Opportunity | Curatorial Forum 2025
Are you actively curating art – whether in a museum, gallery or heritage context, or as an artist-researcher or freelancer? Are you currently based in the UK, or in North or South America – including the Caribbean?
Does your research practice engage with the art and history of Britain, in the context of the Atlantic World, African Diaspora, and/or Empire and its legacies?
Do you want to spend time exploring collections and curating, sharing your experiences and engaging in forward-looking debate?
If the answer to these questions is “yes”, then you will be interested to know that the British Art Network (BAN) is running an opportunity just for you.
Applications are now open for a residential 10-day Curatorial Forum to take place in the US from Sunday 5 October – Wednesday 15 October 2025.
Organised by the British Art Network (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate) and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), the Forum will be based at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, and will bring together a select group of up to 8 people from a range of backgrounds and working contexts, and at different stages of their careers. Scheduled to coincide with a major exhibition of the work of Hew Locke at the YCBA, the Forum is intended as an opportunity to share experiences and thinking from a range of perspectives – across national, organisational and professional boundaries. We are hoping, specifically, to include individuals with different experiences of working in British, US and Caribbean contexts, with the Hew Locke show and YCBA collections providing a focus for reflection and exchange.
Travel, accommodation, and subsistence will be provided. Please find more information about eligibility and how to apply on the Opportunities page of the British Art Network website. Applications close on Monday 3 March, 17:00 GMT.
For further questions, contact the Networks Manager at the Paul Mellon Centre, Kaissa Karhu (kkarhu@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk) or the British Art Network Convenor, Martin Myrone (mmyrone@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk).