Professional Development Workshop: Crafting Cover Letters
Friday, June 2, 9 AM PST / 12 Noon EST / 5 PM BST
Please join us June 2 for a professional development workshop on Cover Letters. This workshop will offer information on the core components of cover letters for both museum and academic job applications. Leading the workshop will be Leslie Ureña, Associate Curator, Global Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Emily Voelker, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Both Leslie and Emily will offer an overview of "dos and don'ts" for the cover letter, discussing formatting, structuring, and tailoring the letter for specific jobs. We will then open the discussion to questions from the audience. The workshop will conclude with breakout groups, where participants will be divided into smaller groups and offered structured time to workshop their cover letters together.
Leslie Ureña is a curator and photography historian whose work focuses on migration, trans-national art practices, and photography as an agent of social change. She is currently Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Previously, Ureña was curator of photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; and has also worked in curatorial departments at the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. She has taught art history courses in Washington, DC, and Taipei, Taiwan, and her writing has appeared in catalogues and collected volumes.
Emily Voelker is Assistant Professor of Art History in the UNC Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts. A historian of photography and nineteenth-century art, her work focuses on transatlantic exhibition culture, Indigenous representation, and changing meanings and uses of the archive over time. She is currently completing her first monograph, "Circulating Pictures / Contested Geographies: Photography, Native American Sovereignty & the French Atlantic Imaginary." Her work has been supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, among others.
Photography Network membership is required to attend. To become a member, sign up here: Register here for the event on Friday, June 2, 9 AM PST / 12 Noon EST / 5 PM BST.