Curatorial Support

The VRC supports physical exhibitions in CWAC, digital exhibitions, and a variety of other teaching and research related to curating and displaying works of art.

CWAC Exhibitions is an opportunity for student- and class-curated exhibitions in the hallways of CWAC. Providing opportunities for students and courses at all levels, the exhibitions program will draw on the Joel Snyder Materials Collection (JSMC) and related objects that are safe to borrow and display in our context. 

View the installation archive of past CWAC Exhibitions on LUNA.

VRC staff and curatorial fellows offer support for your digital exhibition projects, either as a digital component of an on-site exhibition or as a standalone digital project. The VRC offers support and collaboration across the entire lifecycle of creating and maintaining digital exhibitions, from selecting a platform to publishing. For more information, please see our guide to Digital Exhibition Platforms and write to visualresources@uchicago.edu to get started.

Art history courses involving exhibitions, collections, and archival research on campus often require specialized support for archiving and teaching. The VRC offers collections and services curators and instructors engaged in Curatorial Teaching and Research may benefit from, including image and materials collection development, customized course workshops, assignment support, RA training, and exhibition archiving.

The VRC collaborates with colleagues to document the history of several campus arts spaces in our LUNA database, including the Smart Museum of Art, the campus public art collection, the Booth School of Business, and more. We also support projects to build collections of historic and contemporary images related to exhibitions, installations, world’s fairs, and other display practices related to your curatorial research.For more information on existing digital collections, please review the list of Campus Art Collections in LUNA. 

If you would like to collaborate with the VRC on hosting your campus art archive in LUNA, please reach out to us at visualresources@uchicago.edu.