School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
33 S State St, 7th floor
Chicago, IL 60603
This fall the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) launches the Institute for Curatorial Research & Practice—an incubator for creative inquiry into the processes undertaken by curators aimed to foster advanced thinking in the field. Under the leadership of Executive Director Mary Jane Jacob, SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies, the Institute will also serve as an incubator for creative inquiry leading to future SAIC exhibitions and projects.
Join us for our fall 2016 inaugural season: Curator in Public Space.
All events are held at the Sullivan Galleries at 33 South State Street, 7th floor in Chicago, Illinois unless otherwise noted. RSVP required for all events.
Micaela Martegani
Executive Director and Chief Curator, More Art, New York
Publishing Projects in Practice:
Micaela Martegani in conversation with Marc Fischer and Jessica Gogan
Monday, October 3, 6pm
Refreshments served at 5:30pm
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Commissioning Public Projects: Creating Methodologies of Engagement
Tuesday, October 4, 9am–noon
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Micaela Martegani has been working in the field of modern and contemporary art as an art historian, writer, and curator since 1990. In 2004, Martegani founded the nonprofit organization More Art devoted to community-based and socially engaged public art projects, as a way to help make contemporary art more accessible to the general public.
Marc Fischer is a Chicago-based artist. Since 1998, Fischer has been a member of the long-running artist group Temporary Services, along with artist Brett Bloom. Jessica Gogan is an independent curator and educator and director of Instituto MESA, Rio de Janeiro.
Tone Olaf Nielsen
Activities, Communication, and Women’s Program Coordinator, Trampoline House, Copenhagen Refugee Community, Denmark
Camp & Trampoline House: Curatorial Responses to the Refugee Crisis
Tuesday, October 11, 9am–noon
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Tone Olaf Nielsen is a Copenhagen-based independent curator, activist, and educator, whose practice is based on a firm belief in the ability of artistic and curatorial work to contribute to social and political transformation. In 2009, Nielsen partnered with artist Morten Goll to found the Trampoline House, a community center in Copenhagen that offers counseling, education, and community to asylum seekers and refugees.
Carmen Mörsch
Head of the Institute for Art Education, Zurich University of the Arts
The Future of Museum Education:
Carmen Mörsch in conversation with Jacqueline Terrassa
Monday, October 17, 6pm
Refreshments served at 5:30pm
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The Education/Formation of O_T_H_E_R_S Through Arts:
Art, Education, and Empire
Tuesday, October 18, 9am–noon
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Carmen Mörsch’s research interests include the history and present of artists in museum and gallery education as well as artists in schools; collaborative and transformative practices in art and education; art education and queer/postcolonial theory. Between 2003 and today she conducted several team-based, action-research and development projects, such as for the German Ministry of Research and Education and for the Documenta 12 education program.
Jacqueline Terrassa is the Woman’s Board Endowed Chair of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Questions? Contact the Institute for Curatorial Research & Practice at T 312 629 6635 or [email protected].
