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The Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) has long been an invaluable resource for the exchange of ideas pertinent to Black studies and its intersections with the visual and performing arts, politics, and popular culture. The goal of this research guide is to link resources at and beyond NYU that support further engagement with the scholarly ideas being explored by the center's artist-scholars in residence and exhibitions.
The CBVC/IAAA at New York University are both interdisciplinary spaces for students, faculty, post-doc fellows, artists, scholars and the general public. Founded in 1969, IAAA’s mission continues to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond with a commitment to the study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. The CBVC, expanding on that mission, is a space for scholarly and artistic inquiry (framing and reframing) into the understanding and exploration of images focusing on black people globally with critical evaluation of images in multiple realms of culture, including how various archives and the development of visual technologies affect the construction of representations. The goals of IAAA & CBVC converge to promote and encourage collaborative research projects, experimental learning and open spaces to the larger community for broad and thematic discussions through various, diverse and dynamic public programming and initiatives by way of conferences, lectures, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, readings, performances, visiting scholars, artist residencies and publications.
To stay up to date on CBVC/IAAA events and exhibitions, go their website.
