The City of San Diego (City) is seeking applications from interested qualified artists to provide public art services for the Fire Station 48 Black Mountain Ranch Public Art Project. An artist or artist team is sought to design, fabricate and transport permanent, site-specific artwork for the new fire station and consult during installation of artwork at the site by the City.
Multidisciplinary
Preparator Supervisor
Preparator Supervisor
US-CA-Oakland
Job ID: 2024-1461
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Preparation
Oakland Museum of CA
Overview
The Preparator Supervisor is responsible for the coordination and guidance of members of the preparator group. The incumbent provides mentorship, coaches to efficacy, and facilitates work amongst and between preparators and other staff. Along with all preparator staff, this position collaborates with the Exhibition and Collections staff on the preparation, fabrication, installation, de-installation, maintenance, transportation and storage activities related to temporary exhibitions, core gallery rotations, collections care and institutional projects. Serves as Lead Preparator for assigned projects. Supervises Associate Preparators and Technical Specialists.
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The following reflects OMCA’s definition of essential functions for this position, but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. OMCA may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the Museum’s mission, values, vision, and core commitment to the visitor experience, community engagement, anti-racism and institutional relevancy for the future;
- Contribute to and support the OMCA strategic plan, annual priorities, and institutional initiatives such as diversity advancement;
- Contribute to a positive organizational culture based on mutual respect, a spirit of collegiality, cooperation, and openness to many perspectives;
- Participate in a culture of ongoing learning, collaboration, innovation, creativity, and community engagement.
- All positions will have core functional responsibilities, cross functional team activation and learning and development as a core function of each role
POSITION DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Culture Setting
- Engage in a positive culture of mutual accountability both within the Preparation Team and with staff across the organization.
- Communicate widely and effectively to ensure all possible stakeholders are included in decision making, and to establish clear expectations. Collaborate with project/production teams. Provide and receive status updates, and thoroughly and effectively convey information to staff and fellow teammates.
- Maintain and share knowledge of safe practices and reinforce a culture of mutual accountability for safety.
Exhibition Installations – Support and Problem Solve
- Advanced technical work in the areas of museum-related storage, transportation, preparation, installation, lighting, fabrication, and maintenance of assigned Museum exhibits, workshops, and collection areas
- Handling collections as required, planning and managing the handling, packaging, transportation, and display of art artifacts, and specimens
- Design, prototyping, fabrication and construction of exhibit enclosures, furniture, and media installations
Preparation and care of facilities: exhibit walls, painting, lighting, tool set-up, installation and maintenance, wiring, cleaning of exhibits as needed - Material procurement and storage, tool set-up and maintenance, art handling for mount making, installation/de-installation, load in and out of exhibit materials including traveling exhibitions
- Activities of vendors and contractors, sourcing new contacts as needed
- Public Interaction: demonstrate museum techniques to the public
Collections – Support and Problem Solve
- Handling of art, artifacts and specimens for storage, transport, framing, and all installation activities, working to ensure the objects’ safety and preservation
- Coordination of collections research, examination, preventative maintenance, maintenance, treatment, repair
- Coordination of conservation and media rotations in conjunction with Collections, Curatorial, and Design
- Maintenance of collections environments, including lighting, climate, security, storage, pest control, and disaster mitigation and response
Administration
- Mentor and facilitate the work of Preparators and technical staff;
- Attend project/production team meetings. Provide and receive status updates and convey information to staff.
- Adjust workflow and assignments to reflect project priorities
- Collaborate with project teams to develop budgets. Provide material estimates and perform component based pricing information
- Coordinate with and oversee work of outside fabricators, suppliers, and other independent contractors on exhibit and collection projects
- Participate in museum infrastructure and management of back of house locations, shops, receiving area, loading docks, loading-dock-storage, and preparation areas
- Set clear expectations, communicate clearly, provide coaching and support for staff; develop and monitor work plans and schedules
- Ensure appropriate OSHA and Safety regulations are met. Partner with the facilities team to develop and implement appropriate staff safety training opportunities.
Qualification
EXPERIENCE
- Ability to deliver results, facilitate and influence others and problem solve beyond temporary solutions
- 4-6 years related experience
- Ability to work collaboratively and communicate openly and productively with key stakeholders
- Ability to participate on cross-functional project teams and work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to communicate museum policies/procedures as well as safety requirements of the workplace and ensure adherence
- Advanced knowledge of museum standards for environment, artifact handling, installation, packing, storage and display and ability to act as advisor to staff on proper museum preparation methods
- Advanced knowledge of methods and materials for fabricating museum exhibits
- Knowledge of exhibit design, electronics, and graphic production processes
- Ability to lead and manage exhibit fabrication, preparation, installation and de-installation procedures
- Advanced knowledge of gallery operations and maintenance
- Ability to read blueprints, drawings and design plans
- Ability to negotiate and monitor professional service contracts and purchasing agreements
- Skillful management of project priorities and timelines
- Knowledge of disaster mitigation and response, pest management, design and maintenance of earthquake mitigation systems and security barriers.
