Associate Curator

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Title: Associate Curator
Department: Curatorial
Type: Full-time exempt position, with some evenings and weekends Salary: Commensurate to experience
Reports to: Chief Curator
Organization: Bellevue Arts Museum

Bellevue Arts Museum provides a public forum for the community to contemplate, appreciate, and discuss visual culture. We work with audiences, artists, makers, and designers to understand our shared experience of the world.

Description

Bellevue Arts Museum is seeking an Associate Curator to assist the Curatorial Team with exhibition conception, research, planning, design, coordination, and execution. The ideal candidate will have a proven experience in curation and in exhibition design, coordination, and project management, preferably in a museum environment. The candidate should also have excellent interpersonal skills, communication skills, and strong attention to detail, as well as the ability to multi-task, solve problems, think creatively, and prioritize in a fast- paced environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Work with Chief Curator and Curatorial Team on exhibition research, planning, design, and execution
Conceive and coordinate exhibitions that advance the Museum’s mission
Initiate and maintain contact with artists, galleries, and other relevant parties
Manage exhibition proposals submitted to the museum. In particular:
- Manages the stages of discussion and decision-making for each proposal
- In collaboration with Curatorial Team, assesses budgets for each exhibition
- Manages exhibition contracts with artists and other institutions, serving as liaison for the Museum
Coordinate with Registrar and Chief Preparator on installation schedules and technical requirements as directed by exhibition designs
With Registrar, prepare loan paperwork, draft contracts, manage contract negotiation process, and track correspondence with partnering institutions
Manage production schedule of gallery guides in coordination with Curatorial and Marketing Teams
Prepare exhibition graphics and didactic materials in coordination with Marketing Team
Manage the annual exhibitions schedule, communicating it effectively to other Museum Teams
With Chief Curator, Registrar, and Chief Preparator, develop and manage the Curatorial Team’s annual budget
Download, edit, and organize digital images for internal archive purposes.
Maintain a current working knowledge of and connection to the field, discipline, and arts community through interactions; gallery and studio tours; attendance of local, regional, and national events; publications; professional memberships; workshops; and conferences
Engage the community and act as a public liaison for the Museum (offering tours, giving lectures, interacting with other organizations, artists, collectors, donors, students, press, etc.)
Participate in defining policies, objectives, strategies, and goals within Curatorial Team
General administrative duties as required, including periodic supervision of interns
Perform work on weekends and evenings as needed to meet applicable deadlines
Other duties as assigned, including work on the BAM annual fund-raising gala