Apply for the Gallery Coordinator Position
Supervisor: Gallery & Venue Director
Employment Status: Full-Time
Pay Range: Starts at $15/hr (Adjusted depending on education and experience)
The Gallery Coordinator is responsible for curating exciting and diverse art exhibits and gallery-related events.
Areas of Responsibility
1. Artist Recruitment & Scheduling – Researching and recruiting artists to show diversity of art mediums. Ensures adequate staffing during gallery events.
2. Gallery “experiences” – Hanging of shows from start to finish and ensure impecible layouts are accessible to ZACC patrons both in the ZACC galleries and at off-site galleries. Manages the scheduling and performing on-site gallery tours, as well as audio tours for the visually impaired, and working with Education and Marketing & Events Directors to schedule and execute classes or lectures performed by artists showcasing in the gallery spaces.
3. Gallery Storage Management – Managing the storage of incoming and outgoing art, ensuring art is safe from physical damage and easily locatable.
4. Implementation & Management of Gallery Organizational Systems – Creating and implementing systems to help organize and streamline the production of gallery shows, including but not limited to, organization & production of artist labels, statements, and biographies, artist contracts, W9s, and gallery sales reports/receipts. Staff and volunteers understand and embrace systems.
5. Digital Assistance – Working with Gallery & Venue Director, and/or Director of Operations to populate auction platform with the art related auction items. Assisting with monthly promotional materials and other exciting promotional off-shoots.
Approaches
● Attention to detail: You aim to leave things better than you found them. As the owner of our galleries, you notice and fix errors that others might overlook. When mistakes happen (which they will!), you address them quickly and look for ways to prevent similar errors.
● Relationship-building: Part of your job is connecting with people from many different backgrounds. You find (and even create) opportunities to deepen connections and build authentic, mutual relationships with artists and volunteers across lines of difference, such as race or other identities. You truly welcome viewpoints that differ from your own, and you’re able to “sit with” discomfort when people express themselves in ways that aren’t familiar to you.
● Continuous learning: There’s always more to know out there, and you’re hungry for it. You absorb information from your colleagues, your work, and from keeping up with your field. If something doesn’t make sense, you ask questions until it does, and you apply what you learn in your work.
● Spirit of possibilities: You firmly believe that we can all do things we’ve never done before, and can stretch ourselves to achieve incredible results. You maintain an optimistic outlook and always look for ways to make ideas work before assuming they won’t.