aceartinc – Interim Director and Programming Assistant Positions
Job Opportunities: Interim Director and Programming Assistant
aceartinc, Winnipeg
aceartinc. has two employment opportunities coming up: Interim Director and Programming Assistant. Info and links to more detailed job descriptions below. Call or email if you have questions: 204 944 9763 | vacancy@aceart.org
POSITION: Interim Director, aceartinc.
TERMS: 35 hours per week, 12 month, full-time position (with a 3 month probationary period)
SALARY: $35,000 – $37,000 per annum plus benefits, dependent on experience.
DEADLINE: 4pm, Tuesday 30 October 2018
APPLY TO: vacancy@aceart.org Subject line: Application- Interim Director
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are seeking an organised, efficient, energetic, and cheerful individual who understands and champions Artist Run Centres and contemporary art. This role is highly self-directed, requiring the ability to prioritize tasks effectively while working with a small, enthusiastic, fierce, and friendly team. In addition to fulfilling the essential duties necessary to realize ace’s mandate and vision, the applicant will also demonstrate ingenuity and grace in managing unexpected tasks that arise in an Artist Run Centre.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Interim Director is responsible for implementing the scheduled program for twelve months as well as seeking other opportunities for the centre and the artists we serve within this period and beyond. In this capacity, the Interim Director will work closely with the Finance and Administration Manager.
Areas of responsibility include: implementing the 2018/19 exhibition program of juried artists, scheduling all events (talks, workshops, partnerships), organising and editing writers for the Critical distance writing program, managing the Cartae Open School Program, working closely with the Flux Committee, and maintaining the Indigenous Curatorial Residency.
Full info here: https://www.aceart.org/employment-opportunities
POSITION: Programming Assistant, aceartinc.
TERMS: 15 hours per week, 12 month, part-time position (with a 2 month probationary period)
PAY: $17/hour
DEADLINE: 4pm, Tuesday 30 October 2018
APPLY TO: vacancy@aceart.org Subject line: Application- Programming Assistant
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are seeking an organised, reliable, energetic, and cheerful individual who understands and champions Artist Run Centres and contemporary art. Working with a small, enthusiastic, fierce, and friendly team, you will carry out duties necessary to realize ace’s mandate and vision.
This position is an excellent entry-level opportunity for a motivated individual with strong communication and organising skills who has a deep interest in artist-run centres, arts administration, and contemporary art.
Full info here: https://www.aceart.org/employment-opportunities
These positions have come up in response to hannah_g’s, aceartinc.’s Director, opportunity to pursue a Canada Council funded writing project.
ace is delighted to share the wonderful news that hannah_g has been awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to work on an experimental art writing project, Critical Fictions. To support her work, the Board Directors of aceartinc. have given hannah a twelve month sabbatical, commencing November 2018.
In addition to implementing the superb annual juried exhibition program of five exhibitions , among other related activities, hannah champions emerging art writers through the Critical Distance writing program. She has been instrumental in directing transformational initiatives at ace such as: The Cartae Open School (co-founded with Jamie Wright and Helga Jakobson), The Flux Gallery (co-founded with Hannah Doucet), the Indigenous Curatorial Residency (with support from Jaimie Isaac, Nikki Little, Jenny Western, ACC-CCA, and NIMAC), and the BIPOC art & culture writing workshop series (with Creative Manitoba Indigenous Programs and the University of Winnipeg’s Institute of Women & Gender Studies.) The board and staff will miss working with her but enthusiastically await what she fills the next twelve months with…
It is with excitement that aceartinc. is seeking an Interim Director and Programming Assistant to take over hannah’s duties for the duration of her leave.