Hi, I’m
Branden Wallace
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Over twelve years of experience with Museum Collections stewardship.
Overview
29
years of professional experience
Work History
International Center of Photography Registrar
11.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for governance, acquiring, cataloguing, managing, and protecting museum’s digital assets
- Stewardship of Museum's collection of 250,000 objects
- Create guidelines, manuals for operations for the Museum's collection
- Monitored staff, curators, and researchers to Museum standards when utilizing the Museum's collection
- Work with Exhibition Production Designer for creation of displays and mounting for collection objects
- Scheduled transportation, conditioning and conservation of objects within the collection
- Train and supervise art handlers, framers, mounting makers for the mounting and dismantling exhibitions
- Assist academic & curatorial researchers with their research of the museum's collection
- Managed legal documentation of objects within collection
- Deeds, invoicing, condition report, storage, transportation, conservation
- Maintain collection database by archiving and cataloguing collection.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Digital Asset Manager
11.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for governance, acquiring, cataloguing, managing, and protecting museum’s digital assets
- Providing for research, guidance, enforcement, and tool development
- Stewardship of Museum’s institutional as well as collection digital files
- Efficient naming, storage, and maintenance of the usage rights of the related digital files
- Management and monitoring of the access and use of digital assets, ensuring brand consistency, compliance, and copyrights
- Promotion and optimization of the use of assets
- Supervised migration and training of staff to new Collection Management System (TMS Collections)
Leslie, Museum RegistrarLohman
01.2011 - 11.2020
Job overview
- Responsible for the Museum’s collection of objects, library, and archival files
- Stewardship of Museum’s collection of 30,000 objects, 4,000+ publication library, and over 3500 artist files and archives
- Create guidelines, manuals for operations for the Museum’s collection
- Monitored staff, curators, and researchers to Museum standards when utilizing the Museum’s collection
- Create exhibition displays, bases and mounting for objects in the collection
- Scheduled transportation, conditioning and conservation of objects within the collection
- Work and train art handlers, framers, mounting makers for the mounting and dismantling
- Assisted academic & curatorial researchers with their research of the museum’s collection
- Managed legal documentation of objects within collection
- Deeds, invoicing, condition report, storage, transportation, conservation
- Archive and catalogue collection maintain collection database.
Conservator
06.2010 - 11.2014
Job overview
- Perform and supervise conservation of antique Furniture, Painting and Sculpture.
Nutshell Graphic Designer
02.1999 - 01.2007
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Graphic Artist
06.2004 - 03.2006
Department
Defense Graphic Artist
04.1998 - 01.2004
Baseview Products Installation & Training
07.1995 - 01.1998
Education
2015
University Overview
Collection Management 2014
Conservation Center for Arts & Historical Artifacts: Emergency Planning and Response, Disaster Recovery, Paper Conservation.
New York Academy of Art
BFA
2009
Corcoran College of Art + Design
2004
Eastern Michigan University, States Conservation Center
BS from BioChemistry
2002
Skills
- COMPUTER
- TMS, PastPerfect and Argus Museum Collections database; Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Office; Google online applications suites; SketchUp, Package, Final Cut Pro, Baseview Publishing software, Artbase database
Timeline
International Center of Photography Registrar
11.2021 - Current
Digital Asset Manager
Museum of Jewish Heritage
11.2020 - Current
Leslie, Museum Registrar
01.2011 - 11.2020
Conservator
06.2010 - 11.2014
Graphic Artist
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
06.2004 - 03.2006
Nutshell Graphic Designer
02.1999 - 01.2007
Defense Graphic Artist
Department
04.1998 - 01.2004
Baseview Products Installation & Training
07.1995 - 01.1998
New York Academy of Art
BFA
Corcoran College of Art + Design
Eastern Michigan University, States Conservation Center
BS from BioChemistry
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