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The Global Curator, 2009
A new international fellowship exchange program
Application Deadline: September 15, 2008
The Historians’ Special
Interest Group of Museums Australia and the
Curators’ Committee of the American Association of Museums
have joined forces to offer an exciting new international fellowship exchange program for their members:
The Global Curator program.
In its first year, the Global Curator program
is offering an fellowship of $2,000 to attend the Museums
Australia Annual Conference
to be held in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia,
May 17-20 2009. The successful applicant will receive free conference registration and free attendance
to selected conference events. He/she will be expected to present a paper at a Museum Historians’
Special Interest Group session during the conference.
In return, a fellow from Australia will come to the United States to attend the
AAM Annual Meeting and Museum Expo.
Application Eligibility
This fellowship is available to a museum curator or to independent museum
professional whose major job responsibilities are the care and
interpretation of museum collections. Collections may be of any genre.
- Applicant must be in an individual member in good standing of the Curators’ Committee of the American Association of Museums.
- Applicant must be currently employed by a museum in the United States or be an independent museum professional
for the past two years.
- Applicant must also register and attend the 2009 AAM annual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia.
- Applicant must be eligible for and willing to undertake travel to the Australia.
- All arrangements for international travel, including passports, visas, and other documents are the
sole responsibility of the Applicant. No obligations rest on CurCom or the Museum Historians' SIG if
the successful applicant is unable to obtain travel documents.
To Apply Please Send
A one page statement in answer to the following:
- How will participation in the Museum Australia Annual Conference benefit the applicant and their work in the field?
- How will this professional development opportunity enhance the Applicant’s career?
- How will the applicant use this experience to benefit the field?
- If the applicant has an institutional affiliation, please include a brief description of
the institution’s collections and the significant of the collection to their institution.
- A signed statement that the Applicant will be registering for and attending the 2009 AAM Annual Meeting to be held in
Philadelphia.
- A letter of recommendation and institutional support from the immediate supervisor. This letter
should also emphasize the applicant’s contribution to the profession. In the case of Independent
Museum Professionals applying, please include a letter from a senior museum colleague who is familiar
with your work in some capacity. Please be sure this person includes their e-mail address in the letter.
- A resume
- An abstract for a paper of approximately 30 minutes’ duration on the conference’s theme ‘Work in Progress’,
with emphasis on one or more of the sub-themes ‘Working Together’, ‘Working Hard’, ‘Working Differently’ and
‘Working New’ (focussing on innovation and collaboration). Further information on the conference is available
at www.museumsaustralia.org.au/site/pg700.php .
Due Date
- All applications must be received electronically by midnight, September 15, 2008.
Submission
- Applications must be submitted electronically to Deborah Tout-Smith,
Global Curator Australian Committee, at dtoutsm@museum.vic.gov.au. Please put the word ‘fellowship’
in the subject line. Applicants will receive a reply acknowledging receipt of the application.
Questions
- For further information about this exchange program, please contact Deborah Tout-Smith via
email at the above address. For information about the bursary offered to Australian curators to
attend the AAM Annual Meeting, contact Linda Eppich via email at
LEppich@newportmansions.org.
Results will be announced by November 1, 2008.
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