Nathan Sapio (MFA 2012) has been awarded a Post-MFA Painting Fellowship at University of Georgia, Athens. He will teach painting and conduct creative research for the 2012-2013 academic year. The fellowship will culminate with an exhibition at the end of the academic year.
Kalina Winska (MFA 2012) who will be joining the faculty of Valdosta State University in a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Art/Foundations.
Current MFA Candidate Donald Keefe has also been awarded an artist residency at Contemporary Artists Center Woodside in Troy NY this summer. Keefe has work juried show into “Natural/Constructed Spaces” at the Painting Center http://thepaintingcenter.org/ 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NYC.
The show “Natural/Constructed spaces” will be on view from June 19 - mid August and will have a published catalogue.
BFA Drawing Candidate, Jay Rosen, has been awarded a University Scholars grant. This summer he has developed a research trip to Germany entitled “A Phenomenological Study of Light and Space”. Jay will visit several artist studios, museums and attend Documenta.
Go Gators!
University Scholar (Theatre student): Catherine Perez
Faculty Mentor: Stacey Galloway
School of Theater and Dance
College of Fine Arts, University of Florida
Title of Research: Creating a Romantic Landscape: Costume Design and the Modern Romanticization of Pride and Prejudice
JUR is the Journal of Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Catherine!
MacKenzie Moon Ryan, School of Art + Art History PhD candidate, has been awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship for the Academic year 2012-2013. The fellowship affords her $20,000 in living expenses from July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013 to write her dissertation.
In addition, MacKenzie was also named a finalist for the Association for Academic Women’s Emerging Scholar Award and Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship, which came withaward of $1000 at UF. She was also awarded a research grant in the amount £450/$720 from the Pasold Research Fund for Textile History (based inthe UK) which helped fund the European portion of her dissertation research.
MacKenzie is working under the direction of Dr. Victoria Rovine.
Leslie Anne Anderson (MA Art History, 2006) has been awarded a Fulbright grant to Denmark for the 2012-2013 academic year. With additional support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, she will complete her dissertation research on the depiction of artistic practice during the Danish Golden Age. Anderson is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and she currently serves as the Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
UF Art History graduate students: Recent Awards and Success in African Art
MacKenzie Moon Ryan, doctoral candidate in art history, was named a finalist for the Association for Academic Women’s Emerging Scholar Award and Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Award. She also received a research grant from the Pasold Fund, a British textile history research organization. She used the grant to fund archival research in the UK and the Netherlands for her dissertation, “The Global Reach of a Fashionable Commodity: A Manufacturing and Design History of Kanga textiles.”
Meghan Kirkwood, also a PhD student in art history, received both a Center for African Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant and Jeanne and Hunt Davis Graduate Research Award. She will use the funding to travel to South Africa this summer, to initiate her dissertation research on landscape photography in southern Africa.
Amy Schwartzott, doctoral candidate in art history, has just accepted a lectureship in art history at Coastal Carolina University. She is currently writing her dissertation on recycling as medium in contemporary Mozambican art.
Kimberly Nikki Morris, MA student in art history, has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Yoruba this summer.
