Short Description

Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is excited to announce a new opportunity for a disabled curator to join the team as Assistant Curator. This role is informed by the lived experience of disability and has been created to provide a meaningful, supported entry into the visual arts sector. We actively encourage applications from locally-based disabled people who are passionate about curation, inclusive practice, and developing artists who are under-represented in contemporary culture.

Working closely with MAC’s Senior Curator, you’ll gain hands-on experience across all aspects of exhibition-making, from planning and liaising with artists to installing exhibitions across our three gallery spaces and wider venues. We welcome experimentation across art forms, and this role offers freedom to explore and innovate. You’ll be part of a dynamic Arts Team lead by the Artistic Director, whose knowledge and experience will offer a range of alternative artistic approaches.

  • Salary: £10,716 per year (full-time equivalent: £26,792)
  • Hours: 2 days per week (15 hours)
  • Start Date: 1 February 2026 to 31 May 2027
  • Contract length: 18 months
  • Location: Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
  • Reports to: Roma Piotrowska, Senior Curator

The Role Overview

  • Help with researching and creating content for MAC’s exhibition programme.
  • Work with MAC’s Senior Curator to plan, develop and deliver your own idea for an exhibition or visual art project.
  • Communicate and work with artists, curators, and partners to help plan exhibitions and projects.
  • Help with completing contracts, lists of artworks and condition reports for artworks.
  • Help manage exhibition budgets by getting cost estimates and dealing with invoices.
  • Help plan exhibition layouts, installation schedules and prepare artworks for transport.
  • Keep up to date with what’s happening in contemporary and socially engaged visual arts practice by attending events and exhibitions at MAC and other cultural venues.

Who Can Apply?

A University degree in an arts or creative subject.
Understanding of the social and medical models of disability.
Knowledge of the Disability Arts sector.
Familiarity with modern artists or art movements – especially those linked to disability, activism or social issues in their work.

Application Requirements

To apply, please send:

  1. A CV, in any format
  2. A written text, film or audio recording answering the following 3 questions
  3. The names of 2 people who can provide references (to be contacted after the appointment).

To accompany your CV, please consider the following 3 questions:

  • Why are you applying to the Future Curator Programme?
  • How does your experience make you suitable for the role?
  • What areas of interest would you look to explore in this role?

Please respond using one of these formats:

  • A written text (max. 1000 words)
  • A film (max. 7 mins)
  • An audio recording (max. 7 mins)

How to Apply

Please email your CV & text/film/audio to personnel@macbirmingham.co.uk using ‘Future Curators Programme Application’ as the subject header.

Entry Fee

None

Location

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Timeline

  • Application Deadline: 1 December 2025

Website Link: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/news/future-curators-programme

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