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Announcing the 2022 Solomon Fellow in AFVS

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The Solomon Fellowship Committee is thrilled to welcome artist and writer RaMell Ross as the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies’ 2022 Solomon Fellow. Ross currently teaches within the Department of Visual Arts at Brown University, and his work...

Announcing the 2021 Solomon Fellow in AFVS

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The Solomon Fellowship Committee is thrilled to announce acclaimed artist Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, NJ) as the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies’ 2021 Solomon Fellow . Perry makes videos, performances, and installations that foreground...

I am interested in coming to the department as a visiting fellow...

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Please see https://gsas.harvard.edu/policy/non-degree-programs  on the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website describing the application process for visiting fellows.

AFVS Alumnus Jessica Bardsley selected among the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows

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(New York, NY--April 15, 2025) -- The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today their appointment of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines...

Joshua Oppenheimer '97 named MacArthur Fellow

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Documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer '97, a Special Concentration student who studied filmmaking in VES, was named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. His latest films include The Act of Killing (2012), for which he received an Oscar nomination, and The Look of...

AFVS faculty Giuliana Bruno named Cabot Fellow

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Twelve professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named 2023 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history or art, and for their...

AFVS welcomes Fred Moten as the 2023 Solomon Fellow

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The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University is thrilled to welcome cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten as the 2023 Solomon Fellow. Moten is an alumnus of Harvard College, a recent MacArthur Fellow, and a Professor in the...

AFVS welcomes Wu Tsang as the 2025 Solomon Fellow

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Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) is delighted to announce that artist Wu Tsang has been chosen as the 2025 Solomon Fellow. She will be in residence at AFVS from February 3 to 7, 2025. Wu Tsang is an award-winning...

Lex Brown named a United States Artists 2021 USA Fellow

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Lex Brown, a College Fellow in Media Practice jointly appointed in AFVS and TDM, and teaching Enter the Mediaverse in AFVS this Spring term, was named a United States Artists 2021 USA Fellow. From the United States Artists press release: " This year...

Solomon Fellow Visiting Artist Talk and Reading: Fred Moten

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Fred Moten is an alumnus of Harvard College, a recent MacArthur Fellow, and a Professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Moten teaches courses in Black study, poetics...

Atlantiques, a film by Mati Diop (Radcliffe-FSC Fellow 2014-15) has won the Gran Prize of the Main Competition at Cannes 2019

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Mati Diop’s film, Atlantiques, which she wrote while a FSC-Radcliffe fellow with us in 2014-15, and also a McMillan-Stewart fellow at the same time, has won the Gran Prize of teh Main Competition at th eCannes Film Festival. More about the film adn the...

AFVS welcomes Walid Raad as the 2024 Solomon Fellow

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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...