Yezibel White Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Maintain data in the collections information system and assist with collections management activities in the areas of accessioning, deaccessioning, inventory control, location tracking, collection moves, approval history and value history.• Maintain up-to-date object locations in TMS, including reviewing relocation requests, updating locations, proofing updates, reviewing temporary locations and sending out location reports. Follow-up on incomplete relocation slips. Investigate incorrect locations. Assist in training curators and conservators in preparing relocation requests. Conduct periodic audits of collections to ensure that locations are correctly recorded. • Coordinate bi-yearly audits with the External Auditor. • Perform art count with Security of permanent galleries and special and rotating exhibitions. Respond to questions about count from Security.• Maintain and audit off-site storage inventory.• Undertake data cleanup and proofing projects as needed.• Prepare object files for new accessions and organizes them according to established filing order; update files and accession log when objects are accession/deaccessioned. Check new objects to see if they have been properly numbered.• Draft and implement collections management procedures and database documentation; in consultation with Collection Information and Access staff, determine data conventions, syntax rules and controlled vocabulary for data entered in the Registrar's Office.• Process incident reports of damages from Security and follow-up with the Conservation departments. Record the type of damage that occurred and any conservation that was undertaken. Issue a Damage Report to appropriate staff.• Proof gallery labels and exhibition designs against TMS to insure accuracy.• Create and update Crystal Reports for use internally within the department, as well as externally to other departments such as Curatorial, Exhibitions, and Design.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Assisted the Exhibitions and Shipping Registrars with the managing of loans, shipments, couriers, and insurance.• Helped with the scheduling of installations and de-installations of major exhibitions.• Updated exhibition budgets, processed approved loans, and updated all related records in the TMS database.• Oversaw packing and unpacking of art objects.• Worked with agents to track and secure shipments.• Created Work Orders and Dock Notifications.• Processed invoices, and updated exhibition budgets.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Assisted Collections Management Registrars with TMS management, data conversions, data clean up, and database testing.• Responsible for tracking the daily movements of artwork.• Helped with the processing of acquisitions, and the managing of damages and fragments. • Aided with the bi-yearly audit of the collection, both on and off site.• Inventoried storage in preparation for audit.• Assisted Exhibition Registrars with exhibition installation and de-installation, processing of loans, and object packing, crating, and shipping.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Worked with the museum to implement a new collection management policy and formalize documentation standards. • Standardized templates and forms for acquisitions, loans, condition reports, deaccessions, etc.• Initiated a project to update collections management system.• Extensively researched, catalogued, and wrote about past exhibitions featuring women for the archive and website.• Created a catalogue of the museum’s loan history, exhibitions, and past events.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Helped with the organization and re-housing the Exhibition Archive.• Worked with the Registrar of the Permanent Collection in accessioning donations.• Helped with the tracking and numbering of a collection of metal coins.• TMS data entry and filing.• Handling sessions taken in textiles, paper, paintings, and objects.

Master’S Degree, Art History, Criticism And Theory; Arts Administration And Policy

Bachelor’S Degree, Art History; Chicana And Chicano Studies