Summer Art Camp Instructor
Status: Full-time Summer Student Employment (40 hours per week)
Supervisor: Education Coordinator
Pay: $16.75/hr
Start Date: May 27 2024
End Date: September 6 2024
Application Deadline: May 3 2024
The Opportunity
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is seeking two dynamic and enthusiastic instructors to lead a summer of art camp programming in an inspiring creative environment. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to share their passion for art and education while developing their teaching skills as they plan lessons, teach fine art techniques, guide gallery visits, and lead art based play both in Gallery and outside. Knowledge of visual arts techniques and/or education experience is an asset.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s Summer Art Camp program is a popular high-quality arts and culture experience for children and youth. Camp participants develop visual literacy and critical thinking skills as they explore art history, engage with Indigenous and contemporary Canadian art in the gallery spaces, and learn about diverse art making practices. While discovering new artistic techniques participants have fun learning hands-on skills, and build their creativity and problem-solving ability.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is uniquely positioned in Northern Ontario as a cultural institution with significant regional, provincial, and national profile. The Gallery has grown steadily over the last 45 years and is at a crucial stage of growth and advancement as we prepare to move into a purpose designed facility on Thunder Bay’s beautiful waterfront that will more than triple our operating and programming space.
Primary Areas of Responsibility
- Assist the Education Coordinator in delivering exhibition tours and hands-on art workshops to school aged children and youth (Grades K-12) during the month of June as part of the Gallery’s popular school programming.
- Develop engaging and age-appropriate art activities, lesson plans, games, and gallery tours in collaboration with the Education Coordinator and their co-Instructor.
- Research the Gallery’s current exhibitions to incorporate into Summer Camp programming through tours and activities.
- Incorporate artworks in the Gallery’s Permanent Collection into activities and art projects.
- Plan and execute the set up of the Summer Camp classroom to create a positive learning environment.
- Maintain a clean and safe workspace throughout by performing daily set-up, clean-up, and organization of the classroom and art supply room.
- Work with a materials budget to plan required art supplies and submit purchase requests.
- Deliver instruction to participants in drawing, sculpture, ceramics, painting, printmaking, collage, multimedia, and other art making processes. Depending on the strengths and personal interests of the Art Camp Instructors, they may also use traditional and natural materials in their programming.
- Create prototypes of art project ideas to inform the teaching process to be saved and used for future educational programming at the Gallery.
- Create a fun, inclusive, safe, and dynamic classroom environment through the application of relevant group/classroom management techniques throughout the summer. The Education Coordinator will mentor Instructors in classroom management strategies.
- Communicate with parents and the Education Coordinator on a regular basis to receive feedback and ensure the success of the summer camp program.
- Complete administrative duties including keeping attendance, ensuring distribution and return of permission forms, review of class evaluation forms, and ensuring a balanced budget.
- Instructors will alternate the role of lead Instructor and assistant each week. The lead will facilitate the projects and organizing the classroom space. The assistant will act as a support for the lead Instructor, preparing materials, supervising camp participants during breaks, and assisting them one on one.
- And, responsibilities as assigned.
Essential Skills
Some technical knowledge of visual arts history, mediums, and practice or experience in planning and delivering engaging educational programs.
Comfortable with the public and able to lead large tours and art making workshops for groups of different ages and abilities, adapting the approach to the art experience as required.
Enthusiasm for sharing learning and experiences.
Innovative and adaptable to the changing needs of program participants.
Strong oral and written communication skills for engaging with program participants, educators, and others in a clear and appropriate manner.
Collaborative mindset with an ability to work independently towards a shared goal.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Safety conscious.
About Thunder Bay Art Gallery:
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges that we are located on the territory of the Anishinaabe peoples of Northwestern Ontario. We work and live on the lands of the Fort William First Nation who are signatory to the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850.
