MUSEUM STUDIES FELLOW AT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The School of Design and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at South Dakota State University invite applications for a new Museum Studies Fellow for the spring and summer 2023. This fellowship initiative has been made possible thanks to combined funding from the FUNd for Museum Studies and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
South Dakota State University offers the only program in Museum Studies across the state. Founded in 2015, the Museum Studies at SDSU is a dynamic, robust, collaborative and interdisciplinary minor. It provides students with a solid background in the preservation and presentation of cultural materials and artifacts, as well as in communication, design, and management skills.
Our minor is shaped and delivered as an academic-professional partnership with five institutions in Brookings: the South Dakota Art Museum, the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, the Children's Museum of South Dakota, McCrory Gardens, and SDSU's Archives and Special Collections at Hilton M. Briggs Library. The minor’s operations are managed within the School of Design, an interdisciplinary academic unit housing programs in Art Education, Studio Art, Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design.
The Museum Studies Fellow will be a graduate student (Master’s or PhD) with a Museum Studies background or some experience in collecting institutions, for instance museums, library archives, public gardens, state or national parks, or historic sites.
The Fellow will be actively involved in our spring 2023 Introduction to Museum Studies course and in our Summer 2023 Internships. They will shadow the Instructor of Record, visit all the partner institutions, be involved in the class activities, share insights with our undergraduate students. The fellow will also be actively involved with our partner institutions here in Brookings throughout the fellowship.
During the spring semester, the Fellow will deliver a public lecture centered on their own exhibition record, career path, research, and/or relevant experiences in the field.
The Fellow will be required to submit a progress report periodically throughout the fellowship and a final report at the end of the fellowship period. The report will be detailing the activities completed throughout the duration of the project and the learning that occurred; it will provide insights on how this multi-layered mentoring model has contributed to the Fellow's professional growth.
The Fellow will receive a $19,046 all-inclusive stipend to travel and live in Brookings for seven months, from January 7 to August 7, 2023. We will assist in identifying housing options.
We are excited that our interdisciplinary vision is further expanding through partnership with three prestigious institutions in New York: the Brooklyn Museum; the National Park Services (Roosevelt and Vanderbilt homes in Hyde Park, NY); and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. The fellow will be given an additional $2,000 stipend to travel to New York City to visit the museums of our out-of-state partners, talk with some of the staff, and catch a glimpse on connections between the fine arts, architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design in institutions, whose strengths complement those already present in Brookings.
A complete application package will include:
Please, email your application to Dr. Leda Cempellin, the Museum Studies Coordinator and Associate Director of the School of Design (Leda.Cempellin@sdstate.edu) by no later than September 20th, 2022. Finalists will be selected among the applicants for a Zoom interview during the month of October and the Fellow will be finalized by early November.
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program has announced that Dr. Maurice Berger, Research Professor + Chief
Curator for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is one of the recipients of its 2014 grants.
Maurice plans to conduct research on Robert Frank, focusing on contact sheets, notes, and shooting scripts for a two-part essay on Frank’s representations of race in The Americans. He will also conduct research for essays exploring parallel developments in African American, Latino, and Asian American photo-based art and photography from the 1960s to the present, focusing on the ways this work has challenged stereotypes and prevailing ideas about identity.
Designed to support writing about contemporary art, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts. The grant supports research for Maurice Berger’s monthly column, “Race Stories,” for the Lens Blog of the New York Times. The blog explores the relationship of photography to concepts, themes, and social or regional issues about race not usually covered in the mainstream media.
]]>Maurice Berger is a Research Professor at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC and a well-known cultural historian, curator and author who writes the Race stories series for the Lens Blog at the New York Times.
CADVC Research Professor Maurice Berger's Race Stories column on the Lens Blog of the New York Times focuses on the monumental survey of Latin American Photography, Urbes Murantes -- Mutant Cities, opening today, May 16,2014 at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Berger calls this "an extraordinary and historic exhibition."
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