This fellowship is awarded to a second-year student in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art to explore issues of conservation in American art, culminating in a research paper, public lecture, and article.
Fellowship to explore issues of conservation in the field of American art, including working closely with Williamstown Art Conservation Center conservators for two semesters conserving and researching an American art object, culminating in a research paper, public lecture, and article in the WACC publication Art Conservator.
Location
227 South St, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
About
The Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellowship
Each academic year, the Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellowship is awarded to a second-year student in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. The fellowship allows recipients to explore issues of conservation in the field of American art. Working closely with Williamstown Art Conservation Center conservators, each fellow spends two semesters conserving and researching an American art object. The work culminates in a research paper, public lecture, and article in the WACC publication Art Conservator.
Fund Establishment and Administration
The Lenett Memorial Fund was established by the family and friends of the late Judith Lenett, a candidate for the M.A. degree, class of 1983, to provide lectures and seminars in American art and its conservation. The fellowship is jointly administered by WACC, Williams College, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Prerequisite
Completion of ART508 is a pre-requisite for the Fellowship.
Contact
Further information can be obtained by contacting [email protected].
Past Fellows
2026 – Charlie Qing Xu Kong
2025 – Riley Yuen
2024 — Destini Ross & Ricardo Mercado Ruiz
2023 — SJ Lim & Delaney Keenan
2019 — Nora Rosengarten
2016 —Julia Silverman Horn in the USA: Powder Horns and the Conservation of Historic Americana
2015—Haejeong Yoon The History and Conservation of a Cornucopia Mirror
2014 —Melissa Horn When the Grit Hits the Fan, Oldenburg, Pop, and the Conservation of the Everyday.
2012 — Ginia Sweeney Unburying the Past: Tracing the History of a Forgotten Man
2011 — Zöe Samels Pinning Down History: Insects, America, and the Art of John Hampson
2011 — Allison Pappas Let There Be Light: American Photojournalism and the Working Print
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2010 — Bree Lehman Monsieur Robert Was Here: From French Outcast to Hudson Valley Portraitist
2009 — R. Ruthie Dibble Tinned Americana: Secrets of an Early Connecticut Tavern Sign
2008 — Katherine Alcauskas Painting and Frame: An Interdisciplinary Study of a Colonial Portrait
2006 — Jason Vrooman Bringing a Pollock Back to Life: Revealing the Painter Beyond “Jack the Dripper”
2005 — Christine Paglia Women’s Movements: Modern Dance and a Suffragist Sculptor (Alice Morgan Wright)
2004 — Emy Kim Clyfford Still’s 1964
2003 — Jordan Kim A Byrdcliffe Colony Arts and Crafts Cabinet: Mysteries of a Mute Landscape
2002 — Rob Slifkin The Price of Play: Restoring Alexander Calder’s “Futuristic Toys for Advanced Kids”
2001 — Jennifer Cabral Fugitive Media, Forgotten Meanings: Conserving a 1950s American Collage
2000 — Adam Greenhalgh “Lowering, strange, almost awful”: Sanford R. Gifford’s Twilight in the Catskills
1999 — Austen Barron Bailly Bold Colors, Rough Supports: The Watercolor Technique of Charles Hovey Pepper
1998 — Mikka Gee Conway Jose Clemente Orozco’s The Epic of American Civilization: Preparatory Drawings and Methods
1997 — Ashley West Restoring Meaning: The Story of a Cradleboard from the Berkshire Museum
1996 — Sue Canterbury Anatomy of an Attribution: Frederic Remington’s R11 Bronco Buster
1995 — Lydia Hemphill As the Wind Blows: The Historical Investigation and Conservation of a Nineteenth- Century Painted Metal Weathervane
Fellowship to explore issues of conservation in the field of American art, including working closely with Williamstown Art Conservation Center conservators for two semesters conserving and researching an American art object, culminating in a research paper, public lecture, and article in the WACC publication Art Conservator.
Theme
The fellowship allows recipients to explore issues of conservation in the field of American art.
Eligibility
Each academic year, the Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellowship is awarded to a second-year student in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.
Audience
Second-year students in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art