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.
Adriana Ramirez, Seminar, 2013. Game board to get some balance between being and making. Photo courtesy of Adriana Ramirez, 2013.
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MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design) offers a one-year Master of Arts (MA) program. The program consists of seminars, workshops, studios, and tutorials where artists, architects, curators, designers, and various theorists share their knowledge, creativity, and professional insights with MaHKU students.
The MaHKU MA Fine Art program departs from the student's individual research trajectory: a project proposal that is part of the application procedure for the master program. Through various components of the program, such as critical studies, studio practice, spatial practice, and curatorial studies, students are incited further to realize and contextualize their own research projects. The master year is concluded by a curated exhibition and a research report.
Since its start in 2004, the MaHKU MA Fine Art program has always attracted a body of students from various parts of the world. In fact, students from 43 different countries have studied in the program. The diversity in both geographic background and artistic interest has contributed profoundly to MaHKU's dynamic research environment.
MaHKU's research environment is enhanced even more by an experimental curriculum focused on artistic thought processes, critical spatial practices, and context-responsiveness. Moreover, the MaHKU MA Fine Art program has a history of implying various collaborations with well-known international platforms in its curriculum. Recent examples are the Venice Biennale 2011, with the project Any-Medium-Whatever; dOCUMENTA 13, 2012, where MaHKU was one of the ten invited art schools for the Innovative Art Academies Network; the 1st Tbilisi Triennial for Art, Education and Research, 2012; and Joyful Wisdom, Parallel event to 13th Istanbul Biennale, 2013.
In the context of its experimental research environment, MaHKU MA Fine Art has been at the forefront of the debate on artistic research worldwide taking place over the recent decade. In 2006, MaHKU was one of the initiators of the European Artistic Research Network (EARN), a joint venture of ten European Graduate Schools. In that same year, MaHKU set up two dissemination platforms: the yearly Dutch Artistic Research Event (DARE) with speakers such as Claire Doherty, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Maria Lind and Nikolaus Hirsch; and the publication series MaHKUzine, Journal of Artistic Research with themes such as A Certain Ma-Ness, Nameless Science, Urban Knowledge, Spatial Practice, Epistemic Encounters, and As the Academy Turns. All of the components mentioned above have brought about a further intensification of dynamic research trajectories in the MaHKU Fine Art program.
Furthermore, the MaHKU Fine Art program takes a clear and distinct stance in the current debate on PhD research in visual art. PhD research is in fact the institutional consciousness of the art academy, MaHKU claims while involving related concepts such as autonomous space as a place for demonstration and reflection, as a location for novel experiments in visual processes, and as a laboratory for developing novel artistic processes of thinking and production. Not surprisingly, various PhD research trajectories in the MaHKU Fine Art curriculum affect a concretization and catalyzation of the debate on doctoral research in the arts. In 2011, MaHKU researcher Irene Kopelman obtained the first degree of Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) in the Netherlands. Currently, two PhD researchers at MaHKU, Jeremiah Day and Lonnie van Brummelen, are supported by a NWO/Mondriaan Fund grant.
In conclusion, MaHKU MA Fine Art considers itself a test site, where the program continuously produces debates and publications dealing with facilitating, situating and composing topical, relevant forms of graduate art education.
MaHKU lecturers include, among others:
Tiong Ang, Annette W. Balkema, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Mariana Castillo Deball, Casanova + Hernandez, Jeremiah Day, Rene Francisco, Mika Hannula, Maria Hlavajova, Klaas Hoek, Jan Kaila, Irene Kopelman, Annette Krauss, Christina Li, Geert Lovink, Bojana Panevska, Liza May Post, Domeniek Ruyters, Henk Slager (dean), Space & Matter, Ilse van Rijn, Mick Wilson, XML (Architecture Research Urbanism), Edwin Zwakman.
External Examiners: Ute Meta Bauer, Aglaia Konrad.
MaHKU Master of Arts degrees are internationally acknowledged and accredited by the Open University Validation Services in London (OU).
Information and application
Application and admission during the year. Students with a BA in Fine Art, Spatial Design and other relevant studies are welcome to apply. Ultimate deadline for 2014 is April 30.
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