The Associate Registrar performs exhibition responsibilities and manages artifacts on loan, OMCA’s cultural artifacts, and associated information. Stewardship responsibilities include knowledge of ethical standards and best practices in the museum field, documentation of artifacts such as cataloging, location tracking, condition reporting, etc.; information access for staff and the public, photography, and paperwork related to loans. Associate Registrar has a general knowledge of federal and state laws directly related to museum collections (NAGPRA, ARPA, CITES, etc.), safe handling techniques, storage and display methods, and transport of artifacts. The Associate Registrar observes unpacking of objects acquired by Museum through gift, purchase, or loan to determine that damage or deterioration to objects has not occurred.
Multidisciplinary
Call for Community-Engaged Artists: Musician & Publication Designer (2 positions)
Join our team as a visiting artist! We are seeking candidates for two temporary, project-based positions: a musician/performer (or team/group) and a graphic/social practice artist. These positions support Blue Sky Center’s creative community engagement work through our current project, Vecino-a-Vecino: a series of artist-led opportunities for residents of our rural Cuyama Valley to express their hopes, concerns, and experiences surrounding Covid-19 after enduring two years of its impact on our community. Artworks to result from the project by the end of June 2022 include a theatre production, an original song, and a youth-driven zine. In either position, your role would involve collaborating with community members as well as with fellow artists on the project team to support these outcomes. Please visit blueskycenter.org/join for detailed position descriptions and to apply by March 23 at 5 p.m.
Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2022: Call for Papers, Artists & Projects
How do you want to manifest at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2022?
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium, June 15-19, 2022. Our mission is to create a platform that allows us to explore critical issues around collage (how it is curated and presented, its role in contemporary art, and the tensions between collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a movement.)
Our goal is to create an event that attracts a variety of people working in various capacities, such as art professionals at museums, galleries, and centers as well as academics, writers, and artists. The general public will be invited to join us for gallery visits, evening presentations, and collage making.
Kolaj Fest New Orleans plays a key role in the work of Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute, as it is a way for us to become familiar with a professional’s work. Presenters may be invited to participate in future projects.
Responding to the Call is how you tell us that you would like to take on a presenting role at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2022.
The program at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2022 will be a unique experience. Our aim is to breakdown hierarchy and foster dialogue among art professionals working in a variety of capacities. To that end, the editorial staff of the magazine works with presenters to craft a program.
A presenting role can mean many different things: Presenting Your Topic or Art Practice on a Panel, Leading a Discussion on a Topic Important to Collage, Hosting a session in the Collage Making Space, Leading a Collage-focused Workshop, Exhibiting, Conducting a Special Project during the event.
Most presenters present slide shows about their practice followed by a Q&A with the audience. We also seek artists with projects that take the spirit of Kolaj Fest out into the city of New Orleans.
In seeking presenters, we wish to know what stories you have to share.
We are particularly interested in: historical perspective, art world economics, the role collage has played in an artist’s practice (particularly when their final work isn’t collage per se); mash up culture; the relationship between contemporary art and society; museum issues; surveys of how collage was presented in exhibition; collections where collage plays a central role; the role of collage in various art movements (Modernism, Surrealism, Pop Art, etc.); utopian and dystopian imagery in art; art’s role in the current political moment and, in particular, how art responds to sexism and racism; notions of power in the art world and its impact on collage.
We are particularly interested in one’s experience as an artist: making art, showing art, selling art, identifying as an artist or a collagist, how the artist participates both in an art community and in society in general. We are interested in artists open to sharing how they navigate the art world. And we are interested in various approaches and strategies for collage making. This is by no means an exhaustive list.
Read the full Call, which includes a link to the submission form, HERE.
Director of Education
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis) is a dynamic cultural hub and community resource where local, national and international artists share their artistry with ever-expanding audiences. The campus, located in the heart of Beverly Hills, CA, is committed to robust and distinctive presentations and education programs curated with both creativity and social impact in mind. Distinguished by its eclectic programming that mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles and its location in the entertainment capital of the world, The Wallis has produced and presented more than 275 dance, theater, opera, classical music, cinema and family programs since its doors opened in October 2013. The campus itself, a breathtaking 70,000-square-foot facility, celebrating the classic and the modern, has garnered six architectural awards. For additional information about The Wallis and its artistic and educational programming, please visit: www.thewallis.org.
The Wallis is seeking an inclusive and inspiring leader and arts educator who is passionate about the role of multi-disciplinary performing arts education and arts engagement for people of all ages and experiences, inspired by the opportunity to build upon an excellent reputation while helping to strengthen and grow programs well into the future. Reporting to the Executive Director & CEO, this will be only the second person to hold the Director of Education role since The Wallis opened. Although the successful candidate will most likely have leadership experience in multi-disciplinary arts education or other educational enterprises within a performing arts or cultural institution, it is also possible that the individual could come from another career background and demonstrate an acumen in contemporary educational methods and philosophies, knowledge of creative program design and possess a compelling passion for arts education. The successful candidate will articulate a strong commitment to and understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access; will demonstrate a high level of cultural responsiveness, effectively incorporating DEIA into all aspects of their work; and will work productively across lines of difference. The salary range is $125,000 to $150,000 annually.
The Wallis has retained Morris & Berger to conduct the Director of Education search. To view the full position description, please visit https://pub.lucidpress.com/morrisberger_2187/. To apply, please submit an application, including a resume and a letter of interest, in confidence to Morris & Berger through their website: https://www.morrisberger.com/position.php?id=2187.
“Abstract” International Call – Art & Literature Journal – Deadline May 31, 2022
| Theme:
How abstract can things be? Abstractions are all around us. Ideas can be abstract; existing as an idea, feeling or quality but not having a tangible existence. Some conversations can be abstract, vague and theoretical and not based on particular examples or facts. And of course, there is abstract art which evokes feelings without trying to realistically represent the appearance of people or things. Abstract art, like poetry, offers a fragment of a mysteriously familiar narrative without directly revealing it in a realistic way. Reveal your most ABSTRACT thoughts.
| Eligible Submissions:
Entries may include 2- and 3-dimensional media, such as paintings, drawings, photography, mixed media, installations, ceramics, jewelry, fabric, sculpture, photos of performance art, fiction, poetry, short stories and other written explorations (up to 1,800 words). Submissions must be the original work of the applicant(s). Apply using the online form.
| Highlights:
Publication in a brilliant art magazine and online 2-year exhibition. Four top applicants will receive a feature section with a profile written about them. Up to 40 applicants will be selected for the full exhibition, all to be showcased in the magazine and the juried online exhibition.
| About ArtAscent:
The mission of ArtAscent is to inspire and promote artists of images and words. Our most popular call is the quarterly theme-based call which showcases diverse creative explorations of that theme via various media. This marketing tool is created by artists and writers for artists and writers. ArtAscent provides the opportunity for the voices and visions of writers and artists to be shared in a professional and accessible platform. This is our art, and we are grateful to be part of a bright community of creatives and art lovers.
Call for Entries – Still II: An Elaboration on the Inanimate
The Chateau Gallery’s second annual still life exhibition. From ancient Greco-Roman artworks to Dutch vanitas paintings, the still life has permeated art history for ages. Show us your most inimitable or transformative scenes of inanimate objects. What contemporary elaborations do you add to this lasting genre of imagery? Between wilting flowers and bowls of oranges, what do you bring to the table?
