Course Description: 
This project-based course is designed to help students gain insight and expertise in key components of museum and gallery work (e.g. curating, exhibition design, collection management, and public programming). Students learn and train under the guidance of an instructor experienced and knowledgeable about the art museum world. By the end of the semester students will have gained an invaluable preparatory training for career opportunities with art museums, art galleries and like institutions involved with the public display of historical and cultural material. Prerequisite: ART 321, ART 323, ART 328, or ART 329 with a grade of 'C' or better.

This semester, students will explore how museums operate and who does what within them. Baltimore is our learning laboratory. We will focus on how museums are shaped by the people who create them, work in them, fund them, critique them and the public who are their audiences.

This course is an elective for any Visual Arts students who is completing the Entrepreneurship minor with a focus in Arts Entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about how this course will apply to your degree audit, please email Kelley Yang (kelley7@umbc.edu).