CAA News Today

Amy Bryzgel

Amy Bryzgel, lecturer in history of art at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2014 to support work on a book project titled “Performance Art in Central and Eastern Europe,” which will be a comprehensive study of performance art practices in the region.

Sharon L. Butler, an artist and writer based in New York and southeastern Connecticut, has accepted a 2013 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program for her blog, Two Coats of Paint.

Stephanie Cardon of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, has been accepted into the 2013 Art Writing Workshop, a partnership between the International Association of Art Critics, the Arts Writers Grant Program (supported by Creative Capital), and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Carolyn Castaño, an artist based in Los Angeles, California, has received a $25,000 award from the 2013 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program, administered by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Victoria Fu, an artist based in San Diego and Los Angeles, California, has earned a 2013 grant from Art Matters to support her ongoing work.

Gregory Halpern, a photographer who lives and works in Rochester, New York, has been accepted into Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program for 2014.

Steve Kurtz, professor of art and chair of the Department of Visual Studies at the State University of New York’s University at Buffalo, has earned a 2013 grant from Art Matters to support travel to Argentina for Critical Art Ensemble’s work with the art and environmental organization Ala Plástica in Río de la Plata, toward the second part of the project Basins.

Jessica Labatte, a photographer based in Chicago, Illinois, has been accepted into Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program for 2014.

Saloni Mathur of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, has earned a 2013 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program for her book project, “A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art.”

Allison Miller, an artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, has been named a 2014 Artist in Residence by the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, based in New Berlin, New York.

Sarah Pollman of Allston, Massachusetts, has been accepted into the 2013 Art Writing Workshop, a partnership between the International Association of Art Critics, the Arts Writers Grant Program (supported by Creative Capital), and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Gregory Sale has won a 2013 Art Matters grant to support the first iteration of Sleepover, a series of activities with diverse constituents exploring reentering society after incarceration, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Krista Thompson, associate professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has received a 2013 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program for her book project, “The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice.”