The mission of Critical Vision is to understand how as a culture we now live and think at the intersection of language, image, and technology. Critical Vision is committed to intelligent discourse as a crucial sign of life in a thriving culture. Its aim is to inspire inventive conversation about visual culture and to implement incisive programs at the intersection of critical thought and visual production of all kinds, from fine art to design and architecture to new media. The broad compass of Critical Vision is focused by passionate inquiry into rapidly intensifying fields of image-based media and the increasing power of the visual in everyday life.

The projects that animate Critical Vision’s purpose include:

  • Clarifying institutions’ commitments to visual art, design and critical thought through specific curriculum and program development
  • Bridging different worlds of creative endeavor, from corporate to museum to academic and medical culture, in order to facilitate complex, multi-faceted thinking
  • Integrating analytical discourse with material and technique-based training in visual art, media, and design as well as clinical training in medicine and psychology
  • Expanding the scope of cultural and educational institutions to include the public sphere and reviving belief in education as a viable and necessary aspect of a vital society
  • Featuring contemporary thought with respect for institutional history and core focus
  • Counseling institutions on questions of mission and strategic vision and then matching vision with measured and reasonable plans for pragmatic implementation
  • Advising senior staff and administration on questions of institutional change, transitional periods, and programmatic development
  • Coaching individuals in strategies of self-presentation, from portfolio assembly to thesis writing to professional projection
  • Advancing critical thought as a creative resource for artists and designers to pursue their projects and institutional visions