ARTH 400 - Advanced Seminar in Art Historical Method: Indigenous Approaches to Curatorial Practice (Field Course)
- MTWTFS 6 full, consecutive days 09:00-17:00
- EV-3.760
- INSTRUCTOR: Heather Igloliorte
In this advanced seminar students will learn about the history and theory of the exhibition and collection of contemporary (1967-present) Indigenous art in Canada, and gain hand's-on experience by meeting with Indigenous art curators, visiting contemporary art exhibitions, and conducting archival research in an Indigenous archive of national significance. Over the course of an intensive week of study, lectures, museum visits and tours, students will be exposed to many facets of Indigenous exhibition and curatorial practice, and engage with critical theories and practices in Indigenous contemporary art and curatorial methods. This seminar centres Indigenous theory, curatorial methodologies, and concepts in art history, museum studies, settler colonial art histories, place, race, gender, and sexuality. In this seminar, students will visit galleries, museums and contemporary arts institutions in Montreal and Ottawa, work directly in an archive, review one of the exhibitions visited, and propose their own imagined exhibitions as a final project. Much of the travel expenses will be provided but students should anticipate some costs associated with their participation in this field seminar while traveling.