CERCLs “Thinking about Thinking” initiative meant to highlight shared concerns across the divisions of the university and demonstrate the various ways they are understood and explored based on disciplinary tools. The goal is to further encourage and enable thinking across divisions, and thereby enhance our interdisciplinary potential for wrestling with key concerns.
CERCL Fellow in the Humanities and the Arts in Rice University’s Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA)
The CERCL Fellow in the Humanities and the Arts is embedded in a department at Rice University, with the expectation that the Fellow will teach and conduct research. The Fellow's work within CERCL involves helping design and implement across campus new, interdisciplinary initiatives that advance the arts and culture, and that reflects CERCL's social justice and equity aims. In collaboration with Rice faculty and staff as well as the larger Houston community the Fellow will have opportunities to host programming and partner with other Rice and community organizations.
Devin T. Mays
Devin T. Mays holds a B.B.A in International Business and Marketing from Howard University. After receiving his degree, he worked in advertising developing brand strategies and commercials for the better part of a decade. He returned to school to pursue an M.F.A in studio practice from The University of Chicago. There, he developed an interdisciplinary practice he often refers to as an exercise in wandering, a practice-in-participation, a practice-in-practice.
Since then, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Malmö Konstmuseum; The Driehaus Museum; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida; Nahmad Projects, London; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Regards Chicago and The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry among others. He is currently CERCL Fellow in the Humanities and the Arts in the Visual and Dramatic Arts Department at Rice University.
Devin T. Mays currently lives and works between Chicago, IL and Houston, TX.
Education
B.B.A in International Business and Marketing, Howard University
M.F.A in Studio Practice, University of Chicago
Instagram: @devintmays
2022-2023 Public Programming
OCT 18 - The Day I Met the Sun performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
OCT 25 - Don Cherry and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One VADA x CERCL screening at Rice Cinema
FEB 20 - They, Who Sound performance at Lawndale Art Center with Nameless Sound
MAR 8 - Impermanence lecture as part of the VADA x CAAAS visiting artist lecture series
MAR 9 - The Day I Met the Sun performance at the Moody Center for the Arts x CERCL
MAR X - Barbara McCullough lecture as part of the VADA x CAAAS visiting artist lecture series