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SEQUITUR<\/span><\/i> Issue 12.2<\/span>
\n<\/span> Spring 2026<\/span>
\n<\/span> https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sequitur<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a> CFP: \u201cwith love\u201d<\/b>
\n<\/b>Extended deadline: Friday, January 23, 2026<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The editors of SEQUITUR, the graduate student journal published by the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University, invite current and recent MA, MFA, and PhD students to submit content on the theme of \u201c<\/span>with love<\/b>\u201d for our Spring 2026 issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This issue invites submissions about artworks and material culture that consider love in all its forms. Whether romantic or platonic, chosen or biological, physical or emotional, love and the bonds we share with others permeate our lives. As bell hooks writes in <\/span>All About Love: New Visions<\/span><\/i>, \u201cCommunities sustain life \u2013 not nuclear families, or \u2018the couple,\u2019 and certainly not the rugged individualist. There is no better place to learn the art of loving than in community.\u201d Hooks describes love as an art, one that is grounded in the people we surround ourselves with and that serves as the linchpin for society.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Performed, painted, carved, and quilted, love is visually expressed in every medium and is the subject of artworks and objects across time and geography. Medieval ivories allegorize love as a game to be won or a castle to be conquered, while the coy smiles of Fragonard\u2019s Rococo subjects suggest that love is a seductive chase. Depicting everyday acts of kissing, snuggling, and bathing, Mary Cassatt painted the intimate bond shared between mothers and children. Allan Rohan Crite also captured the quotidian, but his paintings are visual love letters to the ties that bind Black neighborhoods and communities in mid-20<\/span>th<\/span> century Boston. Motivated by both personal and communal love and loss, F\u00e9lix Gonz\u00e1lez-Torres\u2019 candy sculptures and the AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorate the joy and pain experienced by the queer community during the 1980s AIDS crisis. Love can also be shared with oneself; self-care was powerfully centered in Navild Acosta and Sosa\u2019s recent staging of <\/span>Black Power Naps <\/span><\/i>at MoMA in 2023. As these select examples point out, love is as multifaceted as it is essential.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>with love<\/b>\u201d embraces the expansive definitions and possibilities of love that hooks suggests. How do artists visually compose odes to the people, places, and things they hold dear? How do they question, uphold, or subvert traditional ways of loving? Can art and visual culture instigate social change to help form more caring communities?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Potential subjects may include but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n

Community, companionship, courtship, marriage, romance, family, tenderness, affection, fondness, appreciation, pleasure, delight, sensuality, joy, devotion, self-love, altruism, sacrifice, mutual aid, intimacy, affect, endearing, erotics, queerness, desire, homoeroticism, homosociality, friendship, caregiving, kinship, duty, nurturing, care ethics, tending, child-rearing, maternity, parenthood, connection, gossip, clandestine, furtive, privacy, heartbreak, memory, cherish, value, embrace, hold dear, support systems, symbiosis, celebrations, gifts, dowries, exchange<\/span><\/p>\n

SEQUITUR<\/span><\/i> welcomes submissions from graduate students in the disciplines of art history, architecture, archaeology, fine arts, material culture, visual culture, literary studies, queer and gender studies, disability studies, memory studies, and environmental studies, among others. We encourage submissions that take advantage of the digital format of the journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Founded in 2014, <\/span>SEQUITUR<\/span><\/i> is an online biannual scholarly journal dedicated to addressing events, issues, and ideas in art and architectural history. <\/span>SEQUITUR<\/span><\/i>, edited by graduate students at Boston University, engages with and expands current conversations in the field by promoting the perspectives of graduate students from around the world. It seeks to contribute to existing scholarship by focusing on valuable but often overlooked parts of art and architectural history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Previous issues of <\/span>SEQUITUR<\/span><\/i> can be found <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We invite full submissions in the following categories. <\/span>Please submit your material in full for consideration in the publication:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n