MPAS OPEN HOUSE for Prospective Students with Director Joshua Decter

December 7, 2009
2:00 PM
University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Art Building, Lecture Forum
Room 109

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Please RSVP to Elizabeth Lovins at pasprog@usc.edu or 213-743-8540.

Joshua Decter, Director of the MPAS Program, will give a presentation at 2 pm.

The Master of Public Art Studies Program (Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere) is a unique platform in which to research art and curatorial practices in relation to the social conditions of public space, and the contemporary public sphere.

The program’s innovative 2-year interdisciplinary course of study encompasses seminars on the history of exhibitions, social & urban theory, art writing & criticism, art/architectural history, and a curatorial practicum in which students collaborate on the organization of a public-space exhibition project.

Director of the program, curator and critic Joshua Decter – in conjunction with a faculty of leading curators, arts professionals, art historians, critics and artists such as Rhea Anastas, Lauri Firstenberg, Michael Ned Holte, Karen Moss, Carol Stakenas, Edgar Arceneaux and Christina Ulke advise students on the research and writing of a scholarly thesis.

Recent guest speakers have included Ute Meta Bauer, Teddy Cruz, Mark Dion, Sam Durant, Andrea Fraser, Rudolf Frieling, Hou Hanru, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Grant Kester, Norman Klein, Miwon Kwon, Rick Lowe, Allan McCollum, Anne Pasternak, Patricia Phillips,  Marjetica Potrc, Gregory Sholette, Nato Thompson and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

RSVP To Elizabeth Lovins at pasprog@usc.edu

Wangechi Mutu, Mrs. Sarah's House, 2008-2009, Installation view, Prospect. 1 Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans.