PUBLICATION GRANTS, American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS)

Applications due: 07/01/2022

The American Historical Print Collectors Society offers publication grants. The aim of this program is to support the publication of original projects centered on prints made or used in North America that are at least one hundred years old.

For more information, see https://ahpcs.org/publication-grants/

Applicants do not need to be members of the AHPCS at the time of application but will be asked to join if they are awarded a grant.

The Center for Contemporary Printmaker is seeking a Media and Education Coordinator who is passionate about the arts and will contribute to the growth of our 26-year old non-profit organization. Candidate will work closely with the Executive Director to grow and maintain the organization’s international reach within the printmaking community and our local associations within the Fairfield County area through promotion and educational efforts. Candidate will need to be a self-starter, able to work independently, and have excellent writing and communication skills. You will be the driver of outward-facing messaging about CCP and in support of CCP programs for general information, news, and professional associations.

Please direct questions and application materials to careers@contemprints.org.

Follow the link below for more information on the position.

The Princeton University Art Museum welcomes applications for an Assistant, Associate, or full Curator of Prints and Drawings. Working closely with the Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings, the Curator will help shape the care, presentation, interpretation, and growth of the Museum's distinguished collections of prints and drawings. As the Museum prepares for a dramatically reconceived new building designed by David Adjaye, scheduled to open in late 2024, the Curator will contribute significantly to collections galleries, exhibitions, collections research, and acquisitions.

Please follow the link below for more details about the job listing and application procedures.

Lower East Side Printshop invites applications for the full-time position of Fine Art Printer.

The Printer collaborates with emerging and mid-career artists on several Printshop-published projects per year, and many contracted projects daily. The Printer works with the artists by providing artistic advice, ideas, and guidance, researching and acquiring materials, and by fully executing/producing the projects and archiving the artwork. The projects, while often the first printmaking experiences for the artists, are of high artistic merit and professional quality. Some of the most recent artists the Lower East Side Printshop has worked with include Derrick Adams, Dread Scott, Hank Willis Thomas, Jeffrey Gibson, Arturo Herrera, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Saya Woolfalk, and others.

The Printer oversees other studio activities, such as managing studio equipment and supplies, and training and supervising studio interns and volunteers. They also participate in all other Printshop activities, such as exhibitions, fairs, shared studio residencies, tours and workshops, etc. The Printer reports directly to Executive Director and works closely with other staff. They interact with class instructors, resident artists, the Board of Directors, and the outside community such as curators, dealers, collectors, and the general public.

About the Lower East Side Printshop:

The Lower East Side Printshop, established in 1968, is a dynamic not-for-profit printmaking workshop that promotes and advances the art of printmaking. The Printshop facilitates the creation of new artwork in print by providing studio space, as well as technical and financial assistance for artists. The Printshop promotes artistic excellence in collaborations with artists at all career stages, and of diverse backgrounds. It offers educational programming in printmaking, such as classes, lectures, and internships. It encourages collecting and appreciation of contemporary prints through sale and exhibition events, while promoting and encouraging the use of environmentally friendly materials and procedures, and fostering innovation and experimentation in printmaking.

Artworks created at the Printshop are included in numerous museum collections, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society, and others.

Qualifications:

• Experienced and proficient in digital, screenprinting, intaglio, and combined techniques;
• Experience in independent collaborations with individual artists;
• Well organized, independent, good at multi-tasking, team player;
• Understanding of - and sensitive to - artists’ needs, as well as patient and flexible;
• Helpful computer skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, File Maker Pro, Internet research.

Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week
Starting salary: commensurate with experience + benefits
Start date: immediate

To apply, please send cover letter and work resume to: dusica@printshop.org

The California Society of Printmakers is soliciting proposals for the 2023 annual issue, Shifting Gears. Sometimes a major shift in your thinking moves your work in a new or unexpected direction. This could be due to a new technique or material, a novel idea or even just a major mistake on your part. How has this change affected your work and its future direction?
They would like proposals by print artists and are also seeking recommendations of artists (including their website) who could contribute to this topic. Your work will be judged on its quality and how well it relates to this year’s theme. Articles would be 700–1200 words.
Accepting proposals until August 30, 2022. Please include:

- How your article will address the theme
- Outline or short narrative (about 200 words)
- Website address
- 5 or more jpegs (at least 3MB image size) relating to your proposal content, submitted as a separate attachment
- Artist bio with contact information

If you are considered, your finished article would be due November 1, 2022.

Submission deadline: August 30, 2022
Submit to: Bob Rocco, Editorial Board, California Society of Printmakers, bobroccoart@gmail.com.

