Studio VU Lecture Series welcomes Jessica Houston in February 2025
The Vanderbilt University Department of Art announces multidisciplinary artist Jessica Houston as the next visiting artist in the Studio VU Lecture Series 2024-2025 season in February 2025.
Jessica Houston’s lecture “…no footprints, even.” will be presented on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 4:10pm in Cohen Memorial Hall located at 1220 21st Ave S, Nashville,Tennessee (Peabody Campus). This lecture is an extension of Houston’s campus visit that includes a solo exhibition at the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art (also located in Cohen Memorial Hall). The exhibition also titled “…no footprints, even.” will be on view from January 30 – May 11, 2025 with a reception scheduled for the beginning of February (event details below).
Houston’s hybrid practice spans photography, oral histories, painting and video to explore climate change in the polar regions. She has collaborated with communities in Resolute Ba and Pong Inlet, Nunavut since 2008 when she was invited UK organization Cape Farewell on an Arctic expedition. Her research based practice invites reflection on the deep time of ice and the interconnection between human and natural systems. Celebrating both beauty and complexities of the polar regions, her work offers a meditative reminder of humanity’s place within the vast geological and ecological cycles of the Earth.
Houston’s works are funded by The Canada Council for the Arts, National Geographic, Parks Canada, and are in the collections of The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montréal, Québec; Bank of Montréal, Toronto; The Canada Council Art Bank; and the Consulate General of Monaco. Select solo and group exhibitions include: …no footprints, even. Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, USA (2025); Beyond Her Horizons at The Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa (2024); Territoires sous observation, Museo de Arts de Querétaro, México (2023); Terra Nova, CREA Gallery, Venice, Italy (2022); and Ecologies: A Song For Our Planet, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada (2021). Houston has created site-specific works for the New Jersey MOCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey; the Castello di Corigliano, Puglia, Italy; Governors Island, NY, NY; The Albany Airport, Albany, NY and The Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, Flushing, NY. She has been invited to the Changing Climate Residency at The Santa Fe Art Institute; The Albers Foundation Residency; CAMAC Centre for Art, Science and Technology in France; and the Skagaströnd Residency in Iceland.
This lecture and partner events are free and open to the public. Any registration requirements will be noted by the affliated host departments/offices/institutions.
For question regarding the Studio VU Lecture please email the Vanderbilt University Department of Art at artdept@vanderbilt.edu.
For question and inquiries regarding the exhibition and related programming please email the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art at gallery@vanderbilt.edu or submit a request through their contact form at VUMA Contact Form.
Lecture and Exhibition
Studio VU Lecture Details:
Title: …no footprints, even.
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Time: 4:10PM
Location: Cohen Memorial Hall, 1220 21st Ave S, Nashville, Tn
Exhibition Details:
Title: …no footprints, even.
Dates: January 30 – May 11, 2025
Reception: Saturday, February 1, 2025, 5PM to 8PM
Location: Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Cohen Memorial Hall, 1220 21st Ave S., Nashville, Tn
Museum Website: vanderbilt.edu/art-museum/
Related programming:
- February 18, 2025
1PM – Collage Workshop with Jessica Houston
3PM – Gallery Talk with Jessica Houston and Jana Harper - February 19, 2024
4:10PM – Studio VU Lecture in Cohen Memorial Hall Room 203 - February 21, 2025
7PM – Panel Discussion at Dyer Observatory
About Studio VU:
The Department of Art annually invites national and international voices in creative, curatorial, and critical-thought fields to the Vanderbilt campus through the Studio VU Lecture Series. Each visiting lecturer has a recognized career in visual arts, performance art, art criticism, and/or a combination. In addition to giving a lecture, the visiting speaker conducts one-on-one critiques with senior art major students.
The Studio VU Lecture Series began in 2007. The Department of Art would like to thank all collaborators, cosponsors, and community members for their continued support for the Studio VU program.