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Kate Palmer Albers, assistant professor in the Art History Division of the School of Art at the University of Arizona in Tempe, has received a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will fund a new blog, Project K: Photography and Art in the Age of Social Media.

Luke Armitstead, an artist based in Madison, Wisconsin, has received a Clowes Fund Fellowship to support a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

Hala Auji

Hala Auji, assistant professor at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, received a 2014 Honorable Mention Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities from the Middle East Studies Association for her dissertation, “Between Script and Print: Exploring Publications of the American Syria Mission and the Nascent Press in the Arab World, 1834–1860,” which completed under the direction of Nancy Um at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Elissa Auther, Wingate Research Curator for the Museum of Arts and Design and the Bard Graduate Center in New York, has received a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will support her article, “Senga Nengudi: The Performing Body.”

Rachelle Beaudoin, a video and performance artist based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, has earned a Clowes Fund Fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

Maurice Berger, research professor and chief curator for the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, has received a 2014 award in short-form writing from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Kaira M. Cabañas

Kaira M. Cabañas, an art historian based in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, has won a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her book project is called Expressive Restraint: Modern Art and Madness in Brazil and Beyond.

Abigail DeVille, an artist based in the Bronx, New York, has been awarded a 2015 grant in the visual-arts category from Creative Capital. DeVille will work on The Bronx: History of Now, a series of one hundred site-specific sculptural installations constructed from found objects, fragments of histories, and community narratives.

Craig Drennen, detail of HELLO CRAIG, 2014, oil and alkyd on canvas, 52 x 40 in. (artwork © Craig Drennen)

Craig Drennen, assistant professor of drawing and painting at Georgia State University in Atlanta, has received a 2014 grant from the foundation Art Matters.

Angela Ellsworth, an artist based in Phoenix, Arizona, who works in drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, has won a 2014 Art Matters grant.

Ryan Gallant, a sculptor based in Grass Valley, California, has received fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

Ksenya Gurshtein

Ksenya Gurshtein, an art historian based in Washington, DC, has accepted a 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her project, “Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.”

Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has accepted a 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his project, “Berthold of Nuremberg’s 13th-Century Reconfiguration of Hrabanus Maurus’s 9th-Century Treatise on the Cross.”

Michelle Handelman, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who works in video, performance, and photography, has accepted a 2014 grant from the foundation Art Matters.

Andrew E. Hershberger, associate professor of contemporary art history and chair of the Division of Art History at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, has won a 2015 Insight Award from the Society for Photographic Education for his book Photographic Theory: An Historical Anthology.

Suzanne Hudson, assistant professor of art history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, has received a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her book project is titled Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process.

Sharon Irish

Sharon Irish, an art and architectural historian at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, has won a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will support her book project, Stephen Willats in the Yew Kay.

Janet Koplos, an art critic and historian based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has received a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will help sustain her book project, The Loyal Opposition: The Life and Times of Chicago’s Controversial New Art Examiner.

Beauvais Lyons

Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has been selected for a 2014 Individual Artist Award by the Santo Foundation, based in Saint Louis, Missouri. The award comes with a $5,000 prize.

Leah Montalto, an artist based in New York, has received a grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs via the 2015 Queens Arts Fund, part of the Greater New York Arts Development Fund for Individual Artists. Montalto will work on a new series of paintings, titled The Arc of Triumph.

Lorraine O’Grady, a New York–based artist and writer, has been awarded a 2015 grant in the visual-arts category from Creative Capital. The funds will support MBN – 30 Years Later, in which the artist’s performance persona Mlle Bourgeoise Noire transforms into a new avatar who protests a money-driven art world to restore the cultural purpose it has lost.

John Pollini, professor of art history and history the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has accepted a 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his project, “Destruction, Mutiliation, and Repurposing of Classical Images in Late Antiquity.”

View of Elizabeth Riggle’s studio

Elizabeth Riggle, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has earned a residency at the Yaddo Foundation in Saratoga Springs, New York, for winter/spring 2015.

David Shannon-Lier, a photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona, has won a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship for a residency at the center in Johnson, Vermont.

Andrew Wasserman, assistant professor of art and architecture history at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, has received a 2014 award from the Arts Writers Grants program, funded by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The prize will support his book project, Bang! We’re All Dead! The Places of Nuclear Fear in 1980s America.

Yatta Zoker, an artist based in Houston, Texas, has accepted a $4,000 Catalyst Grant from the Idea Fund for The LDR Project, a series of three collaborative art-making workshops and a sponsorship for one expatriate or immigrant student at the University of Houston to reunite with their loved ones during summer break.

Richard Barlow, Pixelated Bromide, plastic sequins and latex paint, 132 x 204 in. (artwork © Richard Barlow)

Richard Barlow, an artist, musician, and assistant professor of art at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, has received the 2014 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant and the 2014 Hartwick College Faculty Development Grant.

Two podographs by Mark Staff Brandl, 2012 (artwork © Mark Staff Brandl)

Mark Staff Brandl, an artist and art historian based in Trogen, Switzerland, has completed an artist residency in the Italian village of Portico di Romagna, where he made drawings and had a small exhibition.

Abigail DeVille, an artist based in Bronx, New York, has won a 2014 emerging-artist grant of $10,000 from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, based in New York.

Reni Gower, Pivot.6, 2010, acrylic on paper, mounted on canvas-covered panel, 38 1/2 x 27 in. Collection of Harry L. Davis, Leesburg, VA (artwork © Reni Gower)

Reni Gower, an artist and professor of painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has completed an artist residency at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she worked with the center’s team to explore pulp painting, blow-outs, and watermarks.

James Herring, exhibitions manager and designer for the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami, Florida, has received a $10,000 exhibition research grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, based in Asheville, North Carolina.

Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, Untitled (Level), 2010, dual-channel video projection, 35mm film transferred to digital video, 1:00 min. loop. Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee 10.8.1 (artwork © Leslie Hewitt)

Leslie Hewitt, an artist based in New York and Houston, Texas, has been named a USA Francie Bishop Good and David Horvits Fellow in Visual Arts by United States Artists. The award comes with an unrestricted $50,000 prize.

Faheem Majeed, associate director and faculty in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, a teacher of sculpture at the Chicago High School for the Arts and in the Contemporary Practices Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, have earned a 2014–15 DCASE Studio Artist Residency Award from their city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and the Joyce Foundation.

Norie Sato, an artist based in Seattle, Washington, has been recognized twice this year: the 2014 Public Art Network Leadership Award from Americans for the Arts, awarded in June at that organization’s conference in Nashville, Tennessee; and the 2014 Governor’s Art and Heritage Award for an Independent Artist, conferred by her state’s government at the end of October.

Alex J. Taylor, an Australian art historian of modern American art and visual culture, has been appointed to a three-year position at Tate as the Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art by the London–based museum and Chicago’s Terra Foundation for American Art.

Hilary Wilder has accepted a 2014–15 artist’s residency from the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas.