Summer 2012 Curatorial Intensive
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Recognizing there are few opportunities for professionals to receive practical training and guidance while also holding down a job, the Curatorial Intensive is targeted toward self-motivated individuals—working independently or in institutions—who would benefit from a week of intensive conversations around the issues and questions that regularly arise for curators. These range from the pragmatics of developing an exhibition and building working relationships with artists to the theoretical aspects of understanding how to turn a concept into a project and effectively communicate ideas.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
New York Summer 2012: Contemporary Curatorial Practice
Application Deadline: April 6
Program Dates: July 8–17
Focusing on new models for curating and exhibition development, ICI’s annual summer Curatorial Intensive offers curators the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world and share ideas on how to push the parameters of their practice.
Teachers and advisors include New York-based independent curator Cecilia Alemani; Matthew Higgs, Director and Chief Curator, White Columns, New York; and Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
Application Guidelines
Visit ICI’s website to apply for the Curatorial Intensive online. All applications must include a 500-word description of a program idea that the applicant would like help in developing. This description should outline the proposal concept and any artists that the applicant is considering. Also required are a current resume; a 500-1,000-word letter of intent; and a 500-word text that describes a recent exhibition that has made an impact on the applicant.
Fees and Scholarships
The program fee is 1,900 USD. Participants are responsible for covering travel and accommodation expenses. ICI also offers generous scholarship packages, subsidizing or eliminating the program fees and travel expenses of four participants.
For more information, visit ICI’s website or contact Education & Public Programs Manager Chelsea Haines at chelsea@curatorsintl.org.
In 2012, ICI is offering four Curatorial Intensive programs in New York and internationally, tailored to various aspects of curatorial practice for participants at all levels in their careers.
COMING SOON:
Look out for the call for applications for upcoming specialized Curatorial Intensive Programs:
Beijing Summer 2012: The Museum of the future? Curating institutions.
Application Deadline: May 9
Program Dates: August 5–11
Focusing on creatively building infrastructures for contemporary art institutions that respond to the changing needs of artists and new publics, this program is developed in partnership with the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and The Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
New York Fall 2012: Curating Beyond Exhibition-Making
Application Deadline: July 27
Program Dates: October 21–30
Curating Beyond Exhibition Making will be the first program to offer training to curators on the challenge and logistics surrounding public events and educational programs, including discursive projects that unfold over time, durational pedagogical events and new forms of curatorial publishing.
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Brazil Spring 2012: Curating Context
Application Deadline Passed
Program Dates: April 22–28
Organized in collaboration with Instituto Inhotim, the Curatorial Intensive will employ the evolution of Inhotim’s unique art program to explore timely issues in how curatorial practices negotiate issues of place, community, and culture.
About the Curatorial Intensive
The Curatorial Intensive is ICI’s short-term, low-cost training program that offers curators the chance to develop exhibition ideas and make connections to professionals in the field. It provides the opportunity for peer-group education, forging new networks internationally. The Curatorial Intensive takes place twice annually in New York, and in other locations in conjunction with institutional partners worldwide.
The Curatorial Intensive is made possible, in part, by grants from the Dedalus Foundation, the Hartfield Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; and by generous contributions from Toby Devan Lewis, James Cohan, and the supporters of ICI’s Access Fund.
About Independent Curators International
Independent Curators International (ICI) connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions to forge international networks and generate new forms of collaboration through the production of exhibitions, events, publications, and curatorial training. Headquartered in New York, the organization provides public access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in curating and exhibition-making, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art. Since it was established in 1975, ICI has worked with over 1,000 curators and 3,700 artists from 47 countries worldwide.
