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Curatorial Practice
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MA - School of Visual Arts
The Master of                                          cated on the fact that the global enterprise of the
                                                       art world—including museums, Kunsthallen, com-

Arts degree
                                                       mercial and nonprofit galleries, private collections,
                                                       alternative spaces, biennials, art fairs, online art
                                                       sites, and a vast number of other publicly and pri-
                                                       vately supported art platforms—has increased the
in Curatorial Practice is a two-year program that      number of curatorial ventures for programming on
focuses on professional training with a thorough       local, national and international stages that seek to
grounding in the relevant study of history, research   effect change.
and theory, and with an emphasis on hands-on              To emphasize the deeply entwined nature of
work with experts in the field, professional net-      education and professional engagement, MACP
working and the foremost goal of placing gradu-        considers itself a hub for practitioners in the global
ates of the program in curatorial jobs. The program    field, not an academic cloister. What this means
takes full advantage of the vast number of arts        in real terms are exhibitions, performances, panel
institutions and professionals on the doorstep of      discussions, workshops and ample time in the city
the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea and through-      for one-on-one encounters with artists and pro-
out New York City, which provides countless            fessionals in the field on a continual basis for our
opportunities for study, mentoring and profes-         students. They have the opportunity to create,
sional development. Our faculty members work as        curate and collaborate with leading profession-
curators, directors or in other professional capac-    als and institutions from New York, with further
ities at major New York institutions. Our weekly       opportunities in projects and internships, includ-
guest lecturers are curators, artists, conservators,   ing research, exhibitions and publications that
writers, architects, critics and theorists who come    span the globe. These events and collaborations,
to the program from around the world to talk about     along with all of the New York art scene, give the
their exhibitions, programs, projects and events.      students daily access to artists and profession-
   There has never been a moment so potent in          als who become the basis of their own networks
the explosive growth of venues for curatorial work     for the future. Nothing can beat the proximity of
across the globe, while the political urgencies we     these encounters in the everyday life of New York’s
now see around the world are a call to curators        teeming, international art scene.
everywhere to turn their attention toward the             The space that MACP occupies, close by the
intersection of social and cultural concerns. Our      galleries in Chelsea and within reach of muse-
program in Curatorial Practice (MACP) is predi-        ums and other exhibition venues in Manhattan,
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About the
Brooklyn and the other boroughs, affirms our pro-
grammatic approach, which fluidly mixes prac-
tice, research and theory. Our facilities have been

                                                                  Program
designed from the ground up specifically for us by
Charles Renfro of the world-renowned architec-
tural practice of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in asso-
ciation with the design firm Leong Leong. Their
mission was to create a dynamic space in which
discussion, study, professional visits, critical
encounters, research and production take place
in an immensely flexible, technologically sophis-                 The MA in Curatorial Practice offers a prelim-
ticated and comfortable work environment. Our                     inary boot camp that begins in late summer

beautiful facilities fit within the exceptional                   as part of its first semester, introducing
                                                                  fundamentals of research methodologies,
                                                                                                                     begin work on their curatorial plan for a final
                                                                                                                     curatorial project. Internships take place at
network of studios, workshops for every creative                  canonical history and theory texts in the field,   major institutions around the world, as well

practice, libraries, labs and galleries that make up              and conceptual thinking, followed in the full
                                                                  four semesters of the program with rigorous
                                                                                                                     as at national and New York institutions, with
                                                                                                                     mentors who are internationally renowned.
the School of Visual Arts. The faculty and artists                practical and intellectual training. The course    The final projects take many forms and are
of SVA’s other programs offer still more possibili-               work is designed to offer macro and micro          often fully interdisciplinary, as befits the
                                                                  views of the field, with the study of different    expanded field of curatorial work today. These
ties for collaboration.                                           curatorial practices and histories, constant       projects are exhibited in public spaces in New
   No other curatorial program in the world brings                practical exercises in curatorial craft, and       York City and in virtual space, replete with
                                                                  engagement with working curators and other         catalogs and documentary online presence.
more extraordinary resources, more creative enter-                experts across disciplines and from around             Degree candidates must successfully
prises, more curators, artists and experts as faculty             the world.                                         complete 50 credits, including all required

