Curatorial/Museum Studies

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum class
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum class

Curatorial and Museum Studies programs prepare students to mediate the relationships between artists, artworks, exhibitions spaces, and the public. They analyze and present work such that it is appropriately contextualized for public comprehension and appreciation. They provide the environment for research and investigation in art history and criticism and the opportunity to present this research in published and/or exhibited format.

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS

College for Creative Studies

Detroit, MI

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Vancouver, BC

Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore, MD

Moore College of Art and Design

Philadelphia, PA

Parsons School of Design

New York, NY

Pratt Institute

Brooklyn, NY

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

GRADUATE DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS

California College of the Arts

San Francisco, CA

Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore, MD

OCAD University

Toronto, ON

Pacific Northwest College of Art

Portland, OR

Parsons School of Design

New York, NY

Pratt Institute

Brooklyn, NY

School of Visual Arts

New York, NY


Photo of Arnold Kemp with his artworkPNCA’s MFA in Visual Studies Chair Arnold J. Kemp Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Arnold Kemp | Artist, Curator, and Poet

Just before he was scheduled to do a poetry reading at SFMOMA last year in response to a work in the collection as part of the Pop-Up Poets Series for the exhibition The Steins Collect, Arnold Kemp discovered that Mary Heilmann’s Fire and Ice Remix had been taken off view. “I asked the Museum to project an image of the painting on a blank wall,” Kemp says. He printed copies of the painting which he gave to the audience. Some were in color. Some in black and white. He told the audience that before he would read, they had to take a minute to try to transform the projection into the actual painting.