Studio Museum Institute
The Studio Museum Institute is a professional development, curatorial, and arts education initiative created to foster a spirit of incubation, ideation, and support.
First cohort of the Studio Museum/MoMA fellowship program, 2015–2017. (L to R): Henry Murphy, Adeze Wilford, Dessane Cassell, Alexis Gonzalez. Photo: Alani Bass
A suite of programs that aggregates the Museum's vision and commitment to train and mentor leaders in the art world from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
Fellowships
The Studio Museum provides paid, year-long fellowships that support the professional training of curators, scholars, archivists, and educators historically underrepresented in the museum field. Fellows work alongside some of the most innovative practitioners of museology across the Museum, engaging in intensive scholarship opportunities, program development, and professional exposure.
Internships
The Studio Museum's internship program provides college undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates with a wide range of experiences designed to provide insight into the workings of a professional museum environment. In addition to working on projects with Museum staff, interns engage in a series of meetings and workshops around contemporary museology.
Applications for the Spring 2025 cohort are now open.
Arts Leadership Praxis
The Arts Leadership Praxis is an annual six-month program that provides professional development and cohort-building opportunities to mid-career cultural professionals of color and those deeply invested in Black cultural production.
From Left to Right: Dejá Belardo, Margarita Lila Rosa, Tsige Tafesse, Carla Forbes, Meredith Breech, Gee Wesley, Imani Williford, and Jenée-Daria Strand. Photo: Naima Green
Museums as Systems
The multi-day, annual Museums as Systems symposium gathers together arts workers to discuss alternative approaches to museum structures.
The symposium creates a space of multivocal, multigenerational, circular learning about how museums currently function, what never was, and what could come next.
Museum Education Practicum
The Museum Education Practicum provides an in-depth look at museum education with the guidance of the Studio Museum’s knowledgeable educators. Participants gain firsthand experience and develop strategies for working with adult, school, youth, and family audiences.
While exploring both theory and practice, participants will engage in specific conversations around artists of African descent, contemporary art practice, and programmatic strategies.
Museum Professionals Seminar
The Museum Professionals Seminar provides professional development inspired by the Studio Museum’s mission. The Seminar is a series of educational workshops aimed at supporting museum professionals looking to incubate, ideate, and network. The program promotes discussion, interaction, and exposure with special attention to skill-building and career readiness. Workshops include exchanges with staff and leadership from the Studio Museum, thinking about the theoretical and practical perspectives pertaining to arts and culture work.
This Seminar takes place on Zoom and Google Classroom.
The Museum Professionals Seminar welcomes undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career professionals seeking opportunities to broaden their knowledge of the field in the midst of a shifting employment landscape.