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Bartlett and Montague Travel Grants
These endowed awards are designated
specifically for
Master of Fine Arts graduate
students for
international and
national
travel that
will aid these students
in their studio practice and
graduate study. All current full
time MFA graduate
students are
eligible to
apply.
Bartlett
Fund Recipients
Montague Fund Recipients
Bartlett
Fund Recipients
Bartlett travel funds
are available to Master of Fine
Arts
graduate students for national
travel
Awards in
2006
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November
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Janine
Biunno
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Janine
Biunno traveled to Las
Vegas to
photograph current and
used city signage to in
relation to
that city’s
architecture.
Sara
Jones
traveled to
Memphis, TN
to document in film and
digital
photography structures that embody safeness,
warmth, and the
comfortable. Sara
will
use these images she creates from
her
grandparents’ home to
complete her
thesis exhibition in
video and
painting.
Dawit Petros created film
footage in Red Rock
Canyon State Park, California as part of the film and
performance
pieces “The Ocean Wave and Western
Longings” that
are part of a
group
of art works
considering the travels of
Dutch Artist Bas Ader and the
Western Frontier of American
history within the
context of western
migrations of
non-European
Diaspora.
June
Darren Miller was an artist in residence at
Blue
Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake,NY where he used
local
businesses as the
settings for photograpghic projects
exploring queer
agit-prop
narratives.
April
Karen L.
Schiff
traveled to
Cuba,
New Mexico to research
Agnes Martin's
adobe house,
and its connection to
Martin’s painting techniques.
March
Julie Miller traveled to
Los
Angeles
to shoot film
and
video based on the city’s
urban environment and indigenous
light
for her
film/animation
project “The Los Angeles
Project” centered on that
area’s
landscape
people,
cars, and buildings.
Eileen Yaghoobian
traveled to Providence, Rhode
Island to compete film footage.
Awards in
2005
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September
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Candice
Ivy
| Candice Ivy traveled to
South Carolina to participate
in
the Sumter South
Carolina Invitational Festival and
to install two site specific pieces related
to her
work in her thesis exhibition.
Montague Fund
Recipients
Montague travel funds are
available to Master of
Fine Arts graduate students
for international travel.
Awards in
2006
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December
Benjamin
Tiven has received funds to
collect video and film
photography
in locations in
Paris, Rouen, and Le Havre,
France
to construct a video
room based on aspects of the lives of
mathematician
Andre Weil and his
sister, religious
philosopher,
Simone Weil.
November
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Dawit Petros
| Dawit Petros completed the final part
of a four part
photo-performance piece restaging Glenn Gould’s train ride to the
Artic
Circle in 1967. t
raveling to Churchill,
Manitoba, Dawit
documented the train ride
north,
recorded sounds and visuals of the
Aurora Borealis and
constructed a
temporary dome sculpture in the
landscape.
Matthew
Meta attended the Performance
Studies international
conference in London,
England
specifically
focusing on global performance art.
April
Lucy
Beecher and Brad
Nelson traveled to Amsterdam, Holland for exhibitions
related
to the
Rembrandt 400 celebration and begin
studies for
a series of
baroque style
portraits.
March
Eileen
Yaghoobian
traveled to
Montreal,
Canada to compete film
footage.
Awards in
2005
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December
Benjamin
Tiven traveled to
Turkey to film
the solar
eclipse and create art work
related to
notions of time in
the
classical
world.
November
Shelley
Zatsky traveled to
Cuba with the
Tufts
winter session program to document the Hemingway
House in
Cuba as
part of
her thesis work on using
images from
the World Monuments Watch
List of the 100
most endangered
sites internationally.
October
Vasia
Markides journeyed to
Cyprus
to produce a video documentary on the
unification
of Greek and
Turkish boarder towns
in
Cyprus.
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