Little Shop and Educational Projects Coordinator
The Coordinator will produce and complete several visual arts programming and educational projects that incorporate traditional visual art media and business practices with an artists’ mentoring series. Artstars is a series of weekend classes for children taking place at the Gallery’s Arts Studio. The Coordinator will manage and promote this series of classes. The ACE Program, a student-led project-based series designed to develop emerging artists’ business and enterprise needs, includes symposia, lectures workshops, productions in many arts media, and exhibitions at the WKP Kennedy Gallery and various community locations. The Coordinator will work with the Little Shop Manager and gallery staff to complete these educational programs at the WKP Kennedy Gallery.
The Coordinator will focus artist/educators' energies on high quality educational projects that benefit our cultural community in North Bay.
The Coordinator will work with Little Shop artists to establish timelines, schedules and deadlines for projects, encourage participating artists to develop creative and appealing marketing materials, coordinate their talents with Gallery educational programs, and update all Little Shop databases to enhance the shop’s organizational effectiveness and revenue generation. The Little Shop and Educational Projects Coordinator will carry educational projects through from development and inception to the presentation phase and on to evaluation and reporting.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Arts administration experience or graduate
- Excellent communication and social skills
- Computer, Office and Organizational skills
- An understanding of various media art practices is an asset
- Experience working with artists is an asset
- Gallery or Non-profit organization experience
- Physically fit as there is some lifting involved during exhibition installations
- Basic graphic design and knowledge of a second language is also an asset
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
Have you planned, designed and produced educational projects for galleries/schools/NGO’s before? If so, talk about your successes with these projects.
Especially in contemporary art, we can never know the whole business picture. How would you go about gathering information about effective business practices or techniques that "fit" with artists and craftspeople?
Have you ever applied for grants or helped to apply for a grant? Which ones and what were your responsibilities?
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please submit to us a cover letter and current resume. Remember to identify the position you are applying for in your letter. Mailing address: W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 150 Main St. East, North Bay, ON P1B 1A8 For further information about us and the position: Call at 705-474-1944 ext. 231 and 227 or email dermot@kennedygallery.org.
COMPETITION DEADLINES
We will be reviewing applications until July 10th, 2008. A shortlist will be made up at that time and we will be interviewing candidates on July 11th, 2008. The Hiring Committee will make their final decision by Friday, July 11th (barring unforeseen delays) and the position will commence Tuesday, July 15th, 2008.
SALARY
This position is funded through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. The salary for this one-year contract is $25,000 per year.