VERA GRANT @ THE SOCIAL

Arts Administration @ Boston University in collaboration with, Operational and Curatorial Research, International Association for Visual Culture,  and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts is proud to announce that Professor Vera Ingrid Grant will be delivering a keynote for THE SOCIAL – the forthcoming biennial conference of Visual Culture at Boston University. Prof. Grant has an illustrious career both as an academic and as a curator, focusing on visual culture, history of twentieth century art and African American cultural history. Her curatorial work has been recognized internationally with numerous fellowships and collaborations for its strength and academic rigor in creating connections between the historical and the contemporary without loosing the complexity of context and the importance and influence of heritage in contemporary aesthetic production.

The call for papers for THE SOCIAL is available here. The call for the Graduate Forum of THE SOCIAL can be found at this link. The application for the Clark Institute Travel Fellowships for IAVC2016@Boston can be found at this link. Here you can find the Facebook event page and the Newsletter to stay in touch.

Vera Ingrid Grant is the director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. She most recently curated THE WOVEN ARC and Art of Jazz: NOTES at the Cooper Gallery; and The Persuasions of Montford at the Boston Center for the Arts. Her curatorial approach leverages theories of visual culture to create an immersive exhibition experience. Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University, is currently a fellow (2015-16) at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL); was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburg. Recent publications include: Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy, as editor; and author of: “E2: Extraction/Exhibition Dynamics” (Harvard University Press, January 2015); “Visual Culture and the Occupation of the Rhineland,” The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 5, The Twentieth Century, (Harvard University Press, February 2014); and “White Shame/Black Agency: Race as a Weapon in Post-World War I Diplomacy” in African Americans in American Foreign Policy, (University of Illinois Press, February 2014).