Department Overview:
| The Chazen Museum of Art collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits works of art and presents related educational programs in support of the teaching, research, and public service mission of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Chazen does this because the visual arts enrich individual human experience and because knowledge of art is essential to understanding diverse cultures, past and present.
Anticipated Start Date:
| August/September 2025
Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):
| May 2026
Remote Work Eligibility Detail:
| Not Remote
Anticipated Hours Per Week:
| Minimum: 10 Maximum: 10
Schedule:
| 10 hours per week. Consistent weekly schedule to be agreed upon by the student employee and their manager upon hiring.
Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:
| Minimum: $15.30
Number of Positions:
| 1
Qualifications:
| Undergraduate students must have completed their first year of course work in good standing.
For the application: in the cover letter, please explain why you are interested in this position and describe any previous experience studying or researching art, history, cultures, languages, or other subjects. Cover letters should also specify: 1) When you would be available to start.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
| Able to manage time and complete tasks for multiple assignments. Research and writing skills. Demonstrates maturity and discretion. Research assistant will receive training to use the museum’s collection database (Embark) and carefully handle prints, drawings, and photographs in the collection.
Position Summary/Job Duties:
| The research assistant will work with Chazen’s Curator of Works on Paper in planning for multiple projects related to the permanent collection, new acquisitions, and gallery installations. The research assistant will research and write summaries (with citations) about artists and objects of art, compile and track lists of objects, enter information into the collection database closely following the museum’s guidelines, review object files, add research to object files, create and maintain spreadsheets to organize and track information, create bibliographies, assist in the preparation of presentations, run reports from the museum’s collection database, and other tasks. Work will be done on site at the museum.
Physical Demands:
| This job may include limited handling of works on paper in storage, which involves standing, lifting objects up to 25 pounds from low and high shelves, and moving those objects to and from work counters. However, as the focus of this job is research, accommodations can be made to reduce or eliminate these physical demands.
Institutional Statements:
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.
Institutional Statement on Diversity:Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit:
diversity.wisc.eduAccommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:
https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
