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The Black Curatorial Institute (BCI) is a new professional development opportunity for arts professionals unlike any that are currently available in the arts & culture sector. In Spring 2025, BCI will lauch a five-course online certificate program that provides students with foundational knowledge and practical applications in anti-racist curatorial practice with a core focus on:

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• Art Museum History: Understanding how western art museums developed as cultural repositories of colonialism. 

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• Counter-Hegemonic Approaches: Learning how to identify traditional museum practices that are rooted in racist principles for points of potential rupture and transgression of institutional “norms.”  

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• Ethics and Equity: Approaching collection and exhibition development, and overall museum programming, with a critical lens that fully and tangibly engages target audiences. 

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• Connection to Practice: Experience practical and real-world applications through analyses of case studies and a practicum course that allows students to learn from experienced anti-racist curatorial practitioners.

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• Community Impact: Engaging communities through curatorial approaches that position collective care within frameworks of social and racial equity. 

 

COURSES:

Anti-Racist Approaches to Art Museums Today (introductory teaser)

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Art, Whiteness, and Empire: The Art Museum as an Imperialist Repository​

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From Negro Buildings to Black Museums: The History of Black Cultural Institutions and Curatorial Praxis​

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Anti-Racist Approaches to Curatorial Work & Collections Management ​

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Curating as Community Organizing ​

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From Vision to Impact: Non-Profit Organizational Leadership & Development