Program

Week One: Developing your curatorial practice

• What is a curatorial practice?

• What are the contexts a curator needs to consider? What types of audiences do you want to address?

• Considering types of exhibition spaces or platforms that align with your concerns and ideas

Week Two: Exhibition Making

• Research and concept development (studio visits, dossiers, creating an archive, mapping concepts)

• Commissioning new works from artists (including briefing and proposal development)

• Lending works from artists and galleries (how to source the works and how to secure loans)

• Creating a checklist of works with display details.

• Considering your venue and audiences (parameters that affect scale or types of work)

Week Three: Practical Skills

• How to prepare a budget and timeline

• Developing and proposing your exhibition ideas to an independent or institutional entity

• Developing floorplans and display design

• Practicalities of transportation and installation (working with technicians, artists and considering packaging, display and access)

• Documentation and reporting (photographing, final accounts, gathering statistics and summarizing activities)

• Managing exhibition de-installation and returns

Week Four: Expanding your project

• Supporting your exhibition or project through fundraising, marketing and facilities

• Creating collateral programming: public, performance, education, film

• Designing and producing a publication

• Revisiting course topics and summarizing the practical approach

• Revisiting assignment from week one and discussing how best to put these practices into play using the skills learned through this course