Fellowship: Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Objects/Paintings Conservation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC)

Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Objects/Paintings Conservation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Painted Surfaces by Folk and Self-Taught Artists at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2016-2017.
The Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is accepting applications for a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in the conservation of painted surfaces. Objects and Paintings Conservators may apply. The Kress Fellowship will focus on the treatment of works by twentieth-century, self-taught artists. SAAM has a large collection of work by self-taught artists that includes paintings with original painted frames, sculptures and works of art on paper.
The Kress Fellow will be encouraged to pursue avenues of research related to technical art history as well as aspects of conservation theory and ethics related to conservation treatments. A primary mission of the Lunder Conservation Center is to serve the professional and public communities through outreach. The Kress Fellow will actively participate with staff in planning a professional outreach activity related to the project(s). The Fellow will also participate in some of the routine activities of the Objects/Paintings conservation labs in order to prepare them for a museum job in the future.
The Fellowship includes a stipend of $32,000 and is to begin in September or October and run for a term of 12 months.  The Fellowship is open to Objects and Paintings Conservators. Candidates should have completed a master’s degree in conservation. Fellows must be either a resident or citizen of the U.S. or Canada, or a recent graduate from a conservation graduate program in the U.S. or Canada. This Fellowship is supported by a grant from the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
To apply, please submit a statement of interest, a C.V. and two letters of recommendation to Tiarna Doherty at the address below (by email).
The deadline for application materials is June 22, 2016. Interviews will be conducted by phone at the end of June with a final decision anticipated by the middle of July.
Tiarna Doherty, Chief of Conservation
Lunder Conservation Center
MRC 970 P.O. Box 37012,
Washington DC 20013-7012
email to: Dohertyt@si.edu; telephone: (202) 633-5802