and visitors, and more opportunities for hands-on                     The curriculum is founded on a series
                                                                  of case study seminars; writing workshops;
                                                                                                                     courses, while maintaining a high level of
                                                                                                                     academic and practical performance, as
work and professional networking than our Master                  practicums in every aspect of exhibi-              judged by faculty and mentors. Applicants

of Arts in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual            tion-making and other forms of curatorial
                                                                  presentation; and programmatic engage-
                                                                                                                     with a prior background in curatorial work are
                                                                                                                     especially encouraged, as are art historians
Arts in New York.                                                 ments with curators, artists and experts who       and artists whose enterprises are relevant
                                                                  will meet with the students as a group and         to advanced work in the curatorial field. Our
                                                                  on an individual basis. Students will also take    students and faculty come from Australia,
                     —Steven Henry Madoff, chair                  a semester of art practice in their first year     Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany,
                                                                  to have a hands-on experience of what it is        Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Portugal,
                                                                  to engage in the production of art. Students       Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the United
                                                                  may draw from the resources of SVA’s other         States, and it is intrinsic to the program that
                                                                  undergraduate and graduate programs, as            we continue to develop our global network of
                                                                  well as its workshops, labs and libraries.         connections that serves our graduates in all
                                                                      During the summer between the first            of their future curatorial work, while affirming
                                                                  and second years, students enter into an           our belief in the free movement of knowledge
                                                                  internship/mentorship program, while they          without regard to borders.

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CASE STUDY

                                                   Ana Salazar

From Lisbon to
NYC to Singapore,
Ana Salazar a Curator’s
is assistant
curator of
             Journey
exhibitions
at the NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore, one of that country’s
premier spaces for exhibiting art from
around the globe. Ana was initially
introduced to the center by way of
an internship she completed while
getting her master’s in the MACP
program. The program requires that
students enter into an internship/
mentorship program ahead of their
second year. How did Ana find this
internship? “I tried to figure out a 
Ana Salazar at her thesis presentation in 2016.

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tecture collective, and started thinking about          Ana explains her role as assistant curator
                                                                                                    going back to school: “My main goal was            at CCA: “I assist the curators on all the exhi-
                                                                                                    to be able to do this shift from musician to       bition projects. We usually put together four
                                                                                                    curator. I wanted to learn as much as possible     exhibitions a year. There is a lot of admin-
                                                                                                    about curating and visual arts.” Why did she       istrative and production work involved, as
                                                                                                    ultimately choose the MACP program? “I was         well as research and content development,
                                                                                                    drawn to it because of the careful language        delving into each project and being able to
                                                                                                    used (she liked that it was called curato-         convey this to our public.”
                                                                                                    rial practice, not curatorial arts) and the             What upcoming exhibitions is she work-
                                                                                                    structure of the program seemed relevant in        ing on now? “I’m currently working on the
                                                                                                    today’s context.”                                  next two exhibitions, both very exciting! One
                                                                                                         How does Ana define the role of a cura-       is a solo show by the German artist Ulrike
                                                                                                    tor? “For me the curator is the good friend of     Ottinger and the other will focus on different
                                                                                                    the artist. She is a person who appreciates        rituals and beliefs in the region. The latter
                                                                                                    and understands or at least wants to under-        is called ‘Ghosts and Spectres’ and it will
                                                                                                    stand the artists and their practices and is       include four artists working in film.”
                                                                                                    keen to share the experience of the artwork
                                                                                                    with a public. It’s about curiosity and learning
                                                                                                    together and wanting to share and connect
                                                                                                    with each other. The role of the curator is
                                                                                                    often a mixture of a co-conspirator and facil-
                                                                                                    itator, researcher and conceptualizer, media-      LEFT AND BELOW: Images of the Centre for Contemporary
                                                                                                    tor and producer, thinker and educator.”           Art Singapore, where Ana Salazar works.
strategy and decided to research curators             Did the full-time position come up while
and find people that I identified with. So        she was interning? “No, nothing of the sort
instead of looking for the place I looked for     was discussed. I actually had other plans for
the person. I discovered that Ute Meta Bauer      after graduation. What happened was that
was directing this newly established insti-       shortly before I graduated, Ute wrote to me,
tution in Singapore and I thought it sounded      saying that CCA might have an opening in
interesting! So I just reached out.” The direc-   September and that I should apply. So I waited
tor, who was a longtime friend of MACP chair      for the posting and applied. I interviewed via
Steven Henry Madoff, welcomed Ana enthu-          Skype in August, received the offer in Septem-
siastically. So, Ana booked a flight, rented      ber and started working in November.”
a room and headed off for a three-month               Ana grew up in Portugal and was a
sojourn in Singapore. It was her first time in    musician before finding a calling in curatorial
Asia. “I interned in the Research and Edu-        work. She had an undergraduate degree in
cation department, and was assisting with         piano, but had also always been interested
all matters related to the visiting research      in the visual arts. In Lisbon, she had been
fellows and their activities at the center.”      working at Frame Colectivo, an art and archi-

