We are looking for an experienced silkscreen printmaker. Applicant must be a natural leader and detail oriented.

Please submit your CV to ali@pegasusprints.co to set up an interview

The ideal candidate will be a scholar, with a successful track record of developing exhibitions, publications, collaborative projects, public speaking, and fundraising. They will have expertise in historic collections, with a mind toward global and transhistoric discourse and experience in developing inclusive narratives and addressing issues of racial injustice. Reporting to the Director & Chief Curator of the Syracuse University Art Museum, the curator will be a key member of the Museum’s leadership team. They will draw on their broad and extensive knowledge of art history to engage with the permanent collection to curate exhibitions and provide curricular engagement for class visits and public tours. The Curator will work closely with the Director & Chief Curator to implement the artistic identity and vision for the museum as well as strategic initiatives for exhibitions, public programs and collections with a strong commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access and the Museum’s mission. They will also serve as a leading fundraiser for the Museum, helping engage Syracuse University alumni and donors and authoring grants for the museum’s projects.

The Syracuse University Art Museum is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities in higher education and museums to apply.

Qualifications
• Master’s degree in art history; Ph.D. preferred
• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in researching, exhibiting and publishing on works of art
• Experience fundraising, cultivating donors, and writing grant proposals
• Experience developing collection and loan exhibitions
• Experience teaching classes, leading class discussions, and/or tours
• Proficiency with The Museum System (TMS) collections management database preferred

Museum Overview:

The Syracuse University Art Museum fulfills the University’s educational mission by promoting original research, creative thinking, and increased mindfulness within the University community and beyond. As a teaching museum, it acquires and preserves works of art and uses its extensive collection to serve as a museum-laboratory for research, exploration and discussion. It aims to foster diverse and inclusive perspectives by convening students and the local and global communities.

Started in 1873 under the direction of George Fisk Comfort, who famously founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the museum’s permanent collection encompasses the global history of art. Numbering 45,000 objects, which are searchable on the Museum’s website (museum.syr.edu), the collection is among the top ten largest academic art museum holdings in the United States. It surveys the international history of printmaking and has extensive holdings in photography and social cartooning, as well as strong collections in 18th, 19th and 20th century American and European painting and sculpture. The collection has many other areas of strength including Korean, Japanese, pre-Columbian and modern Peruvian ceramics, Indian, West African and Oceanic art. In addition to its flagship location on the Syracuse University campus, the Museum runs the satellite Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery, located at Syracuse University’s Lubin House in New York City.

For more information and to apply please visit the external link below.

Individual two or three week artist residencies are available throughout the year, scheduled around artist project times. Residencies will be awarded by a jury appointed by the Director to applicants who successfully demonstrate a need for working space at the print studio and have a strong, consistent portfolio of primarily print-based work. The decisions of the jury will be final, but applicants are allowed to apply more than once.

Please submit the following materials via email or post to sue@oehmegraphics.com or Susan Oehme, Oehme Graphics, 2655 Copper Ridge Circle, Unit 1, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487

– Cover letter (include first, second and third choice month availability)
– Resume/ CV
– Essay of proposed project, be specific and include needed materials list, along with 20 jpegs of related work (labeled with artist name, title, size, medium, date, price)
– 3 letters of recommendation from gallerists, artists, or other art professionals; any relevant press or writings.
– $50 non-refundable administrative application fee

Deadlines: December 31 for residencies during the months of April – September; June 30 for residencies during the months of October – March

Awarded artist residents will be allocated two or three weeks at the studio, including some materials (except plates) as well as housing in the upstairs apartment and meals. Residents will be able to use the press for four hours during normal working hours (9 – 5, M – F) and at will for the remainder of each day. In addition they will receive one hour of collaborative planning time with the master printer each working day, and will have the opportunity to utilize the staff for a small hourly fee. At the end of the residency, Oehme Graphics will choose up to one half of the finished pieces to be placed in the collection and made available for sale. Oehme Graphics will host an informal one night exhibition of selected unframed works from the residency, with an opening reception and artist talk.

