Job Description:
To provide collection care, research assistance and administrative support to the 501 ( c) 3 non- profit organization for the management of its permanent prints and works on paper collection, visiting artist residencies and print and catalog publishing for its exhibition programming. The prints by contemporary diverse artists (national and international) and include substantial collections of prints produced at other printmaking workshops in the US and Cuba. Also responsible for pulling and preparing artworks for study room visits, monitoring the study room, facilitating class visits and assisting with curatorial and administrative tasks.

Responsibilities:
• Assists with art handling and movement for classes, research and gallery events.
• Monitors the study room while artwork is on view for classes or general visits.
• Schedules and communicates appointment procedure and study room protocol to public.
• Helps develop checklists for class visits and teaches about techniques and media with didactic materials.
• Assists in maintaining proper housing of the collection and assess/ recommend any conservation treatment that may be needed.
• Enters data into collection management database.
• Assist in cataloguing and researching new acquisitions.
• Researches objects in the collection.
• Helps develop and present virtual and in-person exhibitions.
• Edits and writes wall labels and contributes towards special projects.
• Assists with other administrative tasks as needed including maintaining office supplies, filling out purchase orders, monitoring physical climate of storage areas and maintaining study room visitor's log
• Assist in supervising college level and high school interns.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Art History
• Strong interest in printmaking techniques
• Skilled in art historical research
• Ability to follow protocols in handling delicate works of art with care
• Exhibits attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Works well independently and collaboratively
• Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Art History
• Museum experience
• Familiarity with museum collection databases
• If needed, training will be offered in conservation of artworks on paper.

Salary Range:
$40,000- $43,000 depending on experience

Required Materials:
• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Submitting Your Application:
All applications are to be submitted to Search@brandywineworkshop.com
Applicants that do not include all three of the required materials above will not be reviewed as candidates.

The Corporation of Fine Arts Museums (COFAM) is seeking an Assistant Curator to support the day-to-day operations of the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

The Prints, Drawing, and Photographs Department, also known as the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (AFGA), is the department responsible for the Fine Arts Museums' collection of more than 90,000 works of art on paper, including prints, drawings, and artists' books.

COFAM is the privately funded non-profit corporation which supports the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which are comprised of two iconic sites in San Francisco's beautiful parks- the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and Legion of Honor Museum in Lincoln Park. As the largest public arts institution in the western United States, the Museums house a world-class collection of 151,000 artworks that span more than 5,000 years; present an ambitious schedule of more than 10 exhibitions per year; and welcome 1.5 million visitors in a typical year.

Under the direction of Director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell, the Museums have recently launched a new strategic plan that outlines a bold new vision for the next four years and prioritizes Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Access (DIEA); our connection to the Bay Area community; and building a foundation for a future capital and endowment campaign.

COFAM is committed to advancing career opportunities for a diverse pool of qualified and capable talent, centering equity and inclusion across all aspects of our recruitment strategy.

This position is full-time, 40 hours a week. The benefits package includes medical, dental, vision and 401(k), and paid time off.

Application Deadline: Open until filled

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

The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS) is a non-profit group that encourages
the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of original historical American prints that are
100 or more years old.

Each year AHPCS offers grants towards the conservation of significant prints in institutional collections. Applications are accepted semi-annually with deadlines of March 31st and September 30th. For more information, please go to the external link below.

This session will interrogate the interstices of printmaking across geographies and time periods. David Landau and Peter Parshall’s foundational text, The Renaissance Print, 1470–1550, suggests that “printmaking developed early on as a trade capable of eluding conventional practices and consequently attracting artisans with the initiative to work in the shadowy interstices that lay between the guilds and local governments” (12: 1994). From this early history of the medium to the present, printmaking has had an ability to produce and thrive within interstitial spaces both for working artists and in the art historical canon. Interstices are also essential to printmaking’s technical processes. For example, in aquatint, the interstices between resin grains that the acid etches into create the print's design. Yet, scholars and collectors have tended to overlook interstitial objects that fall between the categorical boundaries of intaglio, relief, planographic, and stencil printing.
This session invites papers that examine printmaking and its interstices across a wide range of visual and material cultural practices. Examples of welcome topics include but are not limited to the following: gaps in canonical art historical narratives; liminal spaces of making, such as Mabel Dwight’s movement between her home and studio while creating lithographs; physical intervals between printed marks, such as cross-hatching used to depict the Black body in Phillis Wheatley’s engraved frontispiece to Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773); and hybrid works that push against conventional print taxonomies such as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s seventeenth-century monotypes and Pati Hill’s xerographs from the 1970s–80s.

