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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The most recent AMP exhibition was (un)Bound: Artists’ Books and Experimentation after 1960, on the mezzanine of the TMA’s Wolfe Gallery. The previous two exhibitions curated by AMP classes were:
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