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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.
UF Ceramics student Andrea Ziemnicki will be headed to the big city when she enters NYU’s Art Therapy program in the fall.
UF Ceramics student Marah Gaiti is a recipient for the Ann Carter Garnett Marston Scholarship Award from the University Women’s Club.
Go Gators!
UF MFA candidate Dandee Pattee will be pursuing an MA in Critical Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore this fall. This is a new and exciting degree. She will be the Critical Studies Fellow for the program.
Dandee has received some very affirmative attention on a national basis through an NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship, a Penland Windgate Scholarship and an NCECA Critical Santa Fe Fellowship. Dandee was inspired by Elaine Henry’s talk at Critical Santa Fe and took the initiative to contact her about a summer internship at Ceramics Art and Perception. Through that internship she has received first hand experience with an international publication. The field is in need of thoughtful writing on theory and criticism. It is exciting that Dandee will be on the forefront of this exciting aspect of our field.
Morgan Rich is a PhD student in Musicology at the University of Florida working under Dr. Silvio dos Santos. She has been working on the writings of Theodor Adorno and the intersections between music and critical theory, concentrating on the role the Viennese composer Alban Berg played in the formation of the philosopher’s critical theory as applied to modern music. The 2012 Center for European Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship will allow her to study German at the Goethe Institut in Frankfurt, upon completion of the study she will also take the opportunity to research at the Adorno Archiv in Frankfurt. Go Gator!
Founded in 1900 by the financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, herself a poet, Yaddo is an artists’ community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. They are selected by panels of other professional artists without regard to financial means. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board, and studio.
Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 66 Pulitzer Prizes, 27 MacArthur Fellowships, 61 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 51 Whiting Writers’ Awards, a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), and countless other honors. Many books by Yaddo authors have been made into films. Visitors from Cheever’s day include Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Philip Guston, Patricia Highsmith, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Ulysses Kay, Jacob Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Clyfford Still, and Virgil Thomson.
Congratulations Jason!
Hey stranger,…looking for a way to turn small talk into big ideas? Collaborating with Strangers Workshops are designed to connect students, faculty and researchers on campus during 3-minute speed-meetings. You’ll walk away with new friends, more resources, solutions and creative ideas than you could have ever imagined.
When: Wednesday, March 21, 4:00-5:30 p.m. (NEW DATE)
Where: Library West, 3rd floor InfoCommons
Who: University of Florida students and faculty
Visit http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/communications/CoLAB/home.html for more information and registration link.
Space is limited.
Cookies and beverages will be served.
Apply to win a mini-grant for your collaborative project! $2,800 in partnership with the NSF funded I-Cubed Program (5 to 6 available awards)
You are more creative than you think. The inspiration you’ve been looking for is right around the corner. Someone will soon help you solve an old problem. Big ideas come from one person. Bigger ideas come from two. An unexpected stranger will become your teammate. To reach your potential, you must first meet each other. You will soon meet a future collaborator. If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.
Sponsored by the George A. Smathers Libraries
Co-sponsored by I-Cubed, College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Honors Program, the UF Graduate School, Florida Opportunities Scholars Program and Women in Science and Engineering.
Funded by the Creative Campus Committee Catalyst Fund.
The Village Journal currently features an article about the upcoming UF School of Theatre+Dance benfit Splendor and the arts. You can read it on the online version or you can read it in print in the Volume 8, number 1 issue (p.34-36).
The University Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Applications are due to the college USP contact person by Feb. 15, 2012. This program is open to students in all disciplines. For additional information contact Donna Jackson at djackson@aa.ufl.edu or 846-3222.