CO-CHAIRS:
Sarah Nuessle Bane, University of California, Santa Barbara - sbane@ucsb.edu
Michelle Donnelly, Yale University - michelle.donnelly@yale.edu

HOW TO APPLY:
To submit, gather the following and send via email to the chair(s) listed before Thursday, September 16, 2021.
Completed proposal form (available on CAA site).
A shortened CV (close to 2 pages).
[Optional] Documentation of work when appropriate, limited to five images as a single PDF, especially for sessions in which artists might discuss their own practice.

Upon acceptance, presenters must join or bring their CAA memberships up to date, (you may apply with a non-member ID). Only CAA members can present in a Session.

For more information please visit the external link below.

Inspired by the history of radicalism and reform in Rochester, New York, the NCSA committee invites proposals exploring the radical possibilities of the nineteenth-century world. From the aftershocks of the French and American revolutions to mutinies and rebellion in colonies across the globe, the nineteenth century was a period of both unrest and possibility. Abolition, suffrage, and reform movements reshaped prisons, education, and housing, marking this century as a period of institutional making and unmaking: a reckoning with ills of the past that was also profoundly optimistic about a more just and prosperous future.

Radicalism is also a generative term for considering transitional moments or social tensions: “radical” is often used interchangeably with “extreme,” but its earliest definitions describe not what is new or unusual, but what is foundational or essential. “Radical” is used to describe literal and figurative roots: the roots of plants, roots of musical chords, and the roots of words. To be radical is to embody tensions between origins and possibilities: to be anchored in what is foundational while also holding the potential for paradigm-shifting change. We welcome papers that consider these tensions in nineteenth-century culture, as well as those that consider possibilities for reforming nineteenth-century studies or academic life. Topics on nineteenth-century literature, history, art, music, or other cultural forms might include political movements or divisions, activism, resistance, labor, collective and direct action, or mutinies and rebellion. We also encourage broader interpretations of the conference theme: outsiders and outcasts, visionaries, agents of change, utopias, breakthroughs, failed reforms, conformity, or stagnation.

Topics on the state of nineteenth-century studies might include politically engaged teaching and scholarship, academic labor practices, harassment or prejudice in the academy, or new approaches to humanities education.

For more information please visit the external link below.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art seeks an associate curator or curator with an exceptional record of exhibitions and publications to oversee the museum’s distinguished collection of 120,000 prints. Reporting to the head of the department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, the successful applicant will join the curatorial team during a period of exciting transformation within the department and the museum. While consideration will be given to those who specialize in printmaking before 1800 or printmaking in the US and Mexico before 1950, the breadth and depth of the collection calls for a curator with a broad-based knowledge of prints who can expand, diversify, and reinterpret existing canons. Along with shaping the next chapter of the print collection’s history, the Curator of Prints plays a vital role in the department’s fellowship program, which has successfully launched the careers of print specialists for more than four decades.

Specifically, you will:

