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2008 WINDGATE FELLOWSHIPS AWARDS

2008 Fellowship Awards

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design invited 64 universities across the country, in fall 2007, to each nominate two students for the 2008 Windgate Fellowship Awards. There were 88 completed applications submitted on-line for the panel jury process. The panel met for the final deliberations the first week of April 2008 and selected ten graduating seniors to each receive a $15,000 Fellowship to complete their proposal within eighteen months from the award.

The panel for the 2008 Windgate Fellowship Awards included Kelly H. L’Ecuyer, Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Michael Sherrill, sculptor (clay, glass, metal); Grace Cochrane, author and past director of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia; Alan C. Elder, Curator of Canadian Crafts, Decorative Arts and Design, Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Images  Online JournalTom Alward, Ceramics, University of Northern Arizona
Images  Online JournalKate Casey, Printmaking, Mass College of Art and Design
Images  Online JournalAram Choi, Jewelry, University of Oregon
Images  Online JournalThomas Edwards, Ceramics, Tennessee Tech, Appalachian Center for Craft
Images  Online JournalJeremy Holmes, Sculpture/wood, SUNY New Paltz
Images  Online JournalCraig Kelly, Metals, Institute of American Indian Arts
Images  Online JournalNathan Moren, Metal/wood, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Images  Online JournalWilliam Rogers, Clay, UNC Asheville
Images  Online JournalStephanie Sato, Textiles, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Images  Online JournalJon Watanabe, Glass, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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.
ImagesCasey Whittier, Ceramics, Kansas City Art Institute
2008 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.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has selected Keelin Burrows, a graduate student at the Bard Graduate Center New York, for a two-month internship focusing on the production of a new anthology of writings to be entitled The Craft Reader.
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, has selected Susie Silbert, a 2003 BFA glass graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to intern this summer working on the exhibition of contemporary glass from the collection of Dennis and Barbara Dubois. Silbert is returning to graduate school to focus on museum studies as a future curator.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston has invited Kaitlin Shinnick, to intern this summer researching the Daphne Farago Collection (jewelry) and other holdings of studio craft at the Museum. Kaitlin has completed her M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts at Bard Graducate Center with a concentration iin American Design and Culture and a thesis on Arts and Crafts jewelry by Josephine Hartwell Shaw.
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, has selected Jeanne Gardner, a BA History Graduate of Swathmore College, and BFA Fine Arts/ceramics graduate from Massachusetts College of Art, to work with the exhibitions programs on planning and installation.

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