CHVC
The Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture was established in 2019 with funding under a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Designed as a collaboration between HSS and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (The Huntington), the CHVC program includes undergraduate course offerings, postdoctoral instructorships, artists residencies with professional visiting artists, and a wide range of programming activities—with the aim of fostering new conversations not only among humanists but also between humanists and scientists.
In the 2020–2021 academic year, roughly one fifth of Caltech's undergraduate students enrolled in the growing number of visual culture classes on subjects ranging from Plantation Imaginaries to Volcanoes to Picturing Science. Caltech added a minor in visual culture to its curriculum as of the fall of 2021.
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Director
Affiliated Faculty
Postdoctoral Instructor
J.V. Decemvirale
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2023
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Art History and Global Cultures, Cal State San Bernardino
Anne Sullivan
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture, 2019–2021
Anne Rothenberg Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture, 2021–2022
Current Placement: Lecturer in English, Caltech
Art + Research Residency
This program provides the opportunity to engage with the research communities at Caltech and The Huntington, and to teach and work with Caltech students. It supports artists and other creative practitioners whose work involves research and experimentation.
American Artist
Artist in Residence (Fall 2024)
Maya Livio
Artist in Residence (Spring 2023)
Caitlin Berrigan
Artist in Residence (Winter 2023)
Elin O'Hara Slavick
Artist in Residence (Spring 2022)
Lia Halloran
Artist in Residence (Winter 2022)
Sandy Rodriguez
Artist in Residence (Winter 2021)
Jessica Helfand
Artist in Residence (Winter 2020)
Leslie Thornton
Artist in Residence (Spring 2019)
