Visual Studies Workshop

04/06/2026

We are excited to announce our most recent VSW Press/FAB publication is now available in the VSW bookstore! Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand is a 160 page artist book featuring critical essays and full color images documenting the scope, breadth and impact of Bill Brand's creative practice in film, installation, drawing and painting. Brand is well known for his work as a filmmaker and preservationist, and this book shines a light on his lifetime studio practice of drawing and painting. Brand himself navigates his portfolio in a "studio visit" with VSW curator Tara Nelson, sharing his personal history with drawing and painting as a critical approach to problem solving and creative development throughout his career.
Includes essays by:
Robby Gilbert
Annie Dell'Aria
Alberte Pagán
Esperanza Collado
Genevieve Yue

Edited by Tara Nelson and Scott Hammen

© 2026, VSW Press/FilmArtBook/Eyewash Books
8x10”, 161 pages,
full color, digital offset, softcover
ISBN 0-89822-214-1

The name of artist Bill Brand is so well known and admired in the field of moving image art that it is hard to believe that many of his most...

03/21/2026

Gallery open Saturday 12-4pm. Game Jam 1-5pm. Great way to spend a rainy day!

03/20/2026

“Little did we know that the media culture we were engaged with in that time would move forward and become the cultural basis, the information basis for the whole world,” - Peer Bode

Read about our current exhibition, SIGNAL INTO MEMORY, and come see it for yourself this Saturday from 1-4 pm!

Abstract shapes of shifting colors dance over an otherwise mundane video of a cup of coffee, recorded with a handheld Portapak analog camera and displayed on three projectors. Actually it’s two videos; a lagging copy hovers over itself like a ghost, a polychromatic distortion, following the action...

03/19/2026

VSW seeks part time (10-15hrs week) Social Media Assistant. More info on VSW.org

03/05/2026

SOURCEBOOKS by Peggy Ahwesh was reviewed in Brooklyn Rail!
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/03/art_books/peggy-ahwesh-sourcebooks/

Get your copy here:
https://bookstore.vsw.org/product/sourcebooks-by-peggy-ahwesh

A collection of sourcebooks compiled by experimental filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh during the production of some of her most notable films: Martina’s...

03/03/2026

VSW in featuring the “Hypnotic” work of Peer Bode: Signal into Memory exhibition on view until June 6, 2026.

Gallery open Wed-Fri 11-6 and Sat 12-4 First Fridays until 8 and during public programs. More information at vsw.org

This exhibition is made possible in part by support from and .