Technical Coordinator, Nickle Galleries, Libraries and Cultural Resources

Description

The Nickle Galleries Team in Libraries & Cultural Resources is currently seeking a Full-time Regular Technical Coordinator
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Reporting to the Curatorial Director, Exhibits and Programs, Nickle Galleries, the Technical Coordinator must accomplish a high volume of work within a public art gallery and museum operating within a university. Responsible for scheduling the complex workflow of multiple projects for the support staff of Nickle Galleries in an atmosphere of frequent change and shifting priorities. The outcome of the work has direct accountability to multiple audiences, including faculty and students both on campus and visiting, the wider public community and audience, media, and colleagues within Libraries and Cultural Resources.

The work balances multiple projects, timelines, and audiences simultaneously, including but not limited to exhibitions and programs, collections management, security and risk management, communications and publicity, information management, development and implementation of policies and procedures, mentorship and staffing, and support of teaching and learning.

• Installation and de-installation of all exhibitions. Within a team environment, responsible for the physical layout, installation and display of exhibitions and objects and the transition between exhibitions. Involves supervision of outside contracted professionals and casual employees, faculty and students. Includes but is not limited to:
• Scheduling workflow of multiple projects, both immediate and future, for technical staff of Nickle.
• Preparation of objects and exhibition space, involving construction of walls and supports, repair and painting, design of space, construction of custom elements. Movement of art and artifacts following best professional practices and archival procedures.
• Communication with the Nickle team, visiting curators, and exhibiting artists to advise best solutions for a wide array of physical, technical, and aesthetic elements related to the display of artworks, which may involve AV equipment, interactive lighting, media, and digital display.
• Installation and design of exhibition lighting.
• Preparation of artworks and artifacts for display following best museum practices, including framing and matting, advising on conservation, and mounting.
• Regulates shipping and receiving of objects, exhibitions, and materials that may involve assistance to and supervision of outside contracted transportation workers and Library staff.
• Unpacking and packing of art, artifacts, and exhibition materials according to museum standards; may involve light construction in the design and build of containers for the transportation of objects and exhibitions.
• Responsible for ordering all construction and installation equipment and supplies, as well as capital expense planning and monitoring for technical areas of the Nickle.
• Design, set up, and control of workrooms (wood shop, matting and framing), including use, maintenance and repair of all equipment, and monitoring of supplies.
• Occasional curating of collection exhibitions, or input into collection exhibitions.

• Physical placement, organization, maintenance, storage and handling and safety of works of art and artifacts in three distinct and valuable museum collections.
• Together with the Gallery Registrar, appraises and recommends solutions and improvements to the storage spaces for the collections, planning and implementing their construction.
• Responsible for maintenance, security, and environmental controls of storage spaces, as well as access to those spaces, the movement of art and objects between and within, and preparation of collections for exhibition, shipment, loan to other institutions.
• Preparation of objects for presentation in secure classroom environments for teaching and learning, access to visiting scholars and curators, appraisal and evaluation as well as making recommendations for care and conservation.
• Assists in photographing, digitizing and organizing images of works and objects in the collections. Supervision of photographers of exhibitions and collections.

• Assists with implementing security policy and procedure for gallery, offices, meeting and classrooms in the Centre for Arts and Culture; collection and back-of-house spaces, including pass card access, key inventory, and necessitates communication and…