2008-09 Mex-Am Fellowship Winners

Posted on 06/03/2008 by VSC

2008-2009 Winners, Alternates and Honorable Mentions

The VSC Mex-Am Cultural Foundation Fellowship Program for Mexican Visual Artists was founded in 1992. The award winner receives a one-month Residency at the Studio Center which includes housing, all meals, studio space, round-trip airfare between Mexico and Vermont, and a $200 allowance for art materials.A distinguished jury selects the award winner and alternates from among the artists who apply.

Winner
Emilia Sandoval Gonzalez,
Oaxaca, Painting / Mixed Media

Sandoval, a resident of Oaxaca and a native of Chihuahua, Mexico, works in a variety of visual-arts genres, including assemblage, photography, installation and sculpture. She has exhibited widely throughout Mexico.

Alternate
Lucila Santiago Oropeza,
Mazatlan Sin, Painting

Honorable Mention
Said Alanis Cortes,
Mexico City, Painting

Pablo Suárez,
Atizapan de Zaragoza, Sculpture

NEWS

JOEL FISHER

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, June 2008

Joel Fisher (b. 1947, Salem, OH) received a B.A. from Kenyon College. He has exhibited in Berlin, London, Paris and Amsterdam. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Staatliche Museum, Berlin. He has taught at RISD, Bath Academy of Art in England, and currently at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Fisher lives and works in Brooklyn, Vermont, and Paris.

LEONARDO DREW

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist

(b. 1969), BFA Cooper Union in 1985. Drew has shown in institutions such as the Hirschhorn, the Smithsonian, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Art Museum, and St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Vermont Studio Center, in the spring of 1990. He divides his time between New York and Texas.