Contemporary Curatorial Workshop

ARTH 563: Contemporary Curatorial Workshop (CCW)

A seminar for graduate art history students to engage in discourse around contemporary curatorial practice with professionals in the field. Guest curators discuss their work and methodology, usually presenting a major recent exhibition as a case study for discussion (these presentations are open to the larger community). Under the direction of the chair(s)—at present, Dan Byers, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Williams College Museum of Art—students participate in discussions, respond to readings, host local and visiting curators, travel to visit exhibitions regionally as the schedule allows, and explore key topics in modern and contemporary art and curatorial practice.

^{Note: Enrollment in CCW for two consecutive semesters is equivalent to one course credit applied toward the degree.}

Past Contemporary Curatorial Workshop Sessions:

^{Spring 2026

Hamza Walker, LA MoCA (March 11)

Victoria Sung, Berkeley Art Museum (April 8)

Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Hawai'i Triennial (April 22)

Drew Sawyer and Marcela Guerrero, The Whitney Museum of American Art (May 13)}

^{Fall 2025}^{Cathleen Chaffee, Buffalo AKG (Sep. 19)}
^{Dena Beard, EMPAC (Oct. 8)}
^{Rujeko Hockley, The Whitney Museum of American Art (Nov. 12)}

^{Spring 2025}^{Dan Byers, Williams College Museum of Art (March 12)}
^{Raffaella della Olga, Christophe Boutin, Mélanie Scarciglia, Three Star Books (March 19)}
^{Jeremy Johnston and Chelsea Spengemann, Darling Green and The Soft Network (Apr. 16)}
^{Andrea Gyorody, Frederick R Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University (May 7)}

^{Fall 2024}^{Monika Fabijanska, Independent Scholar and Curator (Oct. 16)}
^{Catherine Morris, Brooklyn Museum (Oct. 23)}
^{Tina Rivers Ryan, Artforum (Nov. 20)}
^{Xin Wang, Pace Gallery (Dec. 4)}

^{Spring 2024}^{Barbara Schroeder, Dancing Foxes Press (Feb. 7)}
^{Filipa Ramos, Arts Institute of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel (March 13)}
^{Assets for Artists studio visits, The Studios at MASS MoCA (Apr. 3)}
^{Nicholas Liou, Pallavi Sen, and Roz Crews, WCMA (May 1)}

^{Fall 2023}^{Ebony Haynes, 52 Walker (Sept. 27)}
^{Tyler Blackwell, Speed Art Museum (Nov. 1)}
^{Shifting Center at EMPAC with Vic Brooks and Nida Ghouse (Nov. 15)}
^{Carla Acevedo Yates, MCA Chicago (Dec. 6)}

^{Spring 2023}^{Marco Antonio Flores, Independent Curator (Feb. 15)}^{Lisa Dent, MASS MoCA (March 1)}^{Tamara Schenkenberg, Pulitzer Arts Foundation (Apr. 12)}^{Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon, MTL+ / FTP / Decolonize this Place / G.U.L.F (Apr. 19)}^{Ruth Estévez, Amant (May 3)}^{Michelle Millar-Fisher, MFA Boston (May 10)}

^{Fall 2022}^{Meghan Considine, MASS MoCA (Sept. 14)

Risa Puleo, SAIC (Sept. 28)

Kevin Lamyuktseung, SO-IL (Nov. 2)

Stefanie Hessler, Swiss Institute (Nov. 16)}

^{Spring 2022}^{Artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and curator Dr. Ashley Ferro-Murray, EMPAC (Feb. 15)}^{Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick and Dr. Miwako Tezuka, Hawaii Contemporary Triennial (Feb. 21)}^{X Zhu-Nowell, Guggenheim (March 7)}^{Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Americas Society (May 2)}

^{Fall 2021}^{Clarissa Tossin, Artist (Oct. 4)}^{José Esparza Chong Cuy, Storefront for Art + Architecture, New York (Oct. 18)}^{Sophie Landres, Independent Curator, Bard College (Nov. 1)}^{Anna Craycroft, Artist (Nov. 15)}^{Marcela Guerrero, Whitney Musuem (Nov. 29)}

^{Spring 2021}^{Candice Hopkins, Toronto Biennial (Feb. 22)}^{Doryun Chong, M+, Hong Kong (March 8)}^{Molly Alloy, Nathanael Andreini, Steph Littlebird Fogel, Five Oaks Museum (March 15)}^{Tara Aisha Willis, MCA Chicago (March 29)}^{Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó and Mapenzi Chibale Nonó, Las Nietas de Nonó (Apr. 12)}^{Florencia Portocarrero, Bisagra Lima (Apr. 26)}

^{Fall 2020}^{Terence Washington, NXTHVN (Sept. 21)}^{Mason Leaver Yap, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Oct. 5)}^{Prem Krishnamurthy, FRONT International 2022 and Wkshps (Oct. 14)}^{Adrienne Edwards, Whitney Museum (Oct. 26)}^{Nida Ghouse, HKW (Nov. 2)}^{Akili Tommasino, MFA Boston (Nov. 4)}^{Diana Nawi and Naima Keith, Prospect.5 New Orleans (Nov. 16)}^{Lucia Pietroiusti, Serpentine Galleries (Nov. 30)}

^{Spring 2020}^{Joshua Simon, Metastability (Feb. 24)}^{Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, Artists (March 9)}^{Jamie Stevens, Artists Space (Apr. 20)}^{Apsara DiQuinzio, Feminist Art Coalition (FAC) (Apr. 27)}^{Ciarán Finlayson, Tobi Haslett, and Hannah Black, The Tear Gas Biennial (May 4)}

^{Fall 2019}^{NYC Exhibition visits + meetings with curators (Sept. 27)}^{Meg Onli, ICA Philadephia (Oct. 7)}^{Emma Enderby, The Shed, New York (Oct. 24)}^{Miguel Lopez, TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica (Nov. 6)}^{Ileana Ramírez Romero, Tráfico Visual, Venezuela (Nov. 11)}

_{Image: Interior of Object Lab at the Williams College Museum of Art, January 2024. Photo: Brad Wakoff}