Winter and spring special events

Call for applications
Applications are now open for the master of arts degree in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in the heart of New York City, close to hundreds of art galleries, world-renowned museums, and thousands of artists’ studios. Our two-year degree is oriented around practical professional training, with case-study seminars focused on specific types of curating, art and exhibition history courses, workshops in writing and professional practices, and weekly roundtables with international curators and artists, all taught by a faculty of leading curators and experts who teach you what they do professionally. International fieldwork and internships take place between the two years of the program. 

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. Our program has always been dedicated to social justice and activism, and every course addresses curatorial work toward these ends. Find out more about the program here. Applications deadline is January 15, 2024. Merit-based, partial tuition scholarships are available. Feel free to reach out to make an appointment for consultation via phone or Zoom, or come visit in person. Please contact us at macp@sva.edu.

Information session
We will hold a special information session online on January 8 at 7pm EST, during which Steven Henry Madoff, the program’s founding chair, will present every aspect of the program and answer questions. Those who attend will have their application fee waived. Register here for the information session. Apply now for fall 2024 here.

Public online events for winter and spring 2024
We are delighted to announce our international roster of distinguished speakers for The Curatorial Roundtable, hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice program. The Roundtable is a forum for curators and institutional leaders from around the world to discuss exhibitions and other curatorial projects that have been transformative in their careers, along with current and future projects. These one-hour sessions take place on Zoom on Wednesdays at 9 AM EST. Our upcoming guests include: Meskerem Assegued, Addis Ababa; Defne Ayas, Berlin; Ruth Estevez, New York; Christine Eyene, Liverpool; iLiana Fokianiki, Bern; Yuko Hasegawa, Kanazawa; Anthony Huberman, New York; Alexandre Melo, Lisbon; Magdalena Moskalewicz, Cleveland; Margot Norton, Berkeley; Jo Ying Peng, Mexico City; Anca Rujoiu, Umea; and Matt Williams, Camden. To see the schedule and register for these extraordinary talks, look here.

Also coming this winter and spring, our continuing series of panel discussions with artists, theorists, and technical experts, The Algorithmic State, concerning the rise of artificial intelligence and its cultural and social impact. Upcoming panels will discuss AI and the tyranny of bias, adversarial aesthetics, invisible labor, and the topic “Between Curatorial Conception and Computation.”

All events are free and open to the public. MA Curatorial Practice looks forward to seeing you in 2024.