Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Recipients

2024

Backström, Fia, "West Virginia Condensed – Mythic / Real" at the Archives of American Art and the National Museum of American History with Jacob Proctor. 

Burge, Victoria, "The Cosmic Ornament" at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with Kimberly Randall. 

Chishty, Mahwish, "Bridging Traditional Art with Contemporary Realities of War" at the National Museum of Air and Space and National Museum of Asian Art with Roger Connor. 

Gómez López, Ana María, "Bioscope" at the National Museum of Natural History, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Hans-Dieter Sues. 

Mesías, José Manuel, "The Conspiracy of Images. From the Haitian Revolution to the Book of Paintings of Aponte" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery with Paul Gardullo. 

Mundt, Jeanette, "The Ideological Sway of Landscapes: Making Paintings from Writings" at the Archives of American Art and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with Emily D. Shapiro. 

Pinkusevich, Yulia, “Inscribing Fallout: Visualizing Casualties of the Cold War" at the National Air and Space Museum with Michael Hankins. 

Roberts, LJ, “Champion: Portraits of LGBT2SI+ Athletes" at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Air and Space Museum with Charlotte Ickes. 

Smoke Santiago, Natasha, “Champion: Portraits of LGBT2SI+ Athletes" at the National Museum of the American Indian with Matthew Sanger. 

Tsouhlarakis, Anna, “The Strength of Her Shadow" at the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of American History with Rebecca Trautmann and Gwyneira Isaac.

2023

Biggers, Sanford, "To research the use and meaning behind various patterns, symbols and design motifs used in masks, objects and textiles" at the National Museum of African Art with Kevin Doumouchelle.

Demirjian, Andrew, A New History of the Future at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Museum of American History with Emily Orr and Abeer Saha.

Dill, Lesley, Healing With Unseen Energies at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of American History with Leslie Umberger and Katherine Ott.

Donkor, Godfried, Out of the Archive at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives with Karen E. Milbourne and Pamela M. Hansen.

Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, Nicolás, All Portraits are Mirrors: Latinidad/Latinixidad within the U.S.-American Imaginary at the National Portrait Gallery with Taína Caragol.

Harper, Jana, Looking for Nanaboozhoo at the National Museum of the American Indian with Rebecca Trautmann, Joshua Bell and David Penney.

Mattai, Suchitra, Sentient Bodies, Sacred Spaces at the National Museum of Asian Art with Emma Stein.

Mayer, Anna, Inherited Fragments and Intentional Erosion at the Archives of American Art and National Museum of American History with Josh Franco and Bonnie Campbell Lilienfeld.

McDonald, Martha, Homemade Music: Tracing the Evolution of the Appalachian Dulcimer at the National Museum of American History and Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with John Troutman and Jeff Place.

Oppenheim, Lisa, Ancient Libraries for Future Reference at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Museum Conservation Institute with John Jacob McEvoy and Shannon Brogdon-Grantham.

Ricketts, Rowland, Imagery & Materials in American Coverlets: the invisible forces that shaped our nation at the National Museum of American HIstory with Modupe Labode

Roland, Sherrill, Your Letters are the Footprints I See in the Sand. at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Smithsonian American Art Museum with Paul Gardullo, Michelle Wilkinson and Sarah Newman.

Tossin, Clarissa, Preserving Life in Space at the National Air and Space Museum with Matthew Shindell and Carolyn Russo.

Vargas Lugo, Pablo, Bat imagination at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Rachel Page and Inga Geipel.

Russell, Amy, Gathering Material from Single Parent Out-takes at the National Museum of Natural History with Joshua Bell.

Mozari, Milad, Reverberations of the Radif: connections between classical Persian and electronic music from the Archive at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Dave Walker and Halsey Burgund.

ZOUBIR, Amina, Unfold the past body of desire, a north african erotic exoticism at the National Museum of African Art with Karen E . Milbourne.

2021

Al-Ani, Jananne, Time Travellers  at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Massumeh Farhad

Al-Hadid, Diana, Artists and innovators working during the Islamic Golden Age at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum with Massumeh Farhad and Sarah Newman

Bayjoo, Shiraz, The Coral Continent: Language and fluidity on the Swahili Coast at the National Museum of African Art and Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Karen Milbourne and Massumeh Farhad

de la Torre, Milagros, Patterns and Diagrams: The Face as an Experiment at the National Portrait Gallery with Leslie Urena and Charlotte Ickes

Eshetu, Theo, Fragile Languages at the National Museum of African Art and National Museum of Natural History with Karen Milbourne and Joshua Bell

Ghani, Mariam, Dis-Ease at the National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian American Art Museum with Sabrina Sholts and Saisha Grayson

Knight, Autumn, Humor and Radical Resistance at the National Portrait Gallery and Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Dorothy Moss and Diana N'Diaye

