Assist Friends of Art office in supporting the annual giving development needs of the Davis Museum.
Responsibilities:
Duties include basic office administrative assistance, mailings, keeping track of alumnae donors, and preparing deposits of membership checks to send to the Resources Office. May also assist with museum receptions and support for FoA National Committee meetings twice a year.

Required skills/experience:
• Strong Word skills
• Familiarity with Excel
• Familiarity with FileMaker Pro preferred.

Research and administrative work for Assistant Director/Curator of Prints and Drawings.

Duties, Responsibilities:
The Assistant Director/Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center is looking for a student worker to assist in research and the administration of curatorial and administrative work. Art history majors or those with significant research experience in the humanities will be given preference. Responsibilities include some art-historical research, including work on objects in the Davis Museum’s collections of prints and drawings,potential acquisitions, and on upcoming special exhibitions (using resources available in or through the art library), working with the museum's new MIMSY collections database, assisting in curatorial correspondence, and basic office work (organizing and maintaining departmental files).

Required skills/experience:
• Ability to work independently
• Great attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• Familiarity with Word
• Experience with electronic database(s) desirable
• People skills
• A basic grasp of art history, with an interest in works on paper specifically, and in museum work in general
• Knowledge of a foreign language preferred
• This position is an excellent foundational experience for curatorial work in museums

ewyckoff@wellesley.edu

Research and administrative assistance for the Curator of Education.

Duties, Responsibilities:
The primary duty of the Education Assistant is to aid the Curator of Education in the development of educational programming for K-12 public school audiences within the Boston Metro-west area. This includes researching the Museum’s collections and exhibitions as well as its audiences. The Education Assistant will contribute to the production of curriculum materials, which local teachers will use in linking the Museum resources to their curricula. The Education Assistant can also expect to work on projects related to the development of public events and programs.

The ideal candidate balances wide-ranging interests in art history, museums and/or studio art, as well as the educational application of these practices. Research capabilities in the humanities and/or the social sciences are also a plus. Responsibilities include research into specific objects in the Davis collection (using resources available in or through the art library), creating written reports on objects as well as broader groupings, research into the Massachusetts Department of Education State Standards, and basic office work.

Required skills/experience:
• Ability to work independently
• Attention to detail
• Familiarity with Word and database software (MIMSY)
• A basic grasp of art history, strong interest museums and issues in education.
• This position is an excellent foundational experience for a range of work in the arts, museums and education.

In general, the PR Assistant helps with the preparation and maintenance of systems and information to promote the Davis Museum and its related programs. Tasks include but are not limited to maintaining and preparing press lists, mail lists, and email lists; assembling press kits; obtaining, maintaining and developing photo/image files, and preparing, maintaining and disseminating press clips, among other organizational tasks. Design and creation of e-flyers (PhotoShop) for on and off campus audiences. Small research projects will be assigned as required. The assistant helps support requests for information from the media and from the campus community. They will maintain the media clips archive.

The PR Assistant may also be asked to assist with proofreading and gathering information for DMCC publications, web site, and other channels of information distribution. The PR Assistant reports to the Marketing Manager.

Overall, this PR Assistant helps perform the day-to-day functions of the pr and marketing department in support of the museum’s objective to disseminate information to various constituent groups on campus and in the greater community.

Required skills/experience:
• Ability to research and track down answers, attention to detail, a sense of responsibility for the projects undertaken, and writing, editing and proofreading skills.
• Familiarity with FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Word, and Photoshop helpful. Prefer student who is willing to commit to the position for two semesters or more. • Position does not require supervising or handling confidential material.

Duties, Responsibilities:
This position is ideal for a student who is curious about museum work, both research and administrative areas. The projects assigned by the director will include research for course, exhibition and acquisition projects of all sizes. The work will deal with current and important projects of the museum, and can be exceptionally interesting.

Required skills/experience:
• The projects for the director will be wide-ranging and will require organizational skills, thoroughness and attention to detail.
• The position will require sensitivity to confidential material in the director’s office and also in the development director’s office.
• The student should be proficient in Word, and be interested and comfortable performing extensive research projects.
• The student also should be adaptable to changing tasks and helping out with xeroxing, filing and other administrative work depending on the office needs.

Duties, Responsibilities:
The students will update information on the museum’s website; prepare new pages as needed following templates for the website; design, edit and code text in html; scan slides transparencies, and other images using specialized software; serve as photographer for special events; research technology projects from other museumsm; and provide technical assistance for the museum staff. The student may also help coordinate other computer-based technology projects at the museum and, depending on the interests and skills, act as a producer for such projects.

Required skills/experience:
• The position requires a good, basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system as well as thorough familiarity with Dreamweaver, Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, scanners, and digital cameras.
• Practical experience or training in webpage design, website maintenance, or multi-media programming is a plus.

