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

VLC Forum 2024: Re-visioning Native Historiesevery pattern needs a passageC Magazine: Review of Maria Hupfield’s Breaking ProtocolSeminar 11: Many ReturnsOff Script

2023

Breaking ProtocolNew School Free Press: How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleriesBeatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that LeftTimes Union: The Volcano that Journeyed up the Hudson RiverVLC Forum 2023: Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with Colectivo CheraniVLC Forum 2023: Blackness Is…: Global Black and Indigenous SolidaritiesVLC Forum 2023: Prize Ceremony and Conversation proppaNOW with Wanda NanibushColectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural CenterOn CountryproppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIRVera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*Breaking Protocol Book LaunchMaria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereigntyBeatriz Cortez: Voids, Portals, and Moving LandSeminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and PreservationMaria Thereza Alves: Seeds of ChangeConflicting RelationsNew School News: Matti Aikio, Sámi Fellow at the Vera List Center, Explores Legacies of Settler ColonialismNew book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people

2022

Breaking Protocol: A Conversation with Maria HupfieldEtcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen VivirMaria Hupfield: Super Massive Thunder Boom Ultimate Collection

2021

New School News: Artist Suzanne Kite Debuts New Show in Partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and PoliticsHél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road): A PerformanceKite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)Song of CurvesKite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)Jorge González: Escuela de Oficios¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) – A Dialogue About Making Art in a Good WayNO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of ActionNew School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands FellowshipNew School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship

2020

What Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social JusticeOn Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonBorderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie DiazWorld Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of OthersArt•Work•Place: Creating an Equitable Art World

2019

Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard FellowsNaine Terena De Jesus: Oráculo

2017

A Botany of ColonizationIsumaTV: Zacharias KunukSites as Citations of New York’s Colonial Past in BallastIndigenous New York, Critically SpeakingNobutaka Aozaki: Select Works from 2012-Present

2016

Indigenous New York