Accepting Applications Now: SVA MA Curatorial Practice
New York-Based, Globally Linked Program for Professional Curatorial Training
We are excited to announce that we are currently accepting applications for the master’s degree program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Our focus is curating as a form of making, and with this practical approach we concentrate our courses on professional training with leading curators and experts who teach our small seminar-based classes. Art history and exhibition history, along with contemporary theory, are crucial to the program and we integrate them with courses covering everything from grant writing, exhibition design, and lighting design to seminars on curating film and video, digital media, performance, interdisciplinary programming, considering architectural spaces for curating, and institutional collecting. There are writing workshops and several chances to make shows of your own—which we subsidize, while other programs charge an extra fee and provide fewer opportunities. In fact, we also subsidize a trip each year to a major biennial (the Venice Biennale, for example), followed by summer internships with major institutions from Berlin to Beijing, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Bogotá, London, Singapore, and more.
We have the great advantage of being in the heart of New York City, with hundreds of galleries and major museums close to our state-of-the-art space. Our students have the chance every week to be in artists’ studios, visit exhibitions, and work in cultural institutions here. Our faculty and faculty at large include many leading curators, and our Curatorial Roundtable brings 60 curators from all over the world for two-hour sessions with our students, helping them create international networks of professionals for their futures.
We offer merit-based support scholarships and are accepting applications now for September 2020. Learn more and apply at macp.sva.edu.
