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Curator of Fine Arts

The CURATOR OF FINE ARTS is a motivated, highly collaborative, dynamic professional who serves as Head of the Fine Arts Department. S/he provides vision, long range planning, staff management, and collection oversight. S/he embraces CMOA’s mission to create experiences that connect people to art, ideas, and one another. Staff includes an assistant curator, occasional interns and volunteers, as well as project-specific staff.

The Curator is the primary person responsible for the presentation, loan, and development of CMOA’s collection, comprising over 9,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and watercolors created before 1945, with notable strengths in19th and early 20th century American and European paintings and sculpture, old master prints, and over 2,500 Japanese prints. S/he organizes/co-organizes original collection- and loan-based temporary exhibitions; identifies borrowed exhibitions for presentation at CMOA; oversees gallery rotations of the permanent collection; conducts research, interprets art works, creates visitor-centered experiences for the museum’s audiences; shapes the collection through gifts and purchases; and evaluates and assesses holdings as part of an overall collections plan, including deaccessioning.

The Curator cultivates and maintains strategic relationships with regional, national, and international museum colleagues, CMOA Board, prospective donors, and affinity groups. S/he nurtures relationships and partnerships with local organizations to increase awareness of CMOA and expand its base of supporters; actively participates in fundraising and audience development efforts; as manager of the department, formulates and adheres to operating and exhibition budgets; represents the museum through lectures, juries, events, and publications, locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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