As the public art gallery for Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery exhibits, collects, and interprets art with a focus on the work of contemporary Indigenous and Northern Ontario artists. The Gallery nurtures a life-long appreciation of the visual arts by:
- presenting exhibitions of artistic and educational value to cultivate a depth of visual arts
experience for the public in Thunder Bay and the broader region of Northern Ontario; - supporting and enhancing the development of contemporary Canadian artists with an emphasis on (but not limited to) contemporary Indigenous artists and artists from Northwestern Ontario;
- stewarding, conserving, and animating a permanent collection of art focused on the work of contemporary Indigenous artists and innovative cultural and artistic practice of Northwestern Ontario artists;
- and, presenting public programming and outreach activities in order to build audience, increase reception, and expand understanding of the visual arts.
For over 45 years the Thunder Bay Art Gallery has steadily grown and is now the largest art museum in Northern Ontario. Today, we have more than 1600 works of art in our world renowned permanent collection and welcome more than 30,000 people through our doors each year. Every day, the Gallery provides school tours, hosts free public programs, and shares our space with community groups. We are a bustling cultural hub committed to contemporary Indigenous, local, and regional art.
Finally, we are in the process of preparing for the transition to a new purposed designed facility on Thunder Bay’s waterfront in late 2025. This new gallery will more than triple our exhibition and operating spaces. This significant addition to Ontario’s cultural infrastructure will provide $33 million in direct economic impact during construction. Once open, the Gallery’s operations will generate $2.2 million annually in direct and indirect impacts to the local and regional economy, as well as an estimated $7 million in annual visitor spending.
How to Apply
Applicants who are Deaf, have an exceptionality or disability, or who need support expressing interest or applying for this opportunity are encouraged to contact Valin Sacchetti, Administrative Coordinator at administration@theag.ca or call 807.577.6427
to allow for appropriate accommodation of your needs and to discuss alternate formats for submitting your application.
To apply for this position, please send via email to administration@theag.ca, a letter of intent, a current resume and the names of two references, under the subject line “Summer Art Camp Instructor” addressed to:
Kamila Westerback, Assistant Director
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
PO Box 10193
Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 6T7
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including women, people of any sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression; Indigenous peoples; visible minorities and racialized people; and people with disabilities. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Summer Visitor Services Attendant
Job Type: Part/Full-time Summer Student Employment (30-35 hours per week)
Supervisor: Visitor Services Supervisor
Pay: $16.55/hr
Start Date: June 17 2024
End Date: August 31 2024
Application Deadline: May 3 2024
The Opportunity
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is welcoming applications from attentive and personable candidates for our team of summer Visitor Services Attendants. As the friendly and professional first point of contact at the Gallery, successful candidates will greet visitors, provide helpful information, conduct giftshop sales, maintain public spaces, and ensure positive Gallery experiences. An interest in visual arts and previous customer service experience is an asset.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is a popular destination that delivers exhibitions & programming year-round providing local, national, and international visitors opportunities to engage with Indigenous and contemporary Canadian art. The Gallery welcomes over 30,000 annual visitors of all ages and backgrounds.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is uniquely positioned in Northern Ontario as a cultural institution with significant regional, provincial, and national profile. The Gallery has grown steadily over the last 45 years and is at a crucial stage of growth and advancement as we prepare to move into a purpose designed facility on Thunder Bay’s beautiful waterfront that will more than triple our operating and programming space.
Primary Areas of Responsibility
- Share accurate information about gallery functions, exhibitions, events, fundraising initiatives, and public programs.
- Answer questions over the phone and in person. Take detailed messages and direct inquiries to appropriate staff members when required.
- Complete daily opening and closing procedures including building maintenance and security checks.
- Ensure the safety of artwork by explaining rules to patrons, maintaining presence in exhibition spaces, and when necessary, following procedures for rule enforcement.
- Track Gallery visitor attendance.
- Process admission fees, memberships, donations, and class fees.
- Assist customers with store purchases.
- Provide customer assistance with gift shop purchases.
- Conduct inventory management through restocking of items, setting up merchandising displays, and maintaining a clean and organized environment. Complete a mid-summer inventory count.
- Reconcile and balance the daily cash summary.
- Maintain public spaces through daily vacuuming, dusting, disinfecting, and tidying.
