Welcome to The Institute for Visual Studies
The Institute for Visual Studies (IVS) at James Madison University is a center for scholarly, scientific and
creative inquiry into the nature and workings of images. An incubator of new ideas, the institute fosters discovery,
and the generation of artworks, products, and applications by multidisciplinary teams of students and faculty.
Goals
- promote interdisciplinary research in the visual realm, enabling members of the university community from across all disciplines to collaborate on innovative projects
- function as both a laboratory and a studio, creating a unique teaching and learning environment
- develop and offer a series of multidisciplinary team-taught courses for highly motivated students
- provide a center for the investigation into the ways images work and for the exhibition of visual culture
NEWs
- Come to the Institute for Visual Studies
Colloquium to find out how one of your JMU
colleagues incorporates the visual realm into his or
her scholarly work. The IVS Colloquium begins with
a brief presentation and is followed by a lively
exchange of ideas from across the disciplines.
Join us at the next colloquium on Wednesday, November 18th from 12:00 to 1:00 in Roop 208. JMU Professor
Bob Kolvoord will present “Mapping a Difference in the Googlespatial World." Please bring your lunch, and we will provide snacks and beverages. We look forward to seeing you.
- This fall, two courses, Environmental Design and Environmental Rhetoric took place at the Institute for Visual Studies. Using sustainable design practices, one class designed landscapes for specific sites throughout campus. Students in the other course created public education campaigns intended to help us re-imagine our relationship to the environment. Please join us. The final review of these projects will take place in the IVS gallery during the opening, and internationally renowned artist and designer Michael Singer will lead the discussion as guest critic. The works will be visually compelling and help us to imagine new possibilities. You can also look forward to our special refreshments. “Re-Thinking Our Environment” will be on view at IVS until Friday, December 18th. For more information, please contact Daniel Robinson at robinsdl@jmu.edu.
- The IVS Facebook Group is up! Log in and click the link to join now and receive regular updates on events and projects.
