Consortium Seminar

A component of Getty Scholars Program

Each year, a Consortium Scholar is selected from the Getty Scholar cohort to teach an accredited seminar oriented around the annual theme.

The seminar takes place at the Getty Research Institute from January to March. It is open via application only to graduate students in a relevant field of study at the following Southern California universities:

  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of Southern California

Winter 2026 Seminar

Art, Therapy, and the Problem of Repair
Offered by Suzanne Hudson, Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California

This seminar explores the theme of repair in modern art and visual and material cultures, analyzing the potentials but also limits of art understood as therapeutically useful—whether within the hospital or clinic, school or studio, museum or market. We will examine how art practices have intersected with conceptions of illness; diagnostic models as methods of interpretation; theorizations of care; and the ethics of exhibiting unremittingly personal materials, such as artworks made in clinical spaces or medical records harbored in otherwise categorized archives. To do so, we will engage interdisciplinary methods from art history, criti­cal medical humanities, disability studies, and art therapy. We will draw on objects in Getty collections and archives and learn from guest speakers with expertise on the artworks and topics under discussion.

Students from all fields and time periods of study are encouraged to apply.

Weekly sessions are scheduled for Fridays from 10am to 4:30pm, January 16 through March 13, 2026 (excluding February 20). A Zoom orientation will be held on December 5, 2025 from 10am to 1:30pm.

The application period for the 2026 Getty Consortium Seminar is closed. Please check back in August for information about your 2027 Seminar.

Questions? Email ConsortiumSeminar@Getty.edu.

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