Careers with Art History: Working with Museum and Gallery Collections
Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of museum, gallery and collections-based careers
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 11:00-12:30
Online event – free to attend, booking is essential.
This free webinar will offer an overview of museum, gallery and collections-based careers involving expert knowledge of artworks, research and display, interpretation and learning, care of objects and exhibition management.
Learn from museum and gallery professionals about careers including curating, exhibition management, museum learning and conservation.
Our guest speakers will offer information and advice aimed at undergraduate students and A-Level students thinking about pursuing careers in this sector.
Speaker biographies
Jack Chauncy grew up in Forest Gate, East London. He studied fine art at The Royal Drawing School and City and Guilds of London Art School (BA) before studying easel painting conservation at The Courtauld Institute. After graduating in 2023 he spent a year as the conservation intern at The Guildhall Art Gallery as well working at Art Discovery, conducting technical analysis of paintings. Since October 2024 Jack has been working at The National Gallery, London as the Aldama Conservation Fellow.
Carlo Corsato is a professional art historian specialising in early-modern art and an educator at the National Gallery, where he also serves as a project curator for the Digital Dossier Programme. He has extensive experience in engaging diverse audiences, from children to adults, bringing art history to life through innovative and accessible approaches. Carlo also presents educational videos for the National Gallery’s social media channels, combining scholarly expertise with dynamic teaching methods to create meaningful connections between people and artworks.
Janice Li is a curator at the Wellcome Collection where she endeavours to transcend boundaries of identities, cultures and disciplines through an interdisciplinary lens. She has curated exhibitions such as Thirst: In Search of Freshwater (forthcoming 2025), The Cult of Beauty (2023-2024) and The Healing Pavilion (2022-2023). Until 2021, Janice was an assistant curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum for the V&A East project, a new museum set to open in East London in 2025.
Chiedza Mhondoro is Assistant Curator, British Art at Tate Britain where her focus is eighteenth-century art. She graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art with an MA in History Art. Her studies explored 18th-century British visual culture through a circum-Atlantic lens that incorporates the histories of the people who crossed the Atlantic between Britain, the Americas and Africa. Prior to joining Tate, Chiedza worked in curation at Somerset House and Southbank Centre. She also worked in arts education and public programming at a range of institutions including The Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Camden Arts Centre.
Sarah Hardy is Deputy Director of the Garden Museum. Sarah is a Victorian Arts & Crafts specialist having reseached and written widely on the subject. Sarah began her museum career in Learning at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, before working on interpretation at Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Lady Lever Art Gallery, and Two Temple Place. Sarah then worked on loans and exhibitions at The National Gallery and the British Library, where she completed the Institute of Art and Law Diploma on Law and Collections Management, before joining the De Morgan Foundation, first as curator-manager and then as Director from 2018-2024.