The Opportunity

Join our dynamic team at Nanaimo Art Gallery! The Gallery Technician shares the Nanaimo Art Gallery team’s values of relevance, relationships, innovation, and openness. Reporting to the Curator, the Gallery Technician is responsible for art handling, exhibition installation and de-installation (working alongside the curatorial team), as well as exhibitions, gallery, and collection maintenance. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Gallery Technician is responsible for building maintenance and related issues.

About Nanaimo Art Gallery

Located in the heart of Nanaimo, on the lands of the Snuneymuxw, Nanaimo Art Gallery is an ambitious public art museum that engages and inspires our community through art.
We honour the Snuneymuxw people and the territory on which the Gallery operates, carrying ourselves with qwum qwum uy’shqwalawun: operating in the spirit of “good heart, good mind.” With this intention, Nanaimo Art Gallery’s values are relevance, relationships, innovation and openness. We are a welcoming organization and a creative hub for Vancouver Island, where we build relationships, connect communities, and effect change through art.

An inquiry-based approach infuses and connects all Gallery activities and a small, dedicated team of staff, board and volunteers offers a program that is rooted in our unique regional context and resonates with audiences globally.

The Position
Profile of the Candidate

You are a problem solver who is hard working, adaptable and organized. You are excited at the opportunity to contribute to a growing art organization. On a daily basis you will work closely with your colleagues as a key member of a supportive team in which all voices are heard.

Drawing on your experiences, you will help realize multifaceted on- and off-site exhibitions, installations and presentations, and are responsible for the maintenance of the permanent collection, shipping and receiving artworks, and overseeing building maintenance. You will participate in a wide range of activities outside the exhibition space, including team support; meetings, professional development, and other initiatives.

Responsibilities

- Collaborating with the Curator, and with support from the Gallery team, responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:
- Installation, de-installation and maintenance of exhibitions, and maintenance of permanent collection
- Handling, installing, and occasionally transporting artworks
- Arranging pick-up and delivery of artworks
- Safely packing and unpacking artworks
- Readying exhibition space for installations (including painting, repairing drywall, etc.)
- Working in consultation with Curator, contract Preparator, and/or artists to install artworks and exhibitions.
- Setting up and maintaining audio/visual equipment and media-based artworks/installations in consultation with Curator and artists (working with staff and outside contractors as needed)
- Providing technical support for on-site and off-site talks and presentations
- Lighting of exhibitions in consultation with Curator
- Working with contract preparator and other contractors to fabricate items specifically for exhibitions
- Monitoring and maintaining exhibitions while on display
- Monitoring and recording the gallery temperature and humidity levels
- Monitoring the condition of artworks in collection
- Managing the care and conservation of artworks, including matting works for display.

Working closely with the Executive Director your responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:
- Building Maintenance
- Monitoring and maintaining general building maintenance
- Arranging for trades contractors
- Assisting administration with purchase of equipment
- Maintaining workshop and support spaces
- Acquiring quotes, ordering, purchasing and picking up equipment, supplies and materials for exhibition and building maintenance
- Regular monitoring of outside spaces
- Managing security system
- Responding to security emergencies