Center for Art & Knowledge
The Center for Art and Knowledge is the museum’s nexus for academic work, scholarly exchange, and innovative interdisciplinary collaborations.
The Center is located in the informal setting of the Phillips family’s former Carriage House, in Hillyer Court behind the main building of The Phillips Collection.
Lectures and Events
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Conversations with Artists
The lively Conversations with Artists series provides an opportunity to hear from and speak with leading contemporary artists in an informal setting.
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Artists of Conscience Forum
Since 2009, the Phillips’s Artists of Conscience symposium has brought together leading art collectors and committed philanthropists from around the world to engage with artists, art professionals, and diplomatic, Congressional, and Administration leaders to explore topics in modern and contemporary art in a global context.
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Duncan Phillips Lectures
The Duncan Phillips Lectures are given by distinguished artists, historians, and critics, whose presentations cover a broad range of aesthetic concerns.
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Creative Voices DC
Inaugurated in 2011, Creative Voices DC brings together the local creative community of Washington, DC, through panel discussions that include artists, collectors, curators, writers, and performers.
The lively Conversations with Artists series provides an opportunity to hear from and speak with leading contemporary artists in an informal setting.
Leonardo Drew with his work Number 192 (2016) in the Phillips galleries before his Conversations with Artists event
Since 2009, the Phillips’s Artists of Conscience symposium has brought together leading art collectors and committed philanthropists from around the world to engage with artists, art professionals, and diplomatic, Congressional, and Administration leaders to explore topics in modern and contemporary art in a global context.
Curlee Holton, Executive Director, David C. Driskell Center, UMD, and artist Sanford Biggers at the 2017 Artists of Conscience Forum
The Duncan Phillips Lectures are given by distinguished artists, historians, and critics, whose presentations cover a broad range of aesthetic concerns.
Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto giving the 2015 Duncan Phillips Lecture
Inaugurated in 2011, Creative Voices DC brings together the local creative community of Washington, DC, through panel discussions that include artists, collectors, curators, writers, and performers.
Creative Voices DC event discussing Riley Temple’s book about August Wilson
Academic Courses
The Center for Art and Knowledge expands on and develops new arts curriculum and extended studies courses and seminars focused on art, art history, arts management, museum studies, cultural diplomacy, conservation and interdisciplinary studies.
Book Prize
The University of Maryland and Phillips Collection Book Prize supports publication of a first book by an emerging scholar.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The University of Maryland–Phillips Collection Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art History will support research and teaching on topics in American, European, or non-western art of all media from 1780 to the present.