Berkshire Eagle - Williams professor given art fellowship
Williams professor given art fellowship
Thursday, December 21WILLIAMSTOWN — Laylah Ali, associate professor of art at Williams College, has been selected one of the first United States Artist Fellows. The award includes a $50,000 unrestricted grant, one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
United States Artists (USA) is a new organization launched in September 2005 with $20 million in seed funding from the Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and Rasmuson foundations. It hopes to offer unprecedented private support for America's artists by creating USA Fellows, a program recognizing at least 50 artists each year. Nominees represent every artistic discipline.
Ali is known for her compelling gouache paintings, which the organization states "explore the way people relate to one another through the lenses of race, power and politics."
Ali has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial of American Art in New York and the 2003 Venice Biennial in Italy.
She has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and 303 Gallery in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, N.Y., and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. She recently collaborated on a performance with choreographer Dean Moss at MASS MoCA and The Kitchen in New York.
Ali received a bachelor of arts degree from Williams College in 1991 and an master of fine arts degree in painting from Washington University in 1994. She also received training at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Thursday, December 21WILLIAMSTOWN — Laylah Ali, associate professor of art at Williams College, has been selected one of the first United States Artist Fellows. The award includes a $50,000 unrestricted grant, one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
United States Artists (USA) is a new organization launched in September 2005 with $20 million in seed funding from the Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and Rasmuson foundations. It hopes to offer unprecedented private support for America's artists by creating USA Fellows, a program recognizing at least 50 artists each year. Nominees represent every artistic discipline.
Ali is known for her compelling gouache paintings, which the organization states "explore the way people relate to one another through the lenses of race, power and politics."
Ali has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial of American Art in New York and the 2003 Venice Biennial in Italy.
She has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and 303 Gallery in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, N.Y., and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. She recently collaborated on a performance with choreographer Dean Moss at MASS MoCA and The Kitchen in New York.
Ali received a bachelor of arts degree from Williams College in 1991 and an master of fine arts degree in painting from Washington University in 1994. She also received training at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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