Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), San Francisco, USA
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Duration: September 2025 – August 2027
Type: Paid, Full-Time Fellowship
Deadline: February 14, 2025, 9 PM PST
The Curatorial Cataloguing Fellowship Program is a two-year professional development initiative designed to train eight emerging art museum professionals from underrepresented backgrounds in the art museum field. Fellows will focus on enhancing the scope of information available about works in FAMSF’s collection, including provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic records, making this information digitally accessible to a wider audience.
Fellowship Focus:
- Cataloguing works of art from the museum’s permanent collection.
- Conducting in-depth collection research.
- Enhancing data in the museum’s collection management database (TMS).
- Writing entries on artworks’ histories and contexts.
Participating Curatorial Departments:
- Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (Works on Paper)
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- American Art
- Ancient Art
- Contemporary Art
- Costume and Textile Arts
- European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
- European Paintings
Fellows will be paired with a department aligned to their area of interest and expertise and supervised by curators who will also serve as mentors.
Key Dates
- Applications Open: January 6, 2025
- Applications Close: February 14, 2025, 9 PM PST
- Final Selection: April 2025
- Fellowship Period: September 2025 – August 2027
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in art history, museum studies, or a related field, completed by summer 2025.
- Experience: Research and cataloguing experience preferred.
- Additional qualifications may vary depending on the department of interest.