- Proficient knowledge of office computer systems, collections management systems, and technical reference materials
- English language proficiency in both spoken and written form
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The environment may include:
- Museum environment involves both indoor and outdoor working conditions
- Ability to travel between OMCA locations, and other travel as required by position responsibilities
- Engage with diverse visitor populations for extended periods of time in the galleries or throughout the campus
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Requires strenuous physical work including lifting, pushing and pulling
- Moderate to loud noise from production events, machinery, equipment or vehicles
- Work near moving mechanical parts
- Exposure to dirt, dust and fumes
- EEO STATEMENT
The Oakland Museum of California is dedicated to diversity, inclusion, accessibility and equity. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ability/disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We highly encourage our diverse community to apply for available employment, internship, fellowship and volunteer positions at the Museum, as we aim to ensure our staff reflects the diversity of our visitors and the surrounding community. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, OMCA will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
COMPENSATION: $81,200 – $81,200 annually
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December Open Call – Faces and Botanicals
Artists worldwide are invited to participate in Ten Moir Gallery’s 3rd Faces and Botanical Art Competitions, both taking place this December. These exciting competitions are open to creators aged 18 and over, welcoming both 2D and 3D mediums across all art styles and techniques.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Prizes: Up to $650 in cash and prizes awarded to the Best in Show winner
Eligibility: Open internationally to artists 18+
Categories: 2D and 3D works in any medium
Submit your best work exploring the themes of Faces or Botanical art and showcase your talent to a global audience. Whether you work in painting, sculpture, drawing, or mixed media, these competitions offer an excellent opportunity to gain recognition and reward for your creative efforts.
Learn More here: https://tenmoirgallery.com/art-competitions-open-call/
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency [DEAR]
The Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency (D.E.A.R.) was established in 2012 to support Northern California artists actively exploring new aesthetic premises and pushing the boundaries of conventional art forms and media. The program provides early to mid-career artists up to four weeks of free and full-time use of our studio and equipment, production & fundraising consultations, and a production stipend as well as fiscal sponsorship to a very diverse group of theater, dance, and music creators whose work is pushing boundaries and challenging assumptions about what the arts can be in our lives and culture. D.E.A.R. grants 6 awards annually to individual artists or to groups of artists collaborating on a single project. The lead artist must be a Northern California resident and not a student at the time of the application and residency.
EACH RESIDENCY PROVIDES: – Full-time access {24/7} of 1 to 4 weeks to the Ensemble’s West Oakland rehearsal studio (40′ x 42′ sprung dance floor with Marley floor covering; 20′ ceilings and two 9-foot concert grand pianos) and fabrication shop. Residency weeks may be contiguous or spread out over several months.
– A production stipend (currently up to $1500) – Access to state-of-the-art sound, lighting, projection, and recording equipment;
– Technical, financial, and managerial consultations from professionals on the Ensemble’s staff (providing fiscal sponsorship if needed).
– Performance opportunities
SELECTION CRITERIA / PROGRAM PRIORITIES:
– The artistic quality and potential impact of the project on the artist’s artistic growth and their audiences; Projects whose realization requires continuous and/or multi-day access to our studio space and our available technologies;
– Artists who work with multiple disciplines and/or from culturally diverse perspectives;
– Preference may be given to artists whose work is not currently receiving significant institutional support.
APPLICATION Online application for 2025 Residencies is open now.
Applications are due Friday, November 15, 2024, 11:59 pm PST. Residencies will be announced to artists in February 2025.
Info Sessions – RSVP here.
October 29, and November 12 (7 PM Zoom Sessions)
November 2 – Studio visit & Info Session (11 AM)
View the online application – Consult our FAQ – Download “How to Prepare your 2025 Application.”
Poetry & Collage Residency December 2024
In January 2022, Kolaj Institute issued a call to artists for a Poetry & Collage Residency and received so many excellent responses that we organized a series of three residencies. In the residencies, we challenged artists to move beyond taxonomical debates. Ric Kasini Kadour said, “What is a poem? We do not need to have a singular answer to that question. Individually we must each answer that question for ourselves. In practice, every poem we make will be an example of what a poem is. In considering other people’s work, we should ask ourselves, How is this a poem?” During the residencies, artists interrogated each other’s artwork, collaborated, and shared ideas. And at the end of it, they sent us more page spreads than could fit into a single book. Impressed and moved by the volume and quality of cultural output and a deep belief that this practice, however you want to describe it, at the intersection of collage and poetry deserves a platform, we decided to create a new journal dedicated to it.
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing that operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world.
After releasing several volumes of the journal and opening an ongoing call for submissions, we are returning to this residency program as a way to help artists develop their ideas, explore the intersection of collage and poetry, collaborate and form community, and prepare submissions for the journal. This project-driven residency is open to artists and poets.
Read the full Call to Artists to apply: https://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/calls-for-artists/call-to-artists-poetry-collage-residency/
Project Grants for Capital Improvements
Project Grants for Capital Improvements provide short-term funding to organizations with a strong history of arts programming. Eligible projects include upgrades, repairs, or small-scale renovations of facilities, or purchases of equipment, supplies, office furnishings, or technology. These funds are intended to strengthen the physical and digital infrastructure of arts organizations across Los Angeles County.
