Curatorial Methods

Curatorial Methods offers students enrolled in the MA, MFA, and Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies a grounding in the history of art institutions and the collecting and display practices that have shaped them, as well as a comprehensive understanding of contemporary issues shaping debates around the conception and organizing of exhibitions and the forming and care of collections. Students are led through a curriculum of reading, writing, and discussion that leads to conceiving a coherent exhibition proposal and writing a paper based on extensive research in a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.