Rockwell Center Announces 2014 Fellowship Awards
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Norman Rockwell Museum has selected four recipients for its 2014 Rockwell Center Fellowships.
Awarded through the museum’s Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the yearlong fellowships are awarded to senior scholars and museum professionals pursuing research or projects in or relating to the subject of American illustration art and visual studies.
Senior Fellowship Recipients
Alexia L. Boylan, assistant professor, is a joint appointment in the Art History Department and the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, University of Connecticut. Boylan’s research topic, "Shinn and his 'Salamander,'" is intended to be initially published as a scholarly article, as she considers whether a full-length book project on American book illustration in the 20th century is possible.
Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack (join application): Alan Lupack is the director of the Robbins Library and adjunct professor of English at the University of Rochester, N.Y., and Barbara Tepa Lupack, an independent scholar and formerly an academic dean for the State University of New York at Empire State College.
Their research topic, "Visions of Courageous Achievement: Moral Chivalry and American Arthurian Illustration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," is intended to provide a full-length essay on moral chivalry as depicted by 19th- and 20th-century American illustrators, with a preliminary bibliography to be published as part of The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester; an exhibition on the topic is to be mounted in the Robbins Library of Rush Rhees Library at the university, accompanied by a printed brochure.
Dissertation Fellowship Winner
Jennifer Stettler Parsons, fourth-year doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Art. Parson's dissertation, "John Sloan: Between Philadelphia and New York, 1892-1904," is expected for completion in spring 2015.
"Each of these proposals is strong and portends shifting changes in the scholarship of American art history and the study of American visual culture," Joyce K. Schiller, Rockwell center curator, said. "We congratulate each of our new fellows, and look forward to their research and upcoming lectures to be presented at Norman Rockwell Museum."
The Rockwell Center awards annual fellowships promoting the study of American illustration to advance understanding of the role of published images in shaping and reflecting American culture. Rockwell Center Fellowships are open to senior scholars and museum professionals choosing to pursue research or projects in or relating to the subject field of American illustration art and visual studies from diverse academic perspectives. Funding for this year’s Rockwell Center Fellowships has been provided by the Lehman Foundation.
