Call for Research Assistants
culture/Math is seeking a volunteer research assistant for maintaining its archive The Visualist (www.thevisualist.org).
TheVisualist.org is an archive that is actively developed from the cultural actions and engagements taking place across Chicago every day. This archive is updated daily with the ongoing business of orgs, makers and culture workers of every stripe. As such, the site requires attention and patience. culture/Math is interested in meeting with humans who want to contribute their skills to help maintain this important cultural resource. This Assistant’s responsibilities will include inputting events, as well as gathering information about upcoming programs.
Assistant Duties
Use our Venue list to identify new events to be added to the website
Research galleries, programs, and performance spaces added to our venue list.
Assist with locating accurate exhibition, event, and performance information and website links that track back to the organizer.
Accurately key data into TheVisualist.org
Assistant Qualifications
Has a strong interest in visual art and Chicago’s independent spaces
Can accurately enter information into databases
LIkes art and culture events and wants to help
Is available 2-4 hours per week
Submit an application here https://forms.gle/9G8r97uwkkTm3tPq9
(Note: We want this application process to be as easy as possible. We ask for one paragraph describing your interest in helping with this project and an upload of a resume or CV. A lack of formal experience or connections to the commercial contemporary art world will not be considered a hindrance to helping.)
About Us
The Visualist is Chicago’s real-time archive for current and past visual art events. Our free, ad-free, publicly available calendar helps people discover exhibitions, openings, talks, performances, and other visual arts programming throughout the city. We also maintain a growing archive of Chicago’s visual art history, documenting everything from exhibitions at established institutions to apartment galleries, basement performances, mobile projects, and other ephemeral events that might otherwise be lost.
The Visualist is managed by culture/MATH, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and is sustained through the participation of Chicago’s art community. Our goal is to make Chicago’s visual arts history accessible to everyone while preserving the work happening here as it happens.
