Art history’s Anne Burkus-Chasson (left) and Prita Meier (right) have received fellowships with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and architecture Paul Kapp (center) has received a James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship. Photos by L. Brian Stauffer
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Three University of Illinois faculty in the College of Fine and Applied Arts have been awarded prestigious academic fellowships in their fields. Anne Burkus-Chasson and Prita Meier , both art history professors in the School of Art and Design , have been appointed senior fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts , at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., for 2017-18. The fellowships are for full-time research in the history, theory and criticism of the visual arts. Fellows have access to the art collections, library and image collections of the National Gallery of Art, as well as the Library of Congress and other research libraries and collections in the Washington area. Burkus-Chasson, who is also a professor East Asian languages and cultures , studies painting and woodblock-printed books of the late Ming dynasty. Her project, "Engaging Artifice: Chen Hongshou (1598/99-1652)," rethinks how the innovative Chinese painter Chen Hongshou responded to and shaped the print revolution of his time.
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