Benjamin Maseman

505-***-****

ad35q5@r.postjobfree.com

Education:

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Non degree. Coursework in art history. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY. B.A. in Liberal Arts. Wadham College at University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PN, United Kingdom, one year study abroad program, (October 2021-May 2021), concentrations: History of Art, Literature, and Philosophy

Skills

● Writing and research abilities honed through independent research projects and experience writing didactic and analytic text for museum exhibitions.

● Knowledge of several databases including The Museum System (TMS), Archivist ToolKit, and Luna.

● Experience within the sphere of customer service.

● Constant and keen willingness to learn.

Employment:

Substitute Teacher, Amy Biehl Charter High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico - August 2023- present

● Coordinates with teachers to deliver lessons.

● Monitors and reports on student engagement.

● Studies and summarizes scientific concepts.

● Instructs regarding grammar, punctuation, and syntax. Intern, Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) - October 15th, 2021-December 15th, 2021

● Assisted with the promotion, editing, and organization for a one day academic conference titled Gianfranco Barucello: One Day Conference (December 9th, 2021) which concerned Psicoenciclopedia possible a conceptual art project interpreted and examined from critical, art historical, philosophical, and psychoanalytic perspectives.

● Researched screening rights and Public Performance Exemptions (PPE) for 10 Italian films shown in conjunction with an exhibition titled Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917.

● Collaborated with Director of Education, Niccola Lucchi to design educational programming in conjunction with Staging Injustice:Italian Art 1880-1917.

● Assisted with the promotion and organization of a one day academic conference titled Gianfranco Barucello: One Day Conference which concerned a conceptual art project interpreted and examined from critical, art historical, philosophical, and psychoanalytic perspectives.

● Discussed and introduced FACING AMERICA: MARIO SCHIFANO, 1960–1965, a retrospective of paintings by Italian postmodern painter, filmmaker, and photographer Mario Schifano.

● Researched and wrote social media posts concerning Italian Modern art, design, and architecture for CIMA’s Instagram and Facebook pages. Teaching Assistant for Patterns an undergraduate mathematics workshop at Sarah Lawrence (September 2021-December 2021)

● Instructed students in their creative explorations of mathematical concepts by asking questions and suggesting possible avenues of scientific learning.

● Assisted professor Philip Ording who teaches the now regularly offered seminar with preparation and organization of the workshops.

● Taught students about relevant concepts in mathematics -deduction, induction, commutativity, and associativity, and homomorphisms- to help them along in the workshop.

● Organized a field trip to the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers to study symmetry in quilt patterns and listen to a lecture professor Ording gave on geometry and the arts.

Summer Education and Curatorial Intern, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 2021-August 2021

● Provided visitors with information and ideas about the artworks on display engaging them in conversation about the material and the organization’s mission.

● Designed lesson plans for elementary, middle school, high school, and college students to enrich educational tours of the exhibition and gave one gallery tour based on the plan for the college students.

● Contributed to the organization’s digital archive by collecting and inputting metadata from exhibitions from 2016 to present.

● Contacted local businesses and recorded monetary values for a fundraising event to assist with a campaign arranged primarily by former director Suzanne Sbarge.

● Researched fair-use and transformative fair-use for a lecture given by Josie Lopez in order to ensure the organization’s educational programming was covered under that legal doctrine.

Student Research Assistant, Sarah Lawrence College’s Summer Science Program, Geometry of Natural Patterns led by professor Philip Ording, May 2021-July 2021

● Researched mathematical patterns and concepts to build into collaborative problems for a semester long seminar in math education at the college.

● Discussed techniques, ideas, and histories in mathematics and art to assist with the group’s development of the seminar.

● Wrote and designed collaborative lesson plans in mathematics concentrating on relationships between art, mathematics, and nature.

● Presented research and thinking during a student led symposium organized to share work completed by each group with Sarah Lawrence’s Summer Science Program.

Gallery Monitor and Assistant, The Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, January 2021- May 2021

● Prepared the art gallery for installation, patching walls, painting walls, building pedestals, and building knee walls.

● Installed artworks and vinyl lettering on the walls of the gallery.

● Organized and cleaned the woodshop and learned the basics of the tools in the shop.

● Recorded and collected documents from the history of the gallery and created a folder allowing the gallery to make consistent contact with artists whose work has been shown in the gallery.

● Developed advertising partnerships between the gallery and New York based art magazines and websites.

Archival Assistant, SLC Archives, Bronxville, New York, September 2019- May 2020

● Entered data and organized archival material through Archivist Toolkit, the college archive’s collection management database.

● Recorded and organized collections of material donated to the college archive incorporating them into the existing collection.

● Assisted the college’s archivists with research, resource requests, and public relations helping Sarah Lawrence alumni and members of the public learn familial and college history.

● Cataloged and documented material already in the archive’s collection creating a more comprehensive account of the collection.

Salesperson, Metal Center: Metal Roofing Supply Company, June 2019-August 2019

● Welcomed customers and helped them place their orders, answering their questions as needed.

● Answered and directed phone calls taking clear and detailed messages if necessary.

● Recorded company data and sales using QuickBooks, the company’s accounting program.

● Assembled packages of roofing materials for customers. Curatorial Intern, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2019-May 2019

● Assisted the Curatorial Department with historical and archival research concerning the visual and material culture of Yonkers and New York State.

● Organized and documented portions of the museum’s photo archive, making the collection more approachable to museum staff and the public.

● Input and organized collections data using The Museum System (TMS), the museum’s collections database.

● Edited didactic materials written for exhibitions and public programming. Education and Curatorial Intern, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2016-April 2018

● Independently cataloged and reorganized the museum’s research library, integrating the original collection with a large bequest of books.

● Assisted the Curatorial Department by researching artworks and writing didactic text for exhibitions concerning modern and contemporary American and Mexican painting.

● Curated Art of Politics, an exhibition of works on paper discussing and examining the interrelations between art and politics during the 20th century in America.

● Collaborated with the Communications Department to organize an artist panel and write educational resources in conjunction with the exhibition.

● Taught youth art classes and helped the museum school’s head teacher plan lessons related to the artworks on display in the museum’s galleries.

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