Laura J. Allen (MA ’20) recently won a Founding Presidents Award from the Textile Society of America for a paper she delivered at their October 2020 symposium. Her paper investigated artistic and social aspects of a unique nineteenth-century Tlingit textile.

Debra Schmidt Bach (PhD ’15), curator of decorative arts at the New-York Historical Society, was featured in the New York Times’ article “What We Found in Robert Caro’s Yellowed Files”, on acquiring the archives and records of the journalist and author. She is planning a permanent Caro exhibition to open in September.

Sophie Pitman (MA ’13) will become the Rowland Distinguished Director of the Center for Design and Material Culture in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall of this year. She will further the development of the center’s textiles collection through curatorial research and programming, teaching and educational programs, and outreach to users both on and beyond campus.

The Emilio Ambasz Institute in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA is hiring its inaugural Director and Curator.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is seeking an Associate Director of Digital Media.

The School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida invites applications for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Museum Studies. 

The American Folk Art Museum is taking applications for its Warren Family Curatorial Fellowship. The role’s central focus will be on an upcoming 2023 exhibition—Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in Early American Vernacular Art (working title)—exploring African American representation and marginalization in early American art and material culture.

The Rubin Museum of Art seeks applications for the position of Senior Specialist, Himalayan Arts & Culture. 

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is hiring its next Director who will work with the Cooper Hewitt Trustees, team, and design community to craft a vision for its role as the country’s national design museum, strengthen its engagement with stakeholders, and build and lead an outstanding team.

The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum seeks a part-time Manager of Collections and Interpretation to coordinate all aspects of registration and collections management functions for the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, and incoming and outgoing loans.

The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma is hiring a Collections Manager for the Native American Languages Collection , who is responsible for maintaining the collection, both in terms of its current holdings and new accessions, namely in the processing, loaning, digitization, and preservation of print, audio, and video collections.