The Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection is America’s first home for modern and contemporary art, where the intimate and experimental meet. Through art, every visitor can explore the most pressing ideas of our time via dynamic collaborations, innovative inquiry, empathetic forms of public participation, and diverse voices.

Founded by art collector and philanthropist Duncan Phillips in 1921, The Phillips Collection has been collecting modern and contemporary art for over one hundred years. Duncan Phillips’s former home—and additions to it—in Washington’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood provides a unique setting for the growing collection of over 5,000 works. Following Phillips’s unconventional approach to exhibitions, The Phillips Collection galleries are frequently rearranged to facilitate new conversations between artworks and fresh experiences for visitors.

In addition to presenting selections from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, The Phillips Collection also offers award-winning education and community engagement programs for audiences of all ages and backgrounds, including initiatives at its satellite campus Phillips@THEARC.

The Phillips Collection is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that encourages and values diversity in its staff, board of trustees, supporters, volunteers, audience, collections, exhibitions, and programming. Diversity enhances the institution’s engagement with an increasingly broad spectrum of participants and strengthens relationships within our community and beyond. Diversity promotes creativity and innovation, thereby increasing the institution’s resilience and ability to embrace our ever-changing world.

The Phillips Collection is a private, non-government museum, supported primarily by donations.

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Makeba Clay Diversity Fellow

In 2021, The Phillips Collection celebrated its centennial. This historic moment ushered in a period of reflection and encouraged thoughtful considerations on how we move into the future. To that end, in 2021 we launched The Phillips Collection Institutional History Project (IHP). As this project has evolved, we’ve recognized the need to understand and uncover more about artists in the permanent collection surrounding diversity (i.e., ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc.). The 2024-25 fellow will build on and add to the research and critical thinking about the museum’s history, including the philosophical underpinnings and aesthetic vision of Duncan Phillips and his wife, Marjorie Phillips. The fellow will work closely with the DEAI department, but also receive mentoring by other departments such as Curatorial and Library & Archives.

Public Programs Fellow

The Public Programs Fellow will assist the public programming department with developing programs to welcome and engage visitors. The fellow will help to create and implement innovative public programs that explore The Phillips Collection’s special exhibitions and permanent collection. The fellow will also be responsible for researching artists, curators, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for panels, workshops, film screenings, and other events, as well as coordinating the advance planning for public programs across departments including Education, Curatorial, Digital Experience, Marketing & Communications, and Guest Services.

Applications open through July 31
Fellowship period September 9, 2024-July 25, 2025

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https://www.phillipscollection.org/about/opportunities/paid-fellowships