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City of Montgomery, AL
Museum Preparator/Designer
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A Museum Curator builds and maintains collections at art museums and other museums. Uses in-depth knowledge of art or other artifacts to plan displays and exhibits, advise on museum acquisitions, identify and appraise works. A Museum Director manages overall museum operations.
$52,051 / year median in Alabama
+11% projected growth
Job Description
The fundamental reason this classification exists is to manage the care, safety, and maintenance of the art and environments in the interior and exterior of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) in the Blount Cultural Park. Responsibilities for artworks on Museum grounds include caring for exterior art, including the Caddell Sculpture Garden and the Terrace and Till Fountain, which includes the care of the bronze sculpture; scheduling and coordinating installations and de-installations; maintaining sculpture lighting; grounds-keeping for all surrounding areas; and maintaining landscaping elements and the pool. Responsibilities for artworks on Museum interiors include moving art in and out of storage, preparing art for exhibition by matting, framing, and other techniques, scheduling installations and de-installations of exhibitions, preparing art for safe shipment, designing and fabricating exhibition furniture and other customized systems, and installing, designing, and fabricating specific graphics and virtual exhibition designs. This position maintains inventories of equipment and materials, schedules services for recurring annual interior and external care, and budgets for necessary treatments and care of sculpture and grounds. This position is supervised by the Senior Curator of Art. Bachelor's degree in Museum Studies, Fine Arts (Visual Arts), Studio Art, Art History, Graphic Design, Architecture or a closely related field, and five (5) years of experience in the handling, maintenance, and care of art or artifacts, to include fine carpentry work, matting, and framing, and the use of graphic design software and Computer Assisted Design (CAD) programs in the creation of exhibition graphics, layouts, or related design elements.