Summer 2022 College Workshop at The Guggenheim
About the Summer College Workshop
Established in summer of 2020, the Summer College Workshop is a paid remote enrichment program open to current undergraduate and graduate students from any major or discipline. Unlike the Guggenheim’s internship program, the Workshop is an experimental classroom for students to collaborate and design their own project inspired by an exhibition at the museum. The specific project and theme will change based on the exhibitions on view. Over the course of ten weeks, participants hear from artists, museum professionals, and scholars as they build their research, critical-thinking, and presentation skills, culminating in a final project that is published in an e-book.
Workshop Theme: Ritual
Inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s work, this summer’s Workshop will take up “ritual” as its theme, exploring how artists, communities, scholars, and others use rituals to interrogate, mourn, celebrate, commemorate, and define the human experience. The Workshop will culminate in participants creating their own rituals to reorient and process their realities in a new way, or to imagine different ones altogether. These rituals may take the form of video, poetry, prayer, or singing, and will be recorded and anthologized in an e-book. Students will receive mentorship from Guggenheim staff throughout each phase of the final project, including development, research, and presentation. Students will be expected to work independently and collaboratively as a cohort during weekly meetings.
About the Artist
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, visual artist, and activist whose work addresses topics such as ecological destruction, decolonization, human rights, feminism, and cultural homogenization. Her performance practice often takes the form of rituals, acting as a window into the cultural dynamics by which people make and remake their worlds. In doing so Vicuña demonstrates how rituals are not limited to religious expression. As a tool to understand, embrace, and contest social phenomena, they can also be seen as a dynamic way to animate and embody our commitments, helping define what is important and/or sacred. In addition to conferring holiness and remaking reality, rituals can aid in organizing incredible feelings and parsing our experience of the world.
Timeframe
Monday, June 6—Friday, August 12, 2022
The Summer College Workshop is an entirely remote program and all cohort meetings will take place on Zoom. The program requires a commitment of eight hours per week for the full ten weeks: two hours for cohort meetings and six hours for independent work.
Compensation
We are pleased to offer a stipend in the amount of $1,430 USD to each student for participation in the Summer College Workshop. The stipend includes $150 USD for materials students may need to create their final projects.
Eligibility Requirements
Candidates must have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies. Preference will be given to rising college juniors or seniors, or current graduate students. Coursework in art history is not required. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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