Case Study

Each year, the Art Market: Principles and Practices program offers their future dealers and curators the opportunity to work with the artists, media, and genres of their choice to present an off-campus exhibition. Over the course of two semesters, students are responsible for all aspects of the art show - choosing the theme, planning the installation, selecting the artists, finding and renting a space, drafting loan forms, mounting the show, manning the space, and designing and producing the catalog, cards, and website. By allowing the students to do the legwork and make their own decisions, FIT's program offers the hands-on, real-world experience, knowledge, and skills needed for professional careers in the art market.

The 2011 exhibition, Piece of Mind, considers the urge to preserve and collect by exploring how various types of accumulations -- actual objects or amassed memories, deliberately accumulated or just inevitably accrued as time passes -- can be presented and interpreted.

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, the 2010 exhibition, artists examined the ways that urbanites interact, and how their work invites each of us to engage with art, the city, and each other in new and challenging ways.

In 2009, The Ghosts of Coleridge, a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography, video and performance art, invited viewers to ponder the seemingly irreconcilable; to look at our belief in the incredible, disbelief of the everyday, and the shifting area in between.