Congratulations to SMFA faculty Jane Gillooly and alumnus Arnold J. Kemp (CD '91), who were just named 2012 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Just 181 scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada were chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants from a variety background and fields of study. Since its establishment in 1925, the Foundation has granted over $298 million in Fellowships to more than 17,300 individuals.

Jane Gillooly is a nonfiction and narrative film/video maker whose work is inspired and informed by a century of nonfiction filmmaking, silent and vintage cinema, and activism. Gillooly consistently surprises as she crosses new boundaries and confronts new subjects with her distinctive vision. The Suitcase of Love and Shame repurposes historical material for use in time-based media collage and is the culmination of an evolving filmography.

The work of Arnold J. Kemp emerges from his enduring interest in combining aspects of identity-based art with post-minimal and conceptual strategies.

He states: "My work is open in terms of medium and it leaves room for laughter, as, in our current cultural moment, perhaps that is all we have. My emphasis is on process, experimentation and content where the end product is a by-product of experimentation that continues outside of the studio in how the work meets the public. This often happens outside of the formal gallery system in the form of lecture/performances, limited edition artists' books, and art objects. At the heart of my process of probing issues of personal and collective realities is a desire and potential for locating imagination, thought and emotion in objects, images and texts."

Read more about the 2012 Fellows.