Student Achievements
Student & Alumni Achievements
IDSVA students and alumni are making substantial contributions to their fields of interest. Since enrolling at IDSVA, students have led panel discussions and presented papers at prominent conferences, published papers and articles, been awarded fellowships and promotions, and participated in solo and group exhibitions around the world.d
Appointed the AICA-International Awards Chair and Editor of the AICA/E-MAG
Presentation: “‘Understated’ The Socio-Political and Environmental Across Generations: Diego Rivera and El Anatsui” at the AICA-International Congress in Bucharest, Romania.
Appointed Senior Art Business Coach
Presentation: “The First Female Engineer at General Motor’s Descent into Alzheimer’s with Sundowners: A Daughter’s Scholarly Research and Case Study as Caregiver” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).
Group Exhibition at the New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition at Forum Gallery in New York City.
Co-chair the panel discussion Impact: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Young Visual Artist, presenting her theoretical research considering embodiment and AI art at the Southern Humanities Conference in Greenville, SC, on January 31, 2025.
Awarded the Elinor Ostrum 2024-2025 Fellowship at Mercatus Center, George Mason University. June 2024
Presentation: "Spacetime and Virtual Reality: temporal recalibration for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, ADHD, and autism by using movement contingent time flow in virtual reality" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece.
Art Curator for a juried art exhibition: Interpretations of Medusa. October 11, 2024. The Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa FL.
Presentation: "Nothing She Has, Nothing She Knows, Nothing She Wants. A Poretian Anticipation on Authentic Living and Being-in-the-World in Heidegger’s End of Metaphysics". The 56th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will take place in Philadelphia, PA on March 6-9, 2025.
Elected member of the Society of Encouragement and Education
Group Exhibition in Pekin, China.
Exhibition: "Faces of Humanity:A Global Portrait " in the Barbagelata International Portrait online Exhibition on view until 10/30/2023.
Solo Exhibition: Leto: Echos of Ephemera at the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation Online Gallery. Currently on exhibit through February 15th, 2024.
Presentation: "Georgia O’Keeffe and Martin Heidegger: On the way to Dwelling in the Threshold" at the American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Conference.
Presentation: "The Intertextual Studio: Research, Technique, and The Paradigm of the Artist/Scholar" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.
Appointment: Chair of the Writing Program and Instructor of Writing and Digital Literacy at Antioch College, Ohio.
Participation: residency Oral History in Liberal Arts Institutes at Antioch College and the American University of Bulgaria.
"A Haunted World: Animism, Spirits, and Sorcery as the Work of Art" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Appointed Lecturer at The Ohio State University Department of History of Art, teaching the self-authored Museum Studies course, 'Toward an Ethico-Aesthetical Curatorial Practice.'
Appointed the Executive Gallery Director at ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists.
Panel Chair: "The Impact of “Professionalism” on the Artist/Parent & How to Change a Culture" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.
Presentation: “Shifting Pedagogy for Holistic Learning in Higher Education” with Robert Howsare at SECAC in Richmond, VA.
Publication: (Untitled), in the monograph Richard Hearns: Journey, to accompany Hearns' solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary.
Publication: "The Soul of the First Line," "To Calligraph a Reverie," "The Poet's Dilemma," and "Multiplicity" in the final edition of the Oregon College of Art and Craft literary magazine.
Publication: "Art Activism and the Environment" is included in Ecothee Volume 6: Contemporary ecotheology, climate justice and environmental stewardship in world religions.
Co-Presentation with IDSVA Alumna, Angela Mosely: “Teaching Under ‘Protections from Discrimination and Woke Indoctrination’” (FATE) at SECAC in Richmond, VA.
Panel Chair for Repair within Communities for the first annual IDSVA Alumni Association 2-Day Conference in New York City, NY, April 25-27, 2025.
Paper "Techno as a Synergetic Carnival and Experience of Dionysian Revelry" for the Music category at the PCA Conference in New Orleans, LA, April 16-19, 2025.
