Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presents his latest film, Monument at Mykonos Biennale, 37th Girona Film Festival, UFF - Underground Film Festival, and as an Official Selection at RPM25/Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival. He presented the film at XV ENCUENTRO PARA CINÉFAGOS, where it won Best Video Art Award. See the full list of screenings.
Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, was awarded the Community-Engaged Scholarship Award by the Bonnor Center for Civic Engagement at the eighth annual Engage for Change Awards.
Agnieszka Szymańska, associate professor of art history, has been awarded membership to the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's foremost centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. Szymańska is an expert on the architecture and painted decoration of late antique and medieval monasteries in the Mediterranean. Learn more.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, received the Best Avant Garde Film award at the Mesa International Film Festival for his film Monument. The film was also featured in “Zombies, ghosts, videogames: 10 highlights from St Moritz Art Film Festival” in Dazed.
Agnieszka Szymańska, associate professor of art history, published “Painted Plaster” in City and Cemetery: Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus: The Excavations of Danielle A. Parks, vol. 2: Human Skeletal Remains, Ecofacts, and Artifacts and “Deposition and Dumping in Area A” and “The Cist Tombs” in City and Cemetery: Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus: The Excavations of Danielle A. Parks, vol. 1: Context, Analysis, and Conclusions.
Agnieszka Szymańska, associate professor of art history, presented "Sailing the Desert Seas: Images of Ships in Monastic Spaces of Late Antique Egypt," at the Byzantine Studies Symposium.
Associate Professor of Art Jeremy Drummond’s film Monument, has been named an Official Selection by Brooklyn Film Festival, Digerati Experimental Media Festival, St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Umbria Underground Film Festival, TerraLenta International Environmental Documentary Film Festival, Experimental Brasil Film Festival, Mesa International Film Festival, Beaufort Film Festival and Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, opened the solo exhibition To Leave is to Return at Quartz Studio at the EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival in Italy.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, was named an artist to watch by Art in America, who selected 20 “New Talent” artists from around the world, working in all mediums. In publishing the announcement, Art News also featured one of Nelson’s photographs as a collectable print.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, will presents Monument, at Rhizome DC, a nonprofit community arts space dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement.
Megan Driscoll, assistant professor of art history published “Being Seen: An Art History of the Blackness of Technology” in The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History.
Associate Professor of Art Jeremy Drummond’s film Monument, is an Official Selection of the 2025 Richmond International Film Festival. The film makes its Richmond premiere at the event.