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The successful candidate will support Estevan Art Gallery & Museum (EAGM) staff with implementing and completing redevelopment of permanent exhibitions on the second floor of the North West Mounted Police museum. The EAGM is committed to promoting awareness of the historical and contemporary life and culture of Southeast Saskatchewan's Indigenous peoples. The EAGM strives to continuously increase local and visiting peoples' interests in Canadian heritage and visual arts.
A significant portion of this internship will introduce the candidate to the day-to-day responsibilities of a Curator. These responsibilities include the organisation of exhibitions from research, writing, selecting works, arranging for loans, supervising catalogue production, designing, installation of exhibitions to preparing publicity for exhibitions and other Gallery events and programs. The Curatorial Intern position will also provide the candidate with the opportunity to participate in key museum roles such as acquisition, storage, and exhibition of works of art and collections, cataloguing artefacts in the EAGM's collections, and participating in our on-going digitisation project.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not applicable
Additional Skills
- Prepare reports
- Operate computer systems
- Operate audio-visual equipment
Specific Registration Skills
- Schedule travelling exhibitions
- Register and classify/catalogue objects
- Coordinate and oversee installations
- Coordinate shipping of exhibitions and individual works of art
Specific Interpretation / Guiding Skills
- Prepare program content
Establishment / Work Setting Experience
- Regional or city art gallery
- Regional or city museum
- National museum
- Interpretive centre
- Heritage/historical site
- First nations museum
- Cultural centre
- Art gallery
Specific Curatorial Assisting Skills
- Prepare correspondence for curators
- Maintain exhibits data base
- Conduct research for curators
Area of Technical Specialization
- Registration
- Picture Framing
- Exhibit preparation
- Curatorial assisting
- Cataloging
Specific Conservation and Restoration Technical Skills
- Photographs
- Decorative arts
- Textiles
- Sculptures
Exhibit Preparation Experience
- Mounting/installing objects
- Lighting
- Framing paintings, photographs etc.
- Display cases
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