About the Journal

ISSN #1936-1912

Visual Culture & Gender (VCG) was born digital more than a decade ago in 2005 as the first multimedia online journal in the field of art education, and the first online journal devoted to the intersections of visual culture and gender. VCG is an annual international, peer-reviewed, freely accessed, multimedia online journal whose purpose is to encourage and promote understanding of how visual culture constructs gender in context with representations of race, age, sexuality, (dis)ability, and social class.

For a history of VCG, follow the link below to another journal where the founders of VCG write about VCG's first ten years. 

Keifer-Boyd, K., & Deborah L. Smith-Shank , D. L. (2017). Born Digital: Visual Culture & Gender. Visual Arts Research, 43(1). Retrieved from http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/var/media/43.1/keifer-boyd/index.html

The VCG 20th Anniversary Call for Manuscripts invites submissions of articles and visual essays that explore issues of equity and social justice through learning and teaching practices, which expose culturally learned meanings and power relations surrounding the creation, consumption, valuing, and dissemination of images. 

  • The deadline to submit manuscripts for volume 20 is Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 11:59 PM EDT
  • The submission portal will be opened at http://vcg.emitto.net/ from December 1, 2024 to January 15, 2025.