The Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums is offering a Curatorial Cataloguing Fellowship with the Costume and Textile Arts department at the San Francisco De Young Museum. This fellowship program aims to support the Museums’ strategic goal to significantly enhance the scope of information available about works of art in the Museums’ collection, and make this information digitally accessible to a wider public.
The two-year paid Fellowship program, onsite in San Francisco from September 2025-August 2027, is designed to provide an important professional development opportunity for eight emerging art museum professionals. We strongly encourage applicants from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the art museum field. This fellowship will advance participants’ curatorial training through rigorous research and cataloguing experience.
Costume and Textile Arts
Based at the de Young Museum, the Costume and Textiles Arts Fellow will work closely with the curatorial staff of The Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts, which is home to over 14,000 objects from cultures that represent over 125 geographic regions spanning nearly three millennia. With examples ranging from Coptic textile fragments to 20th- and 21st-century women’s fashion, the collection is one of the most diverse of its kind. Within the department’s holdings is a named collection of over 600 Central Asian and Islamic carpets and textiles gifted to the Museums by Caroline and H. McCoy Jones, also for whom the department is named. The department seeks a Fellow to assist in cataloging this material, with a particular focus on documenting each object’s geography, cultural and tribal affiliation, weave structure, and provenance.
Schedule: This 2 year, fixed-term Union position from September 2025-August 2027. The workweek is Monday – Friday, 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week onsite at the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums in San Francisco, CA. This position may be eligible for hybrid work, based on departmental needs.
Benefits: This is a Union position with a benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) for retirement, and paid time off. Relocation support may be available for successful candidates who are outside the Bay Area.
Pay: Fellows begin on Step 1 of the union wage scale, which is $27.00 per hour.
Application deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025 (9pm PST). Final selection will be communicated in early May 2025.
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