Welcome to the Williams Grad Art List, edited by Andrea Gyorody (MA ’09).
Before we get to it, a quick reminder that registration for the all-class Williams Grad Program reunion is underway; you can sign up here.
News + Announcements
Robin Schuldenfrei (MA ’00) shares this timely announcement: “I’ve created a t-shirt fundraiser for Ukraine, with 100% of the profits going towards humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TeamModernism
• Available in English (on BLACK), or in Ukrainian (on BLUE).
• 100% of the profits will go towards humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
• Orders will be taken until 25 April 2022.
• The first batch will be printed after 25 April, ready for shipping ca. 5 May. (Shipping fees are at cost.)
• I am working with a wonderful local printer, George, who is reducing all costs to elevate fundraising capacity.
• Unisex sizes, please select size carefully. ("US letter size" refers to top line of size chart).
• 100% cotton.”This semester’s Clark Lectures — with fellows Irene Small, Lisa Lee, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vashti DuBois, Christelle Lozère, Sarah Hamill, and Anne Lafont — are now available here.
The latest season of the RAP podcast “In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing” is available here.
Non-Academic Jobs + Fellowships
Development Manager, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA — due Apr 30
Art Bridges Fellowship (Conservation), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA — due Apr 30
Art Bridges Curatorial & Community Partnerships Fellow, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR — due May 2
Project Assistant Curator, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA — due May 20
Curator of European and American Art (Open Rank), Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH — due Jun 5
Curator of Glass and Ceramics, Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (h/t Katherine Alcauskas, MA ’08)
The Fariss Gambrill Lynn and Henry Sharpe Lynn Curator of European Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Curatorial & Research Associate, UCI Institute and Museum of California Art, University of California, Irvine, CA
Art Bridges Fellowship (Registration), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Art Bridges Fellowship (Art Bridges Cohort Program), Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Curatorial Assistant, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Director of Education, Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, Queens, NY
Program Associate, Center for Cultural Innovation, Bay Area, CA
Program Associate, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX [h/t Allison Pappas, MA ’11]
Director of Curatorial Affairs, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York [h/t Miranda Lash, MA ’06]
Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO [h/t Miranda Lash, MA ’06]
Curator of Native American Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Museum Instructor / Curatorial Assistant, Arts of the Americas and Europe, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Curatorial Assistant for Works on Paper, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Senior Manager of Learning and Engagement, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
Associate Curator of Native American Art, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
Contract Curator of Islamic Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Glenn W & Cornelia T Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
William and Sarah Ross Soter Senior Curator of Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Curatorial Assistant, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Interpretive Specialist, Latin American Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Nancy C. Allen Curator and Director of Exhibitions, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX
Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Academic Jobs + Fellowships
Assistant Professor of Instruction (non-tenure track), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (h/t Ashley West, MA ’97) — review begins Apr 24
Assistant Professor, Curating and Art History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong — due May 1
Predoctoral Research Fellow, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ — due May 2
Center for Italian Modern Art Fellowships — due May 15
Goethe-Institut Fellowship, documenta archiv and Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany — due May 15
Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2022), Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Summer 2022
Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities (Venice, Jul 11-15) — applications due Apr 30
Summer Internships (various departments), The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC — due May 1
Summer School: Stones of Palermo: Cultures of Marble at the Mediterranean Crossroads (Palermo, Jul 10–16) — due May 15
Calls for Papers + Nominations + Participation
African American Art History: Present Coordinates, Boston University (Boston, Nov 11-12) — abstracts due Apr 30
The Longue Durée of Cultural Heritage: Curation of the Past from Antiquity to the Present Day, Norwegian Institute in Rome (University of Oslo) (Rome, Dec 5–7) — proposals due May 15
Revolutionary Romances: Into the Cold – Alternative Artistic Trajectories into (Post-)Communist Europe, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden / Online, Oct 13) — proposals due May 15
The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean (Online, Aug 5–7) — proposals due May 16
Oral Histories/Museum Histories, Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton (Brighton / Online, Jul 14) — applications due May 17
Contemporary Photography in Ireland, 1990-2022, Dublin Castle (Dublin, Jul 23) — proposals due May 20
Journal of Urbanism Special Issue: Informal Placemaking. Social Activism and Practices of Art and Culture — abstracts due May 30
(Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of Knowing / Ways of Being, Yale University (New Haven, Sep 29-Oct 1) — due May 31
Text and Image, Special Issue, June 2022: War and Cultural Heritage — submissions due May 31
Arts Special Issue: Renegotiating Identity, Reenacting History – 21st Century Art in Israel — proposals due Jun 1
Edited volume: Behind the Scenes of Object-Based Art Histories — proposals due Jun 15
The Journal of Asian Arts and Aesthetics: Asian Women Artists — submissions due Jun 15
Arts Special Issue: NFTs, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Metaverse: A Silent Digital Revolution That Has Transformed the Art Market — abstracts due Jul 1
Getty Research Journal — submissions due Aug 1
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