Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum seeks a creative and dynamic 
leader for the position of Director. Founded in 1876, the museum was 
one of the first academic museums in the United States.  It serves as a 
multidisciplinary cultural laboratory for the college, with a 
comprehensive permanent collection of over 16,000 objects, and is 
actively used in teaching by faculty and students. A lively schedule of 
innovative and intellectually rigorous exhibitions and programs 
complements the rotating installations of works of art from the 
museum?s own holdings.

The Director of the Art Museum is appointed by the President and 
reports to the Dean of Faculty. The Director supervises a staff of four 
full-time and several outside-funded full and part-time professionals, 
and works closely with the senior administration, the faculty, 
students, and the museum?s Art Advisory Board.

Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college for women with 
2,100 students (one quarter of whom are international, and another 
quarter or whom are domestic students of color).  Half of the 210 
faculty are women and one fourth are persons of color.  The college is 
located about 80 miles west of Boston in the Connecticut River valley, 
and is a member of the Five College Consortium consisting of Amherst, 
Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of 
Massachusetts at Amherst.  The Mount Holyoke Art Museum regularly 
collaborates with the art museums and galleries at these other 
institutions.  Mount Holyoke is committed to fostering multicultural 
diversity and awareness in its faculty, staff, and student body and is 
an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and persons of color are 
especially encouraged to apply.

For more information about the Art Museum, please see our website: 
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum/index.html.

Qualifications

The Director of the Museum should have a Ph.D. in art history or 
equivalent scholarly credentials, demonstrated leadership and 
management ability, and at least five years of museum experience, 
including administration, fundraising, strategic planning, and 
collection development. The Director of the Art Museum should have a 
strong interest in working with faculty and students and a commitment 
to serving as an advocate on behalf of the visual arts for a diverse 
constituency.

Application Instructions

Letter of interest, c.v., three letters of reference, and a brief 
writing sample should be submitted online to: 
http://jobsearch.mtholyoke.edu, no later than 12/1/2010 for full 
consideration.  All applications will be confidential.







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