The Hurford Center invites applications for a two-year, full-time Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship to begin Fall 2025 with a focus on discard studies and the relation between waste and life systems.
The $360,000 grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supports “LOOK HERE,” a project that includes multiple exhibitions, a publication, and a symposium focused on the work of neurodivergent artists.
In The Ghosts of History, Magnum photographer Moises Saman commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq by exploring the construction of competing narratives of war through the interaction of images and language.
This symposium gathers scholars, artists, activists, and educators who share a common goal: dismantling the carceral state and ending the direct and indirect violence it inflicts every day, especially on our most vulnerable communities.
Over the course of a day and a half, they will prompt both one another and symposium attendees to consider the roles that the arts and humanities can play in this ongoing struggle.
The Tuttle Creative Residency presents Raven Chacon, a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.
Deadline to Apply: December 31, 2022
Strange Truth 2022/2023 explores the non-fiction imagination in films by Lisa Rovner, So Yun Um, Brett Story, Nia Dacosta, and Helena de Llanos.
All Events held at Haverford College, Lightbox Theater at University of the Arts, & Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
Imagining Abolitionist Futures is a year-long Hurford Center initiative exploring the role of the arts and humanities in the struggle to dismantle the carceral state and build reparative practices and institutions in the place of a system driven by racism, retribution, and violence.
The series will include: talks and panel discussions with scholars, activists, and artists; performances; film screenings; a reading group; a major art exhibition; a two-day symposium; and more.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.