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The Department of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston invites applicants for the position of Cataloguer and Collections Care Specialist, Department of Prints and Drawings.
About the Department:
With works from Europe and the Americas that range from the 15th century to today, the MFA’s collection tells the story of creative printmaking and draftsmanship in many forms and is one of the most extensive and renowned in the United States. Consisting of more than 200,000 works on paper — prints, drawings, watercolors, posters, illustrated books, postcards, and ephemera — highlights include deep holdings of works by figures such as Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, Mary Cassatt, and John Wilson, as well as unexpected areas of depth including the Provincetown Printmakers, self-taught and folk artists, printmaking processes, and social activism. The collection is also quickly evolving to better reflect the diversity of artistic practice today and to foreground our commitment to acquire works and present narratives in currently underrepresented areas to ensure a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive collection.
Prints and Drawings collaborates and engages closely with colleagues across the Museum and supports in critical ways the initiatives of the Center for Netherlandish Art, an innovative research center at the MFA for the study and appreciation of Dutch and Flemish Art. The department is committed to ensure visitor and student access to the collection through the Morse Study Room for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. We also embrace our responsibility as a place of training and engagement with works on paper through our internship and fellowship programs.
Position Summary:
The Cataloguer and Collections Care Specialist will be part of a close-knit curatorial team and will also work closely with conservators and collections care specialists in the MFA’s Virginia Herrick Deknatel Paper Conservation Laboratory. Under the supervision of the Leonard A. Lauder Senior Curator of Visual Culture, the Cataloguer and Collections Care Specialist will perform duties related to the cataloguing and housing of postcards from the MFA’s Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive. The majority of the Archive’s holdings date between 1890 and 1940. The archive provides an unparalleled resource for the history of the postcard itself, and, by extensions, a vast visual archive that captures graphic design, history, politics, propaganda, style, fashion and humor around the turn of the 20th century.
This is a termed position set for 24 months with a potential extension for an additional 12 months based on evaluation and institutional priorities following the first year and in mutual agreement.
Essential Functions:
Qualifications and Requirements
Salary Range
Full-time Salary 35 hours per week
Salary: $45,971
Two-year term, with possible extension for a third year
This position is affiliated with the UAW union
The MFA is an equal opportunity employer. The community and audience we serve is diverse, and we wish to foster that diversity in our workplace. Toward that end, the MFA does not discriminate against individuals in hiring, employment or promotion on the basis of race, religion, color, sex/gender, gender identity and gender expression, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, handicap or disability, veteran or military status, political belief, pregnancy, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
Full Time
$42k-53k (estimate)
04/03/2024
06/02/2024
msa.org
Boston, MA
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