Please note that all application materials will be kept in the Oehme Graphics Archives.

For more information please visit the external link below.

The McNay Art Museum, a museum of modern and contemporary art, is offering a twelve-month internship in curatorial work beginning in the fall of 2021. The goal of the internship is to prepare individuals interested in embarking on a curatorial career by providing significant experience in several areas of specialization, including work with the collection, exhibitions, publications, and programs. We prefer applicants have a master’s degree in art history, art criticism, museum studies, curatorial practice, or a related field; excellent written and oral communication skills; computer proficiency; and research skills. The salary for this twelve-month, full-time internship is $33,092.

Please include a cover letter, a resume, and a two-page double-spaced typed essay on your curatorial focus and what you hope to learn from the internship.

The successful candidate will work directly with Lyle W. Williams, the McNay’s Curator of Prints and Drawings, Curator of Modern Art. Lyle received his M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin before studying as a museum fellow with Richard S. Field at the Yale University Art Gallery. He became the first dedicated curator of prints and drawings at the McNay in 1992.

For more information and to apply please visit the external link below.

LACMA is seeking a full-time Curatorial Fellow with specific expertise in pre-1850 European works on paper, reporting to the Curator and Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings. The department’s holdings currently number around 23,000 prints and 2,000 drawings by some 5,000 artists, ranging in date from the 15th century to the present. The incumbent will build on the collection’s strengths (Northern Renaissance, Italian, French, and Northern Mannerist, and 19th-century French prints; 17th- and 18th-century French and Italian drawings) while exploring areas for expansion.

*This will be a one-year appointment with the possibility of renewal for up to three years, depending on the availability of funding.*

Specific projects for the Fellowship term include:

-Developing permanent collection installations, rotations, and didactic material for the Geffen Galleries, LACMA’s new permanent collection galleries scheduled to open in 2024. Geffen Galleries projects will entail collaborative work with multiple curatorial departments, including European Painting & Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Costume & Textiles, American Art, Latin American Art, and Paper Conservation.

-Attending to the archival needs of the permanent collection, now located in offsite storage under the oversight of Collections Management, focusing on integrating provenance and object information into object files and database records.

-Participating in other ongoing departmental activities, including discussion of loans, acquisitions, conservation, development, and online content.

-Assisting with the planning and drafting of interpretive materials for exhibitions involving works on paper during the fellowship period

-Participating in LACMA’s Curatorial Forum, Junior Curatorial Forum (which hosts reading groups and colloquia), and other division-wide discussions.

This is an outstanding opportunity for the Fellow to oversee the presentation of the Museum’s works on paper in a new physical space, and to take a lead role in giving the early modern prints and drawings collection a more visible and active online presence.

Qualifications:
-M.A. in the History of Art (or be All But Dissertation).
-Full-time professional museum experience (minimum of 3 years is preferred).
-Broad intellectual curiosity and a strong interest in connecting time periods, cultures, etc. in an encyclopedic museum context.
-Aptitude for collaboration across museum departments (curatorial, conservation, etc.).
-Will support LACMA’s mission, and will uphold the highest standards of scholarship, connoisseurship, and professional practices.
-Print room experience is preferred, but not required.
-Language skills should be commensurate with the area of specialization.
-Exceptional written and oral communication skills are required, including the ability to address academic audiences and the general public with equal skill and passion.

Application Materials to Include: C.V., writing sample, and letter of intent (not to exceed 1000 words) describing research and exhibition interests.

Application Deadline: Friday, July 2, 2021

*This fellowship is made possible with support from the Getty Foundation through its Paper Project initiative.*

For more information and to apply please visit the external link below.

The Morgan Library & Museum seeks an ambitious, experienced, and outgoing curator to lead its Department of Printed Books and Bindings. The Astor Curator and Department Head stewards and interprets the Morgan’s renowned printed book collection, which extends from the invention of printing to contemporary first editions. Subject strengths include incunables, fine bindings and printing, illustrated books, children’s books, association copies, and notable publications of major authors in England, France, and America. Among the highlights are three Gutenberg Bibles, a remarkable run of Aldines, Grolier bindings, French book illustration 1700 to 1914, World War I poetry, Man Booker Prize fiction, and the Carter Burden collection of American literature.

