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Hawthorne House/Hooper Hathaway House Docent Volunteer [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]

Hawthorne House/Hooper Hathaway House Docent Volunteer [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]

Hawthorne House/Hooper Hathaway House Docent Volunteer The House of the Seven Gables Salem, MA As a key member of the Visitor Service Team, Nathaniel Hawthorne House/Hooper Hathaway Docent and Exhibit monitors interact with guests while answering questions and monitoring guest behavior in the self-guided areas 

Muesum Store Volunteer [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]

Muesum Store Volunteer [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]

Muesum Store Volunteer The House of the Seven Gables Salem, MA The Museum Store Volunteer works to ensure the highest level of museum experience in the Museum Store. The volunteer must provide excellent customer service and greet and engage visitors in conversation for the purpose 

Volunteer Concierge Staff [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]

Volunteer Concierge Staff [The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA]

Volunteer Concierge Staff

The House of the Seven Gables Salem, MA

To fulfill the Museum’s mission and goals, the Concierge volunteer staff member will assist primarily with greeting visitors and office-related projects, but also may help with other Museum programs and projects. As a key member of the Visitor Services Team, Admissions staff people interact with guest to the museum while staffing the front desk or monitoring the back door in the Visitor Center under the supervision of the Visitor Services Manager. Concierge staff may assist with giving Museum store tickets, communicating with guides, doing light paper work and answering guest’s questions regarding the museum, Salem and the surrounding area. Please contact Melissa Reynolds, Human Resource Manager at mreynolds@7gables.org or at 978-744-0991 ext. 111. Applicants, as well as position incumbents, who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case by case basis. “The House of the Seven Gables is committed to the principle of equal employment/volunteer opportunity.” Posted on: 09/14/2015
Event Planning Intern [Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA]

Event Planning Intern [Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA]

Event Planning Intern Description: The Fuller Craft Museum offers a unique venue for special events such as weddings, showers, fundraising and corporate retreats. We are looking for an Event Planning Intern to assist the Rentals Coordinator with planning of a bridal fair as well as 

Free Event: MA Museums Day – October 7

Free Event: MA Museums Day – October 7

Current students and museum professionals – consider attending the FREE Massachusetts Museums Day, hosted by NEMA on October 7. The event, located at the State House in Boston, strives to “build awareness and advocacy for the museum field. This is a great opportunity for museum studies 

Tufts Art Gallery: Fall Exhibitions

Tufts Art Gallery: Fall Exhibitions

As of Thursday, September 10th, the fall exhibitions at the Tufts University Art Gallery are open to the public! The public reception is Thursday, September 17th from 5:00-7:30 in Remis Sculpture Court.

 

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Installation view of Shahzia Sikander’s Parallax. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

The upstairs Tisch Gallery again features a multi-media installation, this time by internationally-recognized artist Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969, Pakistan). Her immersive animation Parallax, with music and sound by composer Du Yun, was conceived in the United Arab Emirates and first appearing at the Sharjah Biennale in 2013. Related paintings, drawings, and photographs are also included in the Tufts exhibition.

 

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Installation view of Last Folio. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Downstairs, the Koppelman Family Gallery features Last Folio, a part of international commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with previous displays at the United Nations in New York, the National Library of Germany in Berlin, the Mark Rothko Museum in Latvia, and the New Museum of Tolerance in Moscow. Canadian-Slovakian photographer Yuri Dojc teamed with British media producer Katya Krausova and a documentary film team to document their travels to abandoned Jewish spaces in present-day Slovakia. Last Folio features photographs on paper and large sheets that create a contemplative environment.

 

Detail of Sophia Ainslie (MFA 2001). Ainslie's seven-panel mural, In Person—574. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.
Detail of Sophia Ainslie’s seven-panel mural, In Person—574. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

The exhibition in Remis Sculpture Court explores the creation and installation of a monumental site-specific art commission for the new Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex at 574 Boston Avenue on Tufts’ main Medford campus by Boston-based artist and Tufts alum Sophia Ainslie (MFA 2001). The displays feature original paintings, materials, and photographs from the creation of her seven-panel mural, In Person—574.