PROVIDENCE – Two artists and one scholar from Rhode Island have been awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the most prestigious and coveted awards in the arts, humanities and sciences.
The fellowships went to: Forrest Gander, of Barrington, a poet and professor of English and comparative literature at Brown University, to continue his work as a poet; Andrew Stein Raferty, a Providence artist and associate professor of printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, to do engraving work; and Deborah Cohen, of Providence, an associate professor of history at Brown University, to study family secrets in Britain from 1840 to 1990.
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This year, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awarded $8.2 million in fellowships to 190 artists, scientists and scholars from the United States and Canada. Successful candidates in this 84th annual competition were chosen from more than 2,600 applicants.
“Our state is proud to be well represented in the list of 2008 Guggenheim fellows,” Randall Rosenbaum, executive director of the R.I. State Council on the Arts, said in a statement. “This is another indication of the artistic and intellectual excellence that we can point to with pride.”
Since its establishment in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted more than $265 million in fellowships to more than 16,000 individuals, including scores of Nobel, Pulitzer and other prize winners. Ansel Adams, W.H. Auden, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wassterstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson and Eudora Welty all are past Guggenheim fellows.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides individual fellowships for advanced professionals in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and non-performing creative arts. To learn more, visit www.gf.org.
