Pavla Berghen-Wolf Email & Phone Number

Worked on acquisitions, TMS collections database, incoming loans, and labels for the American Wing, among other responsibilities.

• Edited sitter biographies of Johnson’s portrait subjects• Standardized the Chronology section• Helped organize the artist and image files for long-term stewardship by archival and library institutions• Oversaw the full process of creating a hard copy of the project, to later enter a scholarly collection• Created a master spreadsheet of project endowment funders for ongoing reference• Redacted confidential information in scholar opinion letters• Initiated certain image reproduction permissions requests to institutions, and followed up on other outstanding requests• Built user survey for project website prior to formal launch

Greater New York City Area

For a gallery inventory of over 500 paintings:• Provenance research (completed research for over 350 paintings)• Cataloging of new acquisitions• Digital photography of inventory objects, including editing images in Adobe Photoshop, and coordinating process of color correction for print materials with external printing house• Invoicing for the gallery (including determining sales tax charged under economic nexus laws)• Condition assessments for works in oil and watercolor• Client communication and sales assistance, including $50,000 in sales revenue contribution• Assistance managing the gallery's advertising program, including catalogues, mailers, and print ads, in publications such as Architectural Digest, American Art Review, and The Magazine Antiques• Writing of artist biographies• Copyediting of texts

Greater New York City Area

• Drafted wall texts for the exhibition "Mary Mattingly: What Happens After" and the presentation of her photographs at Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77• Assisted with research and general coordination for "Mary Mattingly: What Happens After" at BRIC House• Wrote artist bios for BRIC's fall gala• Wrote program descriptions for the exhibition "Alchemy"

Research on future exhibitions and loans; archival research; selection and facilitation of the Student Loan Collection rental program for Brandeis University students; other duties as assigned

Greater New York City Area

Researched potential checklist artists and artworks; created thematic groupings within the checklist; used Artnet to research art auction sales in order to determine values of checklist works; edited contributor materials and tracked images for catalogue essays2018: conducted research for the exhibition catalogue of "For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design," Yale University Press, 2019.

Women'S Studies Research Center Of Brandeis University, Waltham, Ma

Assisted the Curator and Director of the Arts in day-to-day email communication, facilitated outreach for the exhibition on view and related events (both within Brandeis University and in the wider arts community of Boston), managed gallery's Facebook page, collected copies of exhibition press, and prepared listserv emails

Greater New York City Area

Assisted photographer in installation photoshoots of exhibitions on view, communicated with artist estates for image permissions, maintained artist estate information on The Museum System (TMS) by researching copyright holders and creating constituent and object records, updated copyright notices and captions for works of art online, conducted research on the heirs of artist estatesJuly 2017: French text review of Preface, Foreword, and “From the Artist’s Hand to the Public Eye” by Adam D. Weinberg for exhibition catalogue of "POP ART: Icons that Matter"

Waltham, Massachusetts

Protection of artworks in the museum galleries by supervising visitors' behaviors, daily operations in the museum such as monitoring technological features and opening/closing procedures, welcoming visitors at the desk, processing transactions of store items

San Francisco Bay Area

Content creation for the museum's website, copyedited and fact checked print and digital copy, distributed long leads and programming online and to the neighborhood, researched future exhibition program partners and created community partners for current exhibitions, worked with a consultant to build a survey for the museum's website redesign, prepared exhibition materials for press previews, and prepared materials for museum board meetings

Forest Knolls, Ca

Worked seasonally at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival in Laytonville, CA for 3 days each June: sold t-shirts, music, and posters; handled cash and processed credit card slips using Square and manually

San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted with teaching and facilitating art birthday parties and art workshops/classes for children ages 3-10.

San Francisco Bay Area

Program outreach research, proofread and edited program, report, and grant materials, designed report and brochure covers/flyers in Microsoft Publisher, assembled materials for program packets

San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted with set-up, clean-up, installation, and teaching of art projects with an environmental focus for children in elementary and middle school.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

Education record

Education record

High School Diploma