We’re launching a new online series as part of Teiger Foundation’s quarterly Hosting grant program. It's meant to help curators navigate the complexities of presenting exhibitions that originated elsewhere. Scroll down to sign up for Hosting 102, coming up on June 23rd!
Whether you’re exploring hosting for the first time or building on prior experience, these programs offer concrete tools; curatorial case studies; and, with generous time for Q&A, space to think through the systems, context, and relationships that support successful hosting experiences.
Successful touring projects depend on collaboration, and these programs are for both hosting and originating curators. In addition to curators, exhibition managers, registrars, coordinators, handlers, and other colleagues are more than welcome to join.
All programs will include live captioning and be recorded for later access on our website. If you require accommodations to participate, please contact us at info@teigerfoundation.org.
Programs are co-produced by Laura Copelin and Lauren Leving, with previous co-production by Vic Brooks.
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Hosting 101: Logistics
We held Hosting 101: Logistics on October 27, 2025. The session covered the practical steps of hosting, with guidance from Becky Nahom (Independent Curators International) and a case study from Kate Kraczon (Brown Arts Institute & Bell Gallery, Brown University) and Cindy Sissokho (Co-Curator of the French Pavilion at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale), with contributions from Céline Kopp, Cindy’s co-curator, on adapting Julien Creuzet’s Venice Pavilion project. Stemming from the workshop content, a toolkit of resources is below.
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Sustainable Practices for Touring Exhibitions
We held Sustainable Practices for Touring Exhibitions on November 3, 2025. The session framed Hosting as inherently sustainable, focusing on how early planning can further advance sustainability goals and help you maximize emissions and waste reductions. Alexa Steiner (Rute Collaborative) shared approaches to policy, partnerships, materials, and shipping, among other topics. Alex Klein (The Contemporary Austin) and Robert Chaney (ICA Philadelphia) reflected on the choices that shaped Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses as it traveled. A toolkit with resources from Rute Collaborative and other materials on sustainability in the field is below.
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Hosting 102: Establishing Positive Relationships
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026, at 2 pm ET (90 minutes)
[Register here]
Hosting is as much about relationships as it is about logistics. This session focuses on what that looks like in practice: how to establish healthy relationships, foreground proactive communication, and navigate differences in institutional scales and resources.
The program will open with a presentation from Daviree Velázquez Phillip (Together + Through) on building healthy collaborations and effective working agreements. Natalie Bell (MIT List Visual Arts Center) and Sara Cluggish (Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College) will then share their experiences related to the exhibition Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, which Bell organized and Cluggish hosted. Participants will leave with tools to deepen communication, strategies for positive working relationships, and resources to make exhibition hosting generative and successful for all involved.
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Info session
We held an info session on October 6, 2025, on the hosting grant program.
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