The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University, has announced 12 fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year. The recipients, representing the fields of visual arts, media studies, and the history of art and architecture, will each receive grants of $25,000.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University for the Board of Administration of the Howard Foundation, has announced 12 fellowships of $25,000 each for the 2007-08 academic year. The recipients, representing the fields of visual arts, media studies, and the history of art and architecture, were selected from among 237 scholars and artists nominated by administrative officers of colleges, universities and cultural institutions throughout the country.

The 2007-08 fellows in visual arts and media studies are:

• Yizhak Elyashiv, adjunct faculty, Rhode Island College and Rhode Island School of Design
  Project: Landscape – Memory
• Paul Ramirez Jonas, assistant professor of studio art, Bard College
  Project: Clay Library: To be Spoken out Loud
• Pam Lins, adjunct instructor, Cooper Union School of Art
  Project: Please Bear with Us
• Hillary Mushkin, professor, Orange Coast College
  Project: As We Go On: A Drawing Series
• Paul Myoda, assistant professor, Brown University
  Project: 21st Century Architectural Ornamentation
• Carol Prusa, associate professor, Florida Atlantic University
  Project: Innies and Outies Unification Series: An Investigation of “Wonderfully Strange Ideas” (Expressed in Domes and Quantum Foam)
• Mat Rappaport, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  Project: Office, A Multichannel Video Installation and Performance
• Rigo 23, independent artist
  Project: Criminal/Victim

The 2007-08 fellows in history of art and architecture:

• Alexander Alberro, associate professor, University of Florida
  Project: Periodizing Contemporary Art
• William Gleason, associate professor, Princeton University
  Project: Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature
• Robin Greeley, associate professor of art history, University of Connecticut
  Project: Between Campesino and State: the Mexican Avant-garde and Images of the Nation, 1920-1952
• Max Page, associate professor of architecture and history, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
  Project: Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation was established in 1952 by Nicea Howard in memory of her grandparents. Its stated purpose is to aid the personal development of promising individuals at the crucial middle stages of their careers. The Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in fields selected on a rotation of topics. The Board of Administration announced that fellowships in 2008-09 will be awarded in the fields of music, playwriting, and theater studies.

For more information, visit brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/.

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