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CalArts Artists Chosen Among Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced 173 fellowships Thursday, which included several CalArts artists.


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While the grant amounts are not disclosed, the foundation offers its fellowships to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed,” according to the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Five CalArts artists were chosen among the 3,000 applicants in the foundation’s 94th competition.

The fellows include: School of Film/Video Faculty member Lee Ann Schmitt, and CalArts alums Eliza Hittman (Film/Video MFA 10), Todd Gray (Art BFA 79, MFA 89), Nicole Miller (Art BFA 05) and Alexandra Cuesta (Film/Video MFA 08).

“These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the foundation. “Each year since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has bet everything on the individual, and we’re thrilled to continue to do so with this wonderfully talented and diverse group.”

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In all, 49 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 69 different academic institutions, 31 states, and three Canadian provinces are represented in this year’s class of fellows, who range in age from 29 to 80. Sixty fellows have no academic affiliation or hold adjunct or part-time positions, according to the foundation.

Since its establishment in 1925, the foundation has granted more than $360 million in fellowships to over 18,000 individuals, according to officials.

Among those individuals are Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, poets laureate, members of the various national academies and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Turing Award, National Book Awards and other internationally recognized honors.

Other awardees have been visiting artists, lecturers or performers at CalArts and/or REDCAT, including dancer, choreographer and Herb Alpert Award Winner Nora Chipaumire, multidisciplinary artist and Herb Alpert Award Winner Dohee Lee, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, theater artist Annie Dorsen, and photographer Anthony Hernandez, according to CalArts.

Roxane Gay, the newly named 2018 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence, lectures at CalArts on April 10. Artist Dave Hullfish Bailey’s exhibition Hardscrabble is currently on view at REDCAT through April 29.

To view the entire Guggenheim Fellow 2018 list, click here.

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