With the vast number of museums and cultural spaces open around the world that engage with contemporary art, a master’s degree in curatorial studies is a crucial path toward professional work in the field. In the two-year MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in the heart of New York City, you will be trained in every aspect of curatorial work.
Students meet weekly with curators from around the world, spend time with artists in their studios, take seminars with renowned curators that dive into specific curating forms, and think through the social, political, and philosophical ways in which art and curating have a powerful impact on audiences both local and worldwide. You will have the chance to improve your writing through workshops and take art history courses that trace the developments and complications of the past century’s artistic movements. The program also covers the history of major exhibitions — particularly those that have addressed social activist concerns, as that is crucial to our program.
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Along with history and theory, SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice program is dedicated to providing you with hands-on, practical training. Our professional practice workshops give you insight into everything from exhibition to lighting design, grant writing, presentation-making, and more. In each course, you’ll dig deep with our extraordinary faculty into how you can create exhibitions and other curatorial projects. You’ll be able to put that knowledge to immediate work with the opportunity to put on several program-funded exhibitions of your own, both in our gallery and throughout the city in large industrial spaces.
Along with this work, we also take our students on an international trip to a major biennial. You’ll follow this trip with a two-month internship at a major international cultural institution, where you’ll have a mentor who guides you through the daily work of professional curating.
While you are with us in the program, it is possible, of course, to have a part-time job, as we plan as many classes as possible for afternoons and evenings so that you have the chance to take in all that the city offers. Our students go on to jobs at museums and institutions in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America, sometimes with the curators who mentored them during their internship. Merit-based, supporting scholarships are available. Fall 2024 applications are due January 15.
For more information, visit macp.sva.edu.
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Source: Hyperallergic.com