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SMFA Traveling Scholars, on view from February 2–March 2, 2008, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents
work by the recipients of the prestigious Traveling Scholarships
awarded annually by the SMFA. The exhibition includes a variety of media—including photography,
installation, film, and painting—and features diverse themes and voices, which
illustrate the wide range of contemporary inquiry and individual vision
characteristic of the Museum School. The
six prize-winning artists from the 2008 exhibition include three artists from
the SMFA’s rigorous Fifth Year Certificate program: Leslie Hall, Mathew Clay Freeman, and Elizabeth H. Wallace, and three artists chosen from
alumni submissions: Bill Durgin, Will Pappenheimer, and Laurel Sparks. Since 1899, the SMFA has given
Traveling Scholarship Awards—travel grants that annually total $80,000 to
$100,000—to select Museum School alumni and Fifth Year program
students. Among the largest endowed art school grant programs in the country,
the Traveling Scholarship program provides each artist with traveling funds to
further develop and inform their work, in addition to the
opportunity to show their work at the MFA. The Traveling Scholars program has
provided critical, early career support for many distinguished graduates of the
Museum School including contemporary artists Nan
Goldin, Mike and Doug Starn, Ellen Gallagher, and Omer Fast.
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