The Role of the Curator

A curator of an exhibition is the person who is in charge of organising it. The curator decides on which artists’ work will be featured, the title or name of the exhibition and the theme or subject of the exhibition.

Your role as an online curator is to:

• choose a theme that interests you
• select 6-10 artworks that suit your theme
• choose a title for your exhibition
• make a catalogue for your exhibition

Catalogues are important, as they provide people with information about the ideas behind the exhibition and the artists involved.

Your catalogue can be an introductory web page, which you can make in Front Page or any other web editor such as Dream Weaver. Include the following information in your ‘catalogue’:

• the title of the exhibition
• a list of the artists featured
• a short explanation of the idea behind the exhibition (what the theme is, why you chose particular artists)
• short biographies of the artists (where born, lived/worked, died)
• acknowledgements (an alphabetical listing of references that you used, see ‘How to Cite References’ on the Activities page)

Your exhibition will be your set of images. For each image, list the:

• artist
• title of the artwork
• year it was made
• materials/medium used to create it
• dimensions of the work (its size)
• current location of the work