Call for Applications SVA MA Curatorial Practice
MA Curatorial Practice
School of Visual Arts
132 West 21st Street, 10th floor New York, NY 10011
T 212 592 2274
macp@sva.edu
macp.sva.edu
The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts, located in the heart of New York City, is now accepting applications for fulltime and, in special cases, part-time students.
Our two-year master’s degree program is based on a fully immersive, hands-on approach to curating, with weekly opportunities to meet curators from around the world and the goal of placing well-trained graduates in curatorial jobs. Taught by distinguished working professionals teaching what they do, students take practicums in research, rhetoric, exhibition making, and other forms of curatorial enterprise. There are workshops in professional practices; courses in history, philosophy, and theory; writing workshops; summer internships at leading institutions all over the world; a subsidized trip for first-year students to a major European exhibition, such as documenta, the Venice Biennale, Berlin Biennale, and Manifesta; and the opportunity to make at least three exhibitions or curatorial projects in public spaces in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Our Curatorial Roundtable brings more than fifty international curators and institution directors to the program for seminars—meetings that have turned into internships and project work. As well, the program takes full advantage of the vast number of arts institutions and professionals on the doorstep of our state-of-the-art facilities at the School of Visual Arts, at the doorstep of Chelsea’s hundreds of art galleries, with students frequently adding second internships at major museums and cultural venues in the city, such as the Whitney, MoMA, MoMA PS1, the New Museum, the Guggenheim, the Queens Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Kitchen.
Our faculty and faculty at large include leading national and international curatorial practitioners, historians, and theorists, including Chrissie Iles, Charles Renfro, Noam Segal, Thierry de Duve, Mirene Arsanios, Hou Hanru, Ivy Blackman, Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Laurel Ptak, Christian Nyampeta, Maria Lind, Domenick Ammirati, Terry Smith, Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Steven Henry Madoff, Natasha Ginwala, David A. Ross, Clémentine Deliss, Mick Wilson, Sara Reisman, Roddy Schrock, Daniel Kunitz, and Brian Kuan Wood, who also serves as director of research.
The costs of the program are highly competitive with other US institutions in the field and there are a number of limited support grants. We seek diversity of every kind in the program. We are on rolling admissions, which began January 15 and continue. If you are interested in further information, you may contact the program at +1 212 592 2274 or by email at macp@sva.edu. For details about the program and to apply, visit macp.sva.edu.