December 2, 2026 will be dedicated to the single-project and research categories; January 7, 2027 will be dedicated to the Three years of programming category. Both will take place at 3:00pm ET. Sign-up links will be posted to this page in the coming weeks.
Currently, this page contains recordings related to our Hosting grant only. Scroll down to sign up for Hosting 103, coming up on October 27th!
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Hosting grant info session
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Hosting 101; 102; Sustainability
Whether you’re exploring hosting for the first time or building on prior experience, these recorded programs offer concrete tools; curatorial case studies; and space to think through the systems, context, and relationships that support successful hosting experiences.
Successful touring projects depend on collaboration, and these recordings should be useful for both hosting and originating curators. In addition to curators, exhibition managers, registrars, coordinators, handlers, and other colleagues are invited to view this material.
Programs were 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 reduce emissions and waste. 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
We held Hosting 102: Establishing Positive Relationships on June 23, 2026. This session focused on tools for establishing and supporting healthy relationships when collaborating and hosting exhibitions. The program opened with a presentation from Daviree Velázquez Phillip (Together + Through) that offered processes and prompts for building intentional and effective working agreements. Natalie Bell (MIT List Visual Arts Center) and Sara Cluggish (Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College) shared their experiences building trust, engaging audiences, and working across different teams and institutions for the exhibition Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us, which Bell organized and Cluggish hosted. A toolkit including Daviree’s presentation and a reflection guide to support self-awareness before entering new relationships is available below.
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Hosting 103: Tools for Conflict Resolution
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 2pm ET (90 minutes)
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This webinar focuses on navigating the conflicts that can arise when curators host exhibitions that originated elsewhere. Hosting exhibitions requires collaboration—within and between institutions, and among curators, artists, and program partners—and almost always involves differences in resources, priorities, expectations, and communication styles. Organized by Teiger Foundation, this program aims to deepen participants’ understanding of conflict and to introduce skills for maintaining and strengthening working relationships.
Building on Hosting 102, which focused on establishing intentional and productive relationship agreements, Hosting 103 offers curators and their teams ways to recognize, normalize, and navigate conflict. Led by consultant and coach Daviree Velázquez Phillip (Together + Through), the webinar will explore how conflict can be an opportunity to strengthen communication, repair relationships, and cultivate trust within and across institutions.
Through a presentation and conversation guided by Phillip; a case study of a conflict in the context of hosting an exhibition; and an interactive Q&A, participants will reflect on their own and their institution’s capacity for conflict and repair and learn practical tools for conflict resolution and de-escalation that may also be applied to collaborations within the workplace more generally.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own experiences of conflict related to hosting and touring exhibitions as material for discussion and reflection. The organizers ask that all examples be anonymized, and the Q&A portion of the program will not be recorded.