George Benson Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

I strategically develop, write and deliver Cooper Hewitt's social media content across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. I pride myself in accessible, inclusive content—driven by connecting audiences to art and design.

Online

For Oscar Wilde Tours I have co-created a series of LGBTQ themed online virtual tours held on Zoom to connect people to queer art and culture during the pandemic. Talks I have given for the series include queer tours of MoMA, a look at queer British art, and a downtown queer art crawl of New York in the 1980s.

New York, New York

• Assisting with Interpretation for the rehang of MoMA during and after its renovation and expansion - writing labels, developing audio guides and working on digital projects with the creative team.
• Co-writing the Museum's first ever public queer tour.
• Conducting audience research and analysis to feed into MoMA's continuing expansion.
• Content development, maintenance and administration of MoMA's massive open online courses in the study of Modern and Contemporary Art.

New York, New York

• To mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in 2019, Courageous Studios created a pop up exhibition for CNN, entitled Queer City: A CNN Experience, that explored and illuminated what queer life has been like.
• Managing and coordinating the objects for display
• Producing loan documents and condition reports
• Creating an interpretive framework for the exhibition narrative

• Development, production and delivery of special and traveling exhibitions.
• Curatorial and research projects
• Lead role in major capital project Selected duties included:- Project management - Exhibition content development- Curating- Clerical (budgeting, scheduling, reporting)- Managing contractors and eternal partners.

United Kingdom

MuseumPrideLDN is a collective of LGBTQ networks belonging to over 40 galleries, libraries, archives and museums across the UK. The group's purpose was to advocate for LGBTQ representation, support LGBTQ staff members and facilitate cross-organizational networking. I was co-chair of the organization, my duties included:- Events management- Organizing.

London, United Kingdom

• Collections management across all departmental collections, specializing in: - Exhibition de/installation - Traveling exhibition packing and couriering
• Preventative conservationSelected duties included:- Project management of summer blockbuster exhibition containing over 140 objects and over 20 loans- Exhibition installation, including scheduling and team management.

London, United Kingdom

• Management of Greek and Roman antiquities
• Study Room management
• Collections careSelected duties included:- Preparing/installing objects for exhibition- Upkeep of 19 permanent galleries- Maintaining and updating object storage for collection of over 100,000 objects- Facilitating.

London, United Kingdom

• Creating new storage facilities for collection of over 30,000 objects
• Preventative collections care, including freezing and quarantining objects
• Object documentationSelected duties included:- Transportation of objects across sites to rehouse entire collection in new facility- Thorough upkeep of object records- Object registration on museum database, including.

London, United Kingdom

• Departmental intern for Prints and Drawings departmentMain duties:- Digitizing the collection by scanning prints and drawings and uploading them to a public online database- Departmental assistant, facilitating access.