Curatorial Cataloguing Fellows at the FAM San Francisco
January 10 2025

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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco are hiring 8 Curatorial Cataloguing Fellows. In particular, the positions are spread out across the departments / spheres of Costume and Textile Arts, European Paintings, European Decorative Arts, Contemporary Art and Programming, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Ancient Art, American Art and AFGA (Works on Paper).
Here's the description for the European Paintings department role:
The Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums is offering a Curatorial Cataloguing Fellowship with the European Paintings department. This fellowship program aims to support the Museums’ strategic goal to significantly enhance the scope of information available about works of art in the Museums’ collection, and make this information digitally accessible to a wider public. The two-year paid Fellowship program, onsite in San Francisco from September 2025-August 2027, is designed to provide an important professional development opportunity for eight emerging art museum professionals. We strongly encourage applicants from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the art museum field. This fellowship will advance participants’ curatorial training through rigorous research and cataloguing experience.
The 2-year contract comes with an hourly rate of $27 and applications must be in by 14th February 2025.
Good luck if you're applying!