We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the inaugural issue of Ars Noctuae, a new graduate journal in art history based at Rice University in Houston, TX. The first issue will be published in connection with the Rice University Department of Art History’s graduate conference “Materiality and the Making of Art” and seeks submissions that critically engage questions of materiality, process, labor, and the act of making across visual and material cultures.
This issue invites contributors to consider how materials shape meaning, how making functions as a site of knowledge production, and how processes of fabrication, transformation, and circulation intersect with social, political, and historical forces. We welcome work that examines material agency, techniques and technologies, craft and labor, reuse and repair, embodiment, extraction, ecology, and the afterlives of objects, as well as projects that reflect on methodological or theoretical approaches grounded in material practice.
We invite submissions in the following formats:
- Scholarly Essays (3,000–10,000 words): Original research articles that engage the theme of materiality and the making of art through historical, theoretical, or methodological inquiry.
- Book Reviews (500–1,000 words): Critical reviews of recent publications relevant to art history and visual and material cultures.
- Exhibition Reviews (500–1,000 words): Analytical reviews of exhibitions, installations, or curatorial projects.
You may submit abstracts to publish your article by July 30, 2026, with full manuscripts to be submitted by December 2026 and a review process during the Spring of 2027. You can submit your abstract, along with a short bio, by email to arsnoctuae@gmail.com.
For more information about the submission process, please click this link.
