Colgate University, a highly-selective residential liberal arts university located in the picturesque central New York village of Hamilton, announces its search for a Curator of Collections (Open Rank), Picker Art Gallery. Considered one of the nation’s most beautiful campuses, Colgate takes pride in the active engagement of its students and faculty in local, national and global communities. With an enrollment of approximately 2,850 undergraduates, Colgate offers 53 possible majors to its students.
Currently located on Colgate University’s beautiful campus, the collection of the Picker Art Gallery features approximately 11,000 objects from antiquity to the present, including approximately 8,000 works on paper, 1,400 photographs, 900 paintings, and 300 sculptures. Colgate University is one of the country’s leading liberal arts colleges, with a student population of about 2,900 and a faculty of 300. This is an exciting time in Colgate’s history, as the newly conceived Center for Art and Culture will become home to two university museums: the Picker Art Gallery and the Longyear Museum of Anthropology. These distinguished university museums play a significant role in Colgate’s teaching mission and reputation, a relationship that will be deepened with the development of a new Museum Studies track in the Department of Art and Art History. Reporting to the Director of University Museums, the curator of collections (open rank) of the Picker Art Gallery is responsible for, but not limited to, the study, care, use, interpretation, scholarship, publication, and management of the Picker Art Gallery’s collection in its current facility, and will help oversee the transition to the envisioned Center for Art and Culture (CAC).
The level of the appointment will be based on the years of experience and capabilities of the successful candidate.
Position requirements: Master’s degree in art history or related field with expertise in at least one of the Picker Art Gallery’s current collecting areas (such as, American Art, Ancient Art, Asian Art, European Art, and Modern/Contemporary Art). All candidates must have a minimum of five (5) years museum and curatorial experience. Must have strong research skills (ability to perform scholarly research and provenance research), experience managing others, projects, and budgets. Must have excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to work effectively in a leadership position within a collaborative environment; and proven experience in grant writing. Must be capable of working collegially with a diverse group of faculty, staff and students on a daily basis.
Additional preferred qualifications: Experience in a university museum setting preferred. PhD or equivalent preferred. Previous administrative experience preferred. The successful candidate’s experience will ideally include a track record of collection building, exhibitions, and publications as well as knowledge in collections management software. Potential opportunity to teach in future Museum Studies Program.
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