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Description
Department: Conservation
Reports to: John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation
Classification: Exempt, full-time with benefits
Salary range: $70,000 - $77,000 depending on experience
Please include a cover letter with your application. This is an onsite, Boston-based position. No agencies, please.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Core Values
Isabella Stewart Gardner believed that art had the power to change lives and she built a beautiful, personal, and immersive Museum setting to do so. Today the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM) is a living embodiment of her bold vision; it’s a dynamic place where ideas and creativity in all its forms inspire visitors. Through exhibitions, music, programs, and performances we strive to tell new stories and challenge assumptions by engaging diverse voices and community members.
Our Core Values are:
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum seeks to connect past with present, develop and sustain mutually beneficial partnerships with our local communities and artists, expand and diversify our audiences, and generate opportunities for creativity. We are firmly committed to creating both an inclusive work culture and a welcoming visitor experience. Our five-year strategic plan outlines the Museum’s core values, goals, and initiatives that serve as a renewal of Isabella’s promise for the Museum to be a place for “the education and enjoyment of the public forever.”
Position Summary
The Associate Textiles Conservator will join the Conservation team, which is charged with preserving and protecting the rich collection of paintings, sculptures, textiles, furniture, manuscripts, decorative arts, architectural features, rare books, and archival materials at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In addition, the Conservation team is tasked with the challenges of adhering to Gardner’s specific legacy that requires the Museum to exhibit the collection permanently according to its arrangement upon her death, while providing access and optimal visitor experience for the Museum’s audiences. The Conservation department, established by George Stout in the 1930s, is now housed in the state-of-the-art Poorvu Family Conservation Center that opened in 2012.
The Associate Textiles Conservator is responsible for the conservation, preservation, and study of the textiles collection at the ISGM, which spans the fifteenth to early twentieth centuries, and includes tapestries, embroideries, vestments, laces, and furnishing fabrics. The Associate Textiles Conservator conducts treatment and research on textiles that are a part of the permanent display and manages refurbishment projects to replace or reproduce textile objects and upholstery that can no longer be displayed. The Associate Textiles Conservator will also help advance the goals of the ISGM strategic plan, Renewing the Promise: For the Public Forever, including outreach, programming, and a commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. The successful candidate will be a keen collaborator and project manager who can multitask and innovate while upholding deadlines and processes that support the work of other staff and departments.
Essential Functions and Primary Responsibilities
Requirements
Required
COVID-19 Protocols
All employees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are required to provide their COVID-19 vaccination status. If you are not vaccinated, you will need to participate in an interactive process to request a religious or medical accommodation and to submit weekly test results, in addition to following other federal, state, and CDC recommendations.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion is one of the core values we hold close to our business practices. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is committed to affording equal opportunities to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, gender, gender identity, genetics, military/veteran status, pregnancy, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable laws.
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Full Time
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$56k-92k (estimate)
03/14/2024
05/16/2024
gardnermuseum.org
BOSTON, MA
100 - 200
1903
NGO/NPO/NFP/Organization/Association
PETER CROWLEY
$10M - $50M
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ISGM is a museum consists of an art collection of European, Asian, and American art, and paintings.