AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few years, we have noticed a gap in training for performing arts professionals. There are many masters programs and other professional training programs for visual arts curators, but we could find nothing comparable in the performing arts fields. In talking to colleagues, we realized that there was a real need for a program that addressed the ways in which performance is curated and produced today.

In 2010, in partnership with Danspace Project in New York, we founded the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. The ICPP is now accepting applications for a low-residency professional certificate program in 2011-2012.

The nine-month certificate program is designed for emerging and mid-career professionals—artists, presenters, managers and other arts professionals—who are interested in curating performance. Faculty from Wesleyan will be joined by nationally recognized curators including Philip Bither (Walker Art Center), Judy-Hussie Taylor (Danspace Project) and Doryun Chong (MoMA).

We are asking you to help us spread the word. Please forward the attached press release and description to your network, via email or e-newsletter. You can also post this information to your organization’s website, blog, or Facebook page. We are eager to reach as many different types of students as possible, so that our first class reflects the great diversity of our field.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Sam Miller, Program Director and Co-Founder

Pam Tatge, Managing Director and Co-Founder

(860) 888-3606

icpp@wesleyan.edu

www.wesleyan.edu/icpp

www.facebook.com/WesICPP

Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) Professional Certificate Program

The ICPP brings artists, presenters, managers, and other performing arts professionals together to develop a responsive curatorial practice that takes the best from the fields of visual arts and performance.

Starting in summer 2011, the ICPP will offer a professional certificate program in Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Students will study artistic and curatorial practice, social and cultural context, and entrepreneurial strategies and complete an independent project in consultation with an advisor. Through a close examination of the practical and theoretical concerns of performance work, graduates of the ICPP certificate program will:

deepen their knowledge and skill base

enhance their professional relationships

become better advocates for performance in the marketplace

Instructors include ICPP Director Samuel A. Miller, Wesleyan professors Katja Kolcio and Claudia Tatinge Nacimento, and field professionals Doryun Chong of MoMA, Philip Bither of the Walker Art Center, and Judy Hussie-Taylor of Danspace Project.

The certificate is a low-residency, nine-month program. Students will complete work online in between on-campus intensives at Wesleyan University. Dates for the 2011-12 on-campus intensives are: July 9-24, 2011, November 18-20, 2011, and March 3-5, 2012.

APPLICATIONS FOR 2011-12 ARE DUE ON FEBRUARY 1, 2011

For more information and to apply please visit www.wesleyan.edu/icpp.

Samuel A. Miller, Program Director

Pamela Tatge, Managing Director

in partnership with Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project

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