Internship at Art Gallery of Ontario

Getty Post-graduate Internship in Paper Conservation
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is offering a one-year advanced
internship in paper conservation, funded by the Getty Grant Program.

The intern will participate in the operations of a busy conservation
studio, dealing with loans, acquisitions, exhibitions and the Gallery's
permanent collection of Canadian and international paper based art.  The
internship program will be divided equally between historic and contemporary
materials, and include at least one special treatment or research project.
Anticipated starting date is November 1997.  The grant offers a remuneration
of $34,000.00 (Canadian), with additional progressional development and
research travel funding of up to $2000.00.

Applications are invited from new and recent graduates of recognized
Conservation training programs, with specialization in works of art on
paper.  A successful candidate who is not a Canadian citizen may require a
student visa.  Competence in written and spoken English is essential.

To apply send a letter of application (including telephone number,
FAX number and e-mail address where available), a resume, transcripts of
academic studies (unofficial copies are acceptable), and three professional
references to:

    Sandra Lawrence, Chief Conservator
    Art Gallery of Ontario
    317 Dundas Street West
    Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G4
    Canada

Applications must be postmarked no later than September 19, 1997.

For further information:

    Sandra_Lawrence<-a t->ago< . >net
    Fax: 416-979-6670
    <URL:http://www.ago.net>

Sandra Lawrence

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