Job opening: Gallery Director

Application: tinyurl.com/CyberartsDirector

Priority application deadline: February 15, 2025. All applications received by 2/15/25 will be fully reviewed. The position will remain open until filled.

Part-Time, Hybrid / Flexible: 20 hours/week  

Required in-person time: minimum once weekly during gallery hours and during installations, receptions, and special events. Note: Current Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm and evening events. Pay: $25 pr/hour 

Boston Cyberarts seeks a Gallery Director to work in organizational, curatorial, and collaborative ways, with the mission to expand Boston Cyberarts’ presence and impact in the regional, national/international, and virtual art and technology worlds. 

Main duties include managing the gallery’s logistical operations, exhibition schedule, and media outreach. 

About:

Boston Cyberarts is a non-profit arts organization founded by George Fifield in 1996 with a mission to foster, develop, and present a wide spectrum of media arts, including emerging and established electronic and digital experimental arts programming. The Boston Cyberarts Gallery supports established media artists, fosters the development of new art practices, and engages with the community via exhibitions, special events, public art projects, educational programs, and collaborations with local organizations. More info: bostoncyberarts.org/about

Responsibilities:

  • Manage all gallery operations and logistics for exhibitions, events, and special projects. 

  • Based on expertise, either curate exhibitions or organize open calls for proposals from outside curators. 

  • Collaborate with Boston Cyberarts’ current art and educational partners for events, exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, etc.

  • Manage the exhibition and event calendar/schedule for the gallery

  • Schedule and supervise gallery staff, installation/event assistants, and interns to assist artists and guest curators with logistics and technical troubleshooting.

  • Create publicity materials, including press releases, mailing list emails, website, and social media updates.

Ideal Qualifications:

  • Minimum of two years of experience as a gallery director, manager, or curator

  • Excellent written and verbal communication and strong organizational skills

  • Experience writing press releases, social media, and website updating

  • Experience scheduling and training staff, volunteers, and/or college interns

Other desirable qualifications include:

  • Master's degree in Fine Art, Art History, Museum Studies, or related fields 

  • Experience in grant writing

  • Knowledge of contemporary new media art practices and artists 

  • Gallery installation experience

  • Ability to problem-solve with a wide range of technology, including video, sound, projection, networking, virtual/augmented reality, etc.

  • Familiar with the arts community in Boston and New England

  • Based in the Boston metro area

Application materials

  • Letter of interest (No more than two pages.) 

  • CV/Resume 

  • List of three references with name and contact info 

  • Optional but encouraged: Up to five examples of exhibition materials for which you were in charge

    Application: tinyurl.com/CyberartsDirector

    Questions? info@bostoncyberarts.org