This is a full-time one-year fellowship, with the possibility for renewal for a second year.
Salary range: $45,000-$50,000, commensurate with education and experience, and a competitive benefits package: https://postdocs.yale.edu/postdocs/benefits
Position Focus:
Reporting to the Curators of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Florence B. Selden Fellow will supervise the department’s active study room and act as the primary liaison between the department and faculty teaching from the collections of works on paper. The Selden Fellow will prepare and follow through to publication the annual list of the department’s acquisitions on the Gallery’s website, conduct scholarly research to catalogue new acquisitions, answer queries about the collection, and interact with scholars, students, and the public on matters concerning the collection. The Selden Fellow will have the opportunity to propose acquisitions, conduct independent research, and assist with special exhibitions and permanent gallery installations. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds interested in working in the prints and drawings curatorial field.
Interested and qualified candidates must include the following documents with their application: cover letter describing career goals and why this position is of particular interest; CV; graduate transcript; an example of recent written research (maximum 2 pages); names and contact information of three references (letters not necessary).
Deadline for receipt of applications is March 31, 2023.

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https://postdocs.yale.edu/florence-b-selden-fellow-department-prints-and-drawings-yale-university-art-gallery

The question of color has been at the center of artistic debates at least since the seventeenth century, and it has remained a key issue in the historiography of art. What may be at stake in reconsidering color in its historical dimensions now? Recent research on the issue has gone in two directions. On the one hand, color has been studied as a material substance and a technology. Scholars have documented the relation between technological, industrial, and commercial developments and the quality, range, and availability of pigments and colorants available to artists, manufacturers, and consumers. Another approach has focused on the key role of color in the construction of social, racial, and gender hierarchies. Recent scholarship has revealed the intimate connection between aesthetic debates on chroma and the development of the modern discourse of race. Moreover, the eighteenth century’s feminization of color entangled with the notions of make-up and artifice has been reexamined. Clearly, it is no longer viable to think of color in purely aesthetic, ideologically innocent terms.

This issue of Journal18 aims to consider how the current interest in materiality and the matter of art could be harnessed to alter–enrich, complicate, or challenge–our understanding of the historical functions and social and cultural meanings of color in the long eighteenth century. In what ways may the materialist discussion of color as a substance inflect the account of its ideological and discursive functions? What were the new meanings and effects of color as the physical product and sign of growing global trade networks, colonial and slave economies, and expanding empires? How did colored materials­­––pigments, dyes, feathers, shells, minerals––serve as tools of hybridity and a means to delineate cultural difference? Can color’s inherent capacity for infinite nuance offer modern art historians alternative lenses onto to the past? We welcome papers that are attuned to color’s mobility, look beyond Western Europe, and decentralize Euro-centric narratives. We are especially interested in papers that consider the broader methodological questions raised by their subject and seek to develop tools to address the urgent issues posed by color.

Issue Editors
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
Thea Goldring, Harvard University

Proposals for issue #17 Color are now being accepted. Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2023.

To submit a proposal, send an abstract (250 words) and brief biography to the following three addresses: editor@journal18.org, burchart@fas.harvard.edu, and tgoldring@g.harvard.edu. Articles should not exceed 6000 words (including footnotes) and will be due by September 1, 2023. For further details on submission and Journal18 house style, see Information for Authors.

The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS) offers financial support to publications on topics relating to historical prints produced in or about North America one hundred or more years ago. Over the past forty-plus years, AHPCS has supported the publication of hundreds of articles, catalogs, and monographs on a wide variety of 18th- and 19th-century printmakers, printing methods, publishers, and artists.

Applications are accepted semi-annually with deadlines of January 1st and July 1st.

Linda Hall Library, one of the world’s foremost independent research libraries devoted to science, engineering, and technology, is seeking an Assistant Curator of Rare Books to join its Collections department.

Reporting to the Vice President for Special Collections and a member of the Collections and Public Services division, the Assistant Curator plays an integral role in describing and promoting one of the world’s premiere collections of rare books devoted to science. The incumbent will work to inspire broad and creative use of the Library’s unparalleled rare book and collections and will perform a range of activities in collaboration with colleagues. The Assistant Curator, in collaboration with members of the collections and public services division, catalyzes greater public understanding of the Library’s collection through public programs, class visits, exhibits, and scholarly cataloging and description.

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The University of Kansas Libraries seeks a curious, creative, and collaborative curator to share in the management, development, and promotion of the university's rare books and manuscript holdings at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library. The special collections curator will share in collection development (by purchase and donation); instruction for KU classes, K-12 students, community groups, and other types of outreach; reference service; and collaborative initiatives to enhance the discovery of and access to Spencer’s collections, including digitization. The special collections curator will report to the director of the Spencer Research Library and will work closely with another special collections curator and colleagues across Spencer and the larger KU library system.

The minimum salary is $54,000, with final determination commensurate with experience. Rank considerations are based on professional performance, research, and service experience sufficient to qualify for appointment at the rank of Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian.

