Clare Mcgowan Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, NY

Greater New York City Area

• Manage the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection by completing regular inventories, arranging for conservation, coordinating loans to other museums and organizations, maintaining the collections database and.
• Organize all aspects of various in-house and nationally- and internationally-traveling exhibitions—including lender correspondence; loan request processing; insurance, packing, and shipping arrangements; storage.
• Design and maintain databases in Filemaker Pro, compile data, and produce a variety of reports, such as checklists, insurance value reports and packing lists for exhibition planning use
• Coordinate installation and deinstallation of temporary exhibitions, including unpacking, condition reporting, object mounting, supervision of installation crew, and security staff training

• Assisted in all aspects of collections management and exhibition production and installation
• Maintained databases and produced reports for permanent collection and incoming/outgoing exhibitions
• Acted as photography resource contact for exhibitions and permanent collection

• Management of the permanent collection composed of African art, African-American art, and the art of the African Diaspora
• Coordinated with contract exhibition designer on the installation of exhibitions, both in-house and borrowed
• Collaborated with curatorial and operations departments on gallery and storage improvements

• Supervised deinstallation, packing and shipping of three exhibitions in a two week period
• Coordinated shipping and receiving of new exhibition
• Fulfilled basic registrarial roles during interim period between full-time hires

• Completed arrangements for transport of outgoing and incoming exhibitions
• Assisted in installation of incoming exhibitions, including condition reporting, wall text design and placement, and security precautions
• Entered loan information into permanent log

• Assisted two senior registrars with the day-to-day activities at a busy university museum.
• Carried out ongoing accessioning of donations and purchases to the collection.
• Provided support in the organization of in-house, loan and traveling exhibitions.
• Managed primary registration work for major exhibition "Paul Robeson: Artist & Citizen".

Assisted the registrar and curatorial staff with preparations for incoming temporary exhibitions

Assisted curator in the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department

Ma, Art History

Completed coursework and passed qualifying exam before choosing to leave program to pursue career

Ba, Art History

Minor in English Overall GPA: 3.5 Major GPA: 3.6