Author: Dominique T. Marcial (Page 4 of 9)

Here’s our weekly roundup of new jobs. Happy hunting!

New England

• Education Program Assistant [Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA]
• Historical Role Player [Strawberry Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH]
• Adult ESL Instructor [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]
• Public Programs Coordinator [EMK Institute for the United States Senate, Boston, MA]
• Assistant to the Executive Director [Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, MA]
• Event and Rental Director [Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, MA]
• Coordinator of Marketing and Communication [Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, MA]
• External Affairs Director [Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, MA]
• Developing and Marketing Associate [Cyrus Dallin Art Museum, Arlington, MA]
• Chief Development Officer [Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA]
• Internal Events Coordinator [Museum of Science, Boston, MA]
• Exhibit Content Developer [Museum of Science, Boston, MA]
• Assistant Researcher [Museum of Science, Boston, MA]

Mid-Atlantic     

• Manager of School Programs [National Law Enforcement Museum, Washington, DC]
• Exhibits Designer [Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA]
• Director of Development [Tudor Place Foundation, Washington, DC]
• Director of Collections and Research [Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY]
• Director of Exhibitions [Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY]
• Editor [Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA]

Midwest

• Executive Director [Legacy of the Lakes Museum [Alexandria, MN]
• Chief Development Officer [University of MN Landscape Arboretum, Chanhassen, MN]
• Curatorial Associate [Terra Foundation of American Art, Chicago, IL]
• Director of the Museum of Art [University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA]

South

• Curator of Asian Art [Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC]
• Director of Exhibits and Operations [The Children’s Museum of the Upstate, Greenville, SC]
• The Andrew W. Mellon Fellow [Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM]
• Associate Director [Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM]
• Sheldon Peck Curator for European and American Art before 1950 [Ackland Art Museum, Ackland, NC]

West

• Director of External Affairs [Friends of the Chinese American Museum. Los Angeles, CA]
• Data Services Manager [TRG Arts, CO]

The Coordinator of School Partnerships and Teacher Programs will have the opportunity to help build and foster relationships with schools, teachers, students and their families by connecting them with the MFA’s global art collection and the education and enrichment possibilities that it can support through partnerships, workshops, and community-building events.  This position is responsible for coordinating the administrative aspects of the Museum’s partnerships with area schools, including the Visual Thinking Strategies/Boston Public Schools Partnership program and partnerships with independent schools.  This position is also responsible for handling logistics and assisting with implementation of teacher programs including evening workshops, customized workshops, and teacher professional development initiatives. Key Qualifications:  Bachelor Degree; 1-3 years professional working experience, preferably in an urban public school system, previous training in Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) a plus; availability 2-3 evenings a month.

For a full job description and details on how to apply, visit http://www.mfa.org/employment

NEMA session SEE/Change: Seeing change in How to Offer Online Museum Content to Schools.

Hosted by  David Rau, Director of Education and Outreach at the Florence Griswold Museum in Lyme, CT, the SEE/Change session at NEMA introduced a prototype of online curriculum centered upon one work of art; George H. Durie’s 7 Miles to Farmington.  Using this mid-19th century American piece as the source of content, the session was set up as a panel and included speakers such as Clarissa Cleglio, the Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at UCONN, Leslie Evans, Director and  Curator of the Avery-Copp House, and Caitlin Monahan the Managing director of Jul/Julia Balfour, LLC, to name a few. The panel discussed their collaborative efforts to build this website, touching on both positive and challenging aspects of the project.

These individuals, worked collaboratively on this online project with the aim of bringing museum-quality content to the classroom and the home through an easy, accessible online outlet. the project involved consultation and development with a graphic design team, digital media and visitor experience specialists, curators, etc. The project was aimed at increasing accessibility to art and history in schools and at home; and a website acts as an excellent platform to do so. This website is unique from other museum websites, because it is centered upon one object and not an entire collection or a bunch of object. Durie’s  painting drives the entire site and its content.

The project was prototyped using elementary school students in Connecticut, and the design team was able to ascertain that students enjoyed the inquisitiveness of Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) throughout the site’s content to discuss activities going on in the painting, the time of year and the historical context of the painting. Students enjoyed zooming in on aspects of the painting and attempting to figure out what was going on. The audience also seemed to like video portions of the site that dug deeper into mid-19th century New England life through  footage that documented activities such as the means to make pounded cheese. This prototyping and evaluation also allowed the design team to test the usefulness and usability of the site’s features, such as presentation, and buttons that zoom in or give more information.

The vastness and depth of possibilities for curriculum surrounding one object speaks to the endless amounts of options our museums hold for object- based learning. Objects tell stories and they are tools that help uncover the past. If an entire website, curriculum plan, set of videos, and activities can be launched around one painting, think of the infinite possibilities that stretch before museums that house entire collections.