EXHIBITIONS CURRICULA OFFICE (ECO)

Office: Room 220B, 2nd Floor, Sharp Building, 37 S. Wabash

Phone: 312.899.1459

Email: eco@saic.edu

Contact: Michael Ryan, Director of Exhibitions Curricula, Adjunct Associate Professor, and Student Union Galleries (SUGs) Faculty Advisor

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Graduate Level Courses

ARTED5030Museum as Critical Curriculum

ARTHI5754Contemporary Art Criticism

5900History of the Museum and the Museum in Society

6010Curatorial Practice

6014Exhib Sem: History & Practice

6011Alternative Curatorial Practice

6030Museum Education

ARTSAD5900History of the Museum and the

Museum in Society

5902Exhibition Process

6010Curatorial Practice

6011Alternative Curatorial Practice

6030Museum Education

Sample Course Listings for Exhibition Studies

Courses for Spring 2009

BFA and Beyond Monday 6.00 – 9.00, Wednesday 6.00 – 9.00 ARTSAD 4002.

There are two sections:

Monday - Jason Dunda (Independent Artist)     jdunda@artic.edu

Wednesday - Michael Ryan (Exhibitions curriculum director and independent artist)  

                       mryan3@saic.edu

This class is aimed at graduating seniors who are also planning to show work in the BFA exhibition. The class will help you select and present your work in the exhibition while also offering a chance to get ready for what comes next.

In response to feedback from critiques, each student works on an exhibition plan and artist statement and develops professional materials for distribution. To foster discussion of pertinent issues, students visit exhibition venues, attend lectures and converse with visiting artists and critics about contemporary issues regarding venue, exhibition and distribution. As a final project, students complete their BFA thesis proposals and implement installation or presentation (including promotional material, gallery didactics, etc.) in cooperation with Gallery 2 guidelines. Open to senior level students and above.

Professional Practice Tuesday 4:30PM - 7:30 ARTSAD 4011

There are two sections:

Lora Lode (Independent Artist) llode@saic.edu

Michael Ryan (Exhibitions curriculum director and independent artist) mryan3@saic.edu

Take this class if you want to develop your working knowledge of the art world. You may be taking part in the BFA Exhibition or have you may an idea for a show or independent exhibition elsewhere, work on this idea in class.

4011 Professional Practice – Loraine Pelz Mo 1-4

This course provides an opportunity to devise, direct, and sustain a project that facilitates a realistic 'live' public out-come. This is a self-directed practical project that asks students to propose a strategy for presenting their work. This is an opportunity to organize an exhibit of one's own; a group show or a 'live art' platform; a digital internet based work, or a conference.

Why Make Art Now? Tuesday 6.00 – 9.00 ARTSAD 4015.

There are two sections:

Jason Dunda (Independent Artist) jdunda@artic.edu

Shannon Stratton (Director Threewalls gallery) shannon@three-walls.org

This seminar class is a great opportunity to understand more about how the artworld works and how you are situated within it. By focusing discussion on you and your work you are encouraged to develop a greater sense of your agency as an artist.

4015 - 1 Why Make Art Now - Shannon Stratton Mo 1-4

4015 - 2 Why Make Art Now - Jason Dunda Th 1-4

What motivates artists or an artist to make art? Moreover, why do artists continue making art? What has motivated and impacted cultural practice in the last century and what will motivate it in the end? This course will explore both contemporary and historical contexts and their implications on future developments in creative production, dissemination and ideology. Students will investigate and analyze their own production and dissemination within the current environment as well as founding movements and prospective achievements. This seminar is constructed to be both a practicum and a think tank. Students will explore these ideas in a series of critiques and writing assignments bringing practical and theoretical approaches together to further define the knowledge and expertise of the upper level undergraduate with a focus on context, philosophy, history, methodology and presentation of art and artists in the 20th century and beyond.

Statements, Grants, Proposals

Tuesday 9:00 - 12:00; ARTSAD 4006

Cassy Smith (Independent Artist) csmith1@saic.edu

Take this class is you want to learn about fundraising and how to improve your presentation skills. The class looks at a range of funding sources and in class you will prepare a funding application that you could go on to submit later.