Lassalle-Morillo, Natalia, Cómo desde la ausencia, imaginamos la distancia (How from absence, we imagine distance) at the National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History with Antonio Curet and Jake Homiak

Leyva Novo, Reynier, Homeland, Death and Sugar. The slave trade from the Caribbean to the United States of America at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with Mary Elliott and Betsy Johnson

Mazzotta, Matthew, If people can sit together, they can dream together: Examining metamorphosing furniture at the Cooper Hewitt at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with Cindy Trope

Pinder, Jefferson, Black Nostalgia, Black Joy at the National Museum of African American History and Culture with Blake McDowell and Rhea Combs

Valenzuela, Rodrigo, The Unwaged at the National Museum of American History with Margaret Salazar-Porzio

VanDerBeek, Sara, Future Variations at the Archives of American Art with Jacob Proctor

Von Mertens, Anna, Structuring the Light: The Story of Dark Matter at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with Christine Forman

2020

Adeagbo, GeorgesAn Artistic inquiry on Abraham Lincolns motivations to abolish slavery and the impact of his decisions until our days, at the National Museum of American History with Nancy Bercaw and Harry Rubenstein.

Agha, Anila QuayyumA Place to Call Home, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum & Archives of American Art with Nora Atkinson and Sarah Newman.

Almanza Pereda, AlejandroAll the water under the bridge, the moon and the stars, at the National Air and Space Museum with Teasel Muir-Harmony.

Apostol, AlexanderThe Political Portrait and Queer Portrait in the Staging of Power, at the National Portrait Gallery with Leslie Ureña and Taina Caragol.

Bensahel, ChloeSoft Ware, at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with Susan Brown and Alana Staiti.

Bouton, Ligia, Mount Holyoke College, A Time Capsule in Glass: Stellar Variables and the Life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics with Kelly Korreck.

Fernandes, Brendan, Northwestern University, Seat and Power: Reflections on Cultural Exchanges Between the Goan and Kenyan Experience, at the National Museum of African Art with Karen Milbourne, Kevin Dumouchelle and Saisha Grayson.

Gardner, Tia-Simone, at the National Museum of American History with Crytal Moten.

Harvey, EllenLOVE/LOSS/USA, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Sarah Newman.

Luger, Cannupa HanskaA Way Home, at the National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History with Ann McMullen and Gwyneira Isaac.

Mutiti, Nontsikelelo, Virginia Commonwealth University, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, at the National Museum of African Art and National Museum of American History with Karen Milbourne and Ellen Feingold.

Pavlovic, Vesna, Vanderbilt University, Fast Obsolescence, at the Archives of American Art with Josh Franco and Joshua Bell.

Quevedo, RonnyManual Labor in Pre-Columbian Works, at the National Museum of the American Indian with David Penney and Josh Franco.

Skawennati, Concordia University, Dressing Indigenous Avatars, at the National Museum of the American Indian with Rebecca Trautmann.

Vantu, Quynh, University College London, Breaking Bread: the hospitality of the dining table, at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Yao-Fen You and Frank Feltens.

Young, Carey, Slade School of Fine Art, Stranger than Fiction: Law and Art within the Archives of American Art, at the Archives of American Art with Josh Franco and Robyn Asleson.

2019

Báez, Firelei, Daughter of Revolution (landless Antropofaga who could fly between the Artibonite and the Mississippi) at the National Museum of African American History and Culture with Joanna Hyppolite.

Bass, Holly, And the Cotton is High at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with Michelle J. Wilkinson.

Bhimji, Zarina, Ruby at the National Museum of African Art with Karen Milbourne and Janet Stanley.

Dasgupta, Priyanka, The Unforgettable Bobby Alam at the National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American History with Leslie Urena and Theodore Gonzalvez.

Eeraerts, Elise, Natural and Anthopogenic Transformations of Soil at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Megonigal.

Gallisá Muriente, Sofía, What Remains at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and National Museum of American History with Christina De Leon.

Kuujus, Jaad (Meghann O'Brien), Tied Together: Chilkat Weaving and Abstract Expressionism at the National Museum of the American Indian with Paul Chaat Smith and Susan Brown.

Makonnen, Tsedaye, Use the research conducted as a Smithsonian fellow to create visual art that will shed light on this current re-enactment of humans as cargo. at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries with Janet Stanley and Diana N'Diaye.

Marshall, Chad, The Unforgettable Bobby Alam at the National Portrait Gallery with Leslie Urena and Theodore Gonzalves.

Modupeola, A Century of Swimming at the National Museum of African Art with Karen Milbourne.

Qureshi, Imran, Dialogue with Tradition at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Carol Huh.