- With the Department Head and the Curator of Photographs, lead a collections assessment and recommend acquisition strategies including recommending works of art for purchase and assessing offered gifts.
- Work closely with the department’s acquisitions committee and supporters, assisting in all aspects of committee meeting preparations and stewardship of supporters.
- Conduct or direct research on the collection or on related topics in accordance with plans developed in consultation with the Department Head, using this research for the development of exhibitions and public programming, the enrichment of the museum’s collections database and interpretive materials in the galleries, and for presentation in collections catalogues, scholarly articles, public lectures, and symposia.
- Organize and/or coordinate collections rotations and special exhibitions, either individually or in collaboration with colleagues from the museum and other institutions. This work encompasses every aspect of the development and implementation of exhibitions, from initial project planning and research to participation in budgeting and resource development, the production of catalogues, the creation of installation designs and marketing plans to promote the exhibition, and the development and presentation of interpretive programs.
- Working with the department’s curators, supervise and mentor fellows by delegating curatorial tasks, developing collaborative work assignments, providing professional feedback, and helping fellows develop and implement exhibitions.
- In consultation with collections staff, preparators, paper conservators, and design and installation staff, ensure that works of art are properly documented, conserved, stored in a safe and accessible manner, and effectively displayed in the museum’s galleries.
- With the collections staff and the paper conservators, review and provide recommendations on loan requests.
- Collaborate with the Education Division, Digital Resources and Content Strategy Division, and Editorial on the development and production of interpretive materials related to exhibitions and online presentations of prints.
- Develop, in consultation with the Department Head, a professional development plan to enable you to keep up to date on scholarship and curatorial developments in the field and address any agreed-upon professional needs (e.g., managerial training, communications skills, etc.).
- Share responsibility for the management of the department study room and respond to queries about the collection.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Department Head.

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

The curator will work within the team of twelve curators and researchers of the Rijksprentenkabinet, as well as with the museum’s curators, conservators, information specialists and registrars. The curator is responsible for the museum’s holdings of 18th- and 19th-century drawings and is closely involved in all aspects of the scholarly research, publication and interpretation of works in this subject area. The curator is also responsible for recommending potential new acquisitions and plays a major role in exhibitions and displays in this field.

The main tasks are:

- Manage the assigned collections and oversee the process of cataloguing, and making the artworks accessible;
- Research the drawings under your care and write scholarly texts for the permanent collection catalogues;
- Conduct academic research and publish about works on paper in this period;
- Organize and co-ordinate presentations and exhibitions;
- Communicate your expertise with both a lay and a professional public through publications, lectures and informal tours;
- Follow the art market and make proposals for acquisitions in this area;
- Maintain and develop contacts with collectors;
- Represent the Rijksprentenkabinet in the art-historical world.

Requirements:

- Academic degree in art history (at least M.A.);
- Minimum of two years’ curatorial experience with works on paper;
- Ability to develop and elaborate creative visions;
- Experience with project work, including in interdisciplinary (academic) context;
- Experience in publishing catalogues and articles in leading academic journals and the equivalent;
- Recognized expertise in the field of drawings, both nationally and internationally;
- Excellent command of the Dutch language (or the willingness to learn it in the short term) and English language.

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

The Yale Center for British Art seeks an Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings to join its Curatorial Division. The Center’s Department of Prints and Drawings encompasses more than 20,000 drawings and watercolors, over 35,000 prints, as well as a growing collection of photographs. International in scope and spanning the sixteenth century to the present, the collection ranges from Tudor drawings and portrait miniatures to outstanding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolors, architectural drawings, topographical prints, and works relating to the former British Empire, the subcontinent, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora. The Center’s holdings of William Blake, George Stubbs and J.M.W. Turner are among the most important in the world.

