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2012: Leah Craig Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Leah Craig (Montague Fund) travelled in July 2012 to Rome and Florence to see the original Forum and Colosseum, as well as the original counterparts to a number of Las Vegas's faux Roman sculptures. She choreographed and performed an intervention in the urban landscape that involves movements, gestures and poses that are derived from her experience in the corresponding Las Vegas landscape. She documented the performance with photography, video and sound in a work, titled "When in/What happens in/Stays in."
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2012: Joanna Tam Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Joanna Tam (Montague Fund) traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in the summer of 2012. The travel grant allowed her to attended IPA Summer, a performance festival organized by the International Performance Association in partnership with maumau art residency and Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association. The festival included a week-long workshop and conference. Joanna had a piece in the festival titled "Cok Tessekur Ederim," which involved writing and speaking at the same time.
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2012: Heidi Reynolds Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Heidi Reynolds (Montague Fund) travelled to Accra, Ghana to work as an intern with the Cross Cultural Collaborative and teach an art workshop to Ghanaian youth for two and a half weeks in the spring of 2012.
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2011: Sarah Hill Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sarah Hill (Montague Fund) travelled to Thailand from December 29–January 20, 2012 to work with her father and other family members on a her film project titled "Flesh Prison." Her videos are based off of performative actions involving gender as code. Her thesis "Flesh Prison" started with her baptism and ended with the digging of her own grave; she emerges from her grave as a male-bodied person.
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2011: Ani Avanian Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Ani Avanian (Montague Fund) spent a month in Armenia, including several weeks in a remote village without internet or any electronic dependencies. The resulting work is "Project Disconnect."
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2011: Daisy Patton Friday, November 18, 2011
Daisy Patton (Montague Fund) visited museums and historical sites in Dresden to gain a clearer understanding of what might have motivated the Dresden tourists to take their ill-fated journey to Death Valley in 1996.
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2011: Cathy McLaurin Friday, November 18, 2011
Cathy McLaurin (Montague Fund) traveled in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, Glasgow and Sawry, England from February 10–March 2, 2011.
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2010: Arhia Kohlmoos Friday, November 11, 2011
Arhia Kohlmoos (Montague Fund) traveled to Amsterdam in August of 2010, where she spent eight days studying Dutch art and culture.
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2009: Biying Zhang Thursday, November 10, 2011
Biying Zhang (Montague Fund) traveled to China from December 2009 through January 2010 to explore the differences between Chinese behavior in China and Chinese behavior in the US, with a special emphasis on current events following the Beijing Olympics and the US economic crisis.
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2009: Chen Zhang Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Chen Zhang (Montague Fund) traveled to Changsha and Shenzhen, China in December of 2009 to compose a series of photographs dealing with pig's feet as the nexus of a complex group of significations, having to do with home, purity and cultural estrangement.
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