Sifuentes, Roberto, Exsanguination: Marking and Re-Mapping Our Geopolitical and Racialized Bodies Through Research into Leeches and Bloodletting as an Act of Violence... at the Archives of American Art and National Museum of Natural History with Anna Phillips.

Syjuco, Stephanie, The Colonial Ersatz: Investigating the Photographic Legacy of the 1904 World?s Fair at the National Museum of American History with David Haberstich.

2018

Corral, Adriana, Unearthing the Truth at the Archives of American Art and National Museum of American History with Steve Velasquez and Josh Franco.

Ekpuk, Victor, Objects & Stories; Excavating Memories of the Middle Passage at the National Museum of Afican Art with Christine Kreamer and Paul Gardullo.

Glow, Beatrice, Tobacco: From Cultural Roots to Digital Smoke Signals at the National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American History with Leslie Urena and Asma Naeem.

Jackson, Ayana, Drexciya: African Water Spirits and the Black Atlantic at the National Museum of African Art and National Museum of African American History and Culture with Karen Milbourne and Diana N'Diaye.

Jo, Clara, Interrogating the global health crisis through the lens of immersive installation at the National Zoological Park with Suzan Murray.

Kurant, Agnieszka, Hybrid Objects at the National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural History with Arthur Molella and Joshua Bell.

LeGear, Ruth, Sensitive Chaos at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and National Museum of Natural History with Thomas Jordan and Nancy Knowlton.

Mikalson, Ander, A Still, Small Voice: Investigating the History of Vocalization Through Scientific Instrumentation at the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Institution Libraries with Kristen Frederick-Frost and Lilla Vekerdy.

Ogunbiyi, Temitayo, Boundaries in Nature at the National Museum of African Art and National Museum of Natural History with Karen Milbourne and Gary Krupnick.

RedStar, Wendy, Crow Indian Delegations of 1873-1920 - Shaping The Future of the Crow Nation at the National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History with Emil Her Many Horses and Candace Greene.

Rosen-Queralt, Jann, The Poetry of Filter Feeders at the National Museum of Natural History with Nancy Knowlton and Karen Osborn

Shapiro, Mark, Ceramics at the National Museum of American History and Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Bonnie Campbell Lilienfeld and Louise Cort.

Wulia, Maria, Mosquitoes in My Passports: Artistic Survey of Nonhuman Agents in Migration and Geopolitics at the National Museum of Natural History with Yvonne Linton.

Yamamoto, Lynne, Of Time and Place at the National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural History with Cedric Yeh and Joshua Bell.

2017

Ballengee, Brandon, Crude Life: An Art and Science Investigation of Gulf of Mexico Fishes during the Anthropocene at the National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian American Art Museum with Lynne Parenti and Joanna Marsh.

Brooks, David, An Atlas of the Lost World at the National Museum of Natural History with Lynne Parenti.

Caballero, Krista, Birding the Future at the National Museum of Natural History with Gwyneira Isaac.

Candiani, Maria, The moment of Invention. Forgotten Wonders and the Journey of Technological Language at the National Museum of American History with Alison Oswald, Lila Vekerdy and Joyce Bedi.

Davila, Maria, Imagined Cosmos at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and National Museum of African Art with Susan Brown and Matilda McQuaid.

Ekeberg, Frank, Birding the Future at the National Museum of Natural History with Gwyneira Isaac.

Fagbohoun, Dimitri, recollection at the National Museum of African Art with Karen Milbourne and Amy Staples.

Hope, Laurel, Adaptation at the National Zoological Park with Peter Marra and Edward Bronikowski.

Hopkins, Samuel, Warren Robbins and the Afo-A-Kom at the National Museum of African Art and Smithsonian Institution Archives with Karen Milbourne.

Kyambi, Syowia, Modes of Resistance & Repair: The Transatlantic Trajectory for Women Artists of Colour at the National Museum of African Art and National Museum of African American History & Culture with Karen Milbourne, Nancy Bercaw and Christine Kreamer.

Orrantia, Juan, Why would so small a country at the National Museum of African Art with Amy Staples and Karen Milbourne.

Otitigbe, Eto, Looking Forward While Glancing Back ? Examination of Urhobo Culture and Historical Objects to Develop Frameworks for Contemporary Art Practice at the National Museum of African Art with Christine Kreamer.

Portillo, Eduardo, Imagined Cosmos at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and National Museum of African Art with Susan Brown and Matilda McQuaid

Siegel, Amie, Object Relations at the National Museum of the American Indian with Risa Arbolino.

Sures, Lynn, THE NEXUS OF BEING AND PLACE: INTERPRETING HUMAN ORIGINS at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Potts.

Terpstra, Rein, Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train: The People's View at the National Museum of American History with David Haberstich.

Washington, Rico, Invisible Cities at the Anacostia Community Museum with Samir Meghelli.

 

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