Mellon Residential Fellowships in Arts Practice and Scholarship 2011-2012

Alison Bechdel & Hillary Chute

This collaboration seeks to work out terms for a critical language with which to engage nonfiction comics—an exciting new area of public and scholarly interest. 

Jamie Carpenter & Sidney Nagel

This collaboration, which will investigate the physics and aesthetics of light, is hosted by University of Chicago's Department of Physics, The James Franck Institute, and the Enrico Fermi Institute.

Claudia Lavista & Department of Music

Choreographer Claudia Lavista will collaborate with Martha Feldman, Shulamit Ran, Augusta Read Thomas, the Composition Ph.D. program, and others to develop a new site-specific work around themes of invisibility and aging.