Fellowship at Menil Collection

Artists Documentation Program (ADP) Fellowship
The Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art are
pleased to offer an advanced training fellowship in conjunction with
the Artists Documentation Program (ADP) supported by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.  The term of the fellowship is one year with the
possibility of renewal for a second year.  The ADP Fellowship will
be based at one of the partner institutions with travel funds
permitting on-site research, collection access, and interview
preparation and processing at both institutions.  The fellowship
will provide an opportunity for the successful candidate to
participate in all ADP activities.  The ADP Fellow will work closely
with the ADP directors during the research and preparation phase for
an artist interview as well as additional conservation, archive,
collection management and digital content staff following the
interview to ensure the information disclosed is both imbedded
within the institutional records and published for wide
dissemination via the ADP Archive website.  Additionally, the ADP
Fellow will undertake and publish a significant research project
utilizing the ADP Archive as part of the ADP Resound project.

ADP Fellow Resound Project

The ADP Fellow will undertake a significant high-level research
project for publication manifested in a variety of possible formats:
a single 20-30 minute high production quality video or a series of
shorter duration video projects, blogs or more conventional written
output.  The research should be drawn from the content of the ADP
Archive interviews, past or current, and serve to demonstrate the
rich potential of the archive for research while providing the ADP
Fellow with the opportunity to carry out recorded interviews
themselves with fabricators, artists, scholars, and writers as part
of the project.

ADP Interview-related activities:

    Create bibliographies and exhibition histories relevant to the
    artist/artwork under discussion, research other interviews the
    artist has given, review conservation and accession files
    relevant to the artwork under discussion, and create a
    preliminary list of interview questions and topics for
    discussion with the interviewer.

    Schedule interview with artist/studio and videographer and work
    with ADP partner institution staff to arrange for the movement
    of artwork as needed

    Work with the ADP Program Directors to create the edit decision
    list (EDL) for each interview, including caption suggestions,
    recommendations for incorporating B-roll into an interview,
    identification of proper names of people and materials mentioned
    during interview, and titles/dates of all exhibitions and
    artworks

    Research the historic photographic records of key artworks and
    other archival materials mentioned during interview, collaborate
    with the Rights and Reproductions departments of the partner
    institutions to request images and use permissions from outside
    sources, and prepare the materials for inclusion in video

    Work with conservation and collections management staff to
    ensure that information disclosed in the interview and/or in the
    course of the preparatory research is referenced in the
    conservation files and collections management systems of the
    appropriate partner institution

    Collaborate with ADP Program Directors and archivist to evaluate
    the extent to which the ADP Archive website and resources are
    responsive to researchers' needs to continually improve the
    Archive's research potential and anticipate trends in content
    discoverability, access, and presentation

    Work with ADP Program Directors, archivist, and the
    communications/digital media managers at the partner
    institutions to foster an understanding of and promote the ADP
    Archive's methodology among curators, conservators, university
    professors and their students, administrators, and the general
    public

Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and statement of
interest, not to exceed 500 words, by August 1, 2016, to:

    Director of Human Resources
    The Menil Collection
    1511 Branard Street
    Houston TX 77006

Application materials may also be emailed to smmaloch<-at->menil<.>org.

Bradford Epley
Chief Conservator
The Menil Collection
1511 Branard Street
Houston, Texas 77006
713-525-9413


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