Conservation - Washington DC, United States - George Washington University

Description

The Textile Museum is an institution with a nearly one-hundred year history, an established audience, and a respected collection of textile art representing six continents and five millennia.

The museum's conservation department is one of the oldest in the US, beginning practice in the 1920s.

Through exhibitions, programs, and academic courses, the museum integrates with diverse disciplines to enrich research, education, and cultural understanding across and beyond the university.

The museum strengthens the established reputation of GW as a leader in training the next generation of museum professionals.

The Conservation Fellow supports post-graduate textile conservators at an early stage of their careers by advancing their exhibition and research skills.

They will develop practical experience in project management, treatment and mount preparations, rehousing, experimental design and execution and instrumental analyses.

Lead conservator preparing an exhibition of roughly 30 textile objects to include treatment and mount planning and execution, rehousing, packing for transit, interdepartmental coordination and installation and de-installation.

Project management, workflow efficiency and inter-departmental coordination skills will be developed.
Executing a research project utilizing the TM collection and/or the Avenir Conservation and Collections Resource Center's equipment.

Research can be as directed by the department, as proposed by the fellow or as a continuation of graduate thesis research.

The fellow will utilize the lab's equipment such as wet cleaning system, freezer, anoxic system, dye machine, portable xrf, stereo and polarized light microscopes, multiband imaging system and fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS).

The fellow may collaborate with the department's preventive conservation technicians to build supervision skills.

The position is full-time and will report to the chief conservator, with active supervision by two associate conservators and in collaboration with the Megalli Conservation Research Fellow.

Work will primarily take place at the Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center on the Virginia Science and Technology campus (Ashburn VA) with periodic work at GW's Foggy Bottom campus.

Department will offer a $1500 allowance for conference attendance, research or networking related travel. Qualified candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization. Degree requirements may be substituted with an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Graduate degree from a recognized art conservation program, with a specialization in textiles


College/School/Department:
Academic Affairs
Level 1


Full-Time/Part-Time:
Full-Time
Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm


Telework:
Employer will not sponsor for employment Visa status
If temporary, grant funded or limited term appointment, position funded until:

The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.