Curatorial Cataloguing Fellow – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco seeks to hire a full-time curatorial cataloguing fellow for Ancient Art. This fellowship program aims to support the Museums’ strategic goal to significantly enhance the scope of information available about works of art in the Museums’ collection, and make this information digitally accessible to a wider public. The two-year paid Fellowship program, onsite in San Francisco from September 2025-August 2027, is designed to provide an important professional development opportunity for eight emerging art museum professionals. We strongly encourage applicants from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the art museum field. This fellowship will advance participants’ curatorial training through rigorous research and cataloguing experience.
Under the supervision of Curators, Curatorial Cataloguing Fellows will be responsible for cataloguing works of art from the Museums’ permanent collection, with particular focus on enhancing information about the artwork’s provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic records. Guided by the FAMSF curatorial team, Fellows will analyze gaps in existing collections data, conduct collection research, and write textual entries for the Museums’ collection management database, The Museum System (TMS). Throughout the two-year program, Fellows will also have the opportunity to engage with visiting experts in the field of provenance, research, and collections data to strengthen their professional development.
A Fellow will be assigned to each of FAMSF’s eight curatorial departments: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (works on paper); Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas; American Art; Ancient Art; Contemporary Art; European Decorative Arts and Sculpture; European Paintings; and Textile Arts. Fellows will be matched based on areas of interest and experience and will work directly with department curators, who will serve as supervisors and offer mentorship throughout the fellowship. Applicants may apply to more than one department.
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