CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, San Francisco, CA with The ARC at UC, Berkley, Berkeley, CA

 

Founded in 2003, and the first of its kind on the West Coast, the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts offers an expanded perspective on curating contemporary art and culture. Alongside an investigation of the history of exhibitions, the program seeks to explore collaborative, artist-led, and other curatorial initiatives that challenge and advance existing paradigms of exhibition making. Reflecting San Francisco’s geographic location and cultural histories, the program also emphasizes curatorial and art practices in Asia and Latin America.

 

The Arts Research Center at the University of California Berkeley is a think tank for the arts, a genuinely interdisciplinary space that brings people together—from across the university and beyond the university, from across the arts and beyond the arts—for unexpected conversations, collaborations, and community-building. The Arts Research Center serves as an incubator for new scholarly and creative work; a nexus for individuals and organizations involved in arts, activism, and scholarship; and an advocate for the centrality of the arts at the public university and in public life.

 

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the California College of the Arts are joining together to host a live-streaming of the 2012 Creative Time Summit on the UC Berkeley campus. In addition to viewing the events in New York, attendees will hear local responses and participate in small-group discussions. Facilitators will include Amanda Eicher, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Shannon Jackson, Erin Johnson, Leigh Markopoulus, Julian Myers, Renny Pritikin, Elizabeth Thomas, and Andrew Weiner. Throughout the day there will be live artist’s interventions by Neil Rivas, and meals of locally sourced and foraged food prepared by artists Amanda Eicher and Erin Johnson. Participants have been asked to write a blog post in advance of the events; these texts can be read at http://arcdirector.blogspot.com/.

 

California College of the Arts
The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley