Visitor Experience (VE) Associates assist the many guests (over 150,000 a year!) who visit the Morris Arboretum & Gardens, located in Chestnut Hill. VE Associates are the face of the Morris and a vital part of the team, ensuring a memorable, positive experience for our guests. This is a wonderful opportunity to support a world-renowned Arboretum and work with amazing people in a beautiful setting.

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library encompasses an unrivaled museum of American decorative arts in its mansion and galleries and a magnificent 60-acre naturalistic garden—all set on 1,000 gorgeous acres.

Winterthur employs a wide array of positions in the areas of curatorial, horticulture, education, conservation, library, maintenance, marketing, development, technology, and administration.

The Abington Art Center seeks a part-time (20 hours/week) executive assistant to provide comprehensive support to the Executive Director and the associated team.

2025 Visitor Services Assistant (VSA) Position Description

What We Do

Shofuso is a traditional-style Japanese house and nationally ranked garden in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, administered by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP). We preserve, maintain, and interpret Shofuso and provide educational programs about Japanese arts, business, and culture. The site is open air with a 1.2 acre garden and a structure with open doors and breezeways in all seasons.  

Scribe Video Center is seeking instructors for the 2025 Documentary History Project for Youth, an after-school and summer production workshop for middle and high school students.  The Documentary History Project for Youth program begins in April and runs until November.  Two instructors will work with a cohort of up to 16 workshop participants/student-workers

Budget: $5,000 Initial Design, minimum of $25,000 for Final Design, Production and Installation

For questions or concerns, please contact sahiti.bonam@muralarts.org

To make a submission, follow this link.

Information sessions

Tuesday, February 11 from 6-7pm
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/cxx-ahqj-hmw

Tuesday, February 18 from 6-7pm
Video call link: meet.google.com/ftp-mjpf-aqs

Wednesday, February 19 from 2-3pm
Video call link: meet.google.com/djc-mbeg-sea

Introduction

Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking an artist / artist team to help conceive, design and implement placemaking projects for the Sanctuary Farm community garden at the corner of North 22nd Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, in the Sharswood neighborhood of North Central Philadelphia. The placemaking projects should be functional or decorative features, such as seating, planting structures, a farmstand, a gathering space, a placemaking sculpture, fencing, or a similar intervention. Examples are illustrated in an attachment to this RFQ. 

Artists / artist teams must have the skills to lead community engagement, and to design, fabricate and install their projects. Mural Arts and Sanctuary Farm will provide technical assistance and facilitate approvals. Artist / artist teams will be paid a fee of $5,000 for the community engagement, concept design and schematic design phases of the project. Mural Arts can provide a minimum budget of $25,000 for design and installation of the artwork, to include all artist fees, materials, equipment, fabrication and installation.

The project will begin upon the selection of the artist / team, with installation expected to be completed in September, 2025. Applications will be accepted through February 28, 2025. Artists who applied last year to be on the Sharswood artist roster need only submit a letter of interest; please contact us if you want to be sure you are on that list. 

Please note the ongoing schedule of community events in Sharswood, posted at this web page. We are also hosting three information sessions for artists applying for projects in Sharswood.

Budget: $70,000

For questions or concerns, please contact sahiti.bonam@muralarts.org

To make a submission, follow this link.

Information sessions

Tuesday, February 11 from 6-7pm
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/cxx-ahqj-hmw

Tuesday, February 18 from 6-7pm
Video call link: meet.google.com/ftp-mjpf-aqs

Wednesday, February 19 from 2-3pm
Video call link: meet.google.com/djc-mbeg-sea

Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking an artist or team of artists to help conceive, design and implement a placemaking project for the new shopping center (Sharswood Plaza) at Ridge Avenue, Jefferson Street and 21st Street, in the Sharswood neighborhood of North Central Philadelphia.

The placemaking project will consist of painting a ground mural on two segments of a pedestrian walkway that connects a community plaza to the entrance of a supermarket, and painting murals on the vertical concrete columns of a parking garage that faces the plaza and the street. Photographs of the site are provided in an attachment to this RFQ. Artists / artist teams must have the skills to lead community engagement, and to design and install their projects. Mural Arts will provide technical assistance and facilitate approvals. For artists applying on their own, Mural Arts can also put together a team of assistants.

Three artists / teams will be paid a fee of $1,000 for preparing and proposing a concept for the project. The artist fee for the community engagement process, finalizing the design and installing the murals, including both lead artist and assistants, will be $70,000. This will include priming the walls and painting and sealing the murals. Mural Arts will pay for materials, supplies and equipment, and manage permissions for the work. The project will begin upon the selection of the artist, with installation expected to be complete by the end of July, 2025.

We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented freelance graphic designer to help us communicate our mission and amplify our impact through compelling visual storytelling.

This role involves designing graphics for print and digital projects, such as biannual appeals, newsletters, concert programs, direct mail pieces, and other projects as needed.

The Science History Institute is seeking a part-time Front Desk Receptionist (28–34 hours per week). The Front Desk Receptionist will work a Wednesday–Saturday, 9am–5pm schedule, with occasional evenings or early mornings. The Receptionist will be responsible for providing a polished and professional presence for employees and visitors to the museum, library, and conference center. They will also manage gift shop transactions. This position offers full medical and dental benefits, participation in a retirement savings plan, employer-provided subsidy, and secure on-site parking.

The Media Theatre is seeking a Facilities Manager to oversee the maintenance and operations of the theatre. This is a part-time position that has shifting hours depending on the demands of the theatre at the time. 

Job Functions

Effectively communicate building-related issues with management and coworkers

Maintain an adequate inventory of tools, supplies, and parts required to maintain the building

Ensure proper use of chemicals and equipment in facilities maintenance.