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The Arts/Art Studies
Marc Adelman (2003-04)
Marc Adelman received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2007. His interdisciplinary practice incorporates video, installation, performance, and photography. He received his BA from San Francisco State University in 2001, and co-founded Flux Theatre Company the same year. He spent his fellowship year researching contemporary performance and theater in Berlin, and was an intern at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz with Sasha Waltz & Guests Dance Company. He has returned to Berlin twice to undertake new art projects via the Foundation's alumni support program (2007 & 2009). During these research and work periods, he completed three new video works: "Regard Your Soldiers As Your Children," "Märchenbrunnen," and "He Didn't Know Fassbinder." These pieces and others have been exhibited in galleries and film festivals in the U.S. as well as Europe. He is a finalist for a Fulbright Full Grant to Germany for 2010-1011. www.marcadelman.com(3/2/10)
Cristina Ashjian (1995-96)
Art historian Cristina Ashjian is an independent scholar based in New England. Presently involved in a number of historic preservation projects, she is also the Chair of the recently established Heritage Commission in Moultonborough, New Hampshire. As a German Chancellor Fellow at the University of Munich, Cristina completed archival research for her doctoral dissertation "Representing 'Scènes et Types': Wassily Kandinsky in Tunisia, 1904-1905" (Northwestern University 2001). She earned her M.A. in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1992), and a B.S. in Languages (German and Italian) from Georgetown University in Washington DC (1988)(Write to info@americanfriends-of-avh.org for email address.) (10/06/09)
Kathleen Forde (2002-03)
Since 2005, Kathleen has held the position of Curator for Time-Based Visual Arts at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY. Prior to this position she was the Exhibitions and Program Coordinator at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Kathleen worked as Curatorial Director for Live Arts and New Media for the Goethe Forum in Berlin. She concurrently curates on a freelance basis for various organizations and museums that include Independent Curators International, VideoZone, Tel Aviv; ATA Cultural, Peru; Kunstverein Düsseldorf; Kunstverein Cologne; SFMOMA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia. (7/2/09)
Eliza Garrison (2000-01)
Eliza is Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she conducted research for her dissertation, "The Art Policy of Emperor Henry II (1002-1024)." While in Germany, she was affiliated with the Staatsbibliothek in Bamberg, where she conducted much of her work for the dissertation project. She also conducted research in libraries in Berlin and Munich. (12/2/09)
Julie Anne (Phaneuf) Hausmann (1998-99)
Julie lives in the Boston area, works as a fundraising consultant for arts and cultural organizations, teaches voice, and performs with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. She has spent more than 15 years working in arts administration for the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Huntington Theatre Company and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, with a focus on fundraising and special events management. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Julie worked in the Press and Marketing Office at the Stuttgart State Opera, where she researched the differences between American and German arts management and funding. (12/8/09)
Jessica Knapp (2006-07)
Jessica works as resident artist and volunteer studio technician in the ceramics department at San Diego State University, where she is also on the administrative staff in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is completing a large scale installation piece made of porcelain components for a group show at the Oceanside Museum of Art, set to open in June 2006. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she will work on creative projects at the Ceramic Center Berlin as a resident artist. In support of her creative work, her teaching and her writing about ceramic art, she plans to research German concepts of architectural and natural environments, the history of the use of porcelain in Germany, and contemporary German ceramic artists. Near the end of her residency, she will exhibit the artwork at the Ceramic Center Berlin’s gallery space. Jessica graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder in December 2003 with an MFA in Ceramics, and from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania with a BA in English and a BFA in Crafts. (5/15/06)
Jason Mannix (2009-10)
Jason is currently a senior graphic designer at Doyle Partners in New York. He holds a B.A. in English and a minor in art from James Madison University. As a Chancellor Fellow, Jason will explore the craft of font design and Germany's rich typographic tradition. Specifically, the project will focus on the technical nuance and evolution of Blackletter script and its historic rivalry with Roman type. He will be working with Robert Strauch of the Typographische Gesellschaft München e.V. to draw and produce a completely original typeface. (7/2/09)
Elizabeth Otto (2004-05)
As a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin, Libby curated the exhibition “Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt” which was shown at the Bauhaus-Archiv, Harvard’s Busch Reisinger Museum, and the International Center of Photography in New York, and she published a substantial catalogue to accompany the show. She was also selected as one of two members of her BuKa class to meet with the incoming 2006-07 Russian Bukas in Moscow. Libby has studied in the U.S., Korea, France, Canada, and Germany, and she completed her doctorate in Art History at the University of Michigan in 2003. Her scholarly essays include a forthcoming article in New German Critique; she is the co-editor of The New Woman International: Photographic Representations from the 1870s through the 1930s (forthcoming in 2010) and author of a forthcoming book on photomontage and masculinity at the Bauhaus. Libby is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art, gender and representation, and the history of photography. (6/26/09)
Gene Ray (1996-97)
