobasa Joins the Saint Louis Art Museum as assistant curator", News release (October 27, 2020).

Congratulations to APS Director-at-Large Jan Howard and APS member Tatiana Reinoza, PhD on their appointments to the National Advisory Committee of Artura, a project of Brandywine Workshop and Archives. Howard is the Chief Curator and Houghton P. Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at RISD Museum. Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History and Latinx Studies at University of Notre Dame.

About Artura
Over the past 47 years the Brandywine Workshop and Archives has produced a diverse collection of over 1,400 original artworks, hosted over 500 multicultural artists from the US and around the world, and now have more than 800 prints displayed in satellite collections at 14 institutions across North America. In additional to our visiting artist programs, BWA sponsors high school and college internships in printmaking, digital media and collections management.

Artura.org is the nation’s first free online database of culturally diverse artwork and artists, and an open educational resource for researchers, curators, educators and students. A free, interactive digital archive of culturally diverse art and artists, Artura.org gives visitors access to a wide variety of voices, experiences, and histories not found in any other single open-educational resource. Our platform allows users to interact with art that represents contemporary cultures, histories, and traditions from around the globe.

Please visit the 'External Link' below to learn more about Artura's collection, programming (including free teaching resources and webinars), and leadership.

Furio Rinaldi, an expert on 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings — particularly the schools of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo — will start his tenure as Curator in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts on May 4, 2020. Using the Museums’ extensive prints and drawings collection, Rinaldi will plan exhibitions, organize installations, recommend acquisitions, conduct research, and share interpretation with audiences.

Most recently Rinaldi was Associate Vice President, Specialist, and Head of Sale in the Department of Old Master and 19th-Century Drawings at Christie’s, New York. Prior to Christie’s, his curatorial experience includes positions in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Rinaldi has organized and authored De Ludo Geometrico: la matematica e la geometria di Leonardo, Disegni di Leonardo dal Codice Atlantico (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan), and co-organized and contributed to a number of exhibitions, including Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Leonardo e Michelangelo: capolavori della grafica e studi romani (Capitoline Museums, Rome); Leonardo da Vinci: The Design of the World (Palazzo Reale, Milan); Il Primato del Disegno (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan); Raffaello e Urbino (Galleria nazionale delle Marche, Urbino); and El Greco (Grand Palais, Paris). His field of expertise also includes Italian 20th-century drawings and artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Umberto Boccioni, and Carlo Carrà.

With a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Rome, Rinaldi also holds an MA and BA in Art History from the University of Milan. His scholarly awards include a fellowship from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Florence (2010-–2011), an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2012–2013) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a grant from the Renaissance Society of America (2015), among other distinctions. He has published extensively, including articles in The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, and has co-edited After 1564: Michelangelo’s Legacy in Late Cinquecento Rome (2016). He is currently working on the catalogue raisonné of Perino del Vaga with Linda Wolk-Simon.

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The Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University in New York has hired Samantha Rippner, who previously served as curator of modern and contemporary prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for fifteen years, as its new associate director. In her new role, Rippner will help oversee Neiman Gallery’s exhibition program, coordinate special projects and educational initiatives at the Center, and strengthen external partnerships.

Rippner first joined the Met while earning her Master’s degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has held the positions of research assistant and curatorial assistant before being named curator in 2002. During her tenure, Rippner organized the museum’s first mural commission “Nicola Lopez’s Unbuilding Things” (2013) as well as the exhibitions “Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939” (2008), and “The Prints of Vija Celmins” (2002) among other shows. She also worked as guest curator at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in California and, most recently, as a freelance curator.

“Samantha’s resume speaks for itself, and we’re absolutely thrilled to have her on staff,” said Tomas Vu-Daniel, who has helmed the Neiman Center since it was founded in 1996. “When it comes to the study of printmaking, she brings decades of valuable experience, and a new pair of eyes that will allow us to continue meeting the highest standards for our shows, works, and new projects.”

(Press release, Columbia University, 11/26/2019)