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CONF: Black Arts. Black Pedagogies. Black Futures. in Amsterdam–June 30-July 4, 2025

Black Arts. Black Pedagogies. Black Futures. is a five-day dialogic, performative, and pedagogical program that resonates with the imaginative and self-determined artistic, pedagogical, and knowledge practices of the Black Diaspora in Europe and the United States. This program brings together Black artists, educators, thinkers, and cultural workers to facilitate artistic dialogue, foster collective (un)learning, and share methodologies.

Black Arts. Black Pedagogies. Black Futures. is an open and evolving program that amplifies the imaginative production of Black artistic communities. Running from June 30 to July 4, 2025, in Amsterdam, it inaugurates an annual creative, artistic learning environment—an experimental space for dialogue, exchange, and collective imagination.

Learn more here. The deadline to apply is April 1st.

To Attend: James A. Porter Colloquium – Register Now

The 35th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium

on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora

Dates: April 3-5, 2025

Locations:

  • April 3, 2025- The Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park (In-Person)
  • April 4, 2025- The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC(In-Person and Live-streamed on Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Youtube page)
  • April 5, 2025- National Gallery of Art, Washington,DC (In-Person Only and Live-streamed on National Gallery of Art’s Youtube page) & Howard University, Washington DC(In-Person Only and Live-streamed on the Porter Colloquium Youtube page)

Colloquium Theme Synopsis:

The Shape of Race

In partnership with the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Association of Critical Race Art History, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Howard University Gallery of Art and the National Gallery of Art, the Department of Art in Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts invites the public to convene to examine new developments in the area of critical race art history.

Register for Driskell Center events on Thursday, April 3, 2024 by clicking the links below:

4:00PM Deity of the Circle Performance

6:00PM Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Kellie Jones

All additional registration can be completed through this eventbrite page.

Register on Eventbrite

Save the Date: 2025 James A. Porter Colloquium

2025 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): Applications open through February 28, 2025

The Future Faculty Career Exploration Program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a rigorous four-day program (Sept. 24-27, 2025) designed for individuals to experience a “behind the scenes” glimpse into life as a faculty member here at RIT. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with RIT’s diverse administration, faculty, and students while on campus. The program offers additional opportunities to enhance interview skills, practice job-talk presentations, and explore the research, teaching, and service expectations of RIT Faculty members.

Please go to: https://www.rit.edu/diversity/ffcep#highlights

The application deadline is February 28, 2025.

ACRAH will be at CAA2025!

The ACRAH/CAA2025 panel will be Critical Race Art History Roundtable: Doing the Work

The session will be in-person at the New York Hilton Midtown – 2nd Floor – Nassau West on February 14, 2025 at 2:30pm EST.

The ACRAH Business Meeting will also be held in the same room February 14, 2025 at 1:00pm EST.

Session Abstract:

What does it mean to do critical race art history? This session brings together scholars in a conversation about how a critical race art history approach can manifest in our work. Having proposed this line of inquiry twenty-five years ago, we want to reflect on the nature of the concept and how the field has evolved. What are the goals of critical race art history, and what are its methodologies and theoretical grounds? What are the conceptual parameters of this lens on art history–what does it mean to center an understanding that race structures how we see and shapes our reception of art? What tools and methods do we employ to make the operations of race visible? How do we move from American identity politics –that emphasizes a white/non-white binary and focuses on the identification of negative racial tropes and artistic rebuttals to the harm of such imagery–to a comprehensive unpacking of the systemic racialization in art? What do we gain when we foreground how race informs the construction of the visual cultures that we inhabit? How do the insights of critical race art history become integrated into art history at large?

Participants:

Kymberly Pinder, Yale University

Pinder is Professor of Art and History of Art and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. She is the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Reading in Race and Art History (Routledge, 2002).

Tatiana Flores, University of Virginia

Flores is the Edgar Shannon Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor in Art History at the University of Virginia. She is an editor of The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History (2023).

Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard University

Hutchison is the Tow Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. She is the author of The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915 (Duke University Press, 2009).

Lily Cho, York University

Cho is Associate Professor of English at York University. She is the author of Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021).

“Pathways to Rochester Institute of Art: Art and Design Edition” — Academic Open House, Wed., Aug. 14, 2024, 1-2:30PM EST (via Zoom)

Pathways Art and Design Edition

Log into an “academic open house” to learn more about faculty career paths and opportunities within the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Art and Design (Rochester, NY, USA). RIT encourages historically underrepresented minority and women MFA or PhD candidates and graduates who are practicing artists, designers and photographers to register. This session is aimed at those interested in exploring a faculty role at RIT.

