INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
The Spring 2024 calendar has now been posted to our website. Please review the important changes we are introducing this coming spring.
Application reviews commence October 1, 2023. The position begins May 1, 2024. In collaboration with IDSVA’s CEO, the president provides the institution’s overall leadership, serves as IDSVA’s chief spokesperson, and directly serves the faculty, students, staff, and board of trustees.
The following roster of scholars and artist-philosophers will join IDSVA students in seminars and symposia on residency.
Join us on April 14th at 5pm EDT.
Pre-Columbian indigenous cultures come alive in contemporary art, architecture, customs, and traditions in Mexico City.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ana Fernández Miranda Texidor has been awarded the 2023 IDSVA Ted Coons Dissertation Prize, for the dissertation: ‘Vegetal Soul’: Plant Ontology, The Amazonian Yachag And The Artist In Trance, directed by Dr. Dejan Lukic. The award was conferred at the IDSVA Commencement ceremony in Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, on January 14, 2023.
IDSVA awards one David Driskell Fellowship with each incoming cohort. Driskell Fellows are students of color who show promise in carrying forward David Driskell's mission to encourage worldwide community and equality through art.
The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) offers a non-studio PhD in philosophy and art theory for artists and creative thinkers. With no campus, IDSVA is a truly nomadic institution, existing everywhere our students and faculty are. We are now accepting applications for September 2023 enrollment with a priority deadline of April 3, 2023.