Fellowship at Walters Art Museum

Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Training Fellowship in Rare Book and
    Manuscript Conservation
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD

The Walters Art Museum is offering an exciting opportunity to an
emerging professional conservator to work in an active museum
laboratory that focuses on preventive collections care, treatment,
research and public outreach.  This is an Andrew W. Mellon advanced
training fellowship in rare book and manuscript conservation to
begin in early November 2016.  The fellowship is for one year, but
may be renewed for a second year.

The Walters is a dynamic museum with a wide variety of art works
from around the world.  The collection includes more than 900
illuminated manuscripts from Europe and the Middle East, 1,300
incunables and 1,200 later printed books and fine bindings.  Staff
members of the Department of Conservation and Technical Research
work collaboratively across all divisions of the museum and are
committed to professional activities both nationally and
internationally.  The Fellow will be encouraged to also play an
active role in a broad range of professional activities within and
outside the museum.

Generally the Fellow will work at least 50% of their time on the
museum's programmatic priorities, including activities relating to
exhibitions, installations, loans and preventive care of the
permanent collections, as well as public outreach through the
museum's popular "Conservation Window." For the remaining time the
Fellow will focus on an in-depth treatment and technical research
project, culminating in a publishable paper.

Candidates should be graduates of a recognized conservation training
program or have equivalent training and experience.  Previous
experience in the treatment of parchment is desirable.

The selected candidate will receive a generous stipend, commensurate
with experience, in addition to funds for travel/research, plus
health insurance coverage.

Applications, including a letter of interest, current resume, and
two letters of recommendation, should be sent to
jobs<-at->thewalters<.>org.

Deadline for applications is March 25, 2016.

An Equal Opportunity, Equal Access Employer.  A drug and smoke free
workplace.

Abigail Quandt
Head of Book and Paper Conservation
The Walters Art Museum


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