This first comprehensive exhibition of the influential designer opens June 17 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., April 17, 2017 –This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum will host the U.S. debut of the landmark exhibition Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe, the first major retrospective of this former Grosse Pointe resident known for injecting joy …
Cranbrook Art Museum is situated at the heart of a lush 319-acre campus of historically significant architecture and beautiful grounds in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The Art Museum is part of Cranbrook Educational Community, which also includes the pre K-12 college preparatory Cranbrook Schools, an Institute of Science, the historic Cranbrook House and Gardens, and an internationally acclaimed Academy of Art. The Art Museum’s mission invites visitors to discover relevant and transformative moments in modern and contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design through our exhibitions, collections, educational programs, and publications.
Create Camps Activity Coordinators engage students and foster a joyful and organized camp experience. An ideal candidate is a resourceful individual that can enthusiastically collaborate with the Camp Supervisor to ensure that the camp operations are running smoothly. Activity Coordinators supervise students during lunch, outdoor play, and classroom breaks. In addition, this individual will prepare camp materials and supplies, document camp with photography, assist in classroom studios and with museum visits, and other duties as assigned. This position is intended for an individual who would like to gain additional experience in youth education.
Typical schedule is Monday–Friday, (10:30 am–3:30 pm) shifts; approximately 25-30 hours/week.
2 positions available.
Training for camp starts in June 2024.
Camps run July 8 – August 16, 2024.
Rate: $16.75 per hour
Preferred Qualifications
Cranbrook Art Museum is accepting applications for an Assistant Preparator. This position will assist the team responsible for the preparation of galleries, installation and deinstallation of objects for exhibition. This is a part-time position, working during installation periods, approximately 10 weeks each year between May and October. The Assistant Preparator must be able to work flexible hours.
Create Camps Education Assistants engage students and foster an environment of innovation and self-expression. An ideal candidate is a resourceful individual that can enthusiastically collaborate with the Teaching Artist to assist with classroom management and high-quality art instruction. Education Assistants will aid in demonstrations and classroom organization, monitor use of materials and supplies, assist campers with art making projects, attend to minor first aid needs, and other duties as assigned. This position is intended for an individual who would like to gain additional experience in youth education.
Typical schedule is Monday–Friday, 8:30am–3:30pm, with longer days Mondays and Fridays; approximately 35 hours/week. 3-6 weeks (some flexibility).
4 positions available.
Training starts early June 2024.
Camps run July 8 – August 16, 2024.
Rate: $19/hour
Preferred Qualifications:
Cranbrook Art Museum is accepting applications for a Preparator. They will assist with the preparation of gallery spaces, furniture, installation and deinstallation for each exhibition within the museum. This includes setting gallery lights and installing audio/video presentations. Must have woodworking experience and demonstrate the ability to operate a table saw, routers, and other machines safely. The preparator helps manage the floor and work of assistant preparators during the preparation, installation, and strike of all exhibitions, at times giving direction and making sure proper protocols for art handling, storage, and display are being met.
This is a part-time position, working on average 20 hours per week with hours increasing during peak times: installation and de-installation (4 times a year), and potentially decreasing during down time.
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Cranbrook Art Museum is accepting applications for a paid, full-time, curatorial assistant in residence as its 2024–2025 Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellow. This is a unique opportunity for an emerging museum curator with a passion for contemporary art, craft, or design to play an important role in the presentation and interpretation of Cranbrook’s diverse collections and exhibitions programs.
The Fellow is a key member of the curatorial team and is actively involved in both research as well as the development and execution of temporary exhibitions. The intimate scale of the institution ensures that Fellows are exposed to all aspects of museum operations. Since its inception in 1998, the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellowship at Cranbrook Art Museum has attracted talented new curators who have gone on to lead curatorial programs in major museums across the country.
Reporting directly to the Associate Curator of Collections, and working collaboratively with other staff of the Art Museum, as well as staff from other Cranbrook units, the Fellow will assist in the research and development of exhibitions; research the holdings of the Art Museum; and help with the display and interpretation of art.