The Curator of Prints and Drawings joins the Center’s curatorial staff at a pivotal moment for the museum. Reporting to the Curator of Prints and Drawings, the Assistant Curator is a key member of the curatorial team and actively contributes to the presentation, documentation, research, and cataloguing of the collection. The Assistant Curator conceives and implements original collection displays, loan exhibitions, and online presentations, and provides support to the Curator of Prints and Drawings in developing curatorial projects. In collaboration with Paper Conservation, the Assistant Curator helps oversee the care and housing of the collection. The Assistant Curator facilitates the use of the collections by students, scholars, and the general public, through access in the Study Room, liaising with faculty, answering enquiries, and contributing to teaching. To promote knowledge and discovery of the collection, the Assistant Curator writes catalogue entries, gallery texts, labels, essays, and other content both in printed form and online, and collaborates with the Education Department to develop interpretative materials for a variety of audiences. Other duties include actively contributing to the day to day operations of the department; pro-actively identifying, researching and recommending gifts and acquisitions; and contributing to discussions concerning acquisitions, exhibitions, loans, and care of the collections.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Actively contributes to the activities, goals, and day to day operations of the Prints and Drawings Department.
- Shares curatorial responsibility for the presentation of the prints and drawing collection, including gallery displays, exhibitions, and collections rotations.
- Proposes, develops and implements collection displays, loan exhibitions, traveling exhibitions, and supports the development of curatorial projects in the department.
- Works with Conservation and the Curator of Prints and Drawings to ensure the care of care and housing of the collection.
- Plans, undertakes, and contributes to provenance research, cataloguing and digitization of the collections.
- Engages in research and publication about the prints and drawings collections; writes for catalogues, labels, brochures, digital content, and other publications about the collections and exhibitions.
- Collaborates with Education on developing interpretative materials.
- Attends curatorial meetings and represents the department at acquisitions and loans meetings as needed.
- Undertakes relevant research to help inform decisions about loans and acquisitions.
- Promotes use of the collection in teaching and classes. Assists faculty in sourcing objects relevant for teaching. Teaches about the YCBA collections and occasionally supervises students and interns in the Department.
- Works with Education to facilitate access to the collections and promote their use among different audiences.
- Contributes to creating a productive and congenial working environment across the Division and with colleagues within and outside the Center.
- Represents YCBA at external functions and scholarly meetings as needed; participates in relevant symposia and conferences.

6-month part-time assistantship for an early to mid-20th-century exhibition of a famed printmaker and draftsman

Responsibilities:

Assist Curator and Curatorial Assistant with implementation of exhibition
Provide administrative support in relation to the exhibition, including checklists and internal requests to Conservation, Registrations, Matting and Framing, Preparations, and other departments
Attend meetings and keep track of action items and to-do lists
Assist with development of educational programming (lectures, symposia and films)
Work with Curator, exhibitions staff, registration, graphics, and publications on installation schedule, installation design and graphics, and publication
Collaborate with public relations, development, and learning & interpretation staff
Assist Curator in preparing labels and didactic materials for exhibition
Support all learning & interpretation efforts including presentation of lectures, symposia, and films
Assist in training of docents
Provide exhibition tours, as needed, to trustees and groups


Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Must have knowledge of printmaking and drawing (history and techniques).
Excellent interpersonal skills and professionalism to interact with a wide range of people at different levels of an organization.
Strong oral and written communication skills, demonstrated presentation skills, including command of English and very good writing skills, with excellent grammar, punctuation, and proofreading.
Ability to effectively and efficiently manage multiple priorities, with competing deadlines.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Proficient in MS Office Suite and database management applications.
Project management skills.
Experience in art history and visual arts highly desired.
Must be self-motivated, flexible, have a desire to learn, and willingness to manage multiple tasks in an active department.
Candidate should be reliable, punctual, and possess good interpersonal skills.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree with a minimum of two years of related museum experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.
Advanced degree preferred (M.A. in the History of Art - any area of specialization).

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

As an established and respected organization, the DIA is an excellent place for interns to explore interests in museums and non-profits. Beyond learning about the art collections, interns are able to contribute to everything that helps the museum run smoothly. Interns will work under the guidance and supervision of a DIA professional on a specific project with established learning outcomes.

The Curatorial Intern in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs will learn about the care and research of works on paper collection at a major museum.

Duties will include:
- Assistance with research and cataloging of new acquisitions.
- Assistance with exhibition research, checklist management, and development of prints, drawings, and photography exhibitions.
- Assistance with planning enrichments and programs that support the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

QUALIFICATIONS
Successful candidates should have a background in one of the following areas of study at an undergraduate Junior level or above or a related field at an accredited university:
- Art History
- Fine Arts

Candidates must have at least introductory art history coursework and at least two specialized courses in art history listed on their resume. Research experience and interpersonal communication skills are required. Experience with handling artwork is preferred.

Proficiency in latest version of Office 365, including SharePoint, Word, Power Point, Outlook, and Excel is required.

This internship is blended and will include on site and virtual work.

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