Museum of Arts and Design

We're hiring! The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) seeks a full-time Visitor Experience Manager. This Manager will be responsible for all aspects of customer service related to visitation at the Museum, including the Museum’s admissions ticketing system. The successful candidate will possess excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, demonstrated administrative, operational, and management experience, and the capacity to prepare and analyze data. The Visitor Experience Manager is a member of the Marketing and Communications Department and reports directly to the Director of Marketing and Visitor Services. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eUmyayG3 #visitorexperience

Join our Team! The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) seeks a Registrar who will oversee exhibition care including lender negotiations, shipping, packing/crating, customs brokerage, insurance, courier arrangements, and freight forwarding from consolidation through dispersal for multiple, concurrent, traveling (MAD-organized and outside organized), and in-house exhibitions. The position also oversees permanent collection’s care, including safety, storage, access, and documentation (digital and physical), loan agreements, and exhibition logistics as related to art objects and manages and/or executes incoming and outgoing loans for exhibitions. https://lnkd.in/eiY7H9ez

Opening June 1,?Craft Front & Center: Conversation Pieces?explores craft’s collaborative approach to learning and working by placing pioneering twentieth-century craft artists into dialogue with twenty-first century artists who are rethinking craft techniques and materials. Showcasing MAD’s permanent collection, the exhibition brings together more than sixty historic, recently acquired, and commissioned works in a range of artistic media; most prominently, the central craft materials of ceramic, glass, and fiber. Learn more:https://lnkd.in/eupJ9jAW

We're hiring! The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) seeks a Controller who will be at the forefront of our organization's financial operations, playing a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy, compliance, and timeliness of our financial reporting. Your responsibilities will encompass guiding the month-end closing process, producing comprehensive financial statements, managing grants and receivables, and coordinating budgeting activities. We are seeking an experienced professional with a keen eye for detail and exceptional leadership skills to uphold financial integrity and support strategic decision-making across our organization. Apply today: https://lnkd.in/eDN9uHAj

Join our team! The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) seeks a full-time Graphic Designer to join its Communications and Marketing team. Reporting to the Deputy Director, and collaborating with colleagues across Museum departments, the Graphic Designer will work in a fast-paced environment, generating a broad range of branded materials for print, web, and motion that support institutional goals, including marketing and advertising initiatives, fundraising activities, special events, and more. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eV5eATTz #graphicdesigner #artjobs #opportunities

Experience MAD’s exhibition survey of contemporary artist Sonya Clark with your community. Our one-hour private tours are led by a scholar of Black contemporary art who provides an in-depth look into Clark’s pioneering creative practice dedicated to the Black experience in America. An artist who is also an educator, Clark transforms emotionally resonant materials and everyday objects into opportunities for conversation and learning.?? ? Working across sculpture, video, photography, and installation, Sonya Clark encourages audiences to confront the country’s racial injustices. In addition to her mixed-media works, Sonya’s pioneering communal art projects invite people to make together so that they may understand better our country’s historical imbalances and bond as a community.?? ? Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other is on view through Sept 22. Tap the link below to book your tour today! https://lnkd.in/eG-Fn5_k

This fall, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents?Barbie?: A Cultural Icon, in collaboration with Illusion Projects and Mattel, Inc., a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. The major exhibition first debuted in 2021, welcoming thousands of visitors in both Phoenix and Las Vegas.?Barbie?: A Cultural Icon?marks its exclusive East Coast engagement at MAD, celebrating the 65th Anniversary of Barbie. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/e6k4dBwU

Next Thursday, May 2, join Sonya Clark and Lowery Stokes Sims, historian and curator emerita at MAD, for an inspiring conversation in celebration of Clark’s solo exhibition, Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other. The two close friends will discuss Clark’s thirty years of art-making dedicated to the Black experience in America, touching on themes of the politics of hair in the United States, the communal artmaking that forms the heart of Clark’s pioneering practice, and Clark and Sims’ past collaborations and long association with MAD. Tickets: https://lnkd.in/eW_qJqQ7

We're hiring! The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) seeks an Associate Director of Donor Relations who will play a pivotal role to raise annual support from individuals, beginning with gifts of $5,000 + with a particular focus on mid-to-higher level donors, Patrons, and Collector Circle members. This position involves identifying, cultivating, and soliciting prospective donors, as well as stewarding existing donors to deepen their engagement with MAD. https://lnkd.in/eprtyakK

This spring, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will present?Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other, highlighting thirty years of artmaking dedicated to the Black experience in America. On view from March 23–Sept. 22, 2024, the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the communal artmaking projects that form the heart of the artist’s pioneering creative practice. Accompanied by a selection of Clark’s photographs, prints, and sculpture, the exhibition will feature five of Clark’s large-scale, collaborative projects, including her barrier-breaking?The Hair Craft Project?(2014) and the ongoing performance initiated in 2015,?Unraveling. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFD_rZDv