ARTS 4500 Curatorial Practices
This course will examine curatorial practice today. It will include hands-on experiences curating and installing exhibitions. Through case studies and important ideas in curating, students will critically examine diverse practices and consider how the roles of museums, galleries, curators, and artists are evolving to be relevant and community-facing. Students will collaborate directly with professional artists and curators in the community.
4 Undergraduate credits
Effective May 6, 2028 to present
Meets graduation requirements for
Learning outcomes
General
- Evaluate problem-solving strategies for exhibiting a variety of artworks using professional curatorial techniques.
- Argue the importance of ideas in curating today, including accessibility, community engagement, decolonization, and new technologies.
- Apply skills in art handling, gallery preparation, creating didactics, and Public Relations.
- Prepare exhibitions and programming with professional artists in the community.
- Critically compare a variety of exhibition spaces.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum
Goal 6: The Humanities and Fine Arts
- Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
- Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within a historical and social context.
- Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
- Engage in the creative process or interpretive performance.
- Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.