The Astor Curator will conceive, initiate, and execute exhibitions and projects, including sophisticated and compelling exhibitions from the Morgan’s own holdings, exhibitions based primarily on loans from other institutions, and traveling exhibitions. The Astor Curator will be responsible for overseeing the long-term growth, preservation, and documentation of the collection and for supporting the work of outside researchers, and will be an advocate for the collection and the mission of the Morgan, building understanding of the collection through new scholarship, public programs, publications, and digital projects.

The Astor Curator will be a dynamic leader in the field, well-regarded among peers, who is comfortable and happy participating in activities on- and off-site related to the rare-book world. They will be able to move easily between scholarly work and engagement with the Morgan’s various communities. The Printed Books and Bindings department has a sizable acquisitions budget and candidates should be familiar with developing collections and comfortable making strategic acquisitions through both purchases and gifts.

Candidates should have excellent donor-cultivation skills and be eager to forge strong relationships with collectors and donors and to serve as liaison to the department’s Visiting Committee. The ideal candidate will be an articulate ambassador for the Morgan in the scholarly community and with donors and the general public.

The position oversees a staff of two associate curators and may oversee fellows.

For more information and to apply please visit the external link below.

Tusen Takk’s residencies are geared for artists to explore new ideas or expand current work. We look for ideas and work that will affirm and enrich the human spirit, giving form to chaos and perception to beauty.

Tusen Takk was designed to host one resident, or two in collaboration, for residencies between three and eight weeks. The single most important qualification for artists invited to Tusen Takk is that they have created a body of work that exemplifies excellence and has (or could) significantly contribute(d) to their artistic field. Tusen Takk welcomes applications from both emerging and established visual artists in photography, printmaking, sculpture, painting, as well as creative writers and music composers.

Artists should be self-motivated so they can be productive in the isolation afforded by a residency with a giving spirit that’s exemplified by a willingness to share insights with audiences about their work and processes. While in residence, artists are encouraged to engage with the local arts community; this could take the shape of a small-scale workshop or studio visit, or a public artist’s talk, exhibition, or performance, either virtually or in collaboration with one of the Foundation’s partner organizations. Applications are due on July 15, 2021 for residencies between June 2022 and June 2023.

Highlights of the studios include: a digital imaging studio outfitted with two Epson P9000 commercial edition printers and two Epson 9880 printers (all with a maximum output width of 44"), an etching studio designed to make photogravures with a 30" x 50" etching press and 24” x 36” NuArc platemaker, and a darkroom with a 16' long sink and three enlargers.

For more information please visit the external link below.

The Dallas Museum of Art seeks a promising and dynamic scholar in the field of art history to become the inaugural Allen and Kelli Questrom Curator of Works on Paper. We look to hire a team-oriented colleague who will promote, interpret, build, and care for all aspects of the collection, which encompasses works on paper from all collecting areas of the institution with strengths in prints and drawings from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and time periods from the 15th century to today. The Curator of Works on Paper will be an active participant in executing the Museum’s Strategic Plan, including diversifying and reinterpreting the collection through strategic acquisitions, gallery installations, exhibition development, publications, presentations, and audience engagement.

Candidates should demonstrate excellent research, writing, and speaking skills, as well as the ability to manage complex projects effectively and to attract as well as deepen relationships with donors and supporters. They should demonstrate a breadth of knowledge, connoisseurship, and experience in their specialty, as well as a willingness to gain new expertise. Candidates should be committed to exploring the changing nature of art museums and their relationship to diverse audiences.

Scope of Position:

The position of Allen and Kelli Questrom Curator of Works on Paper is a new position for the Dallas Museum of Art and will be responsible for directing the overall collections, exhibitions, programs, and material resources of the works on paper collection, comprised of almost 6000 works. Working in partnership with the Curatorial, Education, Exhibitions, Publications, Collections Management, Marketing and Communications, and Development departments, The Allen and Kelli Questrom Curator of Works on Paper will support the mission and artistic program of the Dallas Museum of Art and will serve as an advocate of the Museum locally, nationally, and internationally with a high degree of integrity and professionalism.