The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) seeks an American and European Works on Paper, Photography, and New Media Fellow for a two-year appointment. Working under the direction of the Director of Curatorial Affairs, the primary role of the incumbent is to research, steward, assess, and display an under-researched strength of HoMA’s permanent collection—16,000 Euro-American prints, drawings, paintings on paper, photographs, and time-based media works. The ideal candidate will bring a strong history of scholarly research involving iconography, provenance, techniques, and processes, as well as experience with art handling, high-level curation, and interpretation. HoMA welcomes and encourages applications from individuals of all backgrounds who meet the minimum requirements below. A familiarity with Hawaiian culture and history and knowledge of Pacific-Rim artists and practices is a plus.

HoMA’s American and European works on paper permanent collection features approximately 16,350 drawings, prints, watercolors, collages, and mixed media objects by renowned artists across time and cultures. Drawings and prints by 16th- and 17th-century luminaries such as Albrecht Dürer, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, and Rembrandt van Rijn are included along with 19th- and 20th-century masters such as Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Joseph Cornell. Contemporary artists including Edgar Heap of Birds, Kara Walker, David Hockney, Mickalene Thomas, and Andy Warhol reflect a range of social, political, and personal subjects. HoMA’s extensive photograph collection contains over 1,700 works and is comprised of early examples of mid-19th-century to modern and contemporary works by innovators such as Imogen Cunningham, Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Catherine Opie and Thomas Struth. Our small, but growing, time-based media collection, with works by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, and Jennifer Steinkamp, is also within the purview of this position’s responsibilities.

The Works on Paper, Photography, and New Media Fellow (“Fellow”) will work closely and collaboratively with colleagues across the museum, including with staff from Learning and Engagement, Collections, and Curatorial Department to research, interpret, assess, and refine the museum’s works on paper collection. Part of the collections research will include assessing new potential photographic and African American prints from local collections and making acquisition recommendations to the Collections Committee. The Fellow will also assist in collection refinement by making thoughtful recommendations for deaccessioning, based upon potential duplicates or conservation.

The Fellow will additionally serve as a creative collaborator, working closely with the Director of Curatorial Affairs and other curators to suggest innovative display ideas and introduce non-traditional approaches to presentation and interpretation that align with newer developments in the museum field at large. They will write and speak to general museum audiences in dynamic ways that not only expand art interpretation and discussions beyond traditional art historical narratives, but also prioritize more insightful and inclusive perspectives. They may assist with research on department-wide curatorial projects as needed, such as cross-cultural, thematic, and multi-media installations in permanent collection galleries. Like all curators and research staff, they will help us build and maintain relationships across the museum and community with artists, members, donors, new audiences, and art professionals and work respectfully with and for the many diverse communities that we serve, in alignment with HoMA’s key initiatives and strategic objectives.

For more details and how to apply, please visit external link.

Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad
Call for Papers

We are delighted to invite submissions for a new journal, Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad. Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press and in collaboration with the Recovering the U.S.-Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, Pasados is an open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship on the long history of Latinx literature and culture, with a special focus on questions related to archival recovery. It centers scholarly inquiry on pre-1980s Latinx literary and cultural histories, extending from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Along with scholarly essays, we encourage submissions across a range of formats and approaches, including translations, teaching aids, bibliographies, reviews of archival sites, and forum/dossier proposals.
Appearing twice annually beginning in Spring 2023, Pasados will highlight decolonial and other theoretical approaches to Latinx archives, historically-informed pedagogies, and praxis-based recovery work, both in academic and non-academic spaces. The journal will provide a venue for scholars to build upon and extend existing approaches to this interdisciplinary field, while also acting as a forum for new theoretical, methodological and analytical insights into the histories and archival knowledges of Latinx literature and culture. Pasados will be of interest to academics, libraries and associations, national and local public institutions, community activists and organizers, and readers interested in Latinx studies.

Send questions to pasadosjournal@gmail.com

Please visit the external link below to learn more details.

Tamarind’s two-part Printer Training Program is designed for students who wish to pursue careers as fine art collaborative printers. This intensive, full-time program concentrates first on strengthening and refining the students’ technical skills, then on the application of those skills to collaborative projects. Prior knowledge of lithography is required. A maximum of eight students will be accepted.

Applications for the 20234Summer Workshop and 2024– 25 Printer Training Program must be received by Monday January 15, 2024.

Please visit the external link for more information.

The Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art leads one of the Blanton Museum's key curatorial areas and is an important part of the senior management team, reporting to the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. The position will oversee research, exhibitions, collecting strategy, and rotating gallery displays in all areas of international and American modern and contemporary art (excluding Latin American art). Work closely with a small, collaborative team, and especially with the curators of Latin American Art and of Prints and Drawings, areas which have significant overlap. This curator is responsible for maintaining long-standing relationships with key donors and collectors in Texas and beyond, and with developing new relationships, especially as the city of Austin continues to grow and its community of artists, gallerists, philanthropists and collectors expands. As the city of Austin's main art museum, the Blanton must keep building its relevance and appeal to local communities, and helping it to do so is an especially important aspect of this curatorial role. It is crucial the curator be a local ambassador while maintaining and strengthening the Museum's nationally-recognized programs, research and scholarship. Their network will also include important supporters in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio. Essential to the position is the ability to work with colleagues both internally and externally to develop projects that meaningfully contribute to the overall mission of the museum and align the modern and contemporary art program closely with larger institutional goals.

