Betsy Main Babcock Director of Interpretation & Program [Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC]

Betsy Main Babcock Director of Interpretation & Program

Reynolda House Museum of American Art, an affiliate of Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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Position Summary: The Betsy Main Babcock Director of Interpretation & Program serves as senior Museum curator and is responsible for overseeing and supervising the interpretation, programming, education, and research of the Museum’s American Art, Estate Archives, and Historic House collections. Additionally, this senior staff member supervises the heads of the curatorial, education, public programs and library/archives departments while serving on the senior leadership team of the Museum. The position reports to the Museum’s Executive Director.

Primary Purpose: Reynolda House Museum of American Art, affiliated with Wake Forest University, is seeking candidates for the Betsy Main Babcock Director of Interpretation & Program. The ideal candidate is a leader and mentor for the institution, the University, and the community, a talented and proven teacher-scholar, a skilled communicator, and passionate about engaging the public in a journey of learning about American art, history, and culture through interdisciplinary exploration in the Museum.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as an inspiring leader for educators, curators, researchers, and programming staff.  Helps fulfill the Museum’s mission and impact through thoughtful scholarship, creative interpretation, meaningful dialogue, and courageous leadership.
• Functions as a member of the senior leadership team that advises the executive director and collaborates on Museum-wide decisions including programming, planning, budgeting, and fundraising.
• Researches the Museum collections and produces new scholarship to support, exhibitions, marketing, documentation and publications.
• Identifies, develops, and originates exhibitions or otherwise delegates their development to curatorial staff, educators, and/or guest curators (faculty or other scholars).
• Instructs and oversees all creative aspects of educational and public programming.
• Supervises all aspects of personnel management and directs and oversees program and budget of the interpretation and program division.
• Works collaboratively with other departments to plan thoughtful, engaging, fiscally prudent, and successful exhibitions and programs, and promotes and interprets the collections in meaningful ways to reach audiences on-site and online.
• Collaborates with Wake Forest University faculty and students, area arts organizations, and local universities to enhance the public’s understanding and appreciation of American art, history, and culture, and strengthen the community’s connection to Reynolda.
• Cultivates relationships with collectors, donors, and arts institutions.
• Maintains supportive, professional, and collaborative relationships with peers in American art museums and historic house museums to advance potential partnerships in programs and exhibitions.
• Travels for professional and institutional development.

Education/Experience:

Ph.D. degree in American art history or American studies with seven years of curatorial and/or interpretation experience in an art museum or university art museum with a demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary work. M.A. degree in art history or museum studies with ten or more years of practical experience or equivalent may be considered.

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