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Curriculum/                                                                               Second Year
Sample Program                                                                            FALL	
                                                                                           Case Study Seminar 7: Performance and Institutions
                                                                                                                                                                                                  CREDITS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 1
                                                                                           Case Study Seminar 8: The Expanded Space of Art                                                                      1
While the program makes incremental changes every                                          Artist Roundtable                                                                                                    3

year to reflect new issues and the interests of new fac-                                   Practicum 4: Other Disciplines and Formats
                                                                                           Independent Curatorial Plan
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 3
ulty, this sample curriculum indicates the main subject                                    Internship and Fieldwork Program                                                                                     3

matter and the narrative development of the courses,                                      SPRINGCREDITS
as well as the essential organization of the program into                                  Curatorial Roundtable 3: Visiting International Curators Program                                                     3

practicums, case study seminars and workshops.                                             Workshop In Critical Writing 3: The Catalog Essay
                                                                                           Final Exhibition/Curatorial Project
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 6

First Year                                                                                                               As part of a special series of panel discussions, Johannesburg-based Gabi Ngcobo
                                                                                                                         (left), the curator of the 2018 Berlin Biennial, speaks with Adrienne Edwards, curator of
                                                                                                                         performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

FALL	                                                                      CREDITS
 Practicum 1: Research Methodologies                                               1.5
 Practicum 2: Logic and Rhetoric                                                   1.5
 Case Study Seminar 1: 20th- and 21st-Centuries Exhibition History                   1
 Case Study Seminar 2: Curating Digital Art—From Network 
        and Gallery to Public Space                                                 1
 Philosophy and Social Thought Seminar: Phenomenology and Object Studies            2
 Curatorial Roundtable 1: Visiting International Curators Program                   3
 Workshop in Critical Writing 1: Curatorial Analysis                                1
 Art Practice                                                                       0
 Workshops in Professional Practice                                                 1

SPRINGCREDITS
 Case Study Seminar 3: Models of Thinking—Curating a Program                        1
 Case Study Seminar 4: Creative Class Warfare                                       1
 Case Study Seminar 5: History as Commodity—On the Contemporary                     1
 Case Study Seminar 6: Curating the Interdisciplinary                               1
 Practicum 3: Exhibition-Making                                                     3
 Curatorial Roundtable 2: Visiting International Curators Program                   3
 Workshop in Critical Writing 2: Curatorial Analysis                                2

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Course
Offerings
A sample of our course descriptions follows.
All course descriptions can be found online at
sva.edu/macp/curriculum and macp.sva.edu/courses.

