Assistant Curator, Education and Cultural Action
The candidate should send their CV, cover letter and two letters of reference to following address by the deadline of August 23, 2010:
Vicky Chainey Gagnon, Curator
Att: YCW, Assistant Curator Education and Cultural Action position
Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University
2600 College, Box 2136
Sherbrooke, QC
J1M 1Z7
YCW Web Site Job Poster:
The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop?s University would like to create a position for a bilingual (French and English) Assistant Curator, Education and Cultural Action . This entry-level position is ideal for a student completing their Master's degree in the area of the fine arts, arts administration, art education and/or museum studies. In a small institution such as ours the Assistant Curator, Education and Cultural Action could work hand-in hand with the Curator and Co-curator of the Gallery who could
introduce a young candidate to the purpose of education and mediation role in museum work. S/he would contribute exclusively to the delivery of the gallery's Community Art Lab project which is an innovative and engaged for of cultural mediation in the community. This graduate internship position will not only ensure a higher standard of gallery operations, but it will launch our gallery's work in the area in the community art, civic engagement and sustainability, thus the internship will effectively have a direct impact on the cultural landscape of our community and region.
The Foreman Art Galley is increasingly interested in the link between contemporary art and issues of concern to the community and how these can be made more apparent. We believe that art can be a catalyst for understanding, for bring people together to dialogue about issues relevant to our world today. We know that artists deal with contemporary issues in their work, but how can these connections become part of public life? How can a contemporary art center become a forum for civic engagement?
The Community Art Lab is a research-based workshop of community individuals (students, youth, immigrants, the elderly, the underprivileged, artists, art professionals) whose chief activity is to stimulate an increased understanding and a sustained quality enhancement of the visual arts in the
City of Sherbrooke by organizing public events and encounters between people who are interested in/or who could benefit from the arts. The Community Art Lab is on the edge between art, education, and community development with the goal of exploring how these worlds collide and interact with one another, and more importantly how the visual arts can lead to a new ways of thinking about the social, political and economic issues important to our
world today. The satellite activities will be centered around questions raised by the current exhibitions at the Foreman Art Gallery and will take the form of discussion groups around an artwork or a film related to the artwork, workshops (tailor-made for different audiences), events
(performances, film screenings) and summer art camps for children aged between 7-12 years of age. These generative activities will in turn be transformed concretely into podcasts (free downloadable mp3 tours of the gallery based in the exchanges of discussion groups about the exhibition and
questions that it raises for them), a blog where the work of the Lab can be made available to new virtual committees. (Please note that mp3 players will be made available to visiting audiences in the gallery) and virtual exhibitions.
The Foreman Art Gallery would like the Assistant Curator, Education and Cultural Action candidate to begin their contract on September 7, 2010. The contract would last until March 31, 2011
Position: Assistant Curator, Education and Cultural Action
Date: September 7, 2010 to March 31, 2011
Total Salary: $15.00 x 32.5 hrs x 29 weeks = $ 14,137.50
Paid Holidays:
Quebec National Day and Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New
Years day (6)
Criteria
be legally entitled to work in Canada;
* be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada;
Note:Non-Canadian interns holding temporary work visas or awaiting permanent status are not eligible.
* be between 16and 30 years of age at the start of employment;
* be registered in the YCW on-line candidate inventory
http://www.youngcanadaworks.gc.ca
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* be willing to commit to the full duration of the work assignment;
* not have another full-time job (over 30 hours a week) while employed with YCW;
* be an unemployed or underemployed college or university graduate, that is, not employed full-time;
* be a recent graduate who has graduated from college or university within the last 24months;
* not receiving Employment Insurance (EI) benefits while employed with YCW;
* must not have previously participated in or been paid under this or any other Career Focus internship program funded under the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy.
