Awards and Fellowships
The Department of Visual Art offers the following awards, which are applied for through the Office of Graduate Studies in Art:
Layton Fellowships
Layton Research and Travel Awards

Exhibitions
The Department of Visual Art offers at least one graduate thesis exhibition each semester. Other exhibition opportunities abound on campus and in the community.

Recent Visiting Artists, Curators and Scholars
2006&2007
Fred Stonehouse, painter
Nato Thompson, curator, MassMoca
Harrell Fletcher, trans-media artist
Hasan Elahi, technology and media artist
CARTUNE XPREZ&HOOLIGANSHIP, collective live performance
Clayton Eshleman, poet, author, translator
Evan Roth, Graffiti Research Laboratory, “throwies” workshop

2005&2006
Jane Simon, curator MadMoca
BookMobile, travelling ‘zine collective
Zoey Beloff, installations, web and archaic film
Joyce Scott, sculpture, fiber and beadwork
Walid Raad, “Atlas Group,” multimedia artist
Zhang Zhaohui & Ma Yongfeng, curator and video artist
Kathryn Spence, installation and sculpture
Marianne Weems, “The Builder’s Group,” multimedia performance
Faith Wilding, mixed-media artist and political activist
Gregory Sholette, “Repo Histories”, artist, activist and writer

2004&2005
Nato Thompson, curator MASSMoCA, lecture on “The Interventionists”
Liz Bachhuber, sculpture, public artist, New Bauhaus graduate director
Siah Armajani, sculpture, public artist
Sheba Chhachhi, installation artist, globalism and women’s rights
Santiago Cucullu, installation artist
David Wilson, director Museum of Jurassic Technology
Christiane Paul, curator new media, Whitney Museum of Art