CAA has awarded four graduate-student fellowships for 2008, two each in art and art history, and six honorable mentions to graduate students through the Professional Development Fellowship Program.
The two 2008 Fellows in Visual Art are Mary Reid Kelley, who is currently pursuing an MFA in painting from Yale University, and Justin Shull, an artist completing his MFA in visual arts at Rutgers University. For art history, the 2008 Fellows are Nichole N. Bridges, a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Wendy Ikemoto, who is finishing her PhD in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University.
The three Honorable Mentions for Visual Art are: Dara Greenwald, a PhD candidate in electronic arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Julie Ann Nagle, a second-year graduate student in sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University; and Will Tucker, an MFA student in sculpture at Ohio State University.
The 2008 Honorable Mentions for Art History are: Alpesh Kantilal Patel, a doctoral student at the University of Manchester studying art of the South Asian diaspora; Amy Von Lintel, a PhD candidate specializing in modern art and visual culture at the University of Southern California; and Kelly L. Watt, a doctoral student and Frederic Lindley Morgan Scholar of Architectural History in the Art History Program at the University of Louisville, focusing on the art and architecture of medieval Iberia.
Fellows are honored with a one-time grant of $15,000 to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. Both fellows and honorable mentions receive free one-year CAA memberships and complimentary registrations to CAA’s Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
