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JOB: Curator of African Art @ Hood Museum of Art

The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College seeks a Curator of African Art. The curator is responsible for the documentation, research, preservation, and growth of the historic and contemporary African art collection as well as oversight of the museum’s activity in other areas, such as Oceanic art. The curator is responsible for permanent collection and loan exhibitions related to their expertise and collection area.

Responsibilities include: advising the museum director on matters concerning the collections including documentation, care and disposition; researching and proposing new acquisitions to the museum’s director and acquisition committee; and proposing ideas for original exhibitions that place the collection in cultural and historical context. In addition, the curator organizes all aspects of scheduled exhibitions in their area, manages and implements exhibitions borrowed from other institutions, and collaborates with education and academic programming staff to develop and implement a wide range of interpretive programs based on the collection and exhibitions. The curator engages with Dartmouth faculty and students, providing expertise on museum objects for use by departments for teaching.

Job Requirements
The curator will hold either a Ph.D. in Art History or Anthropology with an emphasis on African art and culture; knowledge and understanding of curatorial practices; museum experience working with collections preferred.

Contact:
If you have questions about the position or its requirements, please contact Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director, Hood Museum of Art at 603-646-3646 or juliette.bianco@dartmouth.edu.

To apply, attach a letter of application, curriculum vitae to the on-line application at
http://jobs.dartmouth.edu/search for position #0013400.
Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Posting Date:    11/08/2012
Closing Date    04/01/2013

CFP: “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas” @ Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Institute of Fine Arts at New York University

March 7 – 9, 2013

Deadline: December 7, 2012

Symposium – “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas”

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming graduate student conference, “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas,” which will include keynote lectures by Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University) and Irene Small (Princeton University).

This international graduate student symposium will focus on the North and South American landscape in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and seeks to explore mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice from a hemispheric perspective. How can the “map” as an intellectual model both unite diverse cultures and modes of knowledge as well as highlight their differences?

Whether considering mapping as a traditional cartographic system representing the land or as a contemporary scientific approach to visualizing the body, maps allow for the unique diagramming of relationships between people and spaces, objects and time, vision and knowledge. As the scholar Donna Haraway contends, “maps are models of worlds crafted through and for specific practices of intervening and ways of life.” The conference will use this concept of map-making as “world-making” in order to examine the ways in which power, place, and cultural traditions intersect and come into conflict. Though maps are often taken as straightforward, objective configurations, they can also expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance.

Speakers are encouraged to address not only more traditional forms of landscape art, but also non-traditional approaches and media. Subjects may include European artists depicting the North or South American landscape, or artists from the Americas confronting their own geography. Mapping may engage with ideological issues (imperialism and nationality), representational paradigms (realism and abstraction), or questions of the body (sexuality, ethnicity, mortality).

Possible topics might include:

–       indigenous cartography

–       traveler artists and explorers

–       survey or aerial photography

–       nineteenth-century panoramas

–       abstraction and the landscape

–       American WPA projects

–       Mexican muralists

–       ethnographic photography

–       art and Caribbean mercantilism

–       site-specific land art

–       genetic/chromosonal mapping

–       natural history and botanical illustration

–       neuroaesthetics

–       performance art

With generous funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the conference will provide a significant opportunity for the exchange of ideas between emerging scholars from around the world who would not otherwise have the chance to share their work. The deadline for the submission of a 20-minute presentation proposal is Friday, December 7, 2012. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Friday, January 18, 2013. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Papers will be given in English but may be made available in other languages through the conference website. Current graduate students as well as recent graduates are encouraged to apply. Funds for travel and accommodations are available. Please send an abstract and CV to ifaMapping@gmail.com.  In your application please indicate your current institutional affiliation and from where you would be traveling.

The conference is organized by Dr. Jennifer Raab, Kara Fiedorek, and Lizzie Frasco, and is supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For further information or with any questions, please contact ifaMapping@gmail.com.

See also: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-mapping.htm

Seminar Series, Art and Museums in Africa Michaelmas 2012 @ Cambridge Centre of African Studies

Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2012
Art and Museums in Africa

The Collaborative Research Programme is supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust

Monday 29 October at 5pm, Room S1, ARB
Atta Kwami: Independent Artist, Art Historian and Curator

Grace Note
The talk assesses the legacy of Grace Salome Kwami (1923-2006) as a modern
Ghanaian artist, educator and mentor. Her varied oeuvre of photographs,
textile designs, terracotta figures, pots, portraits, drawings, paintings,
decorated calabashes, sculpture, bead work and dress-design are of such a
high and consistent standard that people are considering establishing an
art museum in her house in Ho, Ghana. Towards the end of her life Grace
Kwami spent many months in Kumasi, where she had trained in the 1950s as a
Specialist Art Teacher at the Kumasi College of Technology, (now the KNUST).

Atta Kwami is a Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge/Africa Collaborative
Research Programme, Art and Museums in Africa (2012/2013). He completed his
Ph.D. in Art History at The Open University in 2007. As a Senior Lecturer,
he taught painting and printmaking from 1986 to 2006 at the College of Art,
KNUST, Kumasi. A number of his paintings hang in major public collections
including the National Museums of Ghana and Kenya, the V&A Museum, London,
the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York and The British Museum.

This Seminar is accompanied by the exhibition ‘GRACE’ by Atta Kwami and
Pamela Clarkson. The exhibition is located on the 3rd floor of the Alison
Richard Building and will run until 15 March 2013.

Seminars are held in Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road,
Cambridge CB3 9DT
For enquiries contact the Centre of African Studies on 01223 334396
centre@african.cam.ac.uk, www.african.cam.ac.uk

JOB: Art Historian, North American Art @ School of Art Institute of Chicago

The Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism seeks a historian of North American art, 1865-1945, with expertise in diverse cultures and methodologies to begin August 2013. Open rank.

The successful candidate will contribute to the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism’s MA and undergraduate programs in Art History, providing undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, and master’s thesis supervision. The appointee will also be an active participant in the education of studio artists, architects, and arts professionals at the MFA, MA and BFA levels, and will contribute to the vibrant and creative culture of a prestigious art school. Faculty are expected to maintain active professional practices and also participate in departmental and school-wide committees and service.

By December 1, 2012 please submit complete application materials at http://SAICfaculty.slideroom.com. You will be asked to create an account, then complete the application which is a combination of fill-in fields and uploaded documents. Complete the fields for contact information, educational background, and professional references. Required files to upload include: letter of introduction stating your interests and qualifications; résumé, and writing samples (PDF files recommended).

JOB: Full-Time Faculty Art History/American Art @ FIT, NYC

Job Description:

We seek a specialist in American art who can also teach and develop courses in African-American art and/or contemporary Latin American art. Candidates should also be able to teach basic surveys of Western art. S/he will be expected to contribute to the department, school, and college beyond the classroom by developing innovative curricula, participating in committees and college-wide events, engaging in scholarly activity through conference presentations and/or publications, and advising students in the Art History and Museum Professions major and History of Art minor. S/he will receive appropriate mentoring by working with the Chairperson and with other department faculty teaching in related fields and will liaise with the Center for Excellence in Teaching, which anchors a faculty development program, for appropriate training with online learning systems and for other pedagogical guidance.

Requirements:

Successful candidates will have a Ph.D. and at least three years of teaching experience in a college or university, demonstrating familiarity with best-teaching practices and pedagogical initiative. Strong preference for candidates with museum experience and teaching experience that incorporates new technologies.

http://fitnyc.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=35615

The 2012 Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture: Maurie D. McInnis “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the American Slave Trade”