[UNF-DHI] 2022 Research Internship Opportunity at MOCA JAX: THE NORMAN FISHER FELLOWSHIP

[Pfister, Anne]

Please see below and attached for information on a 2022 Research Internship Opportunity at MOCA JAX.


THE NORMAN FISHER FELLOWSHIP (2022-2024)


Beginning Fall Semester 2022, running through Fall Semester 2023, MOCA is offering a paid research interdisciplinary internship position in their Curatorial Department. Open to both Graduate and Undergraduate students.


INTRODUCTION

In 1978, the Jacksonville Art Museum received the collection of Jacksonville native, Norman Fisher, following his premature death in 1977. In the course of his short life, Fisher would become a witness to, and participant in, the creative effervescence of the time in the arts, befriending many of the luminaries of the New York underground scene in the 70s, which would result in the collection of paintings, drawings, video, photography, books and performance ephemera of important artists in American Art, such as Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Serra, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jackie Winsor, but also of important artists from the music world such as David Bowie, Lou Reed, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson.


Following the accession of the collection, an exhibition, directed by Tina Girouard and Bruce Dempsey, was organized at the Museum in March of 1980. While many of the works of the deposit were photographed and catalogued for the occasion, a sizable portion of the collection remains to be properly recorded.


DESCRIPTION

This program is intended to give the opportunity to students to participate and support scholarly research related to the Norman Fisher Collection at MOCA Jacksonville, in preparation of an exhibit featuring the Norman Fisher Collection taking place in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of our institution in 2024.


The participating students will assist in conducting in-depth, art historical investigation connected with the items in the Collection, which include wide ranging objects: from pop art by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Indiana; photography-as-art by William Wegman, Leandro Katz, and Richard Landry, to the art photography of Christopher Makos and Robert Mapplethorpe; from Gordon Matta-Clark’s hand tinted pictures to Malcolm Morley’s prints; from the complete series of Avalanche magazine to signed first editions of William Burroughs; from drawings by Alex Hay to early pattern paintings by Tina Girouard; from the manuscript of the Einstein on the Beach opera to a record cover signed by Patti Smith to a print by David Bowie; from a photograph by Jackie Winsor to a poster for Joseph Kosuth’s first show, etc.


The program will consist of object-driven research, including access to the objects in the museum’s permanent holdings in the Norman Fisher Collection, and to the expertise of the museum’s professional staff. This training is aimed at on one hand, providing pre-graduate students with tools, skills, and experiences that will shape their future dissertation research and prepare them for further work as faculty, as well as for positions in museums, libraries, or other research settings involving collections; and on the other, provide graduate students with research and publication opportunity.


Due to the wide range of objects, this program is addressed to students interested in Interdisciplinary arts research, with particular focus on the development of the cultural scene of the 70s in New York.

The candidates, under UNF faculty mentor oversight, will work closely with MOCA Curatorial staff to catalogue the objects, participate in the preparation of the exhibition and contribute to the didactic material to be included in the catalogue and the galleries.


APPLICATION TIMELINE

Student applications will open Wednesday, June 1 and close on Friday, July 1, 2022. The Fisher Fellowship paid internship will begin Fall Semester 2022, with a four-term commitment through Fall Semester 2023. The four terms are Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, and Fall 2023. Student applicants should be considered “active” UNF students.


ACADEMIC CREDIT AND AWARD INFORMATION:

To best accommodate student financial and curricular needs, students will be able to choose between a non-academic credit option or an academic credit option. In conjunction with their faculty mentor and/or department chair, student applicants should determine the best fit for their major and program of study. The academic credit option will result in the student being charged applicable tuition and fees; however, the student will receive research or internship

academic credits that are required in some majors. The non-academic credit option does not grant academic credits and the student will not incur tuition and fee charges.


In partnership between MOCA and UNF Academic and Student Affairs, Fisher Fellows will receive $4,000 over the course of the paid internship ($1,000 per term). Payment will be in the form of wages if the student chooses the non-academic credit option or a scholarship if the student chooses the academic credit option, as long as the scholarship award does not exceed cost of attendance. Wages are taxable and will generate a W-2, while scholarships will not be taxed but will pay the student’s applicable educational costs.


To apply the candidate must:

· Be enrolled and in good standing

· Discuss with their professor and/or department chair to ensure the internship meets their program requirements

· Submit the following:

   - A resumé with GPA, graduation focus and expected date, awards, community service, contact information (telephone and email)

   - three references (telephone and email). One of the references must be a current professor.

   - A letter outlining the reasons for their interest in the post (500 words max.)


Please direct applications to Shana Dickler, Curatorial Assistant at MOCA, shana.dickler at unf.edu.


Applications submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.

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Anne E. Pfister<https://apfisteranthro.domains.unf.edu/>, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director, UNF Digital Humanities Institute<https://www.unf.edu/dhi/>
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224

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