Job no: 494324
Work type: Staff Full-time
Location: UMBC Campus
Categories: Arts/Technical/Administration

Department: Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture

https://cadvc.umbc.edu/ 

Position Overview: The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is seeking an Exhibition Designer and Coordinator for the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC). Reporting to the Director and working closely with Center staff, students, artists, curators, and colleagues in art production and presentation, the incumbent will be responsible for completing the individual design, coordination, fabrication, installation, and presentation of exhibitions and special projects presented by the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC). 

Why Work at UMBC? UMBC offers competitive compensation.  This role starts at $57,000 and has over 4 weeks of vacation for regular full time roles. Tuition remission is also available.

What is it like to work at UMBC?  Check out Glassdoor or Indeed. And read about our recent award, UMBC is a 2023 Great College to Work for. In every category.

Telework:

A hybrid telework schedule may be available.

Responsibilities:

The scope of this position includes overseeing all exhibition, commission, and associated technology decisions including the organization of production designs and diagrams and production schedules for artists, curators, and production teams. This position is responsible for all concerns related to the engineering and scheduling of materials and teams for preproduction, production, and postproduction of exhibition installation, construction, and lighting. Responsibilities include the preparation of diagrams, forms, schedules, procedures, installation, technical needs, operations notes, materials, and the research and implementation thereof. This key staff member at CADVC takes the lead on working closely with artists and curators, training and overseeing teams of installers including student staff, fabricating exhibition display devices including graphic designs and specialty gallery displays, lighting, art handling, packing and crating, and traveling art and exhibitions to other venues.  This person supervises all workers in the CADVC's gallery space, and coordinates work on the CADVC website, including part-time and full-time contractual workers as well as undergraduate and graduate workers.

Other specific responsibilities include: 

• Engineering, scheduling, and producing all materials and teams for preproduction, production, and postproduction of exhibitions. Point person for faculty and student exhibitions.

• Serving as lead installer during exhibition installations and de-installations.

• Overseeing purchase and use of all materials used in fabrication and installation of exhibitions and artistic projects, in consultation with curators and artists. Oversight of all audiovisual and other technologies for CADVC exhibitions and program.

• Polite and professional communication with all partners, including lending institutions, exhibiting artists, guest curators, and others. Regular interfacing and consulting with museum design departments nationally and internationally, as well as lighting design firms, audio visual experts, university and college galleries, local cultural agencies, and other peer institutions.

• Supervising the CADVC shop and storage spaces.

• Training and supervising student assistants

• Overseeing all contractual workers in the CADVC gallery space and shop.

• Managing and maintaining inventories and upkeep of gallery furniture, technical apparatuses, and specialty tools and materials.

• Traveling occasionally to facilitate offsite installation of traveling shows, pickup and drop-off of art materials, and other work in support of CADVC.

• Performing other duties as assigned.

• Some evening and weekend hours will be required for the position.

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Education Required: BA in the Arts or BFA or at least four years of comparable experience.

• Must have a professional background and previous working experience of at least two years related to fine art exhibition and/or museum work in the areas of fabrication, installation, and presentation.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MFA or MA in the Arts

• Degrees with emphasis in media technologies are desirable.

• Three to five years experience related to fine arts exhibition and/or museum work in the areas of fabrication, installation, and presentation.

Special Instructions to Applicants: Upload a cover letter and a resume.  

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Benefits: UMBC offers a rich benefits package.

Regular and grant funded regular positions (Full benefits summary click here): 

Generous Leave which includes accruing:

• 22 Days of Annual Leave  

• 15 Days of Sick Leave  

• 15 Holidays

• 3 Personal Days

Tuition Remission:

• 8 credit hours per semester

• Tuition remission at UMBC for eligible dependents after two years of FT employment

Additional Benefits:

Life and disability insurance, Retirement plans (including the choice of joining the pension plan), Professional development opportunities, Wellness opportunities & Much more Contingent II positions may include some benefits. Benefits offered align with type (Regular, Contingent II, etc.) of position. 

Salary: Salary starts at $57,000, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Hours: Full-time.  Some evening and weekend hours will be required for the position.

Type: Regular

FLSA Status: Exempt

Equal Opportunity Statement: UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women, minority group members, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Title IX: As an institution that receives federal financial assistance, UMBC adheres to Title IX and does not discriminate on the basis of sex. For more information about Title IX and contact information for Title IX Coordinator click here.

Accommodation: If you require a reasonable accommodation for a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Department at 410-455-2337 or MD TTY Relay Service 1-800-735-2258 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

Work Authorization As required by the 1986 Immigration Act, be prepared to present acceptable documentation upon hire showing your identity and that you are a U.S. citizen or an alien who is authorized to work.

Advertised: Oct 5 2023 09:00 Eastern Daylight Time

Applications close: Open Until Filled

Image: CADVC logo: "Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture" in white text inside a black circle

Where?

