Project Archivist – UC Santa Barbara University Art Museum

The University Art Museum (UAM) at UC Santa Barbara is distinguished by its Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) which documents the built environment of California and the Southwest. The ADC boasts more than 850,000 historic drawings and 1300 linear feet of manuscript material. Its nucleus was solidified in the late 1960s when the UAM acquired the archives of Rudolph M. Schindler and Irving Gill. Today the collection represents the archives of more than 90 designers and includes architectural drawings, photographs, manuscript material, three-dimensional objects, models, and furniture. The UAM seeks a skilled archivist to be responsible for a two-year archival cataloging and digitization project of selected ADC holdings, funded by the IMLS Museums for America program. The Project Archivist will report to the UAM’s Curator of Architecture and Design.
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