Sarick Curator of Jewish Art and Culture

WHO WE ARE

ROM is Canada’s largest museum of Art, Culture and Nature.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a cultural institution that showcases art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in North America and Canada’s largest and most comprehensive museum, ROM has a world‑class collection of 18 million artworks, cultural objects and natural history specimens, featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces.

ROM’s mission is to transform lives by helping people to understand the past, make sense of the present, and come together to shape a shared future. The museum is known globally for expanding the boundaries of knowledge and presenting that knowledge in new and innovative ways within the intersecting worlds of art, culture and nature.

ROM’s extensive exhibition schedule and public programs attract approximately 190,000 students and 1.3 million visitors or more in a typical year.

Situated in the most diverse major city in the world, Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, known for pluralism, openness and global perspectives, ROM is well positioned for the future and for an even greater role on the world stage. By leveraging ROM’s strengths and capabilities, and applying them in fresh and far-reaching ways, by investing to create greater engagement through inclusion, transdisciplinary thinking, digital practices and innovation, ROM is charting a new and bold way forward as it pursues its goal to become one of the world’s foremost museums.

Learn more about ROM’s Strategic Direction.

ROM seeks a thoughtful, strategic curator, gifted at communications and alliances, with a strong background in historical material culture, contemporary arts, and diasporic arts from or relating to Jewish art & culture. Reporting to the Co‑chief Curator of Art and Culture, the Sarick Curator of Jewish Art & Culture will lead the programming and presentation of Jewish art and culture through galleries, exhibitions, and other initiatives following ROM’s Strategic direction and in collaboration with local communities, artists, and scholars locally and globally.

Guided by ROM’s institutional vision for the broader galleries and collection, the Sarick curator will develop and implement a strategy to build and interpret ROM’s Jewish art and culture collection. ROM offers a unique opportunity to continue to expand this collection’s holdings of historical and contemporary material in line with museum best practices and an acquisition development plan that the Sarick curator will develop.

The Jewish Art & Culture program will examine the rich histories, traditions, and artistic achievements of Jewish communities, and explore connections across Europe, Israel, Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.

The Sarick curator will expand the reach of ROM scholarship and museum initiatives through publications, lectures, and research. In the context of ROM’s strategic direction toward a more global, transdisciplinary storytelling model, the Sarick Curator of Jewish Art & Culture will be well‑versed in the current conversations regarding the role of museums in society and in relation to Indigenous and global cultures.

This curator will champion cross‑cultural and cross‑disciplinary perspectives to highlight the relevance of ROM’s collection of art, culture, and nature in contemporary societies.

The primary activity for the successful candidate will be to galvanize the expanding collection in support of developing an ambitious program of Jewish art and culture across ROM. The incumbent will play a critical role as part of a ROM collaborative team to conceive and develop a future Jewish Art and Culture gallery, in consultation with Jewish communities locally and globally.

The Sarick Curator of Jewish Art & Culture will develop temporary exhibition ideas in alignment with ROM’s overall exhibition strategy, which features community engagement, inclusive representation, narrative‑building based on shared authority, and transdisciplinarity. This position will also work closely with communities to enrich public understanding and awareness of Holocaust histories through collaborative…