PRACTICUM 1: RESEARCH
METHODOLOGIES
This two-week intensive is held
directly prior to the beginning of
the first semester. It is dedicated to
instruction in research methodolo-
gies that are crucial to the formu-          PRACTICUM 2: LOGIC AND RHETORIC
lation of exhibitions, catalogs and          This second two-week intensive prior to the first
other curatorial ventures. Research          semester is a formal introduction to training in logic
exercises focus on curator and               and rhetoric, founded in the classical canon. It is
exhibition histories, with training          commonplace in art practices to talk about “conceptu-
in the use of online resources,              alism” and the concepts that are the basis of works of
bibliographical information and              art, particularly in the post-Duchampian era. However,
physical archives at a major New             the foundational ideas of what concepts are and the
York museum. At the end of this              way logical structures and rhetorical arguments under-
practicum, students will be better           gird the formation and expression of a concept are
prepared to develop exhibition               largely unexamined. Through readings and exercises in
concepts and texts of various kinds,         logic and rhetoric, this course will provide a background
from wall texts to catalog essays,           that will help curatorial practitioners rigorously address
related to curatorial projects.              the practice of concept formation as it relates to artists’
                                             works and to their own formulations of exhibitions and
                                             other curatorial expressions.

Students at work in the spaces of the MACP
program in Chelsea in New York City.

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PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL
                                                                                                                THOUGHT SEMINAR:
                                                                                                                PHENOMENOLOGY AND
                                                                                                                OBJECT STUDIES
                                                                                                                As it is a common task of curators
                                                                                                                to use objects to develop narratives,
                                                                                                                this weekly seminar focuses on
                                                                                                                an in-depth survey of philosophi-
                                                                                                                cal investigations of objects, with
                                                                                                                an emphasis on phenomenology,
                                                                                                                object-oriented ontology and the
                                                                                                                school of speculative realism. The
                                                                                                                relationship of the body to objects
                                                                                                                in space, investigations of subjectiv-
                                                                                                                ity, and concepts of autonomy and
                                                                                                                agency will be investigated using
                                                                                                                texts by Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
                                                                                                                and Heidegger, among others. This
                                                                                                                thinking will be toward the goal of
                                                                                                                engendering a deeper philosophical
                                                                                                                thoughtfulness in the use and recep-
CASE STUDY SEMINAR 1: 20TH- AND                             Various images from exhibitions held in the MACP    tion of objects in curatorial work.
21ST-CENTURIES EXHIBITION HISTORY                           gallery. This innovative space’s walls slide and
This weekly seminar focuses on curatorial innovation        rotate so that students are constantly challenged
                                                            in making their exhibitions.
through an historical examination of the work of a
number of significant curators during the previous and
the current century, using as texts curators’ writings,
images of installations, the
reception of their exhibitions    CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLES 1-3
in contemporaneous critical       Every week a curator visits with the students and faculty to
assessments and related           discuss a current project. The curators are from all over the
socio-historical readings.        world, work across all disciplines, and represent different
Attention is paid to work         kinds of institutions and practices. The format is informal and
in the fields of design, film,    intimate, with the curator’s presentation followed by ques-
performance and new media,        tions and answers and a reception that allows students to
as well as the traditional        interact with guests and develop a growing professional net-
visual arts. This close exam-     work. This is augmented by the in-house availability of space
ination of particular curators    for invited institutions whose curators can use our facilities
will not only touch on the        for brief periods of time while they are in New York, giving
intellectual shape of their       students further access to working professionals from across
oeuvres as curators but also      the globe. The Curatorial Roundtable is an integral part of the
on the specific formats they      program throughout its two years. Because these roundtables
deployed to present work and cultivate relationships with curators and other professionals
ideas. This will be a means       from New York institutions, as well as national and inter-
to develop the students’          national colleagues, a substantial network for professional
broader and deeper under-         development is acquired that augments the internship pro-
standing of curatorial craft.     gram and leads to future opportunities.

