The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation is looking for an additional senior staff person to help continue to grow the art collection and art exhibition program!
The Senior Director of Collections, working with the Collection Manager is responsible for the day-to-day strategic management of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Collection of over 22,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, glass, art, and Native art. This position is a co-equal to the current Collection Manager and reports directly to Jordan Schnitzer.
Named recently as one of the top 200 art collectors in the world, Jordan Schnitzer has amassed a collection that is all about the art and the audience. He has created one of the most significant post-World War II collections of the most important artists of our time. The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation's purpose is to help share its amazing collection with the public. To date, the robust art lending exhibition program has had over 130 exhibitions solely from its collection and 300 loans to many more museums. The 8 to 10 exhibitions consisting of 75 to 175 works of art from the collection are traveling at all times with no cost to the borrowing institutions. The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation has been very supportive of funding additional education programs, especially bringing in grade school and high school students from under resourced neighborhoods who may not otherwise have the opportunity to visit local art museums.
The collection is always growing, adding approximately 1,000 new works a year. New additions to the collection vary from buying prints and multiples of the post-World War II artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, David Hockney, Jeff Koons and Frank Stella, while also aggressively buying artwork of the leading contemporary artists such as Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Adam Pendleton, Derrick Adams, Edgar Heap of Birds, Allison Saar, Wendy Red Star, Anish Kapoor, and many others.
The acquisition of these current artists consists mainly of paintings and sculptures as well as their prints, but the objective is always to collect a substantial amounts of work so the collection can provide comprehensive, retrospective exhibitions of each artist individually or any thematic exhibition including a variety of artists that any curator or museum director might dream about exhibiting.
Responsibilities of this position include the care, preservation, and risk management of the collection. There are currently 14 professionals who work in the program, and this management position will manage the co-equal responsibility of the existing Collection Manager to ensure the record-keeping, safety, handling, packing, conservation, storage, transit, and logistics of the collection continues to be best-in-class. The successful candidate must have a thorough knowledge and experience in all aspects of managing a large art collection.
This is an exciting opportunity in the art world to be part of an organization that shares world-class art with university museums, regional museums, as well as major museums in many metropolitan areas across the country and also meet some of the leading-edge artists of our time!
We look forward to receiving your resume and interest in this new position!