Northeast: Head of Visitor Experience and Services (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT) Education Program Director (Yale University, New Haven, CT) Special Assistant to the Director and Chief Curator (Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA) Senior Preparator (Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME) Development Manager …
This week I traveled home to Pittsburgh, PA for a few days. While in town, I was able to stop by The Frick Pittsburgh to see the exhibition Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage & Screen. The exhibition included clothing, pictures, posters, and original play bills from Hepburn’s productions and films. The clothing collection came …
The past few weeks, our blog has focused on what is a museum, and hopefully, you have a few ideas about it yourself now. However, this week I’m shifting my focus to discuss a new survey from ArtNet and the podcast “In Other Words” produced …
Last week, Jennifer wrote about “what is a museum?” and this week, I’ll be jumping off of that by writing about how our visitors see museums and how we can understand their expectations. This post is basically an encouragement of more evaluation in our practice to better our understanding of …
There have been so many jobs this week. Here are the jobs for the week of August 17th. Best of luck, hunters!
Northeast:
Program Director (Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT)
Development Officer (Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT)
Public Program Coordinator and Lead Interpreter (Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT)
Manager of Education and Public Engagement (Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport, RI)
Assistant Registrar for Exhibitions (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
Director of Advancement (Concord Museum, Concord, MA)
Engagement Manager, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (The Trustees of Reservations, Lincoln, MA)
Museum Assistant Registrar (Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT)
Mid-Atlantic:
Director (National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC)
Education Manager (Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, PA)
Director of Volunteer Engagement (Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA)
Assistant Registrar (Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD)
Curator of Jewish Culture/Judaica (The Jewish Museum, New York, NY)
Assistant Curator (Japan Society, New York, NY)
Assistant Curator (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation, New York, NY)
Oral Historian (Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, New York, NY)
Curatorial Assistant (The Olana Partnership, Hudson, NY)
Assistant Manager of Interpretation (Mt. Cuba Center, Hockessin, DE)
South:
Director of Programs (George Ranch Historical Park, Richmond, TX)
Curatorial Assistant (Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX)
Art Collection Registrar (Miami Dade College, Miami, FL)
Registrar (Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL)
Director of Museums (Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL)
Exhibition Coordinator (Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL)
Head of Creative Aging and Lifelong Learning (High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA)
Midwest:
Executive Director (South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society, El Dorado, AR)
Executive Director (Organization of American Historians, Bloomington, IN)
Public Service Executive – Curriculum Specialist (Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, KS)
Exhibitions Registrar (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL)
Communications and Development Coordinator (Oberlin Heritage Center, Oberlin, OH)
Director of Development (Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL)
West:
Executive Director (Foss Waterway Seaport, Tacoma, WA)
Executive Director (Coos History Museum, Coos Bay, OR)
Managing Director of Education (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA)
Director of Planned Giving (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA)
