“Z” by Harrison Moenich, manager of photography arts and media equipment, was selected from their photograph series Q.M.C. for inclusion in Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art's Made in VA Biennial 2026.
Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, is exhibiting 00:10:00 (The Declaration of Independence) as part of the City of Alexandria’s Time and Place 2026 project that commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Harrison Moenich, manager of photography arts and media equipment, presents their piece, Z, at the Queer Conscience 2026 exhibition at The Image Flow Photography Center. This is the first exhibition of Moenich's newest body of work, Q.M.C., which documents the rise of the Queer Moto Club in Richmond, Virginia.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, was a panelist for "Is Avant-Garde Our Last Defense?" at the 2026 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, hosted by the Oklahoma City University film program. The panel focused on the political efficacy of experimental filmmaking and its connection to makers’ and audiences’ lived experiences.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presented his latest film, Monument, at the Pambujan International Film Festival and the ImoIFF International Film Festival. The film has been named an Official Selection at the Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, the Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, and the Cauldron International Film & Video Festival. See the full list of screenings.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, is exhibiting in Contains Multitudes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, was awarded a Stepping Stone grant by the Trellis Art Fund, a New York–based nonprofit. The fund supports individual artists with unrestricted grants in a two-year program.
Harrison Moenich, manager of photography arts and media equipment, presented their work and spoke on the panel “Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide” at the 2026 Society for Photographic Education annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Orianna Cacchione, deputy director and curator of exhibitions for University Museums, published Indelible Traces. The book accompanies an exhibition that she curated that is currently on view at the AD&A Museum UC Santa Barbara. Indelible Traces is the first scholarly monograph on the multi-disciplinary artist Tiffany Chung’s work over the last twenty-five years.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, discusses her current exhibition List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson in Bomb.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, is currently exhibiting List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson at The List Visual Arts Center, MIT’s contemporary art museum. The show highlights photographs and a moving-image work filmed at the Green Bank Observatory. Nelson’s work considers how scientific inquiry and emotional projection converge, transforming instruments of cosmic detection into metaphors for intimacy, distance, and longing.
Elena Calvillo was promoted to professor of art & art history. Her research and writing focus on artistic service and imitative strategies in sixteenth-century papal Rome. She is broadly interested in theories of representation and cultural translation and brokerage in Italy, Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century.
