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Job: Assistant Curator (Support Structure)
Assistant Curator (Support Structure) for Jade Foster, Curator
Responsible to: Curator (Part-time; 21 hours/3 Days)
Key Working Relationships: CEO / Artistic Director, Producer for CEO / Artistic Director, Future Curators Programme partners, Board of Trustees and Executive Director.
Wage: £25 per hour
Hours: 10 hours per week
Contract: Freelance/Self-Employed
Job Duration: 18 September 2024 until 21 July 2027
(with the possibility of extension)
Location: Hybrid – Nottingham & remote
(with national & international travel)
Trial Period: 3 months
Notice Period: 1 month
Start Date: Immediately. From 18 September onwards
Deadline for applications: Sunday 8 September, 10pm
‘Assistant Curator (Support Structure) for Jade Foster’ plays a vital role in DASH’s programme team, working collaboratively and directly with a Black, Queer (Jade uses they/them pronouns), Neurodivergent Curator with complex mental health needs.
The role is line managed by the Curator.
The working relationship between the Curator and Assistant Curator is to be profoundly interpersonal, transparent and healing, with the two staff members feeling as though they can thrive and feel ’at peace’ within the working environment at DASH. Both individuals will need to understand one another and be able to communicate with empathy and kindness.
This position emphasises the following:
- Artist-run practice – implementing an artist-led methodology at DASH as both the CEO / Artistic Director and Jade are practicing artists
- Active anti-racist, anti-ableist and social justice practice and training
- Supporting the Curator who is supported by the Artistic Director – that sets a clear vision, mission and purpose – with system change within DASH, with implications for broader organisational practice within other contemporary visual arts organisations.
Jade’s practice as a curator removes ableist barriers by creating work in which everyone is encouraged to engage with ‘crip time’, as a temporality which disability studies scholar Margaret Price explains as being flexible and recognising that people arrive at different intervals, rates, and paces.
The Assistant Curator will need to reflect on and embody this approach as a personal responsibility and a way of life rather than as something they do only in the context of the organisation. This thinking allows for system change and better equity and inclusion across different areas in life, from civic to workspaces.
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Please complete the Equality Monitoring form here
Applications should be forwarded to Curator, Jade Foster at: jade@dasharts.org
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