Professor Susette Min
Thursday, 1:10-4 pm, Everson 157

Do you have a desire to curate and organize an exhibition? Here is your chance.

This course introduces the practice of exhibition-making, specifically, exploring the power and politics of display and various critical and experimental approaches to curating an exhibition within and beyond the traditional white cube.  In addition, the course will actively curate an exhibition of objects from the Richard L. Nelson Gallery collection.

Organized like a seminar and lab, the objective of the course is to apprehend that there is a history of exhibition display, develop a critical perspective on exhibition-making, and learn the basics of curating an exhibition.  The class is time and labor-intensive and includes writing up a curatorial proposal, presenting this proposal to a select group of professors & museum professionals, and curating an exhibition with your peers. Each week, we will work toward developing a critical curatorial practice that is not just about selecting and placing ‘objects’ on display, but rather, creating a provocative and flexible framework that instigates dialogue and raises questions.

The course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
For more information, please contact Professor Susette Min at ssmin@ucdavis.edu.