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2011: Ani Avanian

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

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

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

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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2008: Angela Speece

2008: Angela Speece

Monday, September 28, 2009
Angela Speece (Bartlett Fund) traveled to New Orleans to present a paper on her studio work and research at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), September 24-27, 2008. Her presentation titled "Blind Collaboration—Exploring the Child Within" focuses on her artistic process with children. Angela's compositions provoke contemplation and debate about who actually created the work. By merging children's nave artistic characteristics with her own trained experience, the child and adult coincide in an interchangeable and ambiguous dialogue. This collaborative practice brings into question set assumptions about the art of children and art itself.
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2008: Georgie Friedman

2008: Georgie Friedman

Monday, September 28, 2009
Georgie Friedman (Montague Fund) traveled to Iceland to film some of their diverse natural elements, where she spent an amazing seven days, with almost 24 hours of light every day, gorgeous rare clouds and constantly changing scenery. Several video projects include footage from the Jkulsrln Glacial Iceberg Lagoon, the Strokkur Geyser and the Seljalandsfoss Waterfall.
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2008: Sunwong Yun

2008: Sunwong Yun

Monday, September 28, 2009
Sungwon Yun (Bartlett Fund) visited several sacred locations in the American West to research Native American site works and Earthworks created during the 1960s and 1970s. The trip exposed her to sacred Native sites on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, Spiral Jetty, The Lightening Fields and Ute Mountain Tribal Park. Experiencing the landscape, camping, and working outside of an urban context was influential to her practice.
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2008: Tara Hill

Monday, September 28, 2009
Tara Hill (Montague Fund) traveled to the Krinjing village, at the base of Mt. Merapi in Java, Indonesia to participate in the "Global Warming Global Warning" performance festival organized by the Indonesian Performance Klub.
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