Photo courtesy of Emily Pilloton-Lam/Girls Garage
Professor Michelle Grabner, Professor Diana Guerrero-Maciá, and alums william cordova (BFA 1996), Emil Ferris (BFA 2008, MFA 2010), and Dread Scott (BFA 1989) were announced as 2021 Guggenheim Fellows. Every year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships to a diverse group of writers, scholars, artists, and scientists.
During the course of the semester students read historical environmental texts, research current institutions and non-profits activating change around the world, and watch key documentaries on Climate Accords, Water Privatization, the state of our rivers, and pollution of plastic in the ocean.
Four SAIC alums are reimagining the literary reading model with their series Exhibit B.
With the opening of Promise, Witness, Remembrance at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, curator Allison Glenn (Dual MA 2012) is changing the way museums comment on the present day.