For more information, including essential job functions, desired qualifications, and information about the museum please visit the external link below.

CFP: Collecting, Curating, and Consuming American Popular Graphic Arts Yesterday and Today

A symposium in conjunction with Imperfect History: Collecting the Graphic Arts Collection at Benjamin Franklin’s Public Library in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Graphic Arts Department at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 2022

Collecting, Curating, and Consuming American Popular Arts Yesterday and Today continues the conversation started through Imperfect History: Curating the Graphic Arts Collection at Benjamin Franklin’s Public Library. The exhibition explores the development of the Library Company’s graphics art collection as it relates to historical and cultural biases within American history through a candid exploration of the evolution of American graphic arts curatorship and collections in one of the oldest cultural institutions in the country. The symposium seeks to examine changing and innovative directions in how historical popular graphic art (i.e., art not traditionally classified as fine art, that is representative of popular culture, and/or is mass produced and consumed) is curated, interpreted, and used and understood by those who produced, viewed, and consumed it. Collecting, Curating, and Consuming asks how does historical American popular graphic art act as a mirror, bridge, and barrier in facilitating our visual conceptions of our past and present?

Submissions Guidelines:
Proposals for twenty-minute papers should include a no more than 300-word abstract and two-page CV or resume. Joint proposals and illustrated proposals are welcome.

Please email your proposals with the subject line “IH 2022” as word or pdf documents to epiola@librarycompany.org. Submissions should be received by Monday, August 2. Selected participants will be notified via email by early October 2022.

Any questions may be directed to Erika Piola epiola@librarycompany.org.

For the complete call for papers, follow this link: https://librarycompany.org/imperfect-history/symposium/.

We are thrilled to announce that the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation will fund 5 fellowships for the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum. Below is the text from the press release with more information:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a generous gift from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation to fund five fellowship positions in the Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints. These paid positions include four yearlong fellowships and one interdisciplinary fellowship of two years that combines curatorial, conservation, and scientific studies. The fellowships will begin in fall 2022, with applications available in September 2021.
“We are deeply grateful to the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation for initiating and sponsoring these meaningful fellowships for emerging museum professionals—a testament to the Foundation’s longtime dedication to broadening access to the arts and fostering the next generation of cultural leaders,” said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. “This significant funding helps to strengthen our ongoing commitment to being an inclusive and accessible institution and to advance our vision of equity in museum scholarship.”

Nadine M. Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawing and Prints, added, “We are thrilled to receive this noteworthy support and look forward to meeting the first cohort of Diamonstein- Spielvogel Fellows. Not only are we excited to offer impactful career training to those who share our passion for drawings and prints but we also welcome the new perspectives and fresh ideas that these individuals will bring to the Museum to further contextualize our collection in complex, multifaceted, and engaging ways.”

Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation, said: “We are pleased that these new fellowships will create stronger relationships between two critical areas in the visual arts— curatorial research and scientific conservation. It is our hope that these fellowships will provide an enriching, immersive experience for aspiring museum professionals, especially those historically underrepresented in careers related to the visual arts.”

The four History of Art and Visual Culture Fellowships will be open to those enrolled in a PhD program in art history, visual and cultural studies, history, or a related field. With access to the Museum’s extensive holdings of drawings and prints, these fellows will conduct their own research projects while being exposed to a full range of curatorial and departmental activities. The two- year-long Curatorial/Scientific Research STEAM Junior Fellowship will offer to qualified graduate students an interdisciplinary experience combining technical investigation with art historical research on works on paper. This fellow will divide their time between the Department of Drawings and Prints, the Department of Scientific Research, and the Department of Paper Conservation, benefiting from the expertise of curators, scientists, and paper conservators while learning how to use state-of-the-art technology to closely study drawings and prints in The Met collection.

For the full press release, including a link to more information about fellowships at The Met, please visit the external link below.