McKissick Museum seeking folklife program director
Application deadline: Friday, Oct. 4, 2019
The University of South Carolina McKissick Museum is looking for a folklife program director to implement folklife-related public programs and research.
The position is funded by a renewable folklife partnership grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC). That grant enhances McKissick Museum’s ability to document for archival purposes the cultural practices of tradition bearers in South Carolina and to raise public awareness and appreciation of these practices through a variety of public program formats.
The new folklife program coordinator collaborates both with McKissick’s chief curator of folklife & fieldwork and the SCAC’s program specialist in community arts & folklife to conduct fieldwork related to the SC Tradition Bearers Survey Project and SCAC’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Initiative.
The role will also involve coordinating major annual public programs, including:
- the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards (FHA) ceremony:
- a McKissick Mixer featuring Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award (FHA) recipients:
- FOLKFabulous, a 12-day public program series organized in partnership with the South Carolina State Fair in conjunction with the Museum’s year-long folklife exhibition(s).
The person in this position also is responsible for developing 2-3 programs annually (besides FOLKFabulous) that integrate tradition bearers statewide to enhance the impact of the year-long folklife exhibit. Conducts in-depth fieldwork with tradition bearers identified in the Tradition Bearers Survey Project, logs audio/visual materials for deposit in the Folklife Resource Center (FRC) and makes research available through Digital Traditions and other digital media Platforms.
Learn more about the position by visiting the official posting here.