Joan Hendricks

Experience

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  RISD Museum

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1990

  Registrar
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  Neuberger Museum of Art

  Jan 1990 - Aug 1997

  Registrar

  Managed assistant registrar and interns in addition to preparators and curatorial assistant on a project basis. Managed new acquisitions and ongoing care of permanent collection works. Developed and monitored budgets for temporary exhibitions. Responsible for making shipping and insurance arrangements for domestic and foreign loans. Supervised packing and crating of incoming and outgoing loans. Computerized 1/3 of the permanent collection using the EmbARK database. Database Administrator. Conducted inventories. Condition reported incoming and outgoing loans. Show less

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  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  Sept 1997 - Apr 1999

  Associate Registrar

  Managed medium to large temporary exhibitions. Negotiated loans; managed crating, packing, shipping, and insurance for exhibition loans; responsible for the oversight of installation and de-installation of exhibitions; made courier arrangements for domestic and international couriers inconjunction with temporary exhibitions; responsible for supervision of contract registrar's.

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  Wexner Center for the Arts

  May 1999 - Dec 2005

  Head Registrar

  Charged with developing and enforcing policy and procedures regarding the disposition of collections and loans in addition to day to day activities involving loans and collections including but not limited to arrangements for packing, shipping, insurance, storage, conservation, budgeting, and installation oversight and management.

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  Taft Museum of Art

  Jan 2006 - now

  Registrar and Collections Manager

  Direct all aspects of registration, including maintenance, documentation, and automation of permanent collection records. Serve as primary contact for traveling exhibitions, risk management, storage and handling of collections and loans in addition to facilitation of all loan requests; monitor storage facilities and conduct regular inventories of permanent collection works; manage intellectual property; develop and oversee budgets for exhibition loans and registration department.