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.
On Wednesday, April 18th, from 10:00-11:00 am, in the Focus Gallery (FAC), Advanced Sculpture students Kayla Adams, Michael Bauman, Sara Martinez, and Leslie Spahr will offer short presentations on their current work, their research, and upcoming Senior Project Exhibitions (scheduled for Saturday, April 28TH from 5:00-9:00 pm, at WARPhaus).
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 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.
Monday, April 9th & Wednesday, April 11th 6:15-8:15 pm, FAC Conference Room
Graduate students who are currently enrolled in the Painting & Drawing Seminar will visually present their work, inspirations and source material via a 20-minute presentation during the evenings of Monday, April 9th and Wednesday, April 11th. All faculty, staff and students are invited! Please come and participate in the event, which includes a 10-minute Q&A session following each presentation.
Presentations are by the following Graduate students (times are approximate):
MONDAY
6:15 Logan Marconi - Painting & Drawing
7:00 Camille Demarinis - Painting & Drawing
7:45 Donna Flanery – Ceramics
WEDNESDAY
6:15 Evie Woltil Richner - Painting & Drawing
7:00 Donald Keefe – Painting & Drawing
7:45 Jessica Normington – Printmaking
From Assistant Professor Michelle Tillander:
I had the pleasure of meeting with Jane Ingram Allen in Taiwan on my research leave this past March, to hear and see the 2012 Chen Long Wetland International Art Project: What is for Dinner? While I was in Taiwan on March 7, 2012, I was graciously invited to meet for an afternoon with Jane; a local coordinating educator, Chao-mei, who gave me a tour of the elementary school; one of the 2012 selected environmental artists, Yenting; and then invited to tour the wetland area installation sites in Chen Long village of Yulin County, Taiwan. It was truly an AMAZING experience!
As part of my research work at UF, and as an extension to my research leave, I am coordinating a project this Fall 2012 with UF students (residential and online classes) to connect to Jane (UF Art Education Alumnus), the people of Taiwan (educators and children), and the Chen Long International Wetland Art Project.
The first and third photos show, from left to right, UF alumni Dr. Amy Zigler, Dr. Valerie Austin, Dr. Christina Reitz, and UF Professor Emeritus David Z. Kushner at the national conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association in Asheville, N.C. Dr. Kushner, professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Florida, was chair of the doctoral committees of each of the young women pictured with him. All four presented papers at the conference, held March 22-24. The gentleman in the other photos is UF alum Steven Landis, husband of Dr. Zigler. He graduated UF in double bass and is currently a graduate student in composition at the University of North Carolina—Greensboro.
