Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0285 - Curating Performance: Fostering Environments of Care

Through this course, students will develop processes that expand their capacities to see, engage, and support artists, their processes and their resulting work; examine histories and functions of curatorial practice as applied to performance and time-based arts, and correlate existing field-wide practices with larger systemic concerns that have shaped the current arts ecosystem. Students will assess their existing and emergent proficiencies in relationship to curatorial functions and the ways those skills can be offered in service to artists in our campus community, across the valley, and more broadly. As part of this process, students will engage with arts professionals and cultural organizers who are building and administering such systems of support, as well as artists who can share their strategies and processes. As the semester unfolds, students will apply their accumulated knowledges to their co-curation of a mini-performance festival that will take place at the conclusion of the spring semester. (keywords: arts ecologies, arts entrepreneurship, curation, arts administration)

Time and Narrative This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Field trip fees: $30-$50 to attend virtual performances. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.