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ART PRACTICE
The Curatorial Practice program intends to fully
immerse its students in the world in which they will
advance their careers as professional curators. Cen-
tral to this world are of course the artists whose works
provide the content of exhibitions and other curatorial
projects. In order to fully value this work, students have
the opportunity to try their hands as art practitioners
for a full year. They will be enrolled in an art course of their choosing at the
undergraduate level, across all disciplines, taking advantage of the training
and facilities that the School of Visual Arts offers. Students will receive
ongoing reviews and critiques from their instructors and peers. At the end
of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of the techniques,
materials, conceptual challenges and risks of being a working artist. This
will contribute directly to their curatorial practices and
collaborations with artists.                                      WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL
                                                                WRITING 1 AND 2
CASE STUDY SEMINAR 8:                                           Each week students attend
THE EXPANDED SPACE OF ART                                       museums, galleries and alternative
Taught by an architect, this course uses historical and         venues in New York City, ranging
contemporary examples to examine the expanded field             across mediums and disciplines.
of exhibition-making in the 21st century. The complex,          They are then expected to write
dynamic and productive relationships between exhibi-            short reviews with specific refer-
tions and their sites will be explored as the class tack-       ence to the curatorial aspect of
les the challenges and opportunities of found or made           the project being analyzed. These
space, site specificity, site neutrality, object specificity,   reviews are critiqued in a workshop
temporality and media. Using images, videos and texts,          setting, refining the students’
students will conduct independent research on exhi-             writing and analytical skills. As
bitions and their sites, and visit shows, performances          one of the goals of the program is
and events throughout the New York area. Guest lec-             to make its candidates highly pro-
                      turers will include artists, curators,    fessional explicators of their ideas,
Final exhibitions and exhibition designers and other            this workshop will improve the
performances for the
program, at the end   architects. Curatorial exercises          students’ writing fluency and refine
of the second year,   dedicated to the reconciliation of        the author’s voice, while making
are held in public    space and art using conventional          them more attentive to curato-
spaces in Brooklyn,
Manhattan and online. artworks, design pieces, time-            rial craft as practiced in the city’s
Here, performances by based works and performance, as           immensely varied spaces and forms
Jaimie Warren (top)   well as consideration of the virtual      of presentation and deepening their
and Vangeline of the
Vangeline Theater/New exhibition space, will be an essen-       knowledge of methodologies as well
York Butoh Institute. tial element of the course.               as execution.

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Faculty
                                                                                                    Roddy Schrock                  Lumi Tan                      Mick Wilson*
                                                                                                    director, Eyebeam, New York    curator, The Kitchen,         director, Valand
                                                                                                                                   New York                      Academy, University of
                                                                                                    Terry Smith*                                                 Gothenburg, Sweden
                                                                                                    Andrew W. Mellon Professor     Wendy Vogel
                                                                                                    of Contemporary Art History    writer and independent
                                                                                                    and Theory, Department         curator, New York

To learn more about the faculty
                                                                                                    of the History of Art and
                                                                                                    Architecture, University of    Keith Whitmoyer
                                                                                                    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania       philosopher

