Description: The Barnes Foundation is seeking a Gund Family Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. The chief curator/deputy director is the primary content officer for the Barnes. S/he works directly with the executive director and executive team to evolve and implement the institution’s strategic plans with specific responsibility for collection research and interpretation, conservation, exhibitions, public programs and publications activities, as well as select curatorial and educational technology initiatives. S/he manages all relevant staff and resources with overall responsibility for the curatorial, conservation, registrar, publications, archives and library departments. Working in tandem with the executive director, s/he actively promotes the Barnes Foundation’s artistic and educational mission and activities to a broad public.

The Barnes Foundation (www.barnesfoundation.org) was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 “to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.”

An internationally renowned institution, the Barnes possesses one of the finest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist and early modernist paintings in the world. With particularly extensive holdings of work by Paul Cézanne, Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Henri Rousseau and Chaim Soutine, the collection also features paintings and works on paper by such American masters as Charles Demuth, William Glackens, Horace Pippin and Maurice Prendergast. Old master paintings, important examples of African sculpture and native American ceramics, jewelry and textiles, and decorative arts and antiquities from the Mediterranean region and Asia round out the collection.

The Barnes serves an audience of some 300,000 annually through active interpretation of its permanent collection; two to three loan exhibitions of modern, contemporary and non-western art and design; an extensive roster of educational programs for children and adults; a growing schedule of public lectures and time-based arts presentations; scholarly and popular publications; and an evolving menu of digital tools and resources available both onsite and online.

Responsibilities:

Promotes progressive curatorial and educational activity to support the strategic goals of the Foundation. Priorities for the chief curator/deputy director will be related to the articulation and mobilization of this strategic plan and include:

Reviews and revises research priorities and protocols with regard to permanent collections.
Develops long-range plans and oversees implementation of a mission aligned changing exhibition program.
Reviews and revises all interpretation protocols and interpretive activities, including gallery didactics, touring tools, and print publications.
Plans for and implements an expanded roster of mission aligned time-based arts offerings and other public programs.
Plans for and implements of new scholarly, college and university partnerships.
Plans and implements next generation digital education tools and resources.
Oversees financial resources assigned to the collections departments, developing and monitoring the annual budget.
Collaborates with the development department to seek additional funding and grants.
Provides tours of the exhibitions to individuals, dignitaries, donors, members, schools as necessary.
Performs other duties as requested.
Job Requirements
Requirements:

Terminal degree in art history
Expertise in a field that is a core strength of the Barnes collection
Commitment to the social history of art
Demonstrated track record of significant, academically rigorous and compelling exhibitions and publications
Acquaintance with and enthusiasm for all areas of visual art education
Minimum of five years senior management experience; minimum of seven years applied curatorial experience
Competitive Benefits Include: Group health and dental insurance; flexible spending accounts; short and long term disability and group life insurance; 403(b) with matching contributions; Employee Assistance Program; voluntary benefits; as well as paid vacation, personal time, sick time and holidays.

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The Barnes Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.

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