Vice President of Art and Education and Gund Family Chief Curator

The Barnes Foundation (the Barnes) seeks an accomplished scholar, enterprising leader, and collaborative administrator to serve as the Vice President for Art and Education and Gund Family Chief Curator. Reporting to the Neubauer Family Executive Director and President, the Vice President will serve as a key member of the Barnes’s senior leadership team, and, working in close partnership with the Executive Director, provide strategic vision and leadership for the planning, priority-setting, integration, and stewardship of a forward-looking and financially sustainable institution. They will shape the curatorial and educational vision for the institution in alignment with and reflecting the larger strategic goals of the Barnes. They will organize and publish their own curatorial projects while overseeing the curatorial, collections, conservation, registration, exhibitions, and research, interpretation, adult learning, and academic programs departments.

The ideal candidate will have a distinguished curatorial record and astute organizational and communication skills, and will be adept at creating and fostering collaborative working relationships across the entire range of departments and programs of the Foundation, including its affiliates, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and Calder Gardens. They will passionately convey the legacy, impact, strategy, and future direction of collections and exhibitions across audiences and constituencies.

The Vice President will work to define research, curatorial, and adult educational programs and will lead efforts to develop and implement comprehensive exhibition and academic programs that advance the institution’s visibility and reputation regionally, nationally, and internationally; the ability to include paintings from the collection will enhance the educational value of the institution’s special exhibitions, foster new scholarship, and increase awareness of and interest in the Barnes. Lending works from the collection to exhibitions at other museums will expand international research, introduce diverse perspectives on the collection and under-studied works in it, and ensure the story of Dr. Barnes as a collector and educator is more broadly understood in the historical record and contemporary discourse. The Vice President will possess the necessary knowledge, experience, and national and international networks to maximize the potential of this unequalled opportunity for the global art world and lead this exciting new endeavor for the institution and the field.

This position will direct and motivate a talented and dedicated team of 20 professionals who manage and oversee a broad range of mission-critical projects, programs, and activities. The Barnes has an entrepreneurial, high-performance culture that allows a relatively small team to be effective on a large and complex scale. The Barnes has a total annual operating budget of $32 million and the Vice President will oversee a budget of more than $7 million.

Sarah James and Ryan Leichenauer are leading this search with Siobhan Hanley.

The Barnes is a Drug-Free Workplace and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. The Barnes is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, services, programs, and activities.