Caveats: This is personal, subjective, not necessarily rigorous, an experiment, in progress. I have been a curator since 2005 (in various capacities!) and these notes are based on my own personal experience.
#Welcome
- Background of participants
- What you want to learn
- An exhibit you saw recently and what made it successful/unsuccessful
#Start With An Idea
- Prompted by an idea, article, video, book, dance, etc
- Look at exhibits you like / why do you like them?
- Talk to people! (artists, curators, friends, etc)
#Write It Down
- Write it down! (a thesis/purpose statement)
- Email artists
- talk to artists/curators/etc
- Call For Artists!
- studio visits / digital studio visits (email!/skype/phone)
#What artists?
- genres
- approaches
- how do you reach people?
- diversity of artists - gender, age, race, sexuality, geographic area, etc
#Where to curate
- gallery - how?
- apartment
- cooperative art space
- online
- outside
- university spaces
#Logistics
- email/visit artist
- get titles, medium, date, price
- work out what happens if work is sold
- one night only? party? longer? music? speedshow? etc.
- press release? facebook? twitter? email?
- have your artists co-promote
#Installation
- strategies/approaches
- email/take photos
- draw diagrams
- physically lay it out / move things around
- give space
- lighting
- TECH PROBLEMS DURING NEW MEDIA EXHIBITS
- sound
#Documentation
- photograph art alone and exhibition shots and during opening with people
- give it a dedicated space online
- photograph and post to social media to get new/repeat visitors
- working press