OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Emerging Curators Retreat in Los Angeles Jamillah James and Meg Cranston, Emerging Curators Retreat 2018. Photo: Paulina Samborska. Priority deadline: January 30, 2019 Otis College of Art and Design 9045 Lincoln Blvd 90045 Los Angeles, CA www.otis.edu Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube The two-week Emerging Curators Retreat focuses on Los Angeles’ international art scene with powerhouse visiting curators. Perfect for emerging and diverse individuals looking to advance their artistic and curatorial skills. Through a series of talks, conversations, and presentations with professional curators, artists, and thinkers, and site visits to museums, galleries, studios, and alternative spaces, participants will be able to engage with the local art community and advance their careers as curators. This retreat focuses specifically on the Los Angeles’ art scene while participants develop transferable skills as a curator.
Christina Sanchez, Two Scores: Voice/Body, 2012. Installation and participatory performance, Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica. MFA '12. Photo by Jeseca Dawson, MFA ‘12.
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This MFA Program, headed by Suzanne Lacy, is the only educational program in the Southern California region dedicated exclusively to providing artists with advanced skills to work in the public sphere.
Graduate Public Practice, taught by a team of nationally and internationally prominent curators and artists, prepares students in visual arts-based practices based in collaboration, context, and contributions to the public good. The emphasis on field-based learning, opportunities to intern, and a professional practice curriculum that examines teaching methods produces graduates who are highly creative problem solvers in their communities. Connections are vital among students, among students and professionals, and between Los Angeles and international art scenes. Students explore cultures as diverse as a small farming town in the San Joaquin Valley or hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.
This year, students did fieldwork in the Camino Verde neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico, where they collaborated with artists, researchers, community leaders and organizations. The semester-long research project was led by faculty member Bill Kelley Jr., along with cognate collective (San Diego, California) in collaboration with Polen Audio-Visual (Tijuana, Mexico).
Faculty: Andrea Bowers, Sara Daleiden, Sandra de la Loza, Dana Duff, Kate Johnson, Bill Kelley Jr., Consuelo Velasco Montoya, Julio Morales Karen Moss, Renee Petropoulos, and S.A. Bachman.
Recent visitors: Kim Abeles, Judy Baca, Dan Cameron, Mel Chin, Karla Diaz, Sam Durant, Pablo Helguera, Grant Kester, Lucy Lippard, Rick Lowe, Mary Miss, Sally Tallant and Stephen Wright.
Alumni have performed and exhibited their work at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); MAK Center; Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery; Open Engagement at Portland State University; TCB Art Incorporated in Melbourne, Australia; Watts Towers Arts Center; Festival for Wirikuta in Mexico City; and Casa Del Tunel in Tijuana, Mexico. They have received grants and fellowships from the Queens Museum of Art; Center for Cultural Innovation; LA County Arts Commission; Arts Council of Kern County, California; and the City of Milwaukee. They have held positions at the Armory Center for the Arts; Farmlab/Metabolic Studios; Northeastern University School of Law; Side Street Projects; 2011 Encuentro internacional de Medellin; WInter Special Olympics in PyeongChang; Heart Project; P.S. Arts; Teach for America; and UC Santa Barbara. They have participated in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, SOMA Mexico, and DeLuxe Lab Australia.
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