Fellowships
Professional Development Fellowship Program
The fellowship program has been temporarily suspended for 2009.
About the Program
CAA initiated the program in 1993 to help student artists and art historians bridge the gap between their graduate studies and professional careers. The program’s main purpose is to support outstanding students from socially and economically diverse backgrounds who have been underrepresented in their fields. By offering financial assistance to promising MFA and PhD students, CAA can assist the rising generation during this important transitional period in their lives.
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. CAA believes a grant of this kind, without contingencies, can best nurture artists and scholars at the beginning of their professional careers. Both fellows and honorable mentions receive free one-year CAA memberships and complimentary registration to the CAA Annual Conference.
2008 Fellows and Honorable Mentions
CAA has awarded four fellowships, two each in art and art history, and six honorable mentions for 2008. The recipients are named below; you may also read their biographies and see images of their work.
The two Artist Fellows are: Mary Reid Kelley, who is earning an MFA in painting from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; and Justin Shull, enrolled in the MFA program in visual arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
For the Fellowships in Art History, CAA recognizes Nichole N. Bridges, a doctoral candidate researching African art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Wendy Ikemoto, who is completing her PhD in American art at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 in Richmond; and Will Tucker, an MFA student in sculpture at Ohio State University in Columbus.
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 student specializing in modern art and visual culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; 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 in Kentucky, focusing on the art and architecture of medieval Iberia.
