- Answering phones and taking messages
- Helping maintain the gallery’s inventory and client database
- Providing professional service to the collectors and artists
- Keeping the front and workshop desks and gallery spaces tidy
- Greeting visitors and helping them with their questions
- Dealing with correspondence and emails, and other daily administrative duties
- Helping build the gallery's follower base with social media posts
- Organization skills: An art gallery assistant needs to be highly organized.
- Communication: A gallery assistant needs great interpersonal skills, and should be an excellent communicator with the ability to talk to a wide range of people.
- Social media skills: A gallery assistant needs to be savvy with social media and proficient with commonly used computer programs.
- Initiative-taking skills: Being able to work independently and to take the initiative with new exhibitions.
- Proven work experience in retail sales, in lieu of a college degree can also be acceptable.
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