Ohio State’s Master’s program in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice (CACP) is not accepting applications for the 2023 application cycle. If you have questions, please email the History of Art department at historyofart@osu.edu.

The master’s program in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice (CACP) at Ohio State is the only program of its kind to be located within a major research university.  The program makes the most of that fact by being fully interdisciplinary. Although housed within the History of Art Department, it involves coursework in other departments, including Comparative Studies and Arts Administration, as well as at the Moritz College of Law and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. A curatorial Internship places students in contemporary arts institutions around Columbus and Ohio, including the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The program is designed to meet all of the standards set by the College Art Association for curatorial studies programs and is one of only a handful of programs in the U.S. that does so. Its curriculum insures that students will get both a solid grounding in art history as a discipline and the training in things like grant-writing, legal contracts, and nonprofit management essential to contemporary curatorial practice.