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List Of Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded In 2021
List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2021: References {{reflist 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ... 2021 awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guggenheim Fellowships
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation issues awards in each of two separate competitions: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to "advanced professionals in mid-career" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator. Life He graduated from Brown University in 1999 and gained a doctorate in comparative literature from New York University in 2011. In addition to teaching comparative literature at Brown University, he also serves as poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. Creswell's specialization is contemporary Arabic literature. He has translated several literary works from the Middle East, including ''That Smell and Notes from Prison'' by Sonallah Ibrahim and ''The Clash of Images'' by Abdelfattah Kilito, and has written numerous essays for various literary periodicals. A revised version of his thesis ''Tradition and Translation: Poetic Modernism in Beirut'' (2012) was published by Princeton University Press as ''City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut'' (2019). Creswell won the 2013 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded by the Center for Fiction The Center for Fiction, originally called the New York Mercantil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Grabner
Michelle Grabner (born 1962 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) is an artist, curator, and critic based in Wisconsin. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. She has curated several important exhibitions, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art along with Anthony Elms and Stuart Comer, anFRONT International the 2016 Portland Biennial at thOregon Contemporary a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018. In 2014, Grabner was named one of the 100 most powerful women in art and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor. In 2021, Grabner was named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Life Grabner received a B.F.A. (painting and drawing) in 1984 and an M.A. in art history in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her MA thesis and exhibition was titled Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Refle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Garrison (author)
John S. Garrison is an American author and scholar of William Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. In 2021, he was named a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his scholarship on English literature. Early life and education Garrison was born in Pittsburgh. He is the son of civil engineer William Louis Garrison. Garrison earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and a Ph.D. from University of California, Davis in 2007. Prior to obtaining his graduate degree in English literature, Garrison worked for organizations in both the private and public sectors, including the Levi Strauss Foundation. Career Garrison's writing centers on themes of identity, language, and memory. His book ''Glass'' was one of the first books in the Object Lessons series and explores how the material—from mirrors to the telescope to the camera lens—has shaped how humans relate to themselves and to others. His thinking on the cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Garcia-Roig
Lilian Garcia-Roig (born 1966) is a Cuban-born, American painter based in Florida. She is mostly known for her large-scale painting installations of densely forested landscapes. Garcia-Roig is a professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University, and has been named FSU's 2023-2024 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor. Exhibitions Recent notable exhibitions include The Florida Prize Exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art in 2019; Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, curated by Tatiana Flores, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA); Long Beach, California. The exhibition is part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time Initiative and was featured at MOLAA from September 16, 2017, through January 2018, which traveled to the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York City, during Summer 2018; The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Fall 2018; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Sprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier (born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer and humorist. He wrote the 1989 non-fiction history ''Great Plains'', 2010's non-fiction travelogue ''Travels in Siberia'', and works as a writer and humorist for ''The New Yorker''. Biography Frazier grew up in Hudson, Ohio.Humorist Ian Frazier, who grew up in Hudson, Ohio, wins another Thurber award . October 6, 2009. ''''. Retrieved via Cleveland.com, November 10, 2018. His father, David Frazier, was a chemist,"Ian Frazier." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Fowler
Eve Fowler (born 1964) is an American Artist based in Los Angeles. Fowler was born in Philadelphia, PA and has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2002. Fowler's most notable work includes her series of texts appropriating Gertrude Stein's poetry, and her portraits of male hustlers in New York and Los Angeles in the 90s. Identifying as a lesbian and feminist, Fowler's work tries to identify what she perceives as male biases in language and culture and reframe them around sex-positive, feminist, and queered images. For example, her 2005 portrait of performance artist K8 Hardy recalls Austrian feminist, VALIE EXPORT's 1969 work ''Action Pants: Genital Panic'' by depicting Hardy in her studio, sitting wide legged with the crotch cut out of her jeans. Biography Fowler received her BA in Journalism from Temple University in 1986, and her MFA in photography from Yale University in 1992. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Hammer Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Fleming
Maureen Fleming is an American dancer, performance artist, and choreographer from New York City. She studied butoh dance in Japan, and was described by ''The New Yorker'' magazine as "perhaps the foremost American practitioner of Butoh." Early life Fleming was born in Japan and grew up in Yokohama, the daughter of parents in the United States Navy. She was injured in an automobile accident at the age of two, losing the disc between her fourth and fifth vertebrae, which she only learned of many years later. She moved with her parents to the United States when she was three years old, and began dancing at approximately age seven. Dance career Fleming studied ballet with Cecchetti method master Margaret Craske (1892–1990), and performed briefly with several New York City-based dance companies. She was first exposed to butoh in 1984 when she met butoh dancer Min Tanaka in New York City, joining his company, Maijuku, for a time. Following this, she studied butoh in Japan with Tana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Ferris
Emil Ferris (; born 1962) is an American writer, cartoonist, and designer. Ferris debuted in publishing with her 2017 graphic novel '' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters''. The novel tells a coming-of-age story of Karen Reyes, a girl growing in 1960s Chicago, and is written and drawn in the form of the character's notebook. The graphic novel was praised as a "masterpiece" and one of the best comics by a new author. Early life Emil Ferris was born to Eleanor Spiess-Ferris and Mike Ferris on Chicago's South Side and grew up on North Side's Uptown. Her parents are artists who met at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ferris traces her Hispanic lineage from Indigenous Mexico to Spain, and is also of Lebanese, German, French, Irish emigres, and Sephardic Jewish descent. Career Ferris worked as a freelance illustrator and toy designer for clients such as McDonald's and Takara Tomy before being an author. Ferris identified early in her life as a lesbian but later on came t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Fahrig
Lenore Fahrig is a Chancellor's Professor in the biology department at Carleton University, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Fahrig studies effects of landscape structure—the arrangement of forests, wetlands, roads, cities, and farmland—on wildlife populations and biodiversity, and is best known for her work on habitat fragmentation. In 2023, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Early life and education Fahrig is from Ottawa, Ontario. She completed a BSc (Biology) at Queen's University, Kingston, in 1981 and an MSc from Carleton University, Ottawa in 1983 under the supervision of Gray Merriam, on habitat connectivity and population stability. She completed her PhD in 1987 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Jyri Paloheimo, on the effects of animal dispersal behaviour on the relationship between population size and habitat spatial arrangement. Research and career After her PhD, Fahrig worked for two years as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarek El-Ariss
Tarek El-Ariss (born 1973) is the James Wright Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth College. Biography Tarek El-Ariss was born in 1973 in Beirut. He earned a BA in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ... and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. His works focus on the contemporary Arabic culture, literature and art; new media and cyber culture; digital humanities; Nahda literature and thought; travel writing and the war novel; sci-fi and utopia studies; 18th- and 19th-century French philosophy and literature; gender and sexuality studies; and psychoanalysis and affect theory. Works * ''Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political'' * '' Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suhas Diggavi
Suhas N. Diggavi from the University of California, Los Angeles was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to wireless networks and systems''. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ... in 2021. References Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people Stanford University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American electrical engineers Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-electrical-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |