Job Appointments
IDSVA Student and Alumni Jobs
We are proud to share these recent job announcements for both students and alumni.
IDSVA’s innovative mix of intensive residencies and online live seminar instruction means that IDSVA students can keep their jobs and advance their careers while pursuing a top-level PhD in the humanities.
IDSVA alumni are employed in the following ways:
57% full-time academic
20% part-time academic
20% full-time non-academic
3% not seeking
Promotion: Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Lakewood, CO.
Appointment: Chief of Staff, The Studio Museum in Harlem, reporting to the Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden.
Photograph “Untitled (On the Dialectics of Seeing),” published on the cover of Dr George Yancy's third edition of Black Bodies, White Gazes published by Bloomsbury in July 2025. Phearse's photograph considers our relationship to seeing beyond it's gaze.
Appointed to CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term starting February 2024.
Presentation: “The Gaze Economy of Pregnancy and Birth of (M)others in US American Film" for the panel The Visual Culture of Birth in America at SECAC, October 25, 2025.
Chair: a two-session panel titled Art and Art History as Modes of Flow: Beyond Linear and Network Models of Artistic Relation and Transformation at SECAC, October 23, 2025
Paper: "Art is the Butterfly Effect of Itself: Retronymic Recoding and Aesthetic Efflorescence," for the panel titled Art and Art History as Modes of Flow: Beyond Linear and Network Models of Artistic Relation and Transformationat SECAC, October 23, 2025
Solo Exhibition: "Future Monument to the Trees of the Public Garden," on November 9-11, 2024 in the Boston Public Garden as part of "Un-Monument," a public art initiative sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture and supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Presentation: “The Plant Contingent Presents: Ecstatic Repair Under the Winter Skies,” with Samantha Jones (PhD 2024) for the panel Synergetics in Community Practice at SECAC, October 22 -25, 2025.
"It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Presentation “Pedagogical Possibilities of Multispecies Aesthetics” in Art and Art History as Modes of Flow: Beyond Linear and Network Models of Artistic Relation and Transformation, Session I; chaired by Jason Hoelscher, at SECAC, October 23, 2025.
Co-chair the panel discussion Impact: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Young Visual Artist, presenting her theoretical research considering embodiment and AI art at the Southern Humanities Conference in Greenville, SC, on January 31, 2025.
Co-presentation: “Three Dialogues: Multi-Modal Approaches to Generative AI in Contemporary Art Practice” for the session Balancing Innovation and Tradition: Adapting Coursework in the Wake of AI, at the annual SECAC conference, October 24, 2025.
Appointed Co-President and Chief Ideation officer of One Arts.
Marvin Milián presented “The Art of the Proletariat and the Role of Autonomy in Today’s Political World” at the SECAC conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, as part of the panel Artivism: A Visual Language of Change, exploring the intersection of art, politics, and social activism.
Presentation: "Voices: The Polyphonic Visual Concert in the Street" for "Painting the Town: A Conference on the Philosophy of Street Art" at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.
Present the paper “Aesthetic Noise as Contemplative Practice” based on a chapter from her forthcoming book Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening on Routledge during the panel The Inmost Light: Analog, Esoteric & Occult Sound Practices in the Art Studio and Classroom at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Mary Mazurek published Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening (Routledge, 2025), a book examining the aesthetic and philosophical dimensions of sound, noise, and attentive listening in contemporary culture.
Presentation: "Plant Play" at the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), in Stratford, Canada.
"Plant Growth Dreams" animation screening on the exterior of the FIESP Cultural Center at the FILE Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Appointment: Interim Editor of Landscape Journal, the primary academic journal for landscape architects based in North America.
Article "The Itinernant Inhabitant: Unsettling Landscape Design" in The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
Panel Chair for Repair within Communities for the first annual IDSVA Alumni Association 2-Day Conference in New York City, NY, April 25-27, 2025.
Presentation: "The Inception of Detroit Techno: How Abjection and Bleakness Spur Hope Through a New Genre of Music" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.
Publication: Diarios Andinos de las Tierras del Sol Recto in the "Andean Diaries of the Land of the Rectilinear Sun." 2024.
Anachronistic comments on philosophical poetics. Book by philosopher Fernando Alban.
Southeastern College Art Conference Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award for 2025
Solo show and artist talk: "Alternations" at Lone Star College-CyFair Bosque Gallery in Houston, Texas
A review of the book IDSVA alumni, El Putnam's (PhD 2014) book The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption (Bloomsbury 2022) has been published in the International Journal for Performance Arts and Digital Media
Publication "Livestreaming An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter."
Awarded Black Theology and Leadership Institute Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ
Curator for "Remembering Freddie Gray", Jubilee Arts, Baltimore, MD
The paper "Shrouded Bells: The Hallow of Janine Antoni's Unveiling" at ICMHS, Dublin, Ireland, July 2024.
Paper: “Freedom From Chains: Chiara Fumai and the Ghost of Harry Houdini” for the session, Studio Art < the "F" Words: Fear | Fail | Flux | Flow at the SECAC Annual Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 24, 2025.
Presentation: “‘Understated’ The Socio-Political and Environmental Across Generations: Diego Rivera and El Anatsui” at the AICA-International Congress in Bucharest, Romania.
Presentation: “Communicating Triptychs: Kentridge, Bosch & Beckmann” at the 57th Annual International Congress: Re-Imagining the Global South: Art, Gender and Identity, October 27-30,2025.
*Dr. Jean Bundy is Editor of the AICA/e-mag and Chair of the AICA-International Incentive Prize for Art Critics
Publication: "The Subject and Object in Knowledge and Understanding" (Article 3488) in the online journal Academia Letters.
Publication: "What is Becoming?" in the online journal Academia Letters.
Presentation: “Vertiginous Play: a Transformative Kinetics” at the 15th annual Beyond Humanism conference in Paris, June 24-27, 2025.
PACT Conference (Pacific Association for Continental Thought) presenting “Envisioning the Macroalgal with Adrian Ghenie” which considers virtual/analog entanglement through a transhistorical lens.
Appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at CUNY-Kingsborough Community College.
Conference panel chair of the session "Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in the Emergence of Photography" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.
Book Publication: The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect. Vernon Press, 2023.
Appointed Senior Art Business Coach
Presentation: “The First Female Engineer at General Motor’s Descent into Alzheimer’s with Sundowners: A Daughter’s Scholarly Research and Case Study as Caregiver” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).
Appointed Lecturer at The Ohio State University Department of History of Art, teaching the self-authored Museum Studies course, 'Toward an Ethico-Aesthetical Curatorial Practice.'
Appointed the Executive Gallery Director at ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists.
Appointment: Executive Director, Western Kansas Community Foundation.
Publication "Livestreaming An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter."
Publication: "Pseudorandom: generative animation as performance in Emergent" in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.
Appointment: Visiting Researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.
Paper: "Time for Play: The Ontological Risk of the Space of Interpretation" at the PACT conference in Los Angeles, October 4, 2024.
Appointment: Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College.
Co-curated "John Preus: The Beast (Herd Mentality)," at Montserrat College of Art.
Founder of The GlassHouse.
President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs
Panel Chair: "Transgressive Tendencies: Stepping Over to Go Beyond" at CAA 2023. New York, NY
Appointment: Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.
Created permanent sculpture at Indiana University Kokomo along with two students.
Promotion: Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Kokomo.
Appointed the Interim Executive Director at 500 Capp Street.
Appointment: College Art Association (CAA) Board of Directors for the 2019-2024 term
Forthcoming book "Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape" will be published by Routledge in 2025.
Received a fellowship from the C. Sylvia and Eddie Brown Driskell Center Scholars Advancement Fund. The award will fund travel and research for Dr. Orwel's new book on David C. Driskell. As part of the award, he'll present a lecture at the David C. Driskell Center's gallery.
Presentation: "Bread Philosophy: Forgotten Justices in Situating Scott Nearing" as part of the 2021 Speaker Series at the Good Life Center in Harborside, ME.
Appointed to the board of the Good Life Center. March 2023.
Participated in the Arctic Circle Residency, July 2024.
Exhibition: in collaboration with Chicano artist Richard Lou, pages from the graphic novel “Embustero” are on display at Clemson University until March 8th. Additionally, her works are represented in the show Art Gallery: RichardLou Exhibition at Union University from April 23-May 28, 2024.
Co-chair with IDSVA student, Felix Lloyd, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Presentation: “Plant Beings: Portraits Signaling Beyond Humanism” at this panel and also at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference in Dallas, TX.
Solo show: "Dreams of Ether: The Photographic Works of Rowynn Dumont" at 86 Orchard Gallery, New York City.
Group Exhibition: "KAFKAESQUE" at the Dox Contemporary Art Center Prague.
Appointment: Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University, Queens, NY
Panel Chair: Artivism in Public Space, and present the paper, "What is Artivism in Public Space?" at the upcoming SECAC Conference, in Richmond, VA.
Founder of an Immersive Museum: Welcome to the Lardverse.
Appointment: Teaching "Still Life and Floral Painting in oils" at the Kirkland Arts Center in Kirkland, Washington.
Group Exhibition: COCA Members' Show "20/20" at COCA (Center On Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA.
Publication in "A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China." Yale University Press, 2023.
Publication: Journal of Daoist Studies
Appointment: Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University, PA in the Communication Department (Courses: Film Analysis and Video Production).
Presentation: "Action Required: Sound Art’s Transgressions against Passivity." CAA 2023. New York, NY
Appointment: Art History Instructor at California State University - San Bernardino.
Appointment: Co-Director of Global Programs + Art Faculty at Greenwich Country Day School.
Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021.
Appointed in house UX/UI Experience Designer at Ralph Lauren. New York, NY 2022.
Group Exhibition: WOW: Worlds of Women at Trieste Photo Days 2022 International Photographic Festival. September 2022.
Publication: “Historic Decisions: Looking Deliberately at the Past.” Connections (2020): 21-28.
Appointed Senior Program Officer for the Kettering Foundation's Democracy and the Arts Program.
Appointed: Tenured Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University.
Appointment: Professor, Art Appreciation at Baker College.
Appointed as a "Subject Matter Expert" (course content builder) and Professor of Art Theory with Tiffin University. Tiffin, OH.
Appointment: Full-time Assistant Professor of the Practice and Digital Media Specialist, Georgetown University.
Promotion: Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Art & Art History at Georgetown University.
"Wolfgang Beltracchi and the Authenticity of Forgery: Not a Moral Failure" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.
Owner, davisstudio, LLC
Organized a traveling exhibition of her Women and Power series to show at independent bookstores and libraries nationally.
Appointment: Adjunct Faculty at The Barnes Foundation
Named "Adjunct of Year" for Rowand College of South Jersey
