fellowships

Fellowship Goals:
The Fellow will develop reference materials for teachers (and other audiences) that offer guidance in creating culturally sensitive art activities inspired by culturally specific works of art — including, but not limited to, Native American art. This project will enable PEM to be a vital resource for teaching and learning about global art and culture in a meaningful, respectful way.

The document produced through this fellowship will provide a tool that PEM education staff – and teachers in PEM's network – can refer to and share with other teachers developing activities with cultural resonance.

Responsibilities and Tasks:
Review literature on best practices related to cultural education; produce a summary of findings.

Conduct research on respectful art making, including interviewing teachers and consulting with colleagues at other museums and with individuals of relevant cultural backgrounds.

Develop a written resource with guidelines pertaining to art making inspired by Native American art and art of at least one other cultural/geographical group. Through this model, lay the groundwork so that guidelines pertaining to other cultures can be added in the future.

Present and discuss the guidelines at a workshop for teachers.

Training and Supervision:
The fellowship will include training in strategies for teaching with objects and teaching with, through and about art, as well as opportunities for collaboration with other members of the Education Department team.

The Fellow will also learn about historic and contemporary artwork in the PEM collection.

The Fellow will be supervised by the Student and Teacher Programs Manager, and will also work closely with the Youth Programs Coordinator and School Programs Coordinator.

In addition, the Fellow will have the opportunity to meet with members of the curatorial staff regarding PEM collection areas.

Preferred Skills:
The successful applicant will be a creative and strategic thinker with expertise in cultural education and a passion for the arts. Experience working with educators and/or students required; art education experience preferred. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office and Internet research required.

 

Email your application, three letters of recommendation, official school transcript and resume to dan_elias@pem.org or mail to Dan Elias, Director of Grants Administration, Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

Fellowship Goals:
As part of a major museum construction project, the Fellow will undertake a survey of new equipment being installed in the Peabody Essex Museum for handling all systems of a new building. The Fellow will need to learn museum operating standards for each system. He/she will create a database of the new equipment for reference by Facilities Department and write and deliver a training presentation in use of the database for relevant staff members.

Responsibilities and Tasks:
Data collection of new museum building infrastructure systems installed as part of the museum expansion, including categorizing and inventorying all equipment.

Review and abstract Operation and Maintenance manuals to create a preventive maintenance database for new building systems.

Conduct field verifications of equipment and document equipment with photographs downloaded into database program.

Training and Supervision:
Fellow will report to the Facility Operations Manager. Will also be working with members of the Project Team including Director of Facilities, General Contractor and the PEM Project Manager. Training on database system and building systems.

Preferred Skills:
Detail oriented, knowledge of Microsoft Office and experience with database programs. Interest in building systems with emphasis on systems specific to museum and curatorial spaces.

 

Email your application, three letters of recommendation, official school transcript and resume to dan_elias@pem.org or mail to Dan Elias, Director of Grants Administration, Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

Fellowship Goals:
The Fellow will gain experience in the principle aspects of curatorial practice in the arena of Native American art and culture, including the process of developing exhibitions and Web-based outreach tools. In addition the Fellow will become familiar with Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) protocols, and will engage productively with indigenous communities, gathering information on objects and artists.

Responsibilities and Tasks:
Assist with researching forthcoming exhibition concepts and objects for the re-installation of PEM's collection and/or a future traveling exhibition.

Conduct ongoing NAGPRA research and outreach.

Assist with object and artist biographical research, and additional data enhancement such as provenance, bibliographic references and exhibition and publication histories for PEM's online collection access portal.

Provide daily support to Curator, assisting with department activities including hosting delegations of visiting scholars, artists and/or indigenous community representatives, and other duties as assigned.

Training and Supervision:
The Curator of Native American Art and Culture will be the primary supervisor for the Fellow. Other specialists may provide training or project-based supervision as necessary.

Training will be provided as necessary in PEM's Web content management system, object provenance, object handling and concept development and presentation.

A Human Resources representative and the Native American Fellowship program manager will provide additional support and training through an initial orientation session, and ongoing goal setting and review as needed.

Preferred Skills:
Important skills include: Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel; excellent written and oral communication; general research experience in the area of art and culture; familiarity with museum presentations of Native art and culture, and curatorial concepts and process.

Thoroughness, attention to detail, creativity, willingness to try new things, ability to work independently and flexibility.

Familiarity and comfort with Web-based research and applications.

 

Email your application, three letters of recommendation, official school transcript and resume to dan_elias@pem.org or mail to Dan Elias, Director of Grants Administration, Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

Fellowship Goals:
To engage in a creative process of conceptualizing, visualizing and implementing museum exhibitions for PEM's changing exhibition program. This work will reinforce several key institutional objectives:

• Redefining design delivery to more effectively engage visitors with objects and culture
• Experimenting with techniques to broaden an appreciation of and engagement with the artistic process, empowering visi tors to self-curate and discover new relationships between objects and ideas.
• To stimulate and heighten an awareness of creativity and cultural diversity and its meaning, to be shared by all visitors.

We are seeking a candidate who can bring initiative, analytical skills and an inquisitive spirit to our interpretive design process.

Responsibilities and Tasks:
Ideations: creating inspiration or idea visual presentations to inform design and interpretive thinking.

Design studies: creating alternate approaches to communication arts and three-dimensional elements.

Installation assist: working with Exhibition Design staff on testing and implementation.

Training and Supervision:
The candidate will be asked to pursue independent development of ideas and research for presentation to fellow Exhibition Design Department staff as well as representing the department with other museum and project participants.

Supervision will be through the Exhibition Design Manager, with varying levels of instruction and interaction by all Exhibition Design Department staff. The Fellow will be oriented and instructed on graphic output and exhibition production standards, as well as presentation techniques needed to communicate with other PEM departments involved in the design planning process.

Preferred Skills:
The ideal candidate will have knowledge and basic skills in computer programs for documentation and research, presentation and basic 2-D or 3-D design.

Fellow should have some experience with Adobe suite of programs, including Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Working experience with Microsoft Word and Excel are also desirable.

CAD experience in VectorWorks or SketchUp is preferred, but not required.

 

Email your application, three letters of recommendation, official school transcript and resume to dan_elias@pem.org or mail to Dan Elias, Director of Grants Administration, Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970