In this first iteration of the foundation's fellowship, recipients Kerryn Greenberg and Mark Godfrey begin developing a curatorial programme intended for developing New Curators, together with Rudi Minto de Wijs, an emerging organisation that pursues a more inclusive and accessible model for arts education.

Central to their curriculum design is a series of questions that guides the learning journey through a broad range of thematical enquiries. In developing these, A4 becomes a dialogical mechanism through which Kerryn and Mark test their enquiries and think through answers; engaging with both the foundation's curatorial studio and with A4's community of critical friends. Practitioners from across the arts ecology are invited to join in these conversations, offering further insight on the given theme and wider-ranging resonances; among them Stefanie Hessler, director of Kunsthall Trondheim, Serubiri Moses, curator and adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College, and Rudi Minto de Wijs, writer and curator.

Parallel to Kerryn and Mark's pursuits, A4 reflects on the role of art institutions in supporting educational endeavours, offering sustained conversation and the dialogue of ideas as a resource towards the realisation of proposed projects in the field.

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New Curators is anticipated to launch in September 2023. The proposed programme is committed to both socially and environmentally sustainable practices, understood within a framework of continual, collective and changing responsibilities shaped by the students and the wider community. Practical engagements will play a central role in the course's curriculum, transposing learning into doing with intensive, hands-on experience in exhibition-making.

A4 Arts Foundation's fellowship programme extends the resources of its curatorial studio and laboratory to established practitioners. With the support of both the foundation's mechanisms and a grant, the fellowship invites leading thinkers, makers and doers to pursue enquiries towards the realisation of a project.