DepartmentAbout us:

The university’s second largest division, U of T Mississauga has 17 academic departments and offers 156 programs in 92 areas of study. Home to approximately 15,000 students and over 1,000 faculty and staff, the campus houses the Mississauga Academy of Medicine, Centre for Medicinal Chemistry and Institute for Management and Innovation. With its distinctive interdisciplinary programs such as forensic sciences and biomedical communications, U of T Mississauga offers a broad array of continuing education programs and professional masters programs. Established in 1967, the campus features award-winning architecture, robust community partnerships and a dynamic student environment set amongst 225 acres along the Credit River in Mississauga.

Your opportunity:

The Blackwood Gallery is a centre for contemporary art and research at the University of Toronto Mississauga. We respond to social, political and ecological urgencies through exhibition-led inquiries, discursive events, commissioned artistic works, performances, publishing platforms, and educational projects. We present curated exhibitions featuring the work of local, national, and international professional artists in three spaces on campus and our programming includes off-site projects and exhibitions. The Blackwood cultivates cultures of learning, provides mentorship, and facilitates professional development. We respond to diversity mandates within the Canadian art ecology and work to promote equity and inclusion through strategies of anti-oppression, feminism, and social justice. The Exhibition Coordinator is part of a tightly knit team designed to move the Blackwood Gallery forward as a leader in contemporary art, curatorial experimentation, and knowledge-production. If you’re motivated and energized by the potential for a gallery to hold together research, creation, inquiry, interaction, and conversation, consider a career with us.

The Blackwood is at a critical and exciting moment of growth and change and this position represents an opportunity to play a key role in the gallery’s future. Our leadership team provides an open, professional environment that fosters a constructive culture built on respect, goal orientation, self-motivation, accountability, and teamwork.

Under general direction of the Director/Curator and general supervision of the Assistant Curator, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating the exhibition program, digital platforms, work-study program, and facilities of the Blackwood Gallery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the first point of contact for general inquiries
• Analyzing and recommending strategies to develop targeted marketing campaigns
• Maintaining information on digital platforms, collating and organizing data for various reports and editing content for grant applications.
• Coordinating the installation and de-installation of exhibits and artwork
• Coordinating the schedule for program and event calendars
• Coordinating the recruitment process and training of work-study staff
• Developing and maintaining procedures for the administration of art collections.
• Determining logistical details and activities for events and/or programming.

CampusEssential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in visual arts or acceptable combination of education and experience.
• Minimum three years previous art gallery experience and knowledge of contemporary art.
• Experience in all areas of exhibition making in a non-profit gallery or museum context including scheduling, shipping, condition reporting, design, and determining necessary equipment, fabrication, and material needs.
• Experience with all technical aspects of exhibition production including but not limited to installation, audio and video, performance-based and live actions, and new media.
• Experience in coordinating efforts of casual installation techniques and training students.
• Experience providing administrative support including coordinating logistics of events, scheduling meetings, maintaining information on digital platforms, databases, arranging meetings, and minute taking.
• Experience compiling and archiving documentation, press, publicity and pertinent information on exhibitions and gallery programs.
• Advanced knowledge of technical and aesthetic dimension of exhibition making.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, analyze, prioritize and make decisions through all aspects of project implementation from fabrication to installation.
• Excellent knowledge of physical handling of works of art in a diversity of media.
• Excellent communications (oral and written) skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
• Advanced computer skills (Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Photoshop, In-Design, Sketch-Up, database programs, desktop publishing).
• Effective problem solving and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise tact, diplomacy, empathy, sound judgment and discretion.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Ability to navigate intellectually challenging materials (interdisciplinary research, educational texts, concepts).
• Experience coordinating community outreach programs.
• Capable of leading gallery tours and making presentations for diverse publics.
• Supervisory experience would be an asset.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Goal oriented
• Multi-tasker
• Possess a positive attitude
• Resourceful
• Responsible
• Team player

Department: UTM: Blackwood Gallery
Campus: Mississauga
Schedule: Full-time
Job Field: Arts & Culture
Job Posting: May 17, 2019
Job Closing: Jun 5, 2019, 10:59:00 PM