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Year 11 - Art and design

The role and impact of curators

Curating an exhibition

Unit Summary

This teacher-led unit concludes the course with a physical or virtual exhibition. Pupils, having been introduced to curating, will select work based on quality and criteria, explore presentation, and mount and frame their pieces.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to analyse, explain and apply curatorial principles.

Key Notes

  • Curators organise and manage art exhibitions to enhance viewer understanding.
  • Curators use space and flow to shape how viewers experience art.
  • Curation involves selecting, arranging, and presenting artworks.
  • Curators impact how art is perceived and interpreted by the public.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • curation: the process of selecting and organising items in a collection, like artworks, objects, or digital content
  • exhibition: a display of items such as artworks or objects, usually in a space such as a museum or gallery
  • layout: the way things are arranged in a space

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Making an exhibition is just about hanging art.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Curators organise and manage art exhibitions to enhance viewer understanding. Curators use space and flow to shape how viewers experience art.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'curation'

the process of selecting and organising items in a collection, like artworks, objects, or digital content.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Making an exhibition is just about hanging art. Correction: Curation requires skills and knowledge. Curation can create connections and a narrative between individual works.

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