MA Curating

University of Essex

Postgraduate

In Colchester

£ 6,125 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    1 Year

About the course
Our MA Curating offers a practical and theoretical training in devising and curating exhibitions, as you work towards the preparation of an exhibition at our on-site Art Exchange gallery


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Our course combines practice, theory and histories of curating in equal measure

You will develop an essential base skills for a successful exhibition – from object handling to managing exhibition budgets – through visiting lectures by active museum professionals; practical workshops using our on-site collection and galleries; and competitive placements at leading institutions


You will build your own confident grasp of the history and theory of exhibition-making, studying with academics who besides being active curators are producing new key texts on the curatorial history and theory

You study topics including:
How an exhibition can be used as a means of social or political critique
The historical role that museums have played in society
Participation and social engagement between spectators, artists and curators
A choice of history of art options
One of the major reasons for choosing Essex is the quality of the education you will receive

Our Art History programme is 6th in the UK for research excellence, with 89% of our work rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014), and we achieved an exceptional 95% student satisfaction in the 2016 National Student Survey

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Art
  • Exhibition
  • Art History

Course programme

Example structure
Postgraduate study is the chance to take your education to the next level. The combination of compulsory and optional modules means our courses help you develop extensive knowledge in your chosen discipline, whilst providing plenty of freedom to pursue your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are, in many instances, just a selection of those available. Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current postgraduate students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 1
Exhibition & Portfolio (optional)
Managing Galleries and Exhibition Projects
Critique and Curating
Curating Inside Out
Art & Politics (optional)
Art, Architecture and Urbanism (optional)
Art, Science, Knowledge (optional)
City of God / City of Man: Art and Urbanism in Rome, 1530-1650
Current Issues in Curating
Collecting Art From Latin America (optional)
Current Research in Art History (optional)
Exhibition (Joint Project) (optional)
Researching Art History (optional)
The Museum: History, Theory and Critical Texts
Topics in Art History (optional)
Individual Project (optional)
Dissertation - MA Schemes (optional)
Teaching
Full-time for one year or part-time over two years
Gain practical experience in curating, such as handling and installing artworks
Frequent visits to museums and galleries
Two-hour seminars with discussion based on a programme of reading
We run a number of mini-courses, research seminars and conferences that our postgraduates are encouraged to attend
Assessment
Assessment for our courses is normally on the basis of coursework and your supervised dissertation
Dissertation
In place of a dissertation, you work towards the preparation of an exhibition at our on-site Art Exchange gallery
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Additional information

Our expert staff Our staff consists of a dynamic group of art historians While our research interests span a range of cultures and media, from the early modern to the present, core specialties include exhibition design, modern and contemporary art, public engagement and activism Here are a few examples of recent or current projects by staff members: Dr Gavin Grindon, Lecturer in Art History and co-director of our Centre for Curatorial Studies, recently co-curated the Disobedient Objects exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, one of the best attended shows in the museum’s history He has also widely published on activist art in leading journals such as Art History Dr Adrian Locke, a Visiting Fellow in Art History and Senior Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, has curated a diverse range of exhibitions, including Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910–1940 (2013) and Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South American from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (2014) He also co-curated the exhibition Ai Weiwei, which opens at the Royal Academy in September 2015 Dr Matt Lodder, Lecturer in Art History with an emphasis on modern and contemporary visual culture, is co-curating the exhibition Tattoo: Ancient Myths, Modern Meanings, which opens next year in the U S Dr Michael Tymkiw, co-director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies, has a book under contract entitled Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism He has also just launched an interdisciplinary research project that focuses on using digital technologies to expand disability access in museums—a project that involves collaborations with several museums in Colchester and London including firstsite and the Victoria and Albert Museum Specialist facilities At Essex, you have the best of both worlds: on the one hand, you are part of a tight-knit, campus community with close ties to several small but excellent museums in the nearby town of Colchester; on the other...

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MA Curating

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