Gene has been developing a collaborative practice that combines critical scholarship with situational activism, art-making and cultural performance. In the mode of critical scholarship, he writes about issues at the intersections of art, politics and ethics. The editor of Joseph Beuys: Mapping the Legacy (2001), he contributed an essay to Territories (A. Franke and E. Weizman, eds., 2003) and has published in Third Text, Yale Journal of Criticism, Afterimage, Dissent, Freitag, and Alternative Press Review. His new book of essays, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory, was published in 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan. (5/9/05)
Christopher Salter (1993-94)
Christopher is a media artist, director and composer based in Montréal, Canada, and Berlin, Germany. He develops and produces large-scale, multi-media and interactive environments which merge space, vision and sound. Christopher studied economics and philosophy at Emory University and completed a Ph.D. in theater and computer-generated sound at Stanford University. As a German Chancellor Fellow he collaborated with Peter Sellars and William Forsythe at the Ballett Frankfurt. In 1997, he co-founded the art and research organization Sponge, an interdisciplinary association of artists and researchers who are exploring the nexus of investigative art, speculative design and techno-scientific research. His large scale work “Chronopolis,” done in collaboration with Erik Adigard, was shown in September at La Villette Numerique in Paris and was attended by over 35,000 people. He has published widely in areas ranging from responsive music systems, performance and technology and German cultural politics. He was visiting professor in Graduate Studies and Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Brown University from 2003 to 2005 and Media Artist in Residence at Podewil, Berlin, in 2003. He is a professor for computation arts in the Design and Computation Arts Department at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. (8/26/05)
Carly Schmitt (2008-09)
Carly currently serves as owner, CEO, and lead artist of Artist @ Large, a nationally recognized mural painting business headquartered in Seattle Washington. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Communication Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. During her year as a German Chancellor Fellow, Carly will be working in alliance with the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, and under the mentorship of admired public artist Liz Bachhuber. During the fellowship year she plans to realize at least two public art interventions, develop a greater understanding of the German public art system, and cultivate connections within the community of international public artists drawn to the Bauhaus. (4/14/08)
David Schutter (2005-06)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, David’s project was based on the phenomenological relationships built between seven 17th Century Dutch paintings that are part of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin collection. He saw these seven paintings as a metonym for Berlin and memory, and as a painter, he attempted to re-make them from memory, “each new painting serving as a metaphorical palimpsest to the original image, the institutional shadings of the collection, and the influence of memory on perception.” The paintings were exhibited alongside the original Dutch works at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. They were also shown in concurrent exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and TonyWight/Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery in 2007. David is a Visiting Artist Lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at The University of Chicago. (5/22/07)
Clea Waite (1993-94)
Clea T. Waite is a research-artist whose computer animation, stereoscopic, multi-channel video-installation, hemispherical digital-film, and a collaboration with several hundred tropical spiders examine the meta-meanings found in unlikely correspondences between science and myth. As BUKA fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Clea produced "KUR", a four-dimensional film exploring the corporal perception of time in virtual and physical space. Native to New York City, she studied Electronic Optics (SB 1984) at MIT and 3D Computer Graphics and Animation (SM Visual Studies 1989) at the MIT Media Laboratory. Dividing her time between NYC and Berlin, she's held positions as Adjunct Asst. Professor - Computer Graphics, Pratt Institute, NY, and Assoc. Professor - Digital Artistic Montage, Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" at Babelsberg. She was visiting artist at CICV Center for Video Creation Pierre-Schaeffer, Montbeliard, CERN Laboratory for Nuclear Physics, Geneva, the Verkehrshaus Planetarium, Lucerne, and the ISEA Artists-in-Residence program, Singapore, with fellowships from the NEA, the KHM Cologne, Artists-in-Labs HGKZ, Zurich, and the Harvard Film Study Center / Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her works have been exhibited and received numerous prizes internationally. http://www.clea-t.de. (2/4/10)
Alena Williams (2004-05)
Alena spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow researching the historical parameters of media theory and its relationship to contemporary art and modernist artistic practice while in residence at Bootlab e.V.– Forschungs- und Technologiezentrum, a not-for-profit cultural institution in Berlin. Alena received her M.A. in 2004 from Columbia University in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in twentieth-century art and theory. Subsequent to her graduation from Harvard University in 1998, Alena was the ArtBase Coordinator at Rhizome.org, where she managed an online archive of new media art. She is also a contributor to a sourcebook on new media preservation, Permanence through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published by the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology in Montreal (2003). (2/4/10)
Deborah Zafman (1994-95)
Deborah Zafman opened her contemporary art gallery in Paris in 2004. The gallery is devoted to discovering and promoting the work of promising young artists through the production of exhibitions, catalogs and videos of the artists. The small ground-floor space in the Marais serves as a launch pad, while independently organized exhibitions abroad serve to propel them onto the international scene. She has published in Art Press and various exhibition catalogs. She earned her doctoral degree in the history of art at the University of California at Berkeley. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Deborah spent the year in Berlin conducting dissertation research on the German Romantic painter Franz Pforr and the relationship of his visual art to Sturm und Drang literature. (5/14/06)
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