Opportunities
Fowler Staff Positions
Curatorial Assistant
The Fowler Museum at UCLA seeks a 50% (20 hours per week) Curatorial Assistant to participate in a 3-year collaborative interdisciplinary project funded by the Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The project will expand the Museum’s engagement with religion via exhibitions and programming centered on well-informed and culturally sensitive portrayals of religious beliefs and practices.
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Program Coordinator and Educator
The Fowler Museum at UCLA seeks a 50% (20 hours per week) Program Coordinator and Educator to participate in a 3-year collaborative interdisciplinary project “Engaging Lived Religion in the 21st-Century Museum,” funded by the Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. This initiative will expand the Fowler’s engagement with religious communities via programming, digital learning, and exhibitions centered on religious beliefs and practices.
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Volunteering at the Fowler
The Fowler often has volunteer opportunities for people ages 18 and older who seek greater involvement at the Museum. From assisting with research and conservation to staffing membership tables at events, volunteers play an important role in maintaining the Museum’s tradition of excellence.
If you would like to volunteer, please complete the Volunteering Request Form.
Opportunities for UCLA Students
There are currently no open opportunities for UCLA students. Please check back next quarter.
Scholarships and Awards
The Arnold Rubin Award and the Ralph C. Altman Award are for Ph.D. students planning a career in a field related to non-Western art. Applicants should be a graduate student working in the areas of African, Pacific, Asian, or Native North and South American arts and material culture, or popular culture phenomena emphasizing the unconventional arts of living peoples, regardless of geographic area.
The recipient of the Rubin award will receive $3,000 and the recipient of the Altman award will receive $4,000. Applicants will be considered automatically for both awards. Any Ph.D. student registered at UCLA (or receiving a Ph.D. degree from UCLA) in the fields described above is eligible; students from a wide range of departments are encouraged to apply.
Recipients are expected to present their findings at a roundtable session with the staff of the Fowler Museum and to credit the awards in any resulting publication, a copy of which should be provided to the Museum.
The Sarah Elizabeth Gilfillan Award was established in 2007 by family, friends and colleagues in memory of Sarah Gilfillan. She was associate director of development for the Fowler Museum and did curatorial work on several important Latin American projects. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Ms. Gilfillan had extensive experience researching and working in art museums and galleries in Brazil, Mexico and Spain. Her goal had been to enter a Ph.D. program in Latin American art history.
This award provides a travel stipend of $3000 to assist with field research or study abroad. Only Ph.D. students in the field of Latin American arts may apply.
Established in 2017 to honor the legacy of Dr. Charles E. Rozaire, the Rozaire Research Award focuses on his life’s work conducting archaeological fieldwork and researching museum collections across California, the US Southwest, and Mexico. The award supports costs associated with undergraduate or graduate student research analyzing existing material cultural collections and/or archives with priority given to students using Fowler Museum collections and / or following indigenous research protocols (see Section 3 of https://www.uvic.ca/hsd/research/igovprotocol.pdf for an example of the latter).
The recipient of the Rozaire Research Award will receive $2,500.
Submission instructions and application forms for the 2021 Awards can be found here:
Altman, Rubin, Gilfillan Awards
Rozaire Award
Application forms are also available by emailing our Executive Assistant, Sophia Livsey at slivsey@arts.ucla.edu.
