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Shimon Attie, untitled video still from Sightings: The Ecology of an Art Museum, 2008, three-channel immersive video installation with stereo sound (artwork © Shimon Attie)

Shimon Attie, an artist based in New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

The Cloister at Monreale (photograph by Caroline Bruzelius)

Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo have been awarded a three-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2011–14) for a study of the Kingdom of Sicily, 1130–1442. The project has two parts: a narrative text in print and a catalogue of sites and monuments using open-access technologies to provide a database of visual and textual material.

Josephine Halvorson, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Michelle Handelman, still from Dorian, a cinematic perfume, 2009, four-channel video, 63:00 min. (artwork © Michelle Handelman)

Michelle Handelman, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Denise Iris, still from Minimentals, 2010, video (artwork © Denise Iris)

Denise Iris, an artist based in New York and visiting assistant professor in film and media studies at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Friedrich Sustris, The Union of Florence and Fiesole, ca. 1565, pen and brown ink, brownish gray wash, over faint traces of black chalk. Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Purchased as the gift of Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen, the Cremer Foundation, Gordon Getty, and Mrs. Carl Stern; 1982.8 (artwork in the public domain)

Susan Maxwell, associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh has received a 2010–11 Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship for her book, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria, forthcoming from Ashgate.

Claudia Sohrens, Aufheben #005 (Box of Lighters), 2009, archival pigment print, 16 x 21 in. (artwork © Claudia Sohrens)

Claudia Sohrens, an artist and visiting professor at the New School the Parsons School of Design and at Pratt Institute, both in New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her Aufheben project explores concepts of selecting, collecting, and hoarding in contemporary culture.

Mary Ting, shoes from Witch Whore Widow, 2009, paper and cotton, 4 x 3 x 7 in. each. The installation was shown in 2009 at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, New York (artwork © Mary Ting)

Mary Ting, a New York–based artist, has received a 2010 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.

Penelope Umbrico, Broken Sets / eBay, 2010, nine c-prints, 30 x 40 in. each (artwork © Penelope Umbrico)

Penelope Umbrico, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also Deutsche Bank Fellow.

Angie Waller, Originality: Cases and Materials Volvelle, 2010, letterpress and die cut print, edition of 100, 9¾ in. diameter (artwork © Angie Waller)

Angie Waller, an artist who works in video, books, web-based applications, and installation, has recently participated in the 2010 Art and Law Residency Program, offered by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York.