Demystifying the Guggenheim Fellowship 6/6 on Zoom
Demystifying the Guggenheim Fellowship
Join our panel of previous Guggenheim Fellows as they answer your questions about the application process, the experience of being a fellow, and how the recognition has affected their careers.
As you sign up for the panel discussion, you will be able to ask written questions. These questions will be collected and sorted, and then the same questions will be asked of all the panelists. There will be time at the end of the discussion to ask more questions.
Panelists: Odette England ‘22, Sasha Phyars-Burgess ‘23, Janet L. Pritchard ‘19, Brain Ulrich ‘09, Rodrigo Valenzula ‘21
Moderator: Hamidah Glasgow
When: June 6th at 5:00 to 6:30 pm MT
Where: On Zoom
Cost: Members: $25 (promo code here)
Non-Members: $35
Scholarship spots are available. Email coordinator@c4fap.org
The discussion will be recorded, and the recording will be available to all participants for two weeks.
Odette England
Odette England is a writer, visual artist, and scholar. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received grants and awards from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman, among many others, and has been nominated for the internationally acclaimed Foam Paul Huf Award (twice) and the Prix Pictet. She has published four award-winning books and has another two coming out this year. England graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received her Ph.D. in 2018.
Janet L. Pritchard
Before pursuing a photography career, Janet L. Pritchard was an outdoor education instructor and spent her youth traveling between the Northeast and Rocky Mountain West. She describes herself as geographically bilingual, and her early experiences led to an awareness of profound regional differences within the United States. Her methodology, described as historical empathy, relies on archival materials to guide her depictions of landscapes as expressions of time and place, situating landscape photography at the intersection of nature and culture.
Brian Ulrich
Brian Ulrich’s photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture are held by major museums and private collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Eastman Museum; Getty Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; North Carolina Museum of Art; Margulies Collection; Bidwell Collection; and the Pilara Foundation Collection.
Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Sasha Phyars-Burgess, a Brooklyn and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Trinidadian parents. A skilled photographer with a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Cornell University, She's recognized as an emerging voice in contemporary photography, her work showcasing series blending documentary and fine art, exploring themes of diaspora, family, place, and social phenomena. In 2023, she undertook an artist residency in Paris as part of the Clichycago program at Ateliers Médicis. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for upcoming work related to sugarcane.
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Rodrigo Valenzuela (b.Santiago, Chile 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Assistant Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors; Art Matters Foundation grant; and Artist trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: New Museum, NY; Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene; Orange County Museum; Portland Art Museum; Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Recent residencies include: Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center for contemporary arts; Lightwork; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.