This interdisciplinary seminar introduces, deepens and extends writing skills and helps to develop concepts that can sustain, guide and propel artistic practice after graduation. Central to the class is the the professional completion of two grant applications, followed by a mock jury event that simulates actual jurying procedure. In conjunction with the applications, students will write artist statements, develop project proposals, and will discuss how the arts and the public intersect, in popular opinion, historic context and professional settings. That includes an assessment of the relations of artists and audiences, artists and administrators and curators, and artists and critics, as well as a section on sustaining creativity in the long run. The seminar can be taken for Studio or Art History Credit.

Artist Start-Up:Small Business Organization

Friday 9:00 - 12:00 and 1:00 - 4:00 ARTSAD 4022

This class is two sections both lead by Bob Brodsky (Business consultant and legal expert) bbrods@saic.edu

Take this class if you are thinking about setting up your own business. Learn about the business world and developing a business plan while also better understanding business law, tax and financial questions

This course emphasizes learning about starting and managing an arts businesses and/or organizations. It blends the techniques of for-profit and non-profit management so students can see the similarities and differences between the two types of organizations which comprise the field of arts administration. The course surveys the entrepreneurial practices of the for-profit sector, as well as the mission-driven operations of the nonprofit sector. Students learn the basics of how to strategically develop a business plan and successfully implement it.

Working Artist:Life After School Monday 1.00 – 4.00 & Wednesday 4:30 - 7:30 ARTSAD 4008

There are three sections:

Monday 1-4 - Lorraine Peltz (independent Artist)

Wednesday 4.30 – 7.30 - Amy Vogel (Independent Artist – director of FYP) avogel@saic.edu

Wednesday 4.30 – 7.30 - Claire Ashley (Independent Artist) cashley@saic.edu

This class will help you develop skills to begin managing a busy creative career. Talking about presentation and communication skills, studio and exhibitions management, it will help you prioritize needs and practicalities while continuing to work as an artist.

4008 - 1 Working Artist Life After School - Amy Vogel W 4.30 - 7.30

4008 - 2 Working Artist, Life After School – Dan Devening Th 1-4

This interdisciplinary, upper level seminar will help students develop methods for sustaining a studio practice, deepen a theoretical and critical understanding of one's work, and the changing role of the artist in today's society. The class will include: readings and discussions, individual and group critiques, writing an artist's statement, developing student presentations, and discussions with visiting artists and curators. Other discussions will include graduate school (yes, no, and how to proceed), traditional and alternative strategies for exhibiting and self-promotion, earning a living (inside and outside of the art world), and creating a support system as a working artist.

4802 To The Museum and Beyond - Britton Bertran Tu 1-4

This course critically traces an archeology of postmodern cultural production, display, criticism, and radical political intervention by examining paradigmatic modern cultural institutions in general, and museums in particular. Analyses of modern socio-cultural politics according to Foucault and Benjamin will provide a basis for a critical examination of the cultural economies of which modern museums are the key agents and the materializations. Increasingly, the work of these authors has been taken up and deployed by contemporary cultural historians and theorists as a means of gaining critical perspectives on the complicated relationships between capitalism, urbanism, colonialism, consumerism, and, in the more critically adventurous cases, sexism, racism, and classicism.

Site/Environment/Communities Tuesday 9:00AM – 4:00PM

ARTED/ SCULP 3044

Grace Howenstein ghowenstein@saic.edu

This course will examine strategies for working on site, gaining an understanding of the complex intersection of the social, cultural, built, and natural environment that is so essential to the creation of artist's interventions, independently or in collaboration with others, in and out of the art world. Working individually and in groups, students will conduct research, critically and creatively analyze site, identify opportunities and issues, and develop and present project proposals. The specifics of location, materials, communities, participants, partnering institutions, funding and facilitation will be identified throughout this process. This course provides pragmatic preparation for actually undertaking projects outside of the studio.