Chaired the session Black Cultural Art Performances and present the paper "When Hope and Fear Collide" at the Black Joy AI Summit Conference in Washington, DC.
Presented the workshop “The Evolution of Black Input and Output” at the 53rd Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, DC.
Publication: “The Empty Sublime: Robert Rauschenberg in a Comparative Context”, in The Journal for Comparative and Continental Philosophy.
Created an installation project in southwest México, entitled "Casa Adobe" using field grass, earth, and burro dung. The structure covers approximately 200 square meters of terrain at the base of Mt. Picacho.
Appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at CUNY-Kingsborough Community College.
Presentation: "Repurposing Purposiveness Without Purpose: On Works of Art as Complex Adaptive Information Systems" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference at Purdue University in Indiana.
Award "Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics" has been nominated for the American Society of Aesthetics "Outstanding Monograph"
Appointment: Executive Director, Western Kansas Community Foundation.
Presentation: "The Artist yachag and the ceremony of yage as cannibalistic performance."
Publication: Diarios Andinos de las Tierras del Sol Recto in the "Andean Diaries of the Land of the Rectilinear Sun." 2024.
Presentation: "Flux, Wi-Fi, Fractals: Opening the Investigation into Spatial Rhythms" at the SLSA Conference 2022.
"Flickers of Singularity: Ryman and Rauschenberg Paint the Diremption" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Book Publication: The Templars’ Chalice, a novel by Shadow Rock Publishing, LLC
Presentation: "Humanity: Reflecting upon Belonging Beyond Boundaries" at the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC).
Publication "Livestreaming An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter."
Publication: "Pseudorandom: generative animation as performance in Emergent" in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.
Founder and Owner, SeedVerse LLC
Co-chair with IDSVA student, Shana Dumont Garr, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Appointment: Visiting Researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
Paper: "Time for Play: The Ontological Risk of the Space of Interpretation" at the PACT conference in Los Angeles, October 4, 2024.
Award: Best Experimental Film Award (Paris Film Festival) and Honorary Mention (Hollywood Short Film Festival) for her film "Viaggio: A Journey through Life."
Present the paper: “Fused Subjectivity in the Artwork of Carolee Schneemann” at the Scientific Committee of the 5th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality (ICGSS) Paris, France.
Presentation: "Becoming Monumental: The Contemporary State of Black Female Subjectivity" at the virtual conference: Art, Access and Agency-Art Sites of Enabling.
Panel Co-Chair: "Reframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth" at CAA
Hosted the event "Collaborative Community Canvas” at the 2024 Open Studios at the Yale School of Art.
Awarded 2024 “Artist Instructor of the Year” by the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.
Presentation: “Nesting the World (Or, Haptic Listening)” for the session Locating Impact: Practices and Dialogues Influenced by Place at SECAC, Atlanta, 2024.
Presentation: “Celebrating Bachelard’s Pyromenon Through the Practice of Good Fire, an Anarchic Ceramic Experience” along with Tim Freeman at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).
Presented "Crawling Through the Moon: Fragments of an Outpost of the Imagination," June 2024 at the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle (CCPC). University of Hawai'i Hilo, Hawai'i.
Publication: “A Conversation with Art Conservator, Luis Seixas” at St. Pete Life Magazine. July/August 2024 Interview with a Portuguese art conservator about his recent work – live conservation of a 4-century-old Spanish tabernacle at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Florida.
Appointment: Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College.
Co-curated "John Preus: The Beast (Herd Mentality)," at Montserrat College of Art.
Solo Exhibition: "Imaginary Letters to Vasily Grossman, Post-WWII Repatriation to Soviet Armenia" at the Festival TransCaucases (INALCO) Paris, France
Poetry Reading at 2024 LitHop in Fresno, CA
Publication: A Psychological Journey into Otherness an essay in the book "Between Mobility Control and Social Transformation: Art/Interdisciplinary project Risk Change."
Group Exhibition: "Big Sky" at Marfa Studio Arts.
