navLast (Artist) Fellows
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships are for creative and performing artists and writers.
| Residence | Fellowship | Year | Project | |||
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| James Arthur |
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poet | Baltimore, MD | Last | 2018 | On a Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts: A poem inspired by an anonymous marble portrait bust acquired on behalf on the Antiquarian Society in 1881 |
| Jen Bervin | poet and interdisciplinary artist | Guilford, CT | Last | 2023 | Research for “Measuring the Sun,” encompassing new and ongoing work on Emily Dickinson focused on artworks in the form of composites, concordances, visual indexes, and artist books | |
| Annie Bissett |
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printmaker | Providence, RI | Last | 2015 | A series of woodblock prints about the spiritual and religious influences on American identity during the colonial period |
| Nancy Bowen | mixed media artist | Brooklyn, NY | Last | 2012 | Series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs" | |
| Mary Beth Ellis | non-fiction writer | Cincinnati, OH | Last | 2011 | PBS documentary under development by historian and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" | |
| Krista Elrick |
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photographer | Santa Fe, NM | Last | 2016 | A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon |
| Meganne Fabrega |
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writer | Portsmouth, NH | Last | 2014 | Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls |
| Carol Flueckiger |
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mixed media artist | Lubbock, TX | Last | 2009 | Mixed media works about feminism and early American reform practices |
| Jazzmen Lee-Johnson |
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interdisciplinary artist | Providence, RI | Last | 2019 | Contraband: Visual pieces that explore how the industry of slavery laid the blueprint for drug crimes, gang culture, and mass incarceration in Black communities |
| Sarah McCoubrey | painter | Fayetteville, NY | Last | 2007 | Hannah Morse: A fictive archive of the mid 19th century landscape painter | |
| Marianne Petit |
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mixed media artist | New York, NY | Last | 2020 | Mouth & Toes: The World of 19th-Century (Performative) Silhouette Artists with Disabilities |
| Janet Pritchard |
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Professor of art emerita | University of Connecticut | Last | 2022 | Research for photographic project about the Connecticut River and its rich history from early European settlement to 19th-century industrialism to protected land |
| Janet Pritchard |
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photographer | Mansfield Center, CT | Last | 2008 | More Than Scenery: Yellowstone, An American Love Story |
| Stephanie Solomon | performer | Hermosa Beach, CA | Last | 2010 | Research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution" | |
| Steven Subotnick |
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filmmaker | Providence, RI | Last | 2017 | Tender Parts: A series of short animated films |
| Stephanie Wolff |
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visual artist | Norwich, VT | Last | 2013 | Artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of Anna Blackwood Howell |
