Job Appointments
IDSVA Student and Alumni Jobs
We are proud to share these recent job announcements for both students and alumni.
IDSVA’s innovative mix of intensive residencies and online live seminar instruction means that IDSVA students can keep their jobs and advance their careers while pursuing a top-level PhD in the humanities.
IDSVA alumni are employed in the following ways:
57% full-time academic
20% part-time academic
20% full-time non-academic
3% not seeking
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Founder of The GlassHouse.
President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs
Panel Chair: "Transgressive Tendencies: Stepping Over to Go Beyond" at CAA 2023. New York, NY
Appointment: Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Appointment: Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University, PA in the Communication Department (Courses: Film Analysis and Video Production).
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
Appointment: Chief of Staff, The Studio Museum in Harlem, reporting to the Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden.
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.
Group Exhibition participant for the CEEJH Environmental Justice Symposium x Social Art and Culture Art Exhibition, College Park, Maryland, College Park Marriott & Conference Center
Solo Exhibition "Light Shines Bright", Gardiner ME, Stone Broke Bread and Books
Appointed: Tenured Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University.
Appointment: Professor, Art Appreciation at Baker College.
Appointed as a "Subject Matter Expert" (course content builder) and Professor of Art Theory with Tiffin University. Tiffin, OH.
Appointment: Full-time Assistant Professor of the Practice and Digital Media Specialist, Georgetown University.
Promotion: Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Art & Art History at Georgetown University.
"Wolfgang Beltracchi and the Authenticity of Forgery: Not a Moral Failure" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Present the paper “Aesthetic Noise as Contemplative Practice” based on a chapter from her forthcoming book Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening on Routledge during the panel The Inmost Light: Analog, Esoteric & Occult Sound Practices in the Art Studio and Classroom at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Book Publication: "Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening" Routledge 2025
Presentation: “Finding Home in the Songs of the Whale” at the 14th Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition (PACT) conference at Seattle University, September 2023.
Solo Exhibition: "Future Monument to the Trees of the Public Garden," on November 9-11, 2024 in the Boston Public Garden as part of "Un-Monument," a public art initiative sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture and supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Owner, davisstudio, LLC
Organized a traveling exhibition of her Women and Power series to show at independent bookstores and libraries nationally.
Appointment: Adjunct Faculty at The Barnes Foundation
Named "Adjunct of Year" for Rowand College of South Jersey
