The ACRAH/CAA2026 panel will be Excavating Race in the Archive
This session will remote/hybrid on Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:00am – 12:30pm local Chicago time. If you are in Chicago you can attend in person at the Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Williford B.
Check out the full session description here: CAA2026
The ACRAH Business Meeting will be held in the same room on Thursday, February 19, 2026 from 1:00pm-2:00pm local Chicago time.
Our new article has been published in kritische berichte.
Abstract:
This essay outlines the foundations and aims of Critical Race Art History, a methodological approach that examines how race operates in art and visual culture. Through case studies of artworks ranging from 18th-century porcelain to contemporary art, the authors reveal how racial hierarchies are naturalized through representation. They argue that race functions as a structuring visual logic and call for a critical reexamination of art history’s disciplinary assumptions.
Check it out here: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/kb/article/view/113082
Jacqueline & Camara
Slavery North is pleased to invite participation in an academic conference, Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution.
The conference will take place in person from Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Slavery North invites proposals for papers that rethink the cultures, events, and experiences of the Revolutionary War. This call encourages new scholarship that reexamines the Revolutionary War through the experiences of enslaved people in British North America, exploring themes of displacement, resistance, and freedom across emerging national borders.
Call for Abstracts:
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, December 19, 2025
Slavery North invites proposals for 20-minute papers from graduate students, scholars, professors, and cultural and heritage workers. Proposals must include:
· Name, title, affiliation/institution, and location (city, province/state, country)
· Paper title
· Abstract: 200-300 words
· Two-page CV (featuring research highlights)
Submission Instructions:
Please submit your abstract and supporting materials via email as PDF attachments by Emily Davidson at: emilydavidso@umass.edu
More information: https://slaverynorth.com/event/call-for-abstracts-academic-conference/
The full call for abstracts is here.
We encourage you to circulate this invitation across your scholarly and community networks.
Call for Nominations: Eldredge Book Prize
Deadline: January 15, 2026
The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites nominations for the 2026 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. To nominate a book, send a letter explaining the work’s significance to the field of U.S.-American art history and discussing the quality of the author’s scholarship and methodology. Self-nominations and nominations by publishers are not permitted. Please send all nominations to eldredge@si.edu.
Learn more at americanart.si.edu/research/awards/eldredge.
Be part of the 2026 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program and gain a “behind the scenes” glimpse into life as a faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This vigorous, four-day program offers additional opportunities to enhance interview skills, practice job-talk presentations, and explore the research, teaching, and service expectations of RIT Faculty members.
Individuals who meet the following are encouraged to submit an application:
Application Materials:
Day 1 – Travel day, meet and greet with participants, job talk pointers
Day 2 – RIT community welcome breakfast, host department activities, panel discussions on faulty support, diversity and student body
Day 3 – Host department activities, panel discussions on faculty life, dinner with RIT administration and community members
Day 4 – Conclude program with a tour of the greater Rochester area, lunch with cohort, and departure for travel home
For more information on RIT’s current COVID-19 guidelines please visit https://www.rit.edu/ready/
The final application deadline is February, 27, 2026.
Start your application here: https://rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6eU0rCIsk7c1cbz
William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
The Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA) in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh seeks to appoint an accomplished historian of premodern art, architecture, or related fields to the William S. Dietrich Professorship, with an ideal start date during academic year 2026-27, pending budgetary approval. We seek a colleague who will use the prominence of this endowed professorship to advance HAA’s mission of enhancing and diversifying the histories of art and architecture through their teaching, research, mentorship, and leadership. The position provides an opportunity for its holder to undertake significant scholarly initiatives at the departmental, university, and extra-institutional levels. The successful applicant will be asked to develop and teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, supervise doctoral students, undertake service, participate actively in the life of the department and university, and develop connections with national and international communities of scholars. We particularly welcome candidates whose work and teaching engage with the structural inequalities that art and architectural history have perpetuated, and we invite them to describe how their pedagogical approach addresses those concerns.
To learn more about the position and to apply, visit: https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=25005722
Applications should include:
>Cover letter addressed to Prof. Christopher Nygren, Chair, HAA Department, that discusses the applicant’s approaches to research, teaching, and mentoring (of peers, graduate, and undergraduate). Please include a discussion of your current and future research programs.
