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.
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What’s Wrong with Me? Art and Disease (TMA, April-August 2011)
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2022 - Contrary Bodies, the works exhibited in Contrary Bodies are from the TMA’s permanent collection and feature BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community as artists and subjects. While these works represent a spectrum of social groups and cultures, bringing them together is not just about making differences visible. The human figure is depicted according to a variety of approaches, ranging from the intimate to the erotic to the formal. In each case the depiction seems to question certain racialized or gendered assumptions about how such a figure should look and/or behave. In this sense, these works reject the constraints of “otherness” and declare something about what it means to be an active participant in the larger culture of humanity.
2020 - An Inspired Age, An Exhibition Collaboration 2018 - (un)Bound: Artists’ Books and Experimentation after 1960, was on view in the Toledo Museum of Art's Mezzanine Gallery in the Wolfe Gallery. The previous two exhibitions curated by AMP classes were:
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