Recent News

Please join us in New York City. This year’s featured Commencement Speakers are famed Mexican poet, Carmen Boullosa, and contemporary American sculptor, Mel Edwards.

Terrence Phearse is a lens based artist and independent curator. He is an Assistant Museum Manager at Fotografiska New York and Editorial Director at Musée Photo Magazine.

IDSVA is preparing to hold our upcoming New York City residency in person, from Jan 2–9, 2022. We will have a vaccine mandate for all participants.

The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is proud to host the second part of the year-long symposium: On the Anthropocene: Either/Or, launched in spring 2021, with a series of lectures by renowned theorists and philosophers.

PACT 2021: The 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT). The conference is being held at Volcanoes National Park, Hawaiʻi. September 9-11, 2021

We are saddened by the passing of Jean-Luc Nancy (July 26, 1940--August 23, 2021), one of the most important French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. During our residency in Paris in 2018 and again in the summer of 2020, he delivered lectures concerning art, community, ecology, and contemporary society.

We are pleased to announce that several lectures from spring and summer 2021 are now available to view on Vimeo.

The grant will fund the creation of a new sculpture the cataloging, preservation and digitization of prominent archives in the field of African American art.

Join us for What about Africanness? A conversation with Curlee Holton and Jane Taylor May 1, 2021, 12pm EDT/6PM SAST Register here: Zoom

Join us for Revolution Anthropocene: Geoaesthetics of the Planetary Condition a virtual lecture: April 17, 2021, 12pm EST Register here: Zoom

Join us for Culture as Reciprocity. Towards ecological citizenship a virtual lecture: March 20, 2021, 12pm EST Register here: Zoom

The first of the series ON THE ANTHROPOCENE: Either/Or, entitled From Relational to Ecological Form. Virtual lecture: February 27, 2021, 12pm EST Zoom

IDSVA makes a strong showing at the 109th Annual College Art Association (CAA) conference The virtual conference (including Q&A sessions) will take place February 10-13, 2021.

This year's (virtual) winter residency featured a series of three lectures throughout the week. As with every IDSVA lecture, students were asked to "formulate the question" in advance of Q&A. With each Q&A session, the lecturer and the students "took a seat at the table" and continued the ongoing construction of the history of ideas.

IDSVA is pleased to announce the new lecture series: ON THE ANTHROPOCENE: Either/Or. The three part lecture series will be held in February, March, and April.

The award was given to Metzger for her presentation, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Life, Love, and Racism in America." Metzger presented the work alongside her husband at the 2020 SECAC Conference on the panel All in the Family: On Raising Kids Together as Artists in Academia.

Join the Humanity Rising Panel discussion Presenters: Kathleen Riley, Musician, Researcher, Branch Director for Performing Arts at Awake TV Network; George Smith, Founder and President of IDSVA; Simonetta Moro, Director and Vice President for Academic Affairs at IDSVA; and IDSVA students, Mary Mazurek, George Orwel, and Zoma Wallace

Four IDSVA PhD candidates discuss their dissertation work in progress Date: Saturday, November 21, 12-2pm EST Format: Zoom (register to receive the link) Moderator: Dr. Kalia Brooks, IDSVA alumna 2017

Join the Driskell Center for a talk with Gabriel Reed about Driskell's ceramic works. Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST Format: This is a virtual Zoom event. Please register here, or through the Driskell Center's portal: https://driskellcenter.umd.edu/events/driskells-ceramics-gabriel-reed

UAAC, SECAC, and more!

Marvin R. Milián, M.A., is an educator who seeks to innovate the classroom with the ambition to change the way art history is taught.