>Current CV. Please include a list of students mentored and courses taught.
>Two sample publications (in the case of a single-authored book, please send the introduction, table of contents, and one sample chapter).
Review of applications will begin on 15 January 2026, and will continue until the position is filled. Questions may be directed to Christopher Nygren, Chair, HAA Department (cnygren@pitt.edu) or Evan Zajdel, Department Administrator, HAA Department (ewz5@pitt.edu).
Exciting curatorial opportunity at the Denver Art Museum! 
Position: Assistant or Associate Curator of Native Arts
Salary: $60,000 – $83,200/year
Apply by: November 28, 2025
This is a fantastic role for someone passionate about Native arts, community collaboration, and curatorial innovation within a major institution.
Full job details & application info here: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/careers-and-volunteers
The Slavery North Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is pleased to announce three fellowship opportunities for the 2026-2027 Academic Year.
The deadline for all Slavery North fellowship applications is Sunday, September 21, 2025.
About Slavery North Fellowships
The Slavery North fellowship program welcomes national and international students, artists, and scholars, providing them with the space, funding, time, and community to produce transformative research outcomes. Slavery North Fellows actively participate in both the scholarly and social environment of the center. Slavery North Fellows, with support of Slavery North leadership, conduct independent research and create original works in one or more of the five mandate areas of Slavery North which include 1) Canadian Slavery, (2) slavery in the US North, (3) the comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions, (4) the study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery, and (5) Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery. Furthermore, the research must center on the enslaved and/or adopt an anti-colonial, de-colonial, post-colonial, and/or anti-racist methodology/approach which challenges the nature of European and Euro-American imperialism and colonialism and interrogates the racist logic of the institution of Transatlantic Slavery.
Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor
See Full Job Description and Apply: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/527921/visiting-open-rank-research-professor
Graduate Student Fellow (MA, MFA, or PhD)
See Full Job Description and Apply: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/527920/slavery-north-research-fellow
Artist-in-Residence Fellow
Link to Full Job Description and Apply: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528032/slavery-north-artistinresidenceresearch-fellow
Questions can be directed to: Emily Davidson emilydavidso@umass.edu
Call for Artists: 2026 Emerging Artists Program (EAP)
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
San Francisco, CA
The Emerging Artists Program (EAP) reflects the Museum of the African Diaspora’s commitment to supporting, exhibiting, and amplifying the work of Black artists living and working in the Bay Area. As a leading contemporary art museum focused on the global African Diaspora, MoAD is proud to incubate innovative practices and foster long-term artistic growth.
We are now accepting applications for the 2026 cycle. Four artists will be selected to present solo exhibitions in MoAD’s Salon space and will each receive a $10,000 award along with comprehensive institutional support.
Program Overview
Incubation
Selected artists will receive:
Direct mentorship and guidance from MoAD’s curatorial and exhibitions team
Writing and design support for wall text, labels, and marketing materials
Access to career-sustaining professional development workshops led by artists, curators, scholars, gallerists, and financial experts
Exhibition
Each artist will present a two-month solo exhibition in MoAD’s Salon, a multipurpose space used to showcase stellar artwork as well as for deep engagement through public programs, workshops, and community events
Artists will be given up to three days each for installation and deinstallation
All artists will work with the same set of institutional tools and resources provided by MoAD
Public Programming + Publicity
MoAD will organize and support at least one public program (e.g. artist talk, conversation, or workshop) for each exhibition
Artists will receive dedicated marketing and press support from MoAD’s communications team
Additional Award Opportunity
One of the four exhibiting artists will receive the EAP Excellence Award, a $25,000 grant awarded in recognition of outstanding work
Application + Selection Timeline
Application Deadline: October 31, 2025 Final Selections Made: December 15, 2025 Finalists Announced: January 5, 2026 First Exhibition Opens: March 20, 2026
Apply via SlideRoom: https://moadsf.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/84758
Terms & Conditions
Applications must be submitted through the official SlideRoom portal.
Submission does not guarantee selection.