Founder of The GlassHouse.
"Steve McQueen and Béla Tarr: Exploring a Whatever Communality on the Dance Floor" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Paper "Re-interpreting Nicola Perullo’s Aesthetics of Taste Through Flavor “ for the Society for Italian Philosophy conference at Stony Brook University in New York on April 2, 2025.
Presentation: "Carnivalizing Philosophy: The Future of Western Thought" at CAA.
Appointment: Adjunct positions at The College of Staten Island, in History of Philosophy and History of the Caribbean. Staten Island, NY.
Presentation: "Rainbow Liberty: LGBTQ+ Political Economy in a Polycentric World" at Markets & Society hosted by Mercatus Center, at George Mason University Dates: October 11-14.
Presentation: Rainbow Liberty: Topics in LGBTQ+ Mainline Economics," is upcoming for the Southern Economic Association conference
President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs
Participation in Artist Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA, 2019.
Artist residency at the Scalamata Gallery / Michel Meron in Venice, Italy, August, 2024.
Panel Chair: "Transgressive Tendencies: Stepping Over to Go Beyond" at CAA 2023. New York, NY
Appointment: Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.
Presentation: “Expressions of Trauma and Healing Amid Recurring Warfare” at the East-West Philosophers’ Conference in Honolulu, Hawai'i, May 24-31, 2024.
Presentation: “Dao of AI” at the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, June 4-7, 2024, at Hawai'i Volcano National Park.
Publication: Cover artwork and illustrations in Helen Najera Reyes book, Grandpa Lee's Stories, New Mexico to California. The book has also been nominated to the Latino International Book awards, under the young adult category.
Presentation: “Mourning as True Anarchy—Philosophical Thinking Reimagined as a Grieving-With Shared Ecologies Upon an Earth in Trouble" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).
Created permanent sculpture at Indiana University Kokomo along with two students.
Promotion: Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Kokomo.
Appointed the Interim Executive Director at 500 Capp Street.
Appointment: College Art Association (CAA) Board of Directors for the 2019-2024 term
Forthcoming book "Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape" will be published by Routledge in 2025.
Received a fellowship from the C. Sylvia and Eddie Brown Driskell Center Scholars Advancement Fund. The award will fund travel and research for Dr. Orwel's new book on David C. Driskell. As part of the award, he'll present a lecture at the David C. Driskell Center's gallery.
Book Publication: Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Neo-Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future by Bloomsbury Press
Presentation: "Bread Philosophy: Forgotten Justices in Situating Scott Nearing" as part of the 2021 Speaker Series at the Good Life Center in Harborside, ME.
Appointed to the board of the Good Life Center. March 2023.
Participated in the Arctic Circle Residency, July 2024.
Exhibition: in collaboration with Chicano artist Richard Lou, pages from the graphic novel “Embustero” are on display at Clemson University until March 8th. Additionally, her works are represented in the show Art Gallery: RichardLou Exhibition at Union University from April 23-May 28, 2024.
Co-chair with IDSVA student, Felix Lloyd, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Presentation: “Plant Beings: Portraits Signaling Beyond Humanism” at this panel and also at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference in Dallas, TX.
Co-Chair of 11th Transformative Justice and Abolition Criminology Conference
Presentation: "By the force of the poet’s imagination: A Kristevan-Heideggerian exploration of the chōra of Homeric Classical Epics and the genre of Spoken Word poetry" at the Heidegger In der Nähe des Heiligen und Göttlichen International Online Conference organized by the European Center for Heidegger Studies.
Presentation: "The Sweet and Subtle Smashing of the Status Quo – Not Just a Pile of Candy" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.
Exhibition: Making Memory, will run June 8th to July 20 at The University of Southern Indiana’s New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (NHGCA).
Solo show: "Dreams of Ether: The Photographic Works of Rowynn Dumont" at 86 Orchard Gallery, New York City.
Group Exhibition: "KAFKAESQUE" at the Dox Contemporary Art Center Prague.
