Harvard College Professor Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
Robb Moss's most recent project, Containment, is about the disposition of nuclear waste for now and for the next 10,000 years. ... Read more about Robb Moss
Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL); Director, Film Study Center Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Critical Media Practice;
Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist whose work conjugates art's negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life and a engagement with the pressing ecological and political challenges of our day. ... Read more about Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Spring 2019
Sonia Almeida’s paintings explore disparate yet connected visual languages brought together within a single work. Her interests in nonverbal forms of communication, symbolism, and abstraction, and the slippages of translation, are interwoven across her hybrid paintings, drawings, and textile works.... Read more about Sonia Almeida
Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, 2018 -19
Ei Arakawa (b. 1977, Fukushima, Japan) currently lives in New York. Arakawa works in performance, sculpture and installation, often elaborating hybrid and multimedia works which are situated within or spun off from live, choreographed events. His complex performance works are typically collaborative and subvert performative conventions by breaking the boundaries between audience and performer, resulting in spontaneous live actions.... Read more about Ei Arakawa
Visiting Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, 2017-18
Steven Ascher is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and writer. His feature documentaries include Troublesome Creek (Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award), So Much So Fast (Sundance premiere), and Raising Renee (HBO; Emmy nominee, Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming).... Read more about Steven Ascher
Carolyn Bailey is an interdisciplinary artist and second-year PhD student in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. ... Read more about Carolyn Bailey
Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Fall 2018
Judith Belzer employs the rich visual lexicon that paint on canvas offers to explore her long-standing interest in the relationship between nature and culture, most recently looking at man-made landscapes where these two forces meet—often in uncomfortable ways.... Read more about Judith Belzer
