Video Competition for Undergraduates
The Association for Art History is inaugurating a competition for undergraduates to create videos about their experience studying our subject. We are doing this to further promote the benefits of studying art history and share the stories of undergraduates who are taking the subject to give younger students an idea of what art history is like at university.
Videos should be up to one minute thirty seconds (1:30) in length and can address anything students would like to cover about their art history studies, this can include, but is certainly not limited to:
- why they chose to study art history
- what they like about it
- how they were introduced to art/museums/galleries/studying art as a younger person
- what about studying art history surprised them/what they didn’t expect before they entered their programmes
- whether they have a favourite period, style, movement, artists
- how art history has made them look at the world around them differently
- what they would like to do once they graduate
We encourage students to be as straightforward or as inventive as they like with the videos. We do not expect high production values; they can be shot with students’ phones. We will have one winner and two highly commended videos.
Winners will be announced and their videos shown at the Association’s Ways of Seeing conference at the National Gallery on the afternoon of 22 November 2025. The videos will also be uploaded to the Association’s website and YouTube channel. Transportation to London for those outside of the city will be reimbursed.
Please send submissions to info@forarthistory.org.uk by 30 October 2025 at 5:00pm.