MoAD will insure exhibited artworks up to a maximum of $15,000, from delivery through deinstallation.
Artists are responsible for shipping, delivery, and retrieval of artworks.
All non-installation-based works must arrive ready to hang.
Artists must be on-site for both installation and deinstallation, which may take up to three days each.
Artworks left at MoAD more than 30 days after exhibition close will be considered abandoned.
Artists release MoAD from liability for damage or injury during transportation.
Visitors may photograph artworks for non-commercial use. Artists grant MoAD permission to photograph and use images for marketing, publicity, and educational purposes.
Please note: The Salon is a multi-use space. Food and drink may be served, and the space may be rented for private events during or after museum hours.
For questions or additional information, please contact: exhibitions@moadsf.org
We look forward to reviewing your proposal and continuing to build a vibrant future for Black art in the Bay Area.
This program contains:
PHOTOGRAPHY BEYOND THE VAULT
PN VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM, DECEMBER 4–6, 2025
https://www.photographynetwork.net/symposium-2025-call-for-papers
Photography Network’s fifth annual symposium will consider the subject of photography collections and the institutions that shape them. When Rosalind Krauss published her 1982 essay “Photography’s Discursive Spaces,” questioning the categorical shifts of historic photographs from archives to art museums, the effects of the 1970s “Photo Boom” were still unfolding. Today, a half century after the founding of influential galleries, museums, and academic programs focused on photography, the medium is fully ensconced in the global art market and public collections through countless prints, negatives, books, magazines, and many other materials. At the same time, this history centers on the United States and western Europe, and within these geopolitical regions, scholars and critics have long noted how particular sets of photographs are privileged for preservation and study over others. Collecting photographs became a way to value and prioritize certain stories over others.
Drawing inspiration from the Nepal Picture Library, a digital archive of over 120,000 photographs that strives to create a broad and inclusive visual archive of Nepali social and cultural history, this symposium seeks to present a current appraisal of changes to photography collections around the globe. Our keynote speaker will be NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Co-Founder and Director of photo.circle, a platform for photography in Nepal including the Nepal Picture Library, and the organizer of Photo Kathmandu—an international photography festival that serves as an alternative platform for conversations between visual storytellers and local audiences.
For our 2025 virtual symposium, we invite proposals that critically examine how the institutional frameworks of photographic history and practice—often shaped by Western models of scholarship, archiving, and pedagogy—are unevenly applied across global contexts, and that explore how alternative or locally grounded approaches can challenge, expand, or reconfigure dominant narratives in the field. How can photography collections of the future improve and how can we better serve these collections?
Proposals might consider:
Alternative collecting, preservation, or display practices
Issues of access to and ownership of photographs
Legacies of colonialism and histories of resistance in photography collections
Absence, loss, and destruction of photographs
Digitization, databases, and AI as tools
Artists in the archives and archives as art
Photography’s “discursive spaces” today
Submission Information:
Photography Network invites proposals across disciplines and a broad range of subjects that reflect the geographic and thematic diversity of the field. Practitioners and scholars at any stage of their careers are welcome to submit their research. We also welcome international scholars but note that the symposium will be in English.
The symposium organizers encourage a variety of presentational styles. In addition to proposals for individual, 15-minute papers, we also seek alternative-format presentations (e.g., workshops and roundtables). Applicants may submit up to 2 proposals, provided that one is in an alternative format. Sessions will be organized around accepted submissions, rather than prescribed themes.
To be considered for a panel or alternative-format presentation, please prepare:
(1) a 250-word abstract with a clear indication of format, and
(2) a two-page resume or CV.
All files should be named “[LAST NAME]–CV” or “[LAST NAME]–ABSTRACT.”
Email completed materials by August 15 to photographynetworksymposium@gmail.com. Notifications of accepted proposals will be emailed by August 31. The symposium will be held online December 4–6. 2025.
Note: Accepted presenters must be Photography Network members in good standing at the time of the symposium. We have a sliding scale membership: $20 (Student/Unaffiliated), $40 (Affiliated), or $100 (Senior). We also have free need-based memberships. Please visit Photography Network’s membership page for more information on how to join and email any questions to photographynetworkboard@gmail.com.
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