Independent Curators International (ICI) supports the work of curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement. Curators are arts community leaders and organizers who champion artistic practice; build essential infrastructures and institutions; and generate public engagement with art. Our collaborative programs connect curators across generations, and across social, political and cultural borders. They form an international framework for sharing knowledge and resources — promoting cultural exchange, access to art, and public awareness for the curator’s role.
John Caperton
John Caperton is the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center (since 2007). Caperton has organized exhibitions at The Print Center that included the work of Masao Yamamoto, Hirsch Perlman, Bill Walton, Isaac Lin and Melanie Schiff. He was on the curatorial team for Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Previously he was the Exhibitions Coordinator, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, where he organized exhibitions with artists Virgil Marti, Polly Apfelbaum, Thomas Chimes, Eileen Neff, Stuart Netsky and Clare Rojas. He has also held positions at the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia and the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, and served as guest curator at Vox Populi and the former Project Room in Philadelphia. AB in Art History, University of Chicago.
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International Research
This course, developed with the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI) for 8 curators based in the Philadelphia area, focuses on looking at how to extend networks and develop research practices that can enhance participants’ current curatorial practices.
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