Maayan Sheleff participated in Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive: Curating in the Public Realm, a week-long program for fourteen emerging curators to come together and think through the growing field of public practice. Teachers and advisors for this program included Nicholas Baume (Director and Chief Curator, Public Art Fund); Claire Bishop (Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in Art History, CUNY); Dan Cameron (Founding Director, Prospect New Orleans); Jim Campbell (artist); Kate Fowle (Executive Director, ICI, and alumni of the Artis Curatorial Seminar); Mary Jane Jacob (Professor and Executive Director of Exhibitions, SAIC); Richard Marshall (Curator, Lever House); Anne Pasternak (President and Artistic Director, Creative Time, and alumni of the Artis Curatorial Seminar); Nato Thompson (Chief Curator, Creative Time); and Anton Vidokle (artist, and co-founder e-flux).