- Set up/clean up tables, chairs, and refreshments for events and meetings.
- Support education programming through the preparation of activities and materials.
- Provide educator support through additional supervision of art class participants during gallery visits and outdoor activities.
- Responsibilities as assigned.
Essential Skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills including an ability to engage with sensitivity to a diverse audience.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to collaborate with team members to achieve daily goals.
- Comfortable with the public and able to lead tours of exhibitions.
- Observant of details and capable of problem solving.
- Knowledge of visual arts an asset.
- Point of sale and customer service experience an asset.
About Thunder Bay Art Gallery
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges that we are located on the territory of the Anishinaabe peoples of Northwestern Ontario. We work and live on the lands of the Fort William First Nation who are signatory to the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850.
As the public art gallery for Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery exhibits, collects, and interprets art with a focus on the work of contemporary Indigenous and Northern Ontario artists. The Gallery nurtures a life-long appreciation of the visual arts by:
- presenting exhibitions of artistic and educational value to cultivate a depth of visual arts
experience for the public in Thunder Bay and the broader region of Northern Ontario; - supporting and enhancing the development of contemporary Canadian artists with an emphasis on (but not limited to) contemporary Indigenous artists and artists from Northwestern Ontario;
- stewarding, conserving, and animating a permanent collection of art focused on the work of contemporary Indigenous artists and innovative cultural and artistic practice of Northwestern Ontario artists;
- and, presenting public programming and outreach activities in order to build audience, increase reception, and expand understanding of the visual arts.
For over 45 years the Thunder Bay Art Gallery has steadily grown and is now the largest art museum in Northern Ontario. Today, we have more than 1600 works of art in our world renowned permanent collection and welcome more than 30,000 people through our doors each year. Every day, the Gallery provides school tours, hosts free public programs, and shares our space with community groups. We are a bustling cultural hub committed to contemporary Indigenous, local, and regional art.
Finally, we are in the process of preparing for the transition to a new purposed designed facility on Thunder Bay’s waterfront in late 2025. This new gallery will more than triple our exhibition and operating spaces. This significant addition to Ontario’s cultural infrastructure will provide $33 million in direct economic impact during construction. Once open, the Gallery’s operations will generate $2.2 million annually in direct and indirect impacts to the local and regional economy, as well as an estimated $7 million in annual visitor spending.
How to Apply
Applicants who are Deaf, have an exceptionality or disability, or who need support expressing interest or applying for this opportunity are encouraged to contact Valin Sacchetti, Administrative Coordinator at administration@theag.ca or call 807.577.6427 to allow for appropriate accommodation of your needs and to discuss alternate formats for submitting your application.
To apply for this position, please send via email to visitorservices@theag.ca, a cover letter, a current resume and the names of two references, under the subject line “Summer Visitor Services Attendant” addressed to:
Katy Poirier, Visitor Services Supervisor
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
PO Box 10193
Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 6T7
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including women, people of any sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression; Indigenous peoples; visible minorities and racialized people; and people with disabilities. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Summer Collections Assistant
Status: Full-time Summer Student Employment (35 hours per week)
Supervisor: Collections Manager
Pay: $17.00/hr
Start Date: June 3 2024
End Date: August 23 2024
Application Deadline: May 3 2024
The Opportunity
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is looking for an organized and attentive candidate who is passionate about art. Working in the Gallery’s world renowned permanent collection of over 1,600 Indigenous Canadian and regional artworks the Collections Assistant will support an inventory of artworks and processing of new acquisitions to the collection.
This position will provide the successful candidate with experience in key areas of collections management expertise including condition reporting, determining packing requirements, processing new acquisitions with photo documentation, collection of tombstone data, research, hard copy and electronic data entry and management, and application of accession numbers. This position requires the ability to perform to professional standards while meeting deadlines and goals.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is uniquely positioned in Northern Ontario as a cultural institution with significant regional, provincial, and national profile. The Gallery has grown steadily over the last 45 years and is at a crucial stage of growth and advancement as we prepare to move into a purpose designed facility on Thunder Bay’s beautiful waterfront that will more than triple our operating and programming space.
