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2007 WINDGATE FELLOWSHIPS AWARDS

2007 Fellowship Awards

Ten $15,000 fellowships are awarded to graduating university seniors or fifth year students on the basis of artistic merit, the future promise of the individual's work, and potential for the applicant to make a contribution to the advancement of their field.

The program is open to students with a focus in book arts, ceramics, design, drawing, fiber, glass, metals, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles or wood nominated by U.S. universities (53) invited to partner with the UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, administering the program. Each University nominated two students in December 2005, who then participated in an on-line narrative and image application process, reviewed by a panel of jurors, for awards announced in April 2006. This is the first year of a three year pilot program.

Images  Online JournalMegan Amendt, Kent State University, Kent, OH, December 2006 graduate - Printmaking
Images  Online JournalAndrea Donnelly, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, December 2006 graduate - Fiber
Images  Online JournalErin Rose Gardner, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, June 2007 graduate - Metalsmithing
Images  Online JournalSarah House, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA, May 2007 graduate - Ceramics
Images  Online JournalTimothy Maddox, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI, May 2007 graduate - Wood/Metals
Images  Online JournalDavid Murphy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 2007 graduate - Glass
Images  Online JournalJason Noble, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WS, May 2007 graduate - Metals
Images  Online JournalChulyeon Park, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris University, Grand Rapids, MI, August 2007 graduate - Furniture
Images  Online JournalKarrie Swanson, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, May 2007 graduate - Printmaking
Images  Online JournalKirsten Teel, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, May 2007 graduate - Ceramics
ALTERNATES

If any of the selected Fellows is unable to undertake their project as proposed, alternates were identified by the panel to fill the Fellowship.
Moira Lime, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, IN, December 2006 graduate - Metalsmithing
Kristy Casamayor, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA , May 2007 graduate - Ceramics
2007 Windgate Fellowship Award Program Jurors
Panel members for the 2007 awards included: Glenn Adamson, Head of Graduate Studies, Research Department ,Victoria & Albert Museum, London (previously curator, Milwaukee Art Musuem); JoAnn Edwards, Director, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design; Bennett Bean, painter, ceramic artist New Jersey; Robyn Horn, wood sculptor and collector, Arkansas.
2007 Windgate Museum Intership Awards
$5,000 museum internships are awarded to undergraduate or graduate students to work with curators in the area of studio craft collections and exhibitions in one of four national museums. The goal of the program is to grow the number of curators with an education and expertise in studio craft.
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston, Texas
Naomi Wiegand, a May 2006 graduate from San Diego State University with a BA in Applied Design - Metal and Jewelry will spend 12 -14 weeks beginning in June working with the curator of decorative arts and design on the upcoming exhibition Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection (opening September 30, 2007). She will work with the exhibition checklist, object labels, public relations, marketing, website materials, installation, design, conservation and educational program meetings.
San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, California
Bianca Finley Alper, a Museum Studies Graduate at San Francisco State University will work with the visual records of art objects from the personal collection of photographer Lee Fatherree. She will also assist the Director and curator with registration of exhibition items, tracing of donations and membership, grant writing, and special museum events.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Kaitlin Shinnick, completing her masters degree at the Bard Graduate Center with a thesis on the jewelry of Josephine Hartwell Shaw and the Boston Arts and Crafts Movement will work with the assistant curator of American decorative arts and sculpture on two projects involving the MFA's large collection of studio craft. One project will involve conducting oral history interviews with artists represented in the Daphne Farago collection of studio jewelry, a recent gift to the MFA of more than 600 objects. The intern will also research the Museum's collection of contemporary ceramics, glass, and furniture, and assist with planning future gallery installations of the studio craft collections.
Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington
Katherine Phelps, a Whitman College undergraduate Art History major, will participate in all aspects of planning an exhibition scheduled to travel in 2008. Focus will be on preparing venue packages, creating documentation to accompany the exhibition, researching and acting as a liaison to artists, museums, lenders and shippers.

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