Courses of Study 2022-2023 
    
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Courses of Study 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 6010 - Curatorial Practicum


     


Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with ARTH 4110 .

K. McGowan.

Topic Fall 2022: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive

This Curatorial Practicum evolved out of a Johnson Museum of Art’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative in 2014. The seminar is collaborative and thematic, combining the expertise of museum curators with professors in the History of Art and Visual Studies.

“Constructing New Narratives: Curatorial Practice Today” is a semester-long course offered at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in collaboration with the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies. This Fall 2022 the seminar will be co-taught by Kaja McGowan, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Visual Studies, and Ellen Avril, Curator of Asian Art. The theme will be “Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive.” The political, religious, and economic identities of Southeast Asia were largely formed by the experiences of the 15th through the 17th centuries, when international commerce boomed before eventually falling under the domination of well-armed European powers intent on monopoly. The commodity flows of textiles, ceramics, sea products, spices, numismatics, and the plume trade will all be explored as they reveal a richly cosmopolitan and interwoven globe. Library and museum collections across campus will provide a lens for reconfiguring the archive. As an integral part of the course, curatorial interventions within the museum’s galleries will be staged.



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