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6/7/20231 min read
Kingsbury Museum Crating is currently looking for a crate builder at our Kingsbury, Texas location. We are a small upstart company (established in 2023) serving the museums in the South-Central Texas area. You will work mostly at our shop in Kingsbury Texas, and occasionally in San Antonio, Austin, and the surrounding area.
We offer competitive pay, and you will be getting in on the ground floor of our worker owned coop, with democratic governance, profit sharing, tax benefits and employee equity buy in.
Our ideal candidate
Has a background in Fine Art, Art History or Museum Studies.
lives in our 30 mile radius (not necessary, but preferred)
Ability to work with tools
Possess excellent communication skills
Familiar with Pneumatic framing nailers, staplers, table saws and band saws. Ability to fix and maintain these tools is a plus.
Attention to detail and time management
Previous art crating/handling experience is preferred but not required.
This job starts as part time, but be prepared to move to full-time in the coming months. Starting pay is $20-25 an hour depending on experience. Please email resumes directly to alison@kingsburymuseumcrating.com
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Kingsbury Museum Crating
You can find us on Instagram @kingsburymuseumcrates
email us at info@kingsburymuseumcrating.com
Alison and Shane Heinemeier moved to Kingsbury Texas in 2012 from New York City, where they both worked as visual artists and art handlers. They came to Texas to return to the land and start an arts non-profit and sustainable goat farm. As they were busy building their arts organization, they were called back into the art handling field by friends in the South Central Texas area who needed their particular skill set. They have over 40 years of combined experience in the field, and have built and packed crates in New York City, and at museums around the country and in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Spain. Alison specializes in crate interiors, creating structures that can safely protect from vibration and movement as the crate travels to its destination. Shane and our nephew Alex build beautiful and strong boxes in our crate shop to protect the precious items within. After several years of commuting to Austin and San Antonio for work, they decided to build their own crate shop on the farm in Kingsbury. Now they can milk goats in the morning, and make crates in the middle of the day!
To see the various community art projects that they are working on , check out their non-profit website, www.habitablespaces.org
