GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS ANNOUNCED

Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, announced on Wednesday that in its eighty-fifth annual competition for the United States and Canada the foundation has awarded 180 fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars. The successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost three thousand applicants.


Winners in the arts include: Michael Ashkin, Ramin Bahrani, Dike Blair, Paul Bloodgood, Nancy Chunn, Tom Burckhardt, Francesca Fiorani, Heidi Kumao, Paul Laffoley, Jaime Lara, Thomas Lawson, Medrie MacPhee, Lenore Malen, Joanna Malinowska, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Julia Meltzer, Sarah Michelson, Suzanne Opton, Anna Shteynshleyger, Stephanie Snider, Jered Sprecher, Shirley Tse, Faith Wilding, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, Byron Glen Wolfe, and Alexi Worth.

In a press release, the foundation notes, “In a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities, and sciences, the Guggenheim Fellowship program is all the more important. The continued and ever more generous donations from friends, trustees, former fellows, and other foundations have ensured that the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will be able to continue the mission Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim set for it: to ‘add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding.’