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Position Summary The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the availability of a two-year predoctoral fellowship for an outstanding doctoral candidate who wishes to pursue a curatorial career in an art museum. The fellowship offers invaluable curatorial training and provides the scholarly and financial resources required for completing the doctoral dissertation. Internationally renowned for its exceptional collection of western European art from the early Renaissance through the end of the nineteenth century, The Frick Collection—complemented by the equally significant resources of the Frick Art Reference Library—offers a unique opportunity for object-based research. The fellowship is best suited to a student working on a dissertation that pertains to one of the major strengths of the collection and library. The Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow will have an opportunity to work with curatorial and educational staff on research for permanent collection displays and special exhibitions. Other curatorial training responsibilities include participation in the daily administrative routines of a small museum. The Fellow will have a place of study, access to the collections and library, as well as introductions to New York City museums and libraries. Frick curators and conservation staff will be available for consultation on the dissertation. The Fellow will divide his or her time between the completion of the dissertation and activities in the Curatorial Department. The Fellow is considered a full-time temporary exempt employee for the duration of the two-year fellowship. The term is expected to begin in September 2023 and conclude in August 2025.

The Association of Graduate Art Students (AGAS) at the University of Georgia, in partnership with the Georgia Museum of Art, invites emerging scholars to submit proposals for papers that contribute to the discussion of new perspectives and interpretations on African American, Euro-American and Native American art. The symposium will be presented in conjunction with the traveling exhibition “Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum,” on view February 4 – May 14, 2023.

Our symposium will expand the scope of the exhibition by using contemporary lenses to rethink preconceived notions of American visual and material culture. Conventional approaches to the art of the United States have often focused upon Eurocentric artists and consequently advanced colonizing perspectives on this material. Yet, America’s rich history gives way to new studies that break these long-standing conceptions and allow for more representation that is reflective of the diverse society of the past and present.

This symposium aims to enrich and reframe the Eurocentric traditions associated with American visual and material culture by advancing contemporary perspectives and considering American art in light of the pressing issues of our day. Such perspectives will afford new insights into US history and push forward experimental approaches for the future.

Our symposium encourages submissions that discuss specific works of art or themes related to “Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum.”
Other relevant topics include but are not limited to:

- Women artists in America/the Americas
- Race, identity, and the role of African American and Native American artists
- Past and present diversity in American art
- Ecological and ecocritical approaches to American art
- Global and hemispheric perspectives on American art and the art of the Americas
- Expressions of American patriotism and imperialism

Current graduate students and other emerging scholars should submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) and an up-to-date CV to ldsoa.agas@gmail.com by December 30, 2022. Applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision by January 15, 2023.

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Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to partner with the McKnight Foundation to offer two fellowships to mid-career book artists living and working in Minnesota who demonstrate exceptional artistic merit and commitment to the field.

Applications for the 2023 McKnight Fellowships for Book Artists will open December 15, 2022–March 1, 2023.

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The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Assistant or Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. The primary responsibility of this position is the care, growth, display, interpretation, presentation, and publication of a broad spectrum of the Morgan’s extensive and famous collection of fifteenth - through nineteenth-century drawings and prints, with a particular emphasis on the Dutch, Flemish, and German schools. In consultation with the department head, the assistant/associate curator is responsible for organizing in-house and loan exhibitions featuring this and/or related material. The assistant/associate curator should also be able to conduct research on other parts of the department’s holdings of drawings before 1900 and to participate in exhibitions and projects in other fields and media. The assistant/associate curator will lecture on the collection as required and will participate in the planning and content of symposia, scholars’ days, and other programs organized under the auspices of the Morgan’s Drawing Institute. Participation in the administrative tasks associated with the functioning of the curatorial department is required; this will include responding to scholarly and public inquiries related to the collection and attending meetings or serving on committees as necessary; collaboration with other departments at the Morgan and with other institutions is a fundamental aspect of the position. The position reports to the Charles W. Engelhard Curator, the Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints.

The Department of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston seeks applicants for up to two Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Curatorial Research Fellowships for Special Projects in Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, and Illustrated Books. These Fellowships are part-time appointments (14 hours a week) for a period of up to 6 months, beginning in January/February, 2023.

The Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Curatorial Research Fellowships are open to individuals at different stages of their doctoral or postdoctoral career.

The MFA’s collection of prints and drawings is one of the deepest and broadest in the United States, containing almost 200,000 works that range from the beginnings of printing in the fifteenth century to today. The department embraces its responsibility as a place of training and engagement with works on paper and in its activities highlights the special role the printed image plays as a mirror of society and means of communication. The department is also fully committed to acquire works and present narratives in currently underrepresented areas to ensure a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive collection.

The Fellow(s) will be based in the Department of Prints and Drawings and work closely with the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Curator of Design on “Digital Koehler,” a research project supported by The Getty Paper Project. The Fellow(s) will also have the opportunity to research, catalogue, and interpret some area of the MFA’s renowned collection of works on paper, to be determined both by the needs of the Museum and the specialized knowledge of the successful candidate.

As part of the Prints and Drawings team at the MFA, the Fellow(s) will have access to the MFA’s expertise, resources and research facilities and participate in a range of activities and training opportunities. The Fellow(s) are expected to contribute to the Museum’s public and academic programs and will provide a final report and presentation at the conclusion of their Fellowship.

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