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The 2024 Applications for Emerging Curators Institute Fellowship are Open!
Applications are open until March 8th, 2024, 11:59 pm, Central Time.
Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) supports emerging curators from diverse backgrounds based in Minnesota through a fellowship program consisting of in-depth research, professional development, and presentation. The first of its kind in the region, ECI aims to foster critical dialogue around curatorial practice and provide opportunities for emerging curators. Since 2018, ECI has awarded a total of 16 fellowships.
For 2024, Up to 4 funded fellowships will be offered. Over the course of the learning cycle (April 2024 – January 2025), ECI Fellows will participate in monthly educational meetings with their cohort, reflect on their and others’ curatorial practice through research and witnessing contemporary art, explore museums, galleries and sites hosting art across the Twin Cities and choose a mentor who will support them in developing a curatorial project that may be presented in 2025.
Awarded Fellows will receive:
– A stipend of $3,000 for participation in the learning cycle, with further funding offered to realize an exhibition or curatorial project in 2025.
– A 10 month long curatorial learning intensive with peers in the 2024 cohort (monthly gatherings).
– An opportunity to develop a small scale pop-up cohort exhibition at close of the learning cycle.
– Individualized Curatorial mentorship.
– Thoughtful feedback and ongoing support in developing a curatorial project from the fellowship cohort, mentors, guest curators and ECI Director.
– A warm welcome into the expansive network of ECI Fellows, partners and mentors; connecting and building relationships with artists, peers, arts workers, curators, spaces and communities regionally, nationally and globally.
Who is eligible to apply?
The Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) fellowship is for:
– Minnesota-based residents with limited experience in curation who would benefit from the guidance the program offers; with an emphasis on those who identify as women, non binary, gender nonconforming, LGBTQIA2S+, Black, Native, Indigenous, a Person of Color, racialized, disabled and/or neurodiverse.
– Those who may not otherwise have access to the funding, resources, and education offered through the program.
– Those seeking a learning experience outside of academic institutions or have graduated from a degree program (those who are currently enrolled in a degree seeking program are not eligible).
– Those who self-identify as curators including but not limited to: artists with curatorial interests; graduates of studio art, art history programs, and/or cultural studies programs; self-taught practitioners; and arts and community organizers.
– Those with visions of projects that may or may not become exhibitions. We embrace visions that may manifest outside the box of the exhibition space, that may focus particularly/solely on public programming, education, community engagement or outdoor performance.
– Those who value risk taking, experimentation and are excited to explore their practice across artistic disciplines.
Access support is available for those within the disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill communities wishing to apply. Please email access@emergingcurators.org.
Any questions? Contact: info@emergingcurators.org.