The ideal candidate should have an M.A. in art, architectural, craft, or design history, material culture, or a related field (completion of M.A. coursework required), with an emphasis on 20th and 21st-century art with an interest in the craft, architecture, and design of the same period; demonstrated object-based research and interpretation skills; outstanding speaking, writing, and editing skills; attention to detail; strong computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite); and collections database experience (TMS strongly preferred). Previous curatorial experience or internships preferred but not required. Knowledge of aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) are helpful, but not required.
Cranbrook Art Museum is a leading venue for the presentation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, craft, architecture, and design. The Art Museum is located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of metropolitan Detroit, on the beautiful 319-acre historic landmark campus of the Cranbrook Educational Community. The Art Museum’s sister institution is Cranbrook Academy of Art, a renowned graduate school of art, architecture, craft, and design. While the collections of the Art Museum span the 20th and 21st centuries, the permanent collection focus is on the achievements of faculty and students of the Academy of Art and of artists in the Detroit metropolitan area. The Art Museum frequently presents public art programs in the city of Detroit, working with a range of creative collaborators, diverse artists and curators, and various community partners. Each year the Art Museum also presents artworks created by the graduating class of Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2011, the Art Museum completed a renovation of its original 1942 Art Museum and Art Library building designed by Eliel Saarinen and created a new Collections Wing, a purpose-built, state-of-the-art handling and storage facility for its collections, which allows for a curated and publicly accessible viewing of selections from nearly 7,500 works of art.
Compensation and Residential Housing The 12-month fellowship begins in July 2024 and continues through June 30, 2025. The fellowship is subject to renewal for a second year, based on performance, allowing for the continued development and realization of longer-term projects. This is a full-time (40 hours per week) position with annualized compensation of $37,800, with an apartment on Cranbrook’s campus provided (no pets or smoking permitted). The position is also eligible for Cranbrook’s Blue Cross Blue Shield Simply Blue PPO medical plan.
Applications reviewed until position filled with priority given to applications received by April 4, 2024. Please send a cover letter (including Fellowship and career trajectory and goals), résumé, writing sample, list of three references with contact information (phone, email). Please be sure all documents are uploaded at the time you submit your application.
Create Camps Teaching Artists engage students and foster an environment of innovation and self-expression. Each Teaching Artist leads daily visual arts experiences in the studio and in the Cranbrook Art Museum. An ideal candidate is a resourceful educator with endless enthusiasm for working with young artists. Our Create Camps maintain small teacher to student ratios to ensure that participants receive high-quality art instruction and benefit from frequent object-based explorations in the galleries.
Teaching Artists work in concert with an Education Assistant in the classroom. Typical schedule is Monday–Friday, 8:30am–3:30pm, with longer days Mondays and Fridays; approximately 35 hours/week. 3-6 weeks (some flexibility).
4 positions available.
Training starts early June 2024.
Camps run July 8 – August 16, 2024.
Rate: $21.75/hour
Preferred Qualifications
The Visitor Services Representative (VSR) provides enthusiastic customer service to visitors at Cranbrook’s Art Museum’s seasonal outdoor installation, Cranbrook on the Green. The summer VSR will help orient visitors to the course, create a welcoming environment, help maintain outdoor spaces, follow opening and closing procedures, and other support in museum operations as necessary.
This is a temporary/seasonal position, with employment dates anticipated to run from April 22 – October 1, 2024.
Rate: $16.50 per hour
Exhibition Preview on April 22 OPEN(STUDIOS) Returns on April 30 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 21, 2017 –The 2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art opens to the public on April 23 and will showcase work from more than 60 graduating Cranbrook Academy of Art students. Featuring pieces that …
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 15, 2017 – Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of our new exhibition, Finland 100: The Cranbrook Connection, which recognizes Finland’s centennial of independence and examines the profound influence this country has had on the development of the arts in America. The …
Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape examines the role of designed objects that define and animate our interior environments. The exhibition features contemporary furniture and furnishings by recent alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art that challenge conventions of use, explore new materials and techniques, and blur the boundaries between …
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