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PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS IN VES

Artist Development Fellowships
Artist Development Fellowships are awarded annually by the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to support student development in the practice of the arts. Fellowships are available to individuals for any of the following purposes:

  • For research and development of unusual artistic projects that are in the early stages of development.
  • For domestic or international travel and housing in order to apprentice and/or work with individual artists, programs, and/or companies.
  • To support artistic projects with a strong link to the curriculum and/or to a special concentration, thesis, or independent study.
  • For interdisciplinary work—not necessarily work that combines art forms, but work that links the artistic/creative process to a wholly different field in a way that sheds new perspective on and/or understanding of each.


For further information about Artist Development Fellowships and application dates:
www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/fellowships/artist.htm

Sydney M. Williams, Jr. Traveling Fellowship for the Visual Arts
The Sydney M. Williams, Jr. Traveling Fellowship will provide small grants to qualified Harvard College students making original works of art who wish to travel abroad (primarily during the summer) in order to advance a specific creative project in the visual arts. For further information about the Williams Traveling Fellowship and application dates: www.fas.harvard.edu/~oip/resources/williams.html

George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship
Provides a year of purposeful postgraduate travel for Harvard students to supplement their formal education through immersion in a foreign culture. For further information about the Gardner Traveling Fellowship as well as other traveling fellowship application dates: www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/fellowships/calendar

Michael Gill Fellowship 2008
The Michael Gill Fellowship provides a stipend of $5,000 to support a documentary project in film or video in the United Kingdom. The Fellowship commemorates the distinguished achievement of Michael Gill, who made many films on both sides of the Atlantic, including the series Civilisation (1969) and Alistair Cooke’s America. It will be awarded in even-numbered years to a Harvard student. In odd-numbered years a parallel fellowship will allow a graduate of the National Film and Television School of the U.K. to pursue a documentary film or video project in the United States. The Gill Fellowship is open to any current student of film or video in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Applicants must submit both a c.v. and a short description of the proposed project on the application form and should be prepared to submit one or more films or videotapes if requested. The application deadline is March 3, 2008.

Lenore Wilson Prize
The Lenore Wilson Prize honors the memory of a graduate of the class of 1977 whose death in 1984 cut short the career of a gifted and dedicated artist. The award is given for superior work in the area of printmaking. The prize is awarded annually to a student of printmaking in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Eligible students will be considered without application. Selection will be made by the faculty of the printmaking classes in consultation with studio arts faculty of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Further information may be obtained from the Head Tutor in VES.

Albert Alcalay Prize
Artist Albert Alcalay, former Faculty member of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, established this prize in 1986 to be awarded to the best student in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studios as judged by a departmental committee of painting, sculpture, drawing, graphic and environmental design Faculty. The competition is open to all undergraduates enrolled in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studios. Projects will be considered without special application by students. Further information may be obtained from the Head Tutor in VES.

Rudolf Arnheim Prize
The Rudolf Arnheim Prize was established in 1974 upon his retirement as Professor of the Psychology of Art. The prize is for the most outstanding project that achieves excellence through interdisciplinary effort or to the project which demonstrates excellence in scholarly research integrated with visual communication. The competition is open to all undergraduates enrolled in courses in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and working on individual projects. Projects will be considered without special application by students. Further information may be obtained from the Head Tutor in VES.

Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Thesis Competition
In 1982 a fund was established, from a bequest by Thomas T. Hoopes ’19, to grant awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research. Mr. Hoopes directed that the prizes be given for the purpose of “promoting, improving and enhancing the quality of education ... in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical or other academic subjects ... under faculty supervision and instruction ... [and] promoting excellence in the art of teaching.” The Hoopes Prize was created to recognize excellence in teaching as well as excellence in undergraduate work and requires the nomination of a faculty member. Further information may be obtained from the Head Tutor in VES.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~secfas/prize_HoopesInfo_2007-08.htm

2008 Prize Winners
Lenore Wilson Prize: Paul Whang
Albert Alcalay Prize: Katharine Woodman-Maynard
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Lewis Liu
Michael Gill Fellowship: Estelle Eonnet
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize: Rachel Whitaker

2007 Prize Winners
Lenore Wilson Prize: Amy Yoshitsu
Albert Alcalay Prize: Georgina Sanchez
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Jose Lorenzo Camacho
Hoopes Prize Recipients in VES: Travis Wood, Alexa Bush, Georgina Sanchez

2006 Prize Winners
Lenore Wilson Prize: Chole Stinetorf
Albert Alcalay Prize: Greg Gagnon
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Jane Van Cleef

2005 Prize Winners
Lenore Wilson Prize in Printmaking: Tim Pittman
Albert Alcalay Prize: Bea Camacho
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Cara Zimmerman

2004 Prize Winners
Lenore Wilson Prize in Printmaking: Andy Sfeir
Albert Alcalay Prize: Thenji Nkosi, Meredith James
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Brian Goldstein

2003 Prize Winners
Albert Alcalay Prize: Liz Glynn
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Ceridwen Dovey, Jacob Richman, Michael Wang
Lenore Wilson Prize: Christine DeLucia

2002 Prize Winners
Albert Alcalay Prize: Carlin Wing
Rudolf Arnheim Prize: Kurt Mueller
Lenore Wilson Prize: Lisa Haber-Thomson and Kaii Tu