"It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Conference Participation: "Culturing Biodesigners: Pedagogical Approaches to Biodesign" at the 17th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal. March 29-31, 2023.
Presentation: "The Brain and the Boogeyman: Instinct and Survival" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.
Appointment: Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University, Queens, NY
Panel Chair: Artivism in Public Space, and present the paper, "What is Artivism in Public Space?" at the upcoming SECAC Conference, in Richmond, VA.
Presentation: “Aestheticizing a Counter-Memory” at CAA, 2021.
Participation in the Poster Session "Resituating Art in Education by Disrupting the Modern Conception of Time" at CAA 2020.
Group exhibition entitled, Same House, Different Time, June 12, 2024, at the Avellana Art Gallery in Manila Philippines.
Participating artist representing the Philippines for the 10th Nakanojo Biennale 2025 in Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture in Japan.
Solo Exhibition: Flowers and Figures for Mother’s Day, Atelier Lucia Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Presentation: “Kitsch and the Lack of Imagination,” at The Representational Art Conference (TRAC).
Duo exhibition "Ritual Reparations" with IDSVA student, Lisa Tremaine. Eula Mae Edwards Gallery at Clovis Community College, Clovis, New Mexico, February 2023.
The paper "Shrouded Bells: The Hallow of Janine Antoni's Unveiling" at ICMHS, Dublin, Ireland, July 2024.
Paper "The Captivating Relationship Between Meister Eckhart's Medieval Teaching of Letting Go, its Resonance with Zen Buddhism, and its Profound Influence on John Cage's Performance Art of Modern Times at the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies Mysticism and the Twenty-First Century (A Roundtable), Western Michigan University, May 8-10.
Publication: The “Ring Shout”: A Corporeal Conjuring of Black-Togetherness.
Performed "Prelude: Site of Becoming" at the Denizen Arts Project, September 2024. This is the opening movement of a larger work, "Journey of a Thousand Dreams" (Fall '25).
Founder of an Immersive Museum: Welcome to the Lardverse.
Appointment: Teaching "Still Life and Floral Painting in oils" at the Kirkland Arts Center in Kirkland, Washington.
Group Exhibition: COCA Members' Show "20/20" at COCA (Center On Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA.
Presentation: "Performative Knowledge: Overcoming Static Epistemologies on Human Nature" at the Ryerson Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Disagreement and Philosophy
Co-plenary speaker for the Social Justice Institute Think Tank at Case Western University, Cleveland, OH.
Paper: “Reimagining Ethnographic Objects: Moving Beyond Repatriation in Decolonizing Museums” for the panel Restitution Beyond Repatriation: Rethinking African Art and the Question of Decolonizing Museums at the CAA conference in New York.
Appointed to CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term starting February 2024.
Presentation: Video essay “Shedding, Molting, Letting Go; Live Version” for the panel Power of the Performative Lecture at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Co-curated Jay Milder solo exhibition at Casa Museo Mexico, Havana, Cuba
Publication: The Aesthetic of Art a Quiz E-Book by Cognella Editors & University Press.
Promotion: Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Lakewood, CO.
Appointed Co-President and Chief Ideation officer of One Arts.
Conference panel chair of the session "Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in the Emergence of Photography" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.
Book Publication: The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect. Vernon Press, 2023.
Publication in "A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China." Yale University Press, 2023.
Publication: Journal of Daoist Studies
Book Publication: Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics: Aesthetics, Ethics and Subjectivity by Bloomsbury Press.
Tory Schendel-Vyvoda and Megan Hagseth's documentary, "Female Mystic Art: Hildegard Von Bingen" was awarded the Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarly Outreach and was selected as a Medieval Open Access Resource Sweet Sixteen by Princeton University.
Conference Panel Participant and Chair for the webinar "Doing Medieval Together: Building Community in Nontraditional Venues" for the Medieval Academy in partnership with CARA on February 10, 2025.
Appointment: Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University, PA in the Communication Department (Courses: Film Analysis and Video Production).
