Curator of Contemporary Art

Description:
The Worcester Art Museum seeks an energetic, audience-minded Curator of Contemporary Art to lead a distinctive program of exhibitions, installations, and other projects throughout the museum’s campus. Guided by the Museum’s global perspective, vision statement, and strategic plan, the Curator of Contemporary Art will develop a dynamic range of exhibitions, public programs, and publications, meant to increase WAM’s audiences for contemporary art, create original content, and enhance support for both the contemporary program and the entire museum.The Curator of Contemporary Art will work collaboratively to create meaningful connections by integrating the contemporary collections with other departments, while developing more focused projects.Other activities will include developing collections in all media by recommending acquisitions, soliciting gifts, and cultivating other forms of support.

The Curator of Contemporary Art will lead project teams, collaborating with other curators as well as Education, Design, Conservation, Registration, and Marketing to ensure that projects meet the highest professional standards while fostering the museum’s values of innovation, relevance, experimentation, and broad audience engagement. The Curator will also work with Development to help find resources necessary to sustain exhibitions, programs, publications, and acquisitions, as well as support the museum’s broader cultivation efforts. In addition, the Curator of Contemporary Art will create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations with the area’s social, cultural, and educational institutions, including the many colleges and universities in and around Worcester, as well as connect the museum meaningfully to artists in the region.

Qualifications:
The candidate must have experience in project planning, management, and implementation, possess strong interpersonal skills, be an excellent communicator, and be willing to work flexibly in larger teams. Because contemporary art lives within a large encyclopedic collection, the position requires a broad knowledge of art history, four or more years of curatorial experience, and knowledge of at least one foreign language (Spanish and Vietnamese are widely spoken in Worcester and therefore advantageous). We envision art as pervading all aspects of the museum and the communities of Worcester, so experience with projects that extend beyond museum galleries is especially important, as is a deep interest in connecting contemporary art to a complex and diverse set of regional audiences.

Centrally located in New England, Worcester is an hour from Boston, Providence, and Hartford, an hour and a half from the Berkshires, three hours from New York City, and is convenient to Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

How To Apply:
Qualified applicants please send CV and cover letter to the Director of Human Resources, Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609, or email documents to humanresources@worcesterart.org. Early applications are encouraged. We pledge to conduct a confidential search.

The Worcester Art Museum is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.

Apply by:
December 31, 2015