OPPORTUNITIES

The Assistant Conservator, Textiles will support all aspects of the care and treatment of textiles and costumes in the permanent collection, including our extensive Native Collection under the stewardship of the Autry Museum. Additionally, the Assistant Conservator will work on large projects within the Conservation Department, including exhibitions and loans.

Cynthia, an art historian, and Kat, a conservator, will be holding an informal conversation on how practices around interacting with bodily remains vary across cultures and time periods. Which may well be of interest to a wider range of scholars and practitioners: curators, scientists, and academics whose work involves human remains, and anyone else who may be concerned with thoughtful approaches regarding the study and stewardship of physical remains and associated belongings.

Focused on students from communities currently underrepresented in the museum conservation field, the Conservation Internship for Broadening Access (CIBA) offers opportunities for current or recent undergraduates to learn about museum conservation. During a 10-week summer program, CIBA interns are placed with mentors in a variety of conservation labs throughout the Smithsonian. The program supports interns by offering a stipend and paid housing during the internship. A relocation travel allowance may also be included as part of the internship award.

These 8-week paid summer internships provide opportunities for undergraduates to conduct research, to explore career possibilities in archives and special collections, and to learn about advanced training in Native American and Indigenous Studies and related fields. This opportunity is closed for 2024, but will reopen annually.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces a search for candidates for the Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship. This two-year fellowship in the museum’s Latin American Art department will provide general curatorial training, support scholarly research on the permanent collection, and engage the Fellow in the organization of an international traveling exhibition on the connection of Asia and Latin America in the early modern period.