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Young Curators Program:
Young Curators call for entries / Semantics; Download PDF
SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators is a weekly after school and summer program for middle and high school students. The program’s primary goals are to encourage teenagers’ connection to contemporary art and provide a context for an exploration of the structure and production of exhibitions. During their hour-long meetings, the Young Curators learn the skills and procedures necessary for creating an exhibition including: determining the theme for the show; putting out a call for entries through the media; writing curatorial statements, press releases, and grants; choosing the artwork; and installing the exhibition.
Participating teens create an exhibition each year comprised of art by local, regional, and national artists between 13 and 21 years of age. The exhibitions are held in respected venues such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, the Capitol Rotunda Gallery, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. The group presented Unborn Revolutions in April 2005 in collaboration with the Santa Fe Darkroom. Their current exhibition, Semantics: The Words of Art, examines the long dialogue between visual art and language and how they influence one another. Semantics is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts through April 16. Over 80 works were submitted by artists ages 14 – 21 from New Mexico, California and New York. The Young Curators selected 25 works representing 19 artists, making it a dynamic, first-class show.
The Young Curators present exhibitions with young artists:
Young Curators Conservation Workshops:
In addition to organizing exhibitions, the Young Curators participate in a variety of art-related workshops. Over the last several years Young Curators have studied the methods and procedures for conservation and restoration of works on paper, paintings, sculpture, textiles, frames, and new media. They have participated in workshops geared at historical oil gilding and frame making, as well as contemporary forensic techniques used in painting conservation. In addition, the Curators have had the opportunity to study art history, media, and technique.
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Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS):
The VTS program offers a way to introduce students to the world of art, and at the same time exercise their critical thinking and communication skills. VTS is intended to provide beginning viewers with opportunities to use their perception, experience, and intelligence to find meaning, and in doing so lays the foundation for visual literacy. To make meaning from art, our minds work in ways that combine perceptions with feelings; logic and reason with memory and imagination; information with common sense. The VTS program is enriching and the discussions of the artworks lively. SITE Santa Fe offers the VTS program in Santa Fe elementary and middle schools, in Spanish and in English.
Students who participate in the VTS program practice skills of observation, interpretation, and analysis. They develop fundamental critical thinking skills by answering structured questions and draw on their store of experience and knowledge to help understand something unfamiliar. They learn to provide evidence to backup opinions, and develop basic reasoning skills. They are given opportunities to reconsider their viewpoints in light of others, reflect, revise or change their minds. Students are encouraged to remain open to the fact that art and other subjects in school have many possible meanings, not all of them clear or immediately apparent. Students develop communication skills, including listening to others. The VTS facilitator helps shape the discussion by linking the student’s ideas together, and ensures that every child participates and feels seen and heard. The VTS program scaffolds on students learning from week to week, semester to semester and year to year. Students strengthen their abilities to examine, articulate, listen and reflect.
For further information about VTS, please check www.vue.org.
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