Curate the World.

SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice program is unique in its intense focus on practical training for your professional career.

We are now accepting applications for Fall 2025. Priority deadline January 15.
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In the MA Curatorial Practice program (MACP) at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, curatorial studies students are immersed in two years of intense training with leading curators from major institutions in the city and from around the world in preparation for their professional careers.

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Our Courses

Introductory Critique of Canonical 20th- and 21st-Century Texts (six-week course)
Practicum: Logic and Rhetoric (six-week course)
Practicum: Research Methodologies (four-week course)
Workshop: Exhibition-Making (three-week course)
History Seminar: Modern and Contemporary Art
Case Study: Curating Technology-Based Art (seven-week course)
Philosophy Seminar: Curatorial Practice, Body and World (seven-week course)
Curatorial Roundtable I: Visiting International Curators Program (seven-week course)
Workshop: Critical Writing–Exhibition Analysis
Workshop: Professional Practices (seven-week course)
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Case Study Seminar: Models of Thinking–Curating a Program (seven-week course)
Case Study Seminar: History as Commodity–On the Contemporary (seven-week course)
History Seminar: Post-1945 Transnationalism and the History of Art
Case Study Seminar: Returning the Gaze: Models of Curating Film and Video in Contemporary Art (seven-week course)
Practicum: Exhibition-Making
Curatorial Roundtable II: Visiting International Curators Program
Art Practice
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Case Study Seminar: Hybrid Narratives: Curating Across Disciplines (seven-week course)
Case Study Seminar: Performance and the Museum (seven-week course)
Case Study Seminar: The Expanded Space of Art (seven-week course)
Artists Roundtable (seven-week course)
Curatorial Roundtable III: Visiting International Curators Program (seven-week course)
Museum Studies and New Practices of Feminist Care (seven-week course)
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Workshop: Critical Writing–The Catalog Essay (by appointment)
Curatorial Roundtable IV: Visiting International Curators Program
Final Exhibition/Curatorial Project
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