members and to read their
biographies, visit:
sva.edu/macp/faculty. Faculty at
large noted with asterisks.                                                                         International Advisory Council
Steven Henry Madoff              Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya*        Maria Lind*                      Marina Abramovic               Udo Kittelmann
chair, MA Curatorial Practice;   artistic director, Center of      director and chief curator,      performance artist, New York   director, National Gallery,
curator; art historian and       Contemporary Creation of          Tensta Konsthall,                                               Berlin
critic; poet                     Andalusia, Córdoba, Spain         Stockholm, Sweden                Defne Ayas
                                                                                                    former director, Witte de      Suzannne Landau
Daniel Birnbaum*                 David Frankel                     Chus Martinez*                   With, Rotterdam                director, Tel Aviv Museum
director, Moderna Museet,        former editorial director,        director, Institute of                                          of Art, Tel Aviv
Stockholm, Sweden                Department of Publications,       Aesthetic Practice and           Ute Meta Bauer
                                 Museum of Modern Art, New         Theory, Academy of Arts and      director, NTU Centre for       Lars Nittve
Ivy Blackman                     York; contributor, Artforum       Design, Basel, Switzerland       Contemporary Art, Singapore    former executive director,
managing librarian, Whitney                                                                                                        M+, Hong Kong
Museum of American Art           Tim Griffin                       Laurel Ptak                      Daniel Birnbaum
                                 executive director, chief         executive director, Art in       director, Moderna Museet,      Lisa Phillips
Rebecca Clark                    curator, The Kitchen, New         General, Brooklyn, New York      Stockholm                      director, The New Museum,
associate director,              York; former editor in                                                                            New York
SVA Library                      chief, Artforum                   Sara Reisman                     Okwui Enwezor
                                                                   artistic director, Shelley &     director, Haus der Kunst,      Paul Schimmel
Joshua Decter                    Hou Hanru*                        Donald Rubin Foundation,         Munich                         independent curator
writer, curator, art historian   artistic director of MAXXI,       New York
                                 National Museum of                                                 Thelma Golden                  Olga Viso
Thierry de Duve*                 21st-century Art, Rome            Charles Renfro                   director, Studio Museum in     former executive
Evelyn Kranes Kossak                                               principal-in-charge, principal   Harlem, New York               director, Walker Art
Professor and Distinguished      Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy*        designer, Diller Scofidio +                                     Center, Minneapolis
Lecturer, Hunter College,        curator of contemporary art,      Renfro, New York                 Madeleine Grynsztejn
New York                         Colección Patricia Phelps de                                       director, Museum of            Sheena Wagstaff
                                 Cisneros, New York                David A. Ross                    Contemporary Art, Chicago      chairman, Modern and
Clémentine Deliss*                                                 chair, MFA Art Practice,                                        Contemporary Art,
independent curator, Berlin      Brian Kuan Wood                   School of Visual Arts, New       Hou Hanru                      Metropolitan Museum of Art,
                                 founding editor, e-flux journal   York; former director,           artistic director, MAXXI,      New York
Sarah Demeuse                                                      Whitney Museum of                National Museum of
curator, writer,                 Daniel Kunitz                     American Art; former             21st-Century Art, Rome
co-founder of Rivet              executive editor,                 director, San Francisco
                                 Sculpture Magazine                Museum of Modern Art

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Internship                                                                                    Application
Institutions                                                                                  Process
Each year, students spend from six weeks to three                                             APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
months during the summer between their first and second                                       For detailed instructions, visit: sva.edu/grad/howtoapply
                                                                                                „„Online Application and $80 Application Fee: sva.edu/apply
                                                                                                   
 years in for-credit internships at major institutions                                          „„Statement of Intent/Personal Statement
                                                                                                   

around the world, learning the day-to-day workings of                                           „„Résumé
                                                                                                   

                                                                                                „„Letters of Recommendation
                                                                                                   
these institutions from the inside. Many students also                                          „„Official College Transcript
                                                                                                   

intern in New York during their second year.
                                                                                              Some applicants may be required to submit the following:
                                                                                                 Proof of English Proficiency
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
Art in General, Brooklyn        The Kitchen, New York          The 9th and 10th Berlin           Copy of Permanent Residency Card
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
                                                               Biennales, Berlin                 Declaration of Finances
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
Asia Contemporary Art           Kunst-Werke Institute for
                                                                                                 Verification of Finances
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
Week, New York                  Contemporary Art, Berlin       The 11th Gwangju
                                                                                                 Foreign Transcript Evaluation
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
                                                               Biennale, Gwangju
Bold Tendencies, London         MAXXI Museo nazionale del-
                                le arti del XXI secolo, Rome   The Shed, New York             DEPARTMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn                                                                     For specific guidelines about these requirements, visit: sva.edu/grad/deptreq
                                Museum of Modern Art,          Tensta konsthall, Stockholm      „„Writing Sample (Proposal)
                                                                                                   
