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Diaspora Blues in the Arts of the Pacific
Samoan | Ceremonial Tapa Cloth
Samoan, Ceremonial Tapa Cloth, UMFA1972.034.001.

Monique Ho Ching—advocate, future curator, community activist, lover of shoes, and proud Art Ambassador at the UMFA

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Women’s Work in the American West: Teaching with Primary Sources (Work-in-Progress)

Julia Huddleston, graduate student, Department of History, College of Humanities

The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, Land Art and the American West,” a joint initiative between the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award fosters innovative, collections-based scholarship and creativity while highlighting the strengths of the UMFA’s and Marriott’s collections.

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Utah’s Women Artists and the American West, c. 1890-1950 (Work-in-Progress)

 Emily Larsen, graduate student, Department of History, College of Humanities

The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, Land Art and the American West,” a joint initiative between the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award fosters innovative, collections-based scholarship and creativity while highlighting the strengths of the UMFA’s and Marriott’s collections.

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Learning Art: What Makes Art Western? (Work-in-Progress)

Cody Fitzgerald, China Mauck, Rebecca Hardenbrook, graduate students in the Department of Math, College of Science, and Kiki Karahalios, graduate student in the Department of Art & Art History in the College of Fine Arts

The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, Land Art and the American West,” a joint initiative between the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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The Great Salt Lake: Myths, Birds, Salt (Work-in-Progress)

Samyak Shertok, PhD student in Creative Writing, Department of English, College of Humanities

The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, Land Art and the American West,” a joint initiative between the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award fosters innovative, collections-based scholarship and creativity while highlighting the strengths of the UMFA’s and Marriott’s collections.

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Papermaking the Great Salt Lake (Work-in-Progress)

Emily Tipps, Book Arts Faculty, J. Willard Marriott Library

The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, Land Art and the American West,” a joint initiative between the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award fosters innovative, collections-based scholarship and creativity while highlighting the strengths of the UMFA’s and Marriott’s collections.