Received a grant from Collective Future Fund: New Projects for “Soil Culture Project” in collaboration with Julie Poitras Santos.
Presentation: “Exploring Eco-Materialism as Translation in Vegetal Aesthetics within the Plant Contingent Collective” for the panel: Art of Ecology and Beauty of Nature at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia May 24–27, 2023.
Presentation: "Plant Play" at the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), in Stratford, Canada.
Presentation "Media Art and Structures of Care" at RE:SOURCE, the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in Venice, Italy.
Published a chapter in the book titled "Tribal and the Cultural Legacy of Streetwear."
Paper "Affective Atmospheres: Tonino Griffero’s Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces” for SIP- the Society for Italian Philosophy at Stony Brook University, NY, April 4, 2025.
Panel co-chair, along with IDSVA PhD Candidate, Kimberly Aimée Alvarado, of the session: "Decolonial Aesthetics: Toward Artistic and Philosophical Interventions" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.
Presentation: "Addressing Erasure Through Adriana Corral’s Memento: Vibrant Medium and A View of Decolonizing Feminist Thought" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.
Presentation: "Action Required: Sound Art’s Transgressions against Passivity." CAA 2023. New York, NY
Appointment: Art History Instructor at California State University - San Bernardino.
Appointment: Co-Director of Global Programs + Art Faculty at Greenwich Country Day School.
Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021.
Appointed in house UX/UI Experience Designer at Ralph Lauren. New York, NY 2022.
Group Exhibition: WOW: Worlds of Women at Trieste Photo Days 2022 International Photographic Festival. September 2022.
Presentation: “Unmasking Identity:Exploring the Philosophical and Cultural Implications of Aztec Masks in Chicano Street Culture” for the panel Realize Our True Potential at the Skyline College's 2nd Annual RIDE Conference in San Bruno, California, Friday, April 26th, 2024.
Presentation: "Resonating Quietude: Harnessing Silence for Social Justice in Today’s Classroom", iJADE Conference 2024, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus
"Dean Fox’s Lady on the Grass: Berthe Morisot: A Chaotic-Form as an Otherness" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Appointment: Chief of Staff, The Studio Museum in Harlem, reporting to the Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden.
Solo Exhibition: "Vital Traces" at the University of Maine at Farmington. September 14, 2021
Presentation: "Body Soul Crisis Recovery: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference" at The College of the Arts and Sciences, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, April 2021
Brown is working with Barbara Hielscher-Witte, Director at the Expressive Arts Institute Berlin as part of the Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy program at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. In addition to this program, Brown is attending Expressive Arts in Transition (EXIT) and Community Ritual: Moving Toward Belonging After Trauma and Displacement.
Group Exhibition: Abstract Stich & Dye and Art Exhibit at Café Melo Gallery in Harlem presented by Access Black Art.
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award from Marla Quilts, Inc. African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy
Appointed full time lecturer at Lone Star College-University Park.
One of the recipients of the Houston Endowment’s Jones Artist Award for 2024 and exhibiting artist in the corresponding show, "Traces of Being".
Publication: “Historic Decisions: Looking Deliberately at the Past.” Connections (2020): 21-28.
Appointed Senior Program Officer for the Kettering Foundation's Democracy and the Arts Program.
Presentation: with Kelly Gawel (PhD, The New School) “Intimate Reclamations: Aesthetic Practices of Care” for the panel How do feminist artists care? at the College Art Association conference in Chicago, February 16, 2024.
Presentation: with Kelly Gawel (PhD, The New School), and Ciclón Olivares (Pratt Institute) “Counter-normative Kinship as Jouissance: Celebrating Co-Created Decolonial Space” for the conference Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing at philoSOPHIAin Southern Alberta, Canada, March 16, 2024.
Presentation: “Prescriptive reality asa foundation of descriptive abstractions: a multidisciplinary approach to the process of creation” at the Manipal International Symposium on Design (MiSD),School of Design and Architecture in Dubai on February 15, 2024.
