Art Museum Practices represents an extraordinary opportunity for professional, art-world training. The concentration introduces students to the purpose and function of art museums, with an emphasis on practice, through close collaboration with the world-class Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). Students learn about various museum careers through lectures and discussions with high-level TMA personnel and through the AMP capstone project, in which students work with TMA staff to curate an exhibition at the Museum, using works and objects from its permanent collection. To enhance their practical training, AMP students also take a full-time, semester-long internship at a museum or other art-related organization. Several students have completed internships at local institutions such as the TMA and the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, but internships in other cities, such as New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Boston, and Los Angeles are also possible.

What’s Wrong with Me? Art and Disease (TMA, April-August 2011)

The most recent of these, (un)Bound: Artists’ Books and Experimentation after 1960, is currently on view in the mezzanine of the TMA’s Wolfe Gallery (and through the weblink above.) The previous two exhibitions curated by AMP classes were:

• The City (TMA, November 2015-February 2016); and
• Highs & Lows: Printmaking Processes (TMA, November 2013-March 2014). 
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The AMP concentration continues a robust tradition of student involvement in TMA curatorial programming. From 2007 to 2012, for example, UT Art History students organized nine (9) exhibitions of works drawn from the TMA’s permanent collection:

• Student Curators Present: African Art (TMA, April-July 2012);
• European Expressionist and Cubist Works on Paper 1900-1930 (TMA, December 2011-March 2012);
• What’s Wrong with Me? Art and Disease (TMA, April-August 2011);
• Venice: Light and Landscape (TMA, December 2010-April 2011);
• Strong Sensations: Impressionist and Symbolist Works on Paper, 1860-1900 (TMA, April-June 2010);
• Paris: City of Art (TMA, December 2009-March 2010);
• Between the Wars: European Works on Paper 1919-1945 (TMA, September-December 2008);
• There Are No Rules: Frank Gehry, Modern Architecture, and the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA, August-September 2007); and
• Building for Art, The Art of Building (TMA, Summer 2007).