Responsibilities

Collection. Responsible for developing and implementing a cohesive vision and strategy for the Blanton’s collection of modern and contemporary art (1900-present). Manage rotating permanent collection displays in dedicated galleries. The collection's strength is in art of the United States but is international in scope. Curator will develop a detailed, long-term collection strategy.
Exhibitions. Propose and organize exhibitions for the Museum's rotating spaces as well as larger exhibitions, both collection-based and loan shows, for the main temporary exhibition space. Manage and develop commissions for the Museum's forthcoming outdoor Butler Sound Gallery. Develop related publications, interpretive materials, and public programs as necessary.
Research and scholarship. Show leadership in areas of expertise and keep abreast of current scholarship. Interpret the Blanton's collection accordingly through print and digital publishing, label writing, programming and gallery displays. Facilitate the research of Blanton curatorial fellows and interns, as well as outside scholars and curators, as it relates to the collection.
Education. Collaborate with the Director of Education and Academic Affairs and other museum staff in the creation of program content and participate in program activities as related to the modern and contemporary art collection. Assist in training docents and gallery assistants in specific content areas and museum practices. Engage with University faculty, students, and graduate students and teach from the collection as necessary. Encourage and facilitate use of Blanton resources across campus.
Fundraising and donor cultivation. Working with development staff, maintain important current relationships with longstanding supporters as well as with a wider network of donors and collectors locally, throughout Texas, and nationally; actively cultivate new relationships.
Engage artists and related communities in the field of contemporary art. Maintain and foster relationships with living artists as well as related networks of gallerists, dealers and other curators in the field.
Budgets and administration. Perform administrative duties related to the functions of the position, including the management of budgets for department and exhibitions.
Other duties as assigned.

SALARY: $4,679.00 monthly minimum; commensurate with experience

DESCRIPTION: This position exists to advance the management, development, and access to rare print materials related to Minnesota history and culture. The incumbent plays a vital role in developing, documenting, interpreting, and growing access/use of MNHS’s publications collections: Minnesota-related maps, rare books and rare materials, and print culture. In order to identify areas for growth in the collections and develop and implement a robust strategy for access and impact, the inaugural Patrick Coleman Curator of Maps, Rare Books, and Print Culture collaborates with MNHS leadership, the director of Collections, peer curators and collections management colleagues, colleagues across the organization, and with an engaged community of external stakeholders. The goal of curatorial efforts is to embed collections in the telling of history and stories across the organization; and to further the strategic priorities and the mission of the organization related to transforming access, expanding authority and expertise, and creating a sustainable future for the use, growth, and stewardship of collections materials.

Working independently as well as part of a team, the Senior Curator is responsible for collection development, acquisitions, and engaging with collections holders, creators, and their communities. They work with colleagues to steward and provide access to MNHS collections through research, programming, and exhibits; communicate with donors about ongoing collection needs and priorities; and offer intellectual guidance to Library catalogers, reference staff, and other colleagues about new and existing collections materials. The successful candidate should have extensive knowledge of rare books and/or print culture, a demonstrated interest in Minnesota history, culture, and literary life; and a commitment to and experience with fostering and maintaining equitable and respectful partnerships within a large organization with a diverse public.

SUMMARY OF WORK: 1) Lead the collaborative work to broaden MNHS collection of maps, rare books and other rare materials, and print culture; 2) Work with colleagues across MNHS to promote access to and engagement with MNHS collections; 3) Contribute to MNHS’s commitment to sharing Minnesota history through community engagement and partnerships; 4) Contribute to organizational strategic priorities and initiatives through active participation in leadership, committee, and other opportunities; and 5) Provide overall direction for hiring, training, supervision, and motivation for assigned staff, interns, and volunteers, and ensure overall compliance with MNHS policies and procedures.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree.
Seven years experience in a museum or library field or equivalent.
Three years of curatorial or collection development experience.
Demonstrated interest in and knowledge of Minnesota history and culture.
Demonstrated knowledge of rare books and/or print culture; as well as intellectual property and copyright law and practices.
Experience developing, handling, documenting, and making accessible archival and special collections.
Ability to supervise, mentor, and performance manage staff, interns, and volunteers.
Commitment to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment that embraces diverse viewpoints and experiences.
Willingness to use a ladder to reach high places and storage.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
Ability to work in an environment where the air quality is sometimes lowered because of air particles.
Ability, flexibility, and willingness to occasionally work a varied schedule, including evenings and weekends.
Ability and willingness to travel.
Valid driver’s license.

TO APPLY & VIEW FULL DESCRIPTION: Interested applicants must apply online at the Minnesota Historical Society’s career center at www. mnhs.org/jobs and include a resume and cover letter by the application deadline date.