Duties, Responsibilities:
Assists with the maintenance, displays and lighting designs of works of art in the museum’s galleries on works of art. Assists with the setup and dismantling of special exhibitions. Assistant will be trained in rules for the proper handling of works of art.

Required skills/experience:
• Able to work with hand power tools (i.e. hand drill)
• Alertness
• Able to lift up to 30lbs
• Willing to get hands dirty!
• Some confidential material will be handled

jrossett@wellesley.edu

Duties, Responsibilities:
Reports to the Registrar and Collections Care Specialist. Responsible for aiding the Registrar in carrying out tasks related to the organization, documentation and care of the Museum's permanent collection. Tasks include up-dating the Museum's computerized database, transcribing archival museum records to new pages and cards, and documenting object locations within the facility. Assistants will also participate in the accessioning process of works into the collection. Assistants will occasionally be called upon to handle works of art. General office support is also the responsibility of this assistant.

Required skills/experience:

• Assistants will also be responsible for updating records on cards, in files and on the museum's computerized database. This must be done with care and accuracy.
• Knowledge of Art History and the bibliography and reference materials of the field is preferred.
• Confidential material will be handled.

bmompho@wellesley.edu

Duties, Responsibilities:
Conducts research related to exhibitions and collections and assists with general office work. This position offers the opportunity to view original artwork and to gain an understanding of the curatorial field.

Required skills/experience:

• Ability to work independently
• Attention to detail
• Good organizational skills
• Computer skills

emehalak@wellesley.edu

Duties, Responsibilities:
The Associate Curator of Collections at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center is looking for a student worker for collections research, preferably someone with an art history background or with significant research experience in the humanities. Responsibilities include substantial research into specific objects in the Davis collection (using resources available in or through the art library), building object bibliographies and exhibition histories, some research into potential acquisitions, working with Filemaker Pro (searching for information in the Davis collections database about specific objects), creating written reports for objects, and basic office work (organizing object files). Possibility to participate in writing object labels for works on view in the galleries.

Required skills/experience:
• Ability to work independently
• Attention to detail
• Familiarity with Word (knowledge of Filemaker preferred)
• A basic grasp of art history, an interest in postwar art (not necessary but ideal), and a strong interest in museum work.
• Reading knowledge of French or German is preferred.
• This position is an excellent foundational experience for curatorial work in museums.

dhailey@wellesley.edu

The student is expected to assist the Curator of Contemporary Art in her upcoming contemporary exhibitions and its related educational programming and publications (but not limited to) such as on Ad Infinitum: Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings (fall/winter 2004); an exhibition drawn from a major New York collection, on Russian (Moscow and Berlin based) contemporary painter and installation artist Valery Koshlyakov (September/October 2004) and other exhibitions to come.

Duties, Responsibilities:
The student is expected to successfully help the curator with the upcoming fall exhibitions in terms of exhibition related tasks. This involves to research and write artists’ biographies. The student will also have the opportunity to assist the curator with the exhibitions in its various stages when writing the labels for the exhibited works of art and compiling material for the docents. Finally, the student will also collaborate with the curator (and the artist in residence) on the educational programming in conjunction with the exhibitions when coordinating events and assisting the various speakers with their needs to present their talks.

Required skills/experience:
• To be interested in 20th and 21st century art (in particular contemporary art)
• To master the skills of successfully researching bibliographies
• To be precise
• To be excited working in a museum setting
• To be curious
• Majoring in Art will be a plus

Overall, this position helps perform the day-to-day functions of the pr and marketing department in support of the museum’s objective to disseminate information to various constituent groups on campus and in the greater community.

Required skills/experience:
• Ability to research and track down answers, attention to detail, a sense of responsibility for the projects undertaken, and writing, editing and proofreading skills.
• Familiarity with FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Word, and Photoshop helpful. Prefer student who is willing to commit to the position for two semesters or more. • Position does not require supervising or handling confidential material.

There are four security posts which all guards will be required to work: Gallery Patrols, Information Desk, Jewett Bridge Desk, and Standby Duty.
There are three Security Guard classifications: Regular Guard, Lead Guard, and Head Trainer Lead Guard.

Interested students can pick-up a job application at the Davis Museum lobby front desk. Interviews will be conducted during the first week of September.

Duties, Responsibilities:
Duties include staffing the print study during open hours, retrieving works from and returning works to their proper storage places, and monitoring the use of works by students, scholars, the public, and classes accompanied by a faculty member. Assistants will be trained in rules for the proper care and handling of works of art. They will also be called upon to help with the reorganization of the works on paper collection. Additionally, general office support will also be a responsibility of these students.

Required skills/experience:
• Assistants will also be responsible for updating records on cards, in files and on the museum's computerized database. This must be done with care and accuracy.
• Knowledge of Art History and the bibliography and reference materials of the field is preferred.
• Confidential material will be handled.
• Some supervision monitoring of the collection will be needed.

bmompho@wellesley.edu