Kira Hansen

• Managed high volumes of data entry tasks while maintaining strict attention to detail and accuracy of information entered into the catalog
• Assisted in grant applications for funding related to photographic and educational projects.
• Updated archival and information management protocols and workflows.
• Monitored environmental conditions within storage areas regularly to ensure optimal preservation conditions for sensitive materials were maintained at all times.
• Evaluated records for accuracy, value, and status of preservation.
• Assisted the artist and co-taught a photography workshop run within Kingston High School.
• Liaised between the artist, nonprofits, other artists, magazines, and publishers.
• Managed and updated the artist's social media.
• Fielded email, social media, and website inquiry communication.
• Coordinated and booked travel reservations for the artist.
• Created and managed multiple different project budgets.
• Maintained the cleanliness and organization of the physical studio and archival storage.
• Provided artistic input on multiple projects.

One of two primary assistants establishing a multiple thousand-item collection as an accessible and browsable archive.

Main duties include

• Collection Care
• Cataloging
• Scanning
• Works self-directed, and within a small team of people

• Photographed the museums extensive collection of housewares.

• Created and managed inventories
• Assisted in the cleaning and care of collections
• Assisted in the physical migration of collections

• Managed a team of 10 people
• Created and ran workshops
• Built and maintained a darkroom
• Created and managed the group's budget, purchases, and additional funding applications
• Ran a lecture series

• Managed Digital and Analogue Equipment
• Provided instruction to students in the Digital Print Lab and the Darkroom

• Processed requests and maintained records for interlibrary loans
• Processed, packed and shipped outgoing requests
• Processed, and checked out incoming requests to library patrons

• Scanned and procured patron image requests and contributed new images and records to the Visual Resources Center online resources