  • Learn about the College’s strategic plan and areas of growth
  • Get your job search questions answered and discover what search committees look for
  • Find out about anticipated or current faculty openings 
  • Understand expectations of incoming faculty
  • Hear from faculty and administrators about the culture and working environment at RIT 

Artists in the following disciplines represented within the College of Art and Design are invited to register:

3D Digital Design | Ceramics | Film and Animation | Fine Arts Studio | Furniture Design | Glass | Graphic Design | Illustration | Industrial Design | Interior Design | Medical Illustration| Metals and Jewelry Design | Motion Picture Science  | New Media Design | Photographic and Imaging Arts (Advertising/Fine Art/Photojournalism/Visual Media Options) | Photography and Related Media | Photographic Sciences | Studio Arts | Visual Arts-All Grades | Visual Communication Design.

Register here: https://bit.ly/PathwaystoRIT

Questions can be directed to: LOSOFR@RIT.EDU.


CFP: Beyond the Substrate: Hand Papermaking Seminar for Print Curators

Dieu Donné is pleased to announce an open call for a four day, hands-on workshop and seminar in hand papermaking in fine art for early- to mid-career curators and specialists in the field of prints and drawings. This workshop is made possible with support from Getty through The Paper Project initiative.

More information and application details can be found here: https://www.dieudonne.org/beyond-the-substrate-seminar

CFP: “The Black Commonwealth” at CAA2024

The Black Commonwealth
Co-Chairs: julia elizabeth neal (University of Michigan), Janell Blackmon-Pryor (Bowie State University)
Submit:https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12517.html
Session will present: In Person

Investigations of place have prompted radical reconsiderations of social and artistic geographies of visual culture. It absorbs and reflects psychosocial views and cultural relationships between communities and sites. Place is discursive across the disciplines: Tim Creswell, an anthropogeographer, situates place as a “meaningful category,” whereas Lucy Lippard, a feminist curator, describes it as “the locus of desire,” and artist Renée Green discursively engages notions of place and site-specificity in “Peripatetic at ‘Home’.”

With the objective to contribute to increasing microhistories–local, transnational, and global–reframing art historical inquiry, this panel will convene around Pennsylvania and its role within Black art production. A colony, the second state to join the Union, and a commonwealth implicated by the myths of the nation, Pennsylvania is a microcosm of the United States. How does it shape histories of artists from Henry Ossawa Tanner and Meta Warrick Vaux Fuller to Raymond Saunders, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Benjamin Patterson, and more, from the past to now?

We invite submissions related to Pennyslvania’s role in the profiles, practices, networks, institutions, and histories, of artists of African descent from the 19th to 21st centuries. Graduate students, adjunct, tenure-track and tenured professors, curators and arts cultural workers are encouraged to present.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

* Placemaking
* Politics of Identity and Blackness
* Gender Politics
* Respectability Politics and Whiteness Studies
* Andrew Carnegie and Institutions
* Labor Histories and Art
* Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
* Deindustrialization
* Archives and Documentary Histories
* Museums, Galleries and Race

Deadline is August 31, 2023

CFP: “Blackness, White Liberalism, and Art” @ CAA2024

Call For Papers

Blackness, White Liberalism, and Art

College Art Association Annual Conference session

Chicago, February 14–17, 2024 

This panel will address the “soft racism” of white liberal artists who have inadequately tried to address white supremacy and anti-Black racism in their work. Whether in the guise of multiculturalism, color blindness, or particular strains of post-racialism, these artists have often perpetuated what cultural theorist Stuart Hall called “a kind of difference that doesn’t make a difference of any kind.” We seek papers that take up case studies of neo/liberal representations of race produced within the United States across media from the nineteenth century until today. 

Chairs: Bridget R. Cooks, University of California, Irvine, and John Ott, James Madison University.   

The session will convene in person in Chicago and the deadline for submissions is August 31, 2023. Submission Link: 

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12755.html

CFP: “Critical Race Art History and the Archive” @ ACRAH/CAA2024

ACRAH will be at College Art Association Annual Conference in 2024.

We are having a virtual session, “Critical Race Art History and the Archive” that is soliciting papers.

Abstract:

In Subject to Display (2009), Jennifer A. González asserts that “the collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present.“ In this session, contemporary archivists’ discuss their approaches to telling the narratives of racial identification and racialization—past and present. What has been collected and how has that material been interpreted? What questions do they bring to institutional systems of classification? How do they create space and cede power so that marginalized communities can access resources that support their created and managed archives? In what ways have the concerns of the humanities—analysis, interpretation, argumentation—been mainstreamed into digital humanities practice in the scope of critical race art history?

Submit your proposal here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12882.html

Deadline: August 31, 2023

Check out the full CAA conference call for participation and guidelines to submit here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html