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The College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University, located in Morgantown, WV, seeks to hire a full-time, twelve-month Director of the Art Museum of West Virginia University.
Tentative start date for this position is May 15, 2024.
We are looking for an engaged and visionary leader with significant museum experience to provide administrative, artistic, and intellectual leadership for the museum. The Director of the Art Museum of WVU reports directly to the Dean of the College of Creative Arts and manages six full-time professional staff members.
The Art Museum of West Virginia University provides a welcoming and stimulating educational and research environment for diverse audiences to experience the transforming power of art. Exploring contemporary artistic innovation as well as artistic traditions of different cultures helps us to understand ourselves, our communities, and our world. The Art Museum serves both the WVU campus and the region through a robust slate of exhibitions, programs, and educational outreach initiatives across two 2,500-square-foot galleries, a collection research room, the Nath Sculpture Garden, and the adjacent Museum Education Center-designed by architect Michael Graves. Opened in August 2015, the museum has a growing collection numbering nearly 5,000 objects with particular strengths in prints and works on paper, contemporary ceramics, and 19th and 20th century painting, in addition to smaller holdings of contemporary art, photography, sculpture, Asian and African art, and works by self-taught Appalachian artists. Recent acquisitions include work by Wendy Red Star, Roberto Lugo, Vanessa German, Derrick Adams, and Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith. The Art Museum stewards the largest public holding of works by American Modernist Blanche Lazzell (1879-1956) -a graduate of WVU and key figure among the Provincetown white-line, color woodblock printmakers-and is currently planning the first national traveling exhibition of her work.
The Art Museum's aim--within the larger mission of West Virginia University with its R1/very high research activity--is to foster a vibrant, inviting, and inclusive environment in which visitors can study and learn from the direct experience of works of art. The museum's educational programs emphasize cross-disciplinary, inquiry-based learning for all ages. Many visitors make their first visit to an art museum by walking through our doors. In that spirit, the Art Museum explicitly embraces WVU's land-grant mission of campus and community engagement. In addition to lively, thematic exhibitions curated from the museum's collection, temporary or touring exhibits have included the work of Nina Chanel Abney, Shepard Fairey, Marie Watt, Robert Rauschenberg, the African American artists of Paulson Fontaine Press, Walker Evans, Chinese master ceramists, and Peter and Sally Saul.
We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:
What you'll do:
The Director must provide collegial and collaborative leadership and be committed to integrating the museum into the University's overall educational mission by providing opportunities for teaching and learning through exhibitions and outreach activities, and enhancing the connection to, and collaboration with, the university's academic programs, faulty, students, and staff.
Operations - 30%
Programming - 30%
Futures/Planning - 20%
Fundraising/External Support - 10%
Outreach - 10%
At West Virginia University, we leverage our talents and resources to create a better future for our state and the world. As West Virginia's land-grant university, WVU has three campuses that touch each corner of the state. The WVU System includes 518 buildings on 15,880 acres, Extension Service offices in all 55 counties, ten experimental farms and four forests. From the groundbreaking R1 research of our flagship campus in Morgantown to the career-oriented programs of WVU Potomac State in Keyser to the technology-intensive programs at WVU Tech in Beckley - the contributions of WVU employees directly impact the 1.8 million people of West Virginia every day, no matter their role or position.
Service, curiosity, respect, accountability, and appreciation are the core values that unite Mountaineers, inspiring one another to work tirelessly and support others as they seek to reach new heights. After all, when you're a Mountaineer, impossible is just another mountain to climb.Creating an inclusive, engaged, and dynamic learning environment is core to WVU's academic mission. We welcome candidates who can contribute a range of ideas, approaches and experiences.
To learn more about West Virginia University, visit go.wvu.edu. View current career opportunities at careers.wvu.edu.
West Virginia University is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity. The University values diversity among its faculty, staff, and students, and invites applications from all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, nationality, genetics, disability, or Veteran status.
Full Time
$75k-116k (estimate)
05/07/2024
05/22/2024
wvupressonline.com
MORGANTOWN, WV
3,000 - 7,500
1867
E GORDON GEE
$500M - $1B
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