Week 1: Role of the curator

• What are your expectations of curating?
• What do curators do? Types of curators, difference between project manager, artists as curator, commercial gallerist, museum. Different models of curating
• Different approaches to curating: what can be done, how your work fits into existing gallery / project space models
• Managing & Positioning your curatorial practice
• Curatorial case studies
• Assignment: research a curatorial case study on a solo exhibition by a contemporary curator.

Week 2: Building your proposal with artists

• Developing your proposal / what is your project?
• Researching artists (studio visits, database, techniques)
• Communicating your ideas to artists & developing curatorial ideas with artists
• Writing the proposal
• Inviting artists to participate & defining a working model
• Assignment: Draft a proposal for a curatorial project.

Week 3: Working with a space

• Working in a space; how to get a space, how to propose your project to a gallery
• Insurance, Health & Safety, Transport & Art handling
• Installing: guidelines for working with digital media, digital equipment
• Examples of different layouts of 2D works
• Devising an installation timetable; working with a technician / art handler & artists
• Basic contracts: for artists, gallery spaces & technicians
• The take down; the resources you need, invoices you need to send, other things you need to do to ‘tidy up’.

Week 4: Communicating your project

• The audience: who are they, what do they expect, how to communicate with them on a marketing level and an artistic level.
• What to do with your audience once you have them – public programming and engagement
• Marketing & promotion; mediating your project to the public & the art community
• The Vernissage: practical guidelines on what to do & why
• Engaging a writer / critic
• The importance of documenting your project & different examples

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