The Material Collective

The Material Collective is dedicated to fostering respectful intellectual exchange and innovative scholarship in the study of the visual arts, in the academy, and in the broader, public sphere. We believe that excellent scholarship can grow out of collaboration, experimentation, and play, and we work to create spaces where scholars from many different backgrounds, both traditional and non-traditional, can come together for mutual enrichment.

The Material Collective will encourage work that explores new modes of thinking about art and culture while recognizing the many insights of the past. We believe that the best scholarship celebrates its relationship with contemporary society, and we seek to foster scholarship that concerns itself with the ethical and moral challenges of the present day, even as it seeks to shed light on the past.