Primary Areas of Responsibility
- Handle artworks safely and appropriately while using and enhancing any previous collections preservation knowledge.
- Document artwork, including digital photography, condition reporting, fact-checking, inputting, and updating information in electronic and hard copy files.
- Perform inventory, assess, and re-house artworks in collections storage.
- Proofread and correct database records for any typographic errors and data entry inconsistencies.
- Organize and maintain paper-based object and artist files.
- Assist with installing and dismantling exhibitions .
- Correspond with artists and artist estates on copyright clearance requests.
- Conduct traditional and online research of artists held in the Permanent Collection.
- Provide administrative support as required.
- Further responsibilities as assigned.
Essential Skills
- Good working knowledge of visual arts with regards to history, contemporary arts practices, and art making techniques, including an interest in contemporary Indigenous art and material culture.
- Excellent attention to detail, organizational, and time management skills.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Comfort with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Docs, and Google Drive.
- Experience with digital photography.
- Ability to work collaboratively as well as independently on a range of different ongoing projects.
- Preference will be given to those candidates with an Art History, Visual Arts or Arts related, Indigenous Learning, or Museum Studies degree.
About Thunder Bay Art Gallery
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges that we are located on the territory of the Anishinaabe peoples of Northwestern Ontario. We work and live on the lands of the Fort William First Nation who are signatory to the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850.
As the public art gallery for Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery exhibits, collects, and interprets art with a focus on the work of contemporary Indigenous and Northern Ontario artists. The Gallery nurtures a life-long appreciation of the visual arts by:
- presenting exhibitions of artistic and educational value to cultivate a depth of visual arts
experience for the public in Thunder Bay and the broader region of Northern Ontario; - supporting and enhancing the development of contemporary Canadian artists with an emphasis on (but not limited to) contemporary Indigenous artists and artists from Northwestern Ontario;
- stewarding, conserving, and animating a permanent collection of art focused on the work of contemporary Indigenous artists and innovative cultural and artistic practice of Northwestern Ontario artists;
- and, presenting public programming and outreach activities in order to build audience, increase reception, and expand understanding of the visual arts.
For over 45 years the Thunder Bay Art Gallery has steadily grown and is now the largest art museum in Northern Ontario. Today, we have more than 1600 works of art in our world renowned permanent collection and welcome more than 30,000 people through our doors each year. Every day, the Gallery provides school tours, hosts free public programs, and shares our space with community groups. We are a bustling cultural hub committed to contemporary Indigenous, local, and regional art.
Finally, we are in the process of preparing for the transition to a new purposed designed facility on Thunder Bay’s waterfront in late 2025. This new gallery will more than triple our exhibition and operating spaces. This significant addition to Ontario’s cultural infrastructure will provide $33 million in direct economic impact during construction. Once open, the Gallery’s operations will generate $2.2 million annually in direct and indirect impacts to the local and regional economy, as well as an estimated $7 million in annual visitor spending.
How to Apply
Applicants who are Deaf, have an exceptionality or disability, or who need support expressing interest or applying for this opportunity are encouraged to contact Valin Sacchetti, Administrative Coordinator at administration@theag.ca or call 807.577.6427 to allow for appropriate accommodation of your needs and to discuss alternate formats for submitting your application.
To apply for this position, please send via email to administration@theag.ca, a letter of intent, a current resume and the names of two references, under the subject line “Collections Assistant” addressed to:
Meaghan Eley, Collections Manager
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
PO Box 10193
Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 6T7
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including women, people of any sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression; Indigenous peoples; visible minorities and racialized people; and people with disabilities. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Thunder Bay Art Gallery is committed to employment equity and to fostering a positive and diverse workforce that reflects the community. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Through our exhibition mandate, we work with Indigenous communities. We value Indigenous perspectives in the workplace and encourage Indigenous candidates to apply.
Upon request, suitable accommodations are available under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) to applicants invited to an interview.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.