Center for Creative             New York                                                        „„Interview
                                                                                                   
Photography, Tuscon                                            Whitney Museum of
                                NTU Centre for Contempo-       American Art, New York
Collección Patricia Phelps de   rary Art, Singapore                                           DEADLINES
Cisneros, New York                                             Witte de With, Rotterdam       For information on application deadlines, visit: sva.edu/grad/timeline
                                La Panacée, Montpellier
FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá                                                                    IMPORTANT LINKS
                                Performa, New York                                               FAQ: sva.edu/grad/faq
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
Haus der Kulturen der                                                                            International students: sva.edu/grad/intl
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
Welt, Berlin                    Queens Museum, New York
                                                                                                 Tuition and fees: sva.edu/tuition
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   

                                                                                                 Visit SVA: sva.edu/grad/visit
                                                                                                „„
                                                                                                   
International Studio & Cura-    Solomon R. Guggenheim
torial Program, Brooklyn        Museum, New York

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                                directly to schedule a department tour or sign up to attend an
                                Information Session. For more information and to register,
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                                Michael Severance, director of operations                        Video; Visual and Critical Studies; and to con-   Council for the Accreditation of Educator
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                                                                                                 Arts; Curatorial Practice; Design Research,       The Master of Professional Studies in Art
                                Tel: 212.592.2274                                                Writing and Criticism; and to confer the          Therapy degree program is approved by the
                                Fax: 212.592.2555                                                degree of Master of Arts in Teaching on grad-     American Art Therapy Association, Inc., and
                                Email: macp@sva.edu                                              uates of the program in Art Education; and        as such meets the Education Standards of
                                Site: sva.edu/macp                                               to confer the degree of Master of Fine Arts       the art therapy profession.
                                Department site: macp.sva.edu                                    on graduates of programs in Art Practice;
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                                   twitter.com/svacuratorial                                     of Design; Social Documentary Film; Visual           Anthony P. Rhodes
                                                                                                 Narrative; and to confer the degree of Master     Creative director: Gail Anderson
                                                                                                 of Professional Studies on graduates of the       Design: Ryan Durinick
                                                                                                 programs in Art Therapy; Branding; Digital        Editorial: Sheilah Ledwidge, Abby Kreh
                                                                                                 Photography; Directing; Fashion Photogra-         Case study writer: Sheilah Ledwidge
                                                                                                 phy. Data required by the U.S. Department of
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                                                                                                 individual program page at sva.edu/ge.
                                                                                                                                                   The School of Visual Arts does not discrimi-
                                                                                                                                                   nate on the basis of gender, race, color, creed,

                          growth of the                                                          The School of Visual Arts is accredited by
                                                                                                                                                   disability, age, sexual orientation, marital sta-
                                                                                                                                                   tus, national origin or other legally protected
  global arts enterprise—museums,                                                                the Middle States Commission on Higher
                                                                                                 Education (msche.org), 3624 Market Street,
                                                                                                                                                   statuses.

  galleries, alternative spaces, biennials,                                                      Philadelphia, PA 19104, 267.284.5000. The         The College reserves the right to make
                                                                                                 Commission on Higher Education is an insti-       changes from time to time affecting policies,
  art fairs, expositions, online art sites,                                                      tutional accrediting agency recognized by the     fees, curricula and other matters announced

  and the sheer number of publicly
                                                                                                 U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council       in this or any other publication. Statements in
                                                                                                 on Higher Education Accreditation.                this and other publications do not constitute

  and privately supported art venues—                                                            The School of Visual Arts is an accredited
                                                                                                                                                   a contract.

  has greatly increased the need for                                                             institutional member of the National
                                                                                                 Association of Schools of Art and Design

  curatorial knowledge and production.”                                                          (nasad.arts-accredit.org).

  —Steven Henry Madoff, chair

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