Ariana Webber Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, MA

Work collaboratively to project manage and install 6-9 contemporary art exhibitions per year, from the initial planning stages through deinstallation.Coordinate shipping logistics, both domestically and internationally, working with customs regulations in the US and abroad and coordinating with foreign agents.Oversee packing and crating of artworks for.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Inventoried the Gallery’s entire three dimensional collection located at an off-site storage facility in preparation for a collection move to a new visible storage center, maintaining object lists, ensuring that objects were located properly, housed appropriately, and were packed for shipment. Participated in planning for and helped to implement the.

Unpacked, assembled, and installed works of art for contemporary art auctions, with pieces ranging from paintings to mixed media.

Greater New York City Area

• Assist the Exhibitions Registrars with various administrative tasks and paperwork relating to the opening and closing of exhibitions
• Help in the galleries and complete data entry on TMS and Showbiz
• Track shipping on long-term loans and manage condition reports

Greater New York City Area

• Organize the collections documentation for the paper conservation lab, manage and create condition reports and object treatment photography, and rehouse objects
• Treat, rehouse, and develop an organizational system for various collections
• Inventory, assess, and catalogue a collection of objects damaged during hurricane Sandy
• Manage the disaster relief supply for the Preservation and Conservation department
• Mend tears in books and manuscripts and create custom housing
• Rehouse a collection of political buttons from the Tamiment Library-Wagner Labor Archive to assist with future access, use, and preservation

• Trace the exhibition histories for objects from before they entered the Whitney’s collection and before records were kept on the TMS database.
• Organize object files
• Update the TMS database using information from loan paperwork and shipping records

• Drafted an Integrated Pest Management Policy of the department
• Rehoused a variety of ethnographic and archaeological objects
• Performed routine collections care, including environmental monitoring and object cleaning
• Conducted storeroom inventories and updated TMS records
• Designed, researched, and facilitated two gallery talks for the public entitled: Interconnections: Ancient Globalization in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Assisted with object transit around the museum and attended courier training

New Haven, CT

• Contributed to ancillary events such as “Night at the Peabody,” organizing behind the scenes tours of the collections and explaining specimens to visitors.
• Assisted students and parents in the Discovery Room, caring for and discussing the animals and specimens housed there.
• Worked closely with the preparators department designing and fabricating mounts for exhibits.

Salem, Oregon

• Developed lesson plans
• Created an overarching curriculum for the year
• Substitute teacher for the religious school

• Guest Lecturer on Judaism for a World Religions course

Boston, MA

• Assisted in lessons
• Maintained a productive classroom
• Primarily focusing on children of kindergarten age.

Greater Boston Area

• Developed and implemented an organizational system for the archives
• Prepared documents for an online database of Giza materials
• Managed databases on TMS
• Created and managed files using Adobe Reader
• Prepared documents for publication using Photoshop
• Created searchable documents using ABBYY OCR

Israel, 20 Miles Southwest Of Jerusalem

• Participated in ongoing excavation at the site
• Furthered excavation skills, spatial understanding and knowledge of site record keeping
• Took measurements using a total station
• Worked closely with the site photographer documenting the finds from the excavation
• Gained valuable leadership skills
• Strengthened my adaptability in communal situations

Kibbutz Nahsholim, Israel

Experience working with ancient artifactsHandling, cleaning, cataloging and preparing them for museum display

1 PINE Grove ROAD, South Sterling, PA 18460

Led and developed programs for campers of all ages

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Museum Studies

I am studying to be a collections manager and registrar and my research currently focuses on the acquisition of antiquities.

Museum Studies

I completed coursework in Exhibition Content and Development.

M.A., Bible, Archaeology And Ancient Cultures

B.A., Archaeology

Activities and Societies: Neshikot (Jewish a Capella), All Campus Orchestra, Hillel