Varied Experience + Master's Degree = Great Curator!

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Headline: Varied Experience + Master's Degree = Great Curator!
Name: Jason Onerheim
Email Address: jwonerheim@stthomas.edu
Current Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Preferred Job Category: Curator
Education:
• 2004-2007 - University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Masters Degree in Art History
• 1995-2002 - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
BA in Art History
• 1995-2001 - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
BFA in Photography

Professional Experience:
• University of St. Thomas Libraries, St. Paul, MN – Circulation Supervisor Substitute (on-call position) (Sept. 2006 – current)
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN – Temporary Art Crew/Registration Technician (April 2008)
• Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN – Temporary Art Crew/Registration Technician/Art Packer (Jan. 2008 – March 2008)
• University of St. Thomas Libraries, St. Paul, MN – Circulation Supervisor/Reserve Coordinator, Reference Assistant, Circulation Assistant (October 2004-May 2007)
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN - Gallery Guard (2001-2004)
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - Student Photo Lab Manager (1999-2000)
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN - Gallery Guard (2001-2004)
• National Sports Center Velodrome, Blaine, MN - NSC Velodrome Volunteer (1995-2000)
• L.L. Kraemer Co. Homebrewing, Bloomington, MN-Retail/Customer Service (1996-1998)

Volunteer Involvement and Assistantship Work

• Curatorial Internship at The Minnesota Historical Society. (under Curator of Art, Brian Szott) Where I performed curatorial work with several exhibitions (planning, layout, pulling artwork, framing, installation, didactic label writing, promotion), as well as working on registration (using CMS and the History Center’s Visual Resources Database) for newly acquired artwork. (Sept 2006 – May 2007)
• Assisted in a Cataloguing/Registration project of 200+ loaned artworks at the Weisman Art Museum. (Feb - May 2008)
• Registrar/Preparator Internship at the Weisman Art Museum. (under John Sonderegger) Where I worked on registration and collections management duties including computer database management, exhibit design and installation, art handing of 2-D and 3-D objects, environmental control maintenance and art storage issues. (Mar 2007 – Oct 2007)
• De-installed of the “Greetings: A Pictorial History of Minnesota through the Postcard” exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society. (Sept 2007)
• Assisted in the installation of the “New Acquisitions” exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society. (Sept 2007)
• Assisted in the installation of the “In Her Own Right: Minnesota's First Generation of Women Artists.” exhibit at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. (July 2007)
• Assisted in the installation of the “Recipes in Bronze” exhibit at the University of St. Thomas. (Sept 2006)
• Assisted in the planning and installation of the “More Than the Camera Can Capture” exhibit at the University of St. Thomas. (Mar 2006)
• Member of the Graduate Student review committee hiring a new professor at the University of St. Thomas. (Spring 2006)
• Completed an insurance assessment for the University of St. Thomas art collection. (Sept/Nov 2005)
• Assisted in the planning and installation of the “A Sense of Place” show at the University of St. Thomas. (Sept 2005)
• Performed research and label writing for the Graduate School of Psychology art collection. (Aug-Nov 2005)
• Performed registration duties and completed condition reports for the Opus collection of Textiles at the University of St. Thomas. (June-July 2005)
• Assisted in the photographic documentation of the Opus collection of Textiles at the University of St. Thomas. (June 2005)
• Assisted in the installation of the “Building the Impossible” exhibit/symposium at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. (Feb 2005)
• Assisted in the installation and registration of the “Cuadros” exhibition at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. (Nov 2004)
• Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN – Photographer for “Public Art at the University of Minnesota” brochure. (2001)

Other:
Published Articles

• Review of the book, The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral by Robert Scott for the journal Material Culture. Published Spring 2007 (Volume 39, Issue 1).
• Review of the book, The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton for the journal Art History. Published February 2008 (Volume 31, Issue 1).