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Journal of Art Criticism The peer-reviewed Journal of Art Criticism began at Barnard College in 2015 as the first publication

JAC is a platform for the discussion of contemporary art by and for young, established, and emerging critics. We consider work for print publication annually during our call for submissions and for online publication year-round. All undergraduates are encouraged to submit papers, theses, art, and articles that engage with art by artists working today.

JAC is thrilled to announce its ninth issue: Sediment! This edition features eleven original works from artists across t...
19/06/2024

JAC is thrilled to announce its ninth issue: Sediment!

This edition features eleven original works from artists across the country, including Maya Anne, Steffie Chau, Jacob Dunlop, Jade Freed, Natalie Jenkins, Meinzer, Victoria Reshetnikov, and Kevin Sparkowich. The artworks evoke sedimentation beyond literal connotations of earthly processes such as palimpsests of group identity. Alongside our printed issue, JAC features the film girl unearthed by Evelyn Cao on our website. “Sediment” also features four essays by Ella Myers, Iker Veiga, Shaela Sageth, and Brooke Brady-Cronce.

“Sediment,” the ninth annual edition of the Journal of Art Criticism interrogates notions of burying, layering, and unearthing in the dynamic world of contemporary art and criticism.

The writers and artists of this issue were selected for their engagement with transnational concerns of collective and generational memory, human relationship with the material and natural world, and preservation of culture in the age of neocolonialism. Questions of the residual and fragmented, the settled and unsettled, and preservation and erosion come to frame their expansive inquiry of visual representations of sediment.

JAC will be in stores soon! Stay tuned as we will announce where you can grab your copy in NYC.

Congratulations to the entire editorial board!

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19/06/2024
Take a look back at JAC’s previous covers! 📔 For our 8th edition, CONVERSION, JAC is excited to unveil a new cover soon....
04/05/2023

Take a look back at JAC’s previous covers! 📔
For our 8th edition, CONVERSION, JAC is excited to unveil a new cover soon.

This issue will feature the design work of and , so don’t miss it! 💥

Take a look back at JAC’s previous covers! 📔 For our 8th edition, CONVERSION, JAC is excited to unveil a new cover soon....
04/05/2023

Take a look back at JAC’s previous covers! 📔
For our 8th edition, CONVERSION, JAC is excited to unveil a new cover soon.

This issue will feature design work by and , so don’t miss it! 💥

🔊 To accommodate more people, we are accepting submissions for CONVERSION until February 4th at midnight. Tell your frie...
29/01/2023

🔊 To accommodate more people, we are accepting submissions for CONVERSION until February 4th at midnight. Tell your friends! Tell your lovers!

Less than one week left to submit your essays and works of art for CONVERSION. Check out submission details on our websi...
22/01/2023

Less than one week left to submit your essays and works of art for CONVERSION. Check out submission details on our website and share with your art writing and creating friends — we are so excited to see your work!

Thank you to everyone who came to our meeting on Wednesday! Applications to join our editorial board are due next Wednes...
23/09/2022

Thank you to everyone who came to our meeting on Wednesday! Applications to join our editorial board are due next Wednesday, September 28 at 11:59pm. We’re really looking forward to reading your apps!

🚨 Join us this Wednesday, September 21 at 8pm in the McCagg Gallery (Diana 401) to learn more about JAC. All those inter...
20/09/2022

🚨 Join us this Wednesday, September 21 at 8pm in the McCagg Gallery (Diana 401) to learn more about JAC.

All those interested in joining the editorial board and staff should attend, artists + writers interested in submitting to the journal are also welcome!

Super psyched to share the seventh annual edition of JAC with you all! Head over to our website to read the full issue a...
19/09/2022

Super psyched to share the seventh annual edition of JAC with you all! Head over to our website to read the full issue and don’t forget to grab a print copy from

“Temperature,” the seventh annual edition of JAC, questions the role of criticism and contemporary art in a time of civic and ecological decay. The writers and artists included in this issue weave a narrative of temperature that is concurrently corporal, atmospheric, social, and political.

Featuring: Ariana Habibi, Alice Siyuan Zhao, Hannah Chew, Camille Perry, Sefa Ozdogan, Eli Duncan, Anna McColley, Uma Halsted, Liliana Wollheim-Martinez, Alma Wirth, Vala Schriefer, Hedy Zhang, Roy Lubash

On the cover: Deer Print by Anna McColley, 2021.

We’re so excited to share our 2022 print issue—TEMPERATURE ❤️‍🔥Join us to celebrate TODAY for a picnic in Sakura Park (1...
15/05/2022

We’re so excited to share our 2022 print issue—TEMPERATURE ❤️‍🔥

Join us to celebrate TODAY for a picnic in Sakura Park (122nd/Claremont) — 2pm
❗️hope to see you there❗️

Submissions for JAC’s seventh edition are now closed. Thanks to all who submitted!
29/01/2022

Submissions for JAC’s seventh edition are now closed. Thanks to all who submitted!

Submit by this Friday, 11:59pm. Link in bio.
24/01/2022

Submit by this Friday, 11:59pm. Link in bio.

Submit by this Friday, January 28, 11:59pm.
24/01/2022

Submit by this Friday, January 28, 11:59pm.

Deadline to submit to JAC’s seventh addition is fast approaching! Send us your art criticism and original artwork by Jan...
23/01/2022

Deadline to submit to JAC’s seventh addition is fast approaching! Send us your art criticism and original artwork by January 28, 11:59pm.

Submissions to TEMPERATURE, the seventh edition of JAC, are now open. Visit journalofartcriticism.cargo.site/submit to a...
15/12/2021

Submissions to TEMPERATURE, the seventh edition of JAC, are now open. Visit journalofartcriticism.cargo.site/submit to apply. 🦋🦋🦋

JAC is looking for new members to join our editorial board! Apply by 11:59pm this Saturday, October 2.
30/09/2021

JAC is looking for new members to join our editorial board! Apply by 11:59pm this Saturday, October 2.

JAC EDITORIAL BOARD APPLICATION (2021-2022) Applications due by 11:59pm on Saturday, October 2 JAC is the first undergraduate journal in print devoted...

New Yorkers—our newest JAC issue is sitting in wonderful company over at McNally Jackson’s Prince Street location ✨Go gr...
06/06/2021

New Yorkers—our newest JAC issue is sitting in wonderful company over at McNally Jackson’s Prince Street location ✨

Go grab a copy of this limited run of our issue before they sell out!

Our 2021 Issue Afterlives is FINISHED! Our editors have spent the past year meticulously crafting this issue and we are ...
30/04/2021

Our 2021 Issue Afterlives is FINISHED! Our editors have spent the past year meticulously crafting this issue and we are beyond excited to finally share it with you.

Join us for a virtual launch party on 5/2 3 PM EST on Zoom. Make sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter so you don’t miss any JAC related updates!

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Founded at Barnard College in 2015, JAC is the first peer-reviewed print journal to publish art criticism exclusively by undergraduates. We aim to create a community that transcends institutional boundaries, connecting students from across the country and world.