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) & (weather permitting) in the Fine Arts Amphitheater, 1st Floor Fine Arts Building

When? 12 Noon - 2 pm, Tues, 8/29/2023

What?

Free Food & Art Book Give-aways

Music, Friends, & Fun

Welcome back the school year with us & learn about all the cool happenings we have planned this year.

In conjunction with the exhibition Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a closing panel discussion, featuring the artist, the exhibition curator, and additional scholars:

Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art

Oletha DeVane, Artist, Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit

Christopher Kozjar, Artist, Andrew Harris Post-Doctoral Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont

Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean Emerita, Founder of Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and former Senior Research Fellow, Robert Deutsch Foundation

Lowery Stokes Sims, Exhibition Curator, independent art historian and curator

More information:

https://umbc.edu/event/oletha-devane-spectrum-of-light-and-spirit-closing-panel-discussion/

Admission to the panel discussion and the exhibition is free.

UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, and visitors. If you need accessibility-related accommodations for a planned visit or special event, two weeks' notice is appreciated. Contact: abbotts@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

Free parking for this event is available in nearby Lot 8.

Photo by Marlayna Demond '11 for UMBC.

Image: A large white pedestal supports three colorful sculptures in the foreground of a large art gallery. A video projection onto the back wall glows beyond a collection of vivid paintings hung on the white gallery walls. An empty wooden bench rests in the center of the blond hard wood flooring.

In conjunction with the exhibition Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a closing panel discussion, featuring the artist, the exhibition curator, and additional scholars:

Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art

Oletha DeVane, Artist, Oletha DeVane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit

Christopher Kozjar, Artist, Andrew Harris Post-Doctoral Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont

Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean Emerita, Founder of Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and former Senior Research Fellow, Robert Deutsch Foundation

Lowery Stokes Sims, Exhibition Curator, independent art historian and curator

Admission to the panel discussion and the exhibition is free.

UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, and visitors. If you need accessibility-related accommodations for a planned visit or special event, two weeks' notice is appreciated. Contact: abbotts@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

Free parking for this event is available in nearby Lot 8.

Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

Image: A large white pedestal supports three colorful sculptures in the foreground of a large art gallery. A video projection onto the back wall glows beyond a collection of vivid paintings hung on the white gallery walls. An empty wooden bench rests in the center of the blond hard wood flooring.

The five research centers in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC present this panel discussion to kick off the 2022-23 CAHSS Colloquium series, designed to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations among faculty, staff, and students to build intellectual community within and beyond individual research interests and curricula offerings. The topic for 2022-23 is resilience. Resilience is the ability of an entity, a person, an institution, a technology, a community, a natural environment, to anticipate, respond to, and recover from adverse conditions. The concept of resilience generally has a positive connotation, but it has also been criticized for placing on individuals and communities the burden to adapt to adverse and potentially unjust contexts. Adapting to adverse conditions may not necessarily improve them, so what is the relationship between resilience, resistance and social change? This panel will explore resilience from a variety of different perspectives. An open gallery and reception will follow the discussion.

This event is co-hosted by the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3), the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Imaging Research Center (IRC) and is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Ann Brodsky - facilitator
Anne Brodsky is Professor and Chair of Psychology. Her work focuses on resilience, psychological sense of community, immigration and displacement, and the role of communities in creating and resisting societal risks and oppressions, including violence, war, poverty, sexism, and racism.

Panelists:

Earl Brooks
Earl H. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English, and his research interests include music, African-American rhetorical traditions, and composition. His forthcoming book, Resonance of Resistance, explores the rhetoric of Black music through the work of Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Mary Lou Williams, and Mahalia Jackson.
 
Marcela Mellinger
Marcela Sarmiento Mellinger is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work where she teaches policy courses as well as an intimate partner violence elective. Her research interests include advocacy, intimate partner violence, and social work education.
 
Oletha DeVane
Oletha DeVane is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist who explores diverse political, social identities and cultural interpretations. Her work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in the United Arab Emirates and is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Born in Baltimore, DeVane received a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art and M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her solo exhibition Oletha Devane: Spectrum of Light and Spirit will be on view in the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture September 22 - December 17, 2022.

Dominic Nell
Dominic Nell is a photographer, activist, and farmer-chef focused on healing communities through various mediums. Nell is the founder of CityWeeds, a trauma-informed food business that strives to eliminate food deserts and improve the health, wellness, and independence of Baltimore City residents through the growing and selling of microgreens and cold-pressed juices. Nell's vision for CityWeeds is to feed and heal the community by growing food out of vacant lots.

Registration is required.

UMBC is committed to making its events accessible to everyone. Please send an email to abbotts@umbc.edu to request any specific accommodations. Two weeks' notice is appreciated, but we will do our best to accommodate needs at any point.

This event will be recorded and available on CADVC's YouTube channel and CS3's YouTube channel.