The Curator Supervisor provides strategic and managerial leadership for the Museum of International Folk Art's Curatorial Department. Responsibilities include: managing the curatorial team; developing and implementing exhibitions; working with curators and museum staff to create interpretive plans for exhibitions and publications; building connections with our local, national and international community of artists, as well as donors to solicit funding and grants to support museum projects and implementing aspects of the museum's strategic plan. This position supervises up to four curators and ..read more

“Who defines the needs of the people and the related epistemologies that serve them?” (Karp & Masolo 2000:10) 1985! People’s Parks, Sites of Struggle and the Politics of Plants, one of two 2022 African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshops, will explore many dimensions of the People’s Parks created in 1985 and how we understand them today. ‘Freedom in our lifetime’, Soweto. Peter Setuke, City Press, 03.01.1986, People’s Parks Archive, courtesy of Steven Sack. CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ORGANISE A WORKSHOP Closing Date: Monday 2 May 2022 The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals f ..read more

Via The New York Times, January 19, 2022 The Smithsonian Institution has named Cynthia Chavez Lamar as the new director of the National Museum of the American Indian. Chavez Lamar — who is a member of San Felipe Pueblo, a Native American tribe in New Mexico’s middle Rio Grande Valley — will assume the post on Feb. 14. “I don’t see this as something that I have achieved on my own,” Chavez Lamar, who is also of Hopi, Tewa and Navajo heritage, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “There are many Native and Indigenous peoples before me who have been in prominent roles,” she added, “who have ..read more

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts seek papers for the New Perspectives in Native American Art No. 4. The symposium, to be held March 4-5 in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will feature a keynote address from Sherry Farrell Racette (Métis). More here ..read more

“Who defines the needs of the people and the related epistemologies that serve them?” (Karp & Masolo 2000:10) 1985! People’s Parks, Sites of Struggle and the Politics of Plants, one of two 2022 African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshops, will explore many dimensions of the People’s Parks created in 1985 and how we understand them today. ‘Freedom in our lifetime’, Soweto. Peter Setuke, City Press, 03.01.1986, People’s Parks Archive, courtesy of Steven Sack. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: IVAN KARP DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARDS FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SOUTH AFRICAN Ph.D. PROGRAMMES ..read more

The Associate Director will work collaboratively with the Director to fulfill the educational mission of the museum through its exhibitions, programming, acquisitions, and engagement with faculty, staff, students and the community of Providence and surrounding areas. This position is responsible for managing and providing leadership for the administrative, financial, and human resources operations to fulfill the museum’s objectives. Candidates must have a doctoral degree in anthropology or museum studies and 5 to 7 years of experience in an academic museum. More here ..read more

Via The New York Times, January 10, 2022 “The Rubin Museum of Art announced on Monday that it would return two sculptures to Nepal after researchers working for the museum concluded that smugglers had stolen the carved wooden artifacts from religious sites. “We are deeply grateful,” Nepal’s acting consul general, Bishnu Prasad Gautam, said in a statement. “The proactive response and thoughtful collaboration from the Rubin have positively contributed to Nepal’s national efforts to recover the lost artifacts.” The museum credited a nonprofit called the Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign ..read more

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science seeks an Assistant Collections Manager in the Integrative Collections Branch to support the Anthropology Collections. The Anthropology Collections currently hold approximately 500,000 artifacts in the areas of Archaeology and Ethnology; the collections are largely from North America, but represent cultures from around the world. This position supports the efforts to preserve and protect the collections on a long-term basis, increase access and grow scientific output, to manage and expand collections, and to help inspire diverse communities’ understandi ..read more

The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is a graduate student summer training program in museum research methods offered through the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History with major funding from the Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation. Summer 2022 dates are June 13—July 8.  During four weeks of intensive training in seminars and hands-on workshops at the museum and an off-site collections facility, students are introduced to the scope of collections and their potential as data. Students become acquai ..read more

The fellowships allow for bursary funding for a period of up to four years (or earlier depending on completion of degree programme). These fellowships form part of the university’s initiative to reactivate its archival holdings that include the UWC-Robben Island Museum-Mayibuye Archives and other specialised research and art collections on campus. Candidates are invited to submit proposals for doctoral thesis research that should address one or more specific collection, theme or organizational entity that forms part of the UWC archives. Proposals may be located either within a specific discipl ..read more