Our Archive collects nearly 500 public events with artists, scholars, historians, and other thinkers and makers who consider wide-ranging topics of social relevance.

2025

As for Protocols (pre-order available)

2024

Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts VLC Forum 2024: Community Dinner Sabbatical Year: Slowing Down and Recalibrating our Rhythm every pattern needs a passage Mental Wellness Film Workshop with Fox Maxy Harlem Earth Day: Vision 2050 New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Presents New School New Books Event Series New School New Books 2024 NO NIIN: These Conditions (Are Only Worsening): An Interview with Adelita Husni-Bey Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)

2023

VLC Forum 2023: farid rakun: On space, or putting the ruang in ruangrupa VLC Forum 2023: On Learning Together VLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and Party VLC Forum 2023: Unchrono/logical Timeline Activation Chapter 2.2 New York Another Roadmap Africa Cluster: Another Roadmap School Colectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural Center Khalil Rabah: The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque New book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people

2022

VLC Forum 2022: FORCE! an opera in three acts with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty VLC Forum 2022: Make Room!Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch MARCH: On Necessary Work NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir Seminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of Evaluation On Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of Resistance The Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Hyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief Seminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom

2021

ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium Jorge González: Escuela de Oficios Underground Resistance: Submerge Project Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium ¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!

2020

Artforum: Avni Sethi Wins Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice What Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice The Computable and the Uncomputable Keynote Lecture by Alexander R. Galloway On Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Gathering: VLC Fellow Adelita Husni Bey in Dialogue with Robert Sember The Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part I Seminar 1: Protocols as Language and Communication ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session III ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session II ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session I Art for the Now: Help Support Our Communities Jesus Benavente, I’m Not Dancing, I’m Struggling to Survive: Shelter in Place Art and the Specter of Ideology

2019

Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research Art Papers: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich ART PAPERS: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich

2018

Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

2017

Gulf Labor MADEYOULOOK The House of Natural Fiber

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COVID-19 Resource Toolkit for Artists and our Extended Communities