Graduate Fellow, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

Posted March 25, 2018

Shelburne Museum is offering a 1-year post-graduate fellowship in objects conservation focused on two areas: conservation treatment of American folk art made of painted wood and a condition survey of a small collection of music boxes. The condition survey will include developing a workflow for recording the music boxes in operation using a format that is compatible with the museum’s collections management software.

Treatment projects have been chosen to help inform development of a treatment proposal for a painted wooden weathervane by noted wildfowl decoy carver Elmer Crowell (East Harwich, MA, 1862-1952).

The weathervane is presently in poor condition with a severely darkened surface coating that obscures details of the underlying painted surface and structural losses. In addition to developing the proposal for treating the weathervane and undertaking the treatment, the fellow will work with the museum’s curators and conservator to develop didactic material that explores conservation decision-making as it relates to the folk art collections at Shelburne Museum.

Visit our website https://shelburnemuseum.org/employment/, and download an application.

Forward completed application along with cover letter, resume and three letters of recommendation to [email protected] or Human Resources, Shelburne Museum, P.O. Box 10, Shelburne, VT 05482.