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AFVS graduate student Carolyn Bailey receives the 2024 Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award in Documentary Studies

March 7, 2024
The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is proud to announce that AFVS graduate student Carolyn Bailey has received the 2024 Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award in Documentary Studies for her paper “Picture a Condition: Revisiting 1990s Media Activism through HIV/AIDS.” The award is given in honor of the late scholar and mentor Jonathan Kahana by the ... Read more about AFVS graduate student Carolyn Bailey receives the 2024 Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award in Documentary Studies
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AFVS welcomes Walid Raad as the 2024 Solomon Fellow

December 19, 2023

Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) is delighted to announce that artist Walid Raad has been chosen as the 2024 Solomon Fellow. Raad works across installation, performance, video, and photography to explore how historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and narrative. He will be in residence at AFVS from April 7 to 13, 2024.

Raad is a Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Photography at Bard College (2023-2024), and an...

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2024 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner: Anicka Yi

December 19, 2023

Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) is thrilled to welcome artist Anicka Yi as the 2024 Josep Luis Sert Practitioner in the Arts. Yi will be in residence from February 21 to 23, 2024.

Yi (b. 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American conceptual artist known for her focus on olfaction and her use of unorthodox, living, and perishable materials. Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of...

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Amy Yoshitsu ’10 in Harvard Magazine

November 30, 2023
AMY YOSHITSU ’10 has been working on a mind map, a document that resembles a street map representing math, dreams, and a spreadsheet of the economic and social resources that go into the art she creates. Main arteries labeled “Systems,” “Racism,” and “The Future” intersect with smaller boulevards demarcating “Patriarchy,” “Space,” and “Concept of Reality,” with tiny side streets labeled “Climate Crisis,” “Emancipatory Politics” and “Making Impossible Seem Possible.”... Read more about Amy Yoshitsu ’10 in Harvard Magazine