Curatorial Fellowship

Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History seeks a Curatorial Fellow reporting to the Senior Director for Exhibitions and Collections. This is a full-time, two-year term position designed to provide growth and development for an emerging curator. The position offers in-depth curatorial and academic engagement experience and provides a professional bridge to long term museum careers to individuals from groups under-represented in the museum field.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright) is a museum and cultural institution with powerful exhibits and collections, dynamic public programs, and ripple effects that impacts a robust audience of approximately 100,000 visitors, members, and key stakeholders both within our doors, and through our digital imprint each year.

The Wright collections and archives has been organized, preserved and researched over decades, and currently houses over 75,000 two-and-three dimensional objects that catalog and tell rich stories of local to global African American history. With our entire collection returning to our campus following the flooding of 2021, the Wright is eager and well-poised to reestablish our near fully rehabbed collection and archive facilities, while simultaneously reimagining possibilities for its use and deployment towards the advancement of our collective understanding of Detroit history and African American culture broadly.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution's of a comprehensive audit and re-organization of the museum's collections and archives including building a new acquisitions committee.
• Support interdisciplinary curricular use of the museum's collections
• Survey the museum's collection and provide an inventory of the holdings
• Contribute to the ongoing assessment, refinement, and strengthening of collection, by handling objects, creating condition reports and reviewing databases
• Undertake research and original ownership of objects in the collection

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in art history, cultural/global studies, museum studies or related field
• Deep interest in visual art, history, and museum practice
• Broad intellectual interests and commitment to learning and history
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written and visual presentation skills
• A commitment to working as part of a dynamic team and to forming partnerships in the museum community

Review of applications will begin on December 28, 2024 and continue until the position is filled

Salary Description

50,000