Meet the Fellows

Yasemin Altun was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship to study how collaborative forms of artmaking promoted women's education, innovation, and commemoration in the visual arts of France circa 1663–1791.

Juan Gabriel Ramirez Bolivar was awarded a Marica and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Fellowship to receive curatorial training and contribute to projects in the Department of Drawings and Prints, while paying special attention to the collection of Mexican prints available at the Museum.

Yeo-Jin Katerina Bong was awarded a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship to analyze the multi-lingual editions of Vitruvius and its relationship to natural history, building materials, and ecology in the early modern period.

Luming Guan was awarded a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship to reveal the trickster— the elusive and resourceful folk hero—as one of the principal identities cultivated by artists of the German Renaissance.

Olivia Dill was awarded a two-year Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship (with Paper Conservation and Scientific Research) and will examine the aesthetics of sheen in sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch and English prints and drawings of insects.

Danielle Canter was awarded a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship. Her project focused on the emergence and development of monotype and other unique printing practices in nineteenth century France.

Olivia Dill was awarded a two-year Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship (with Paper Conservation and Scientific Research) and examined the aesthetics of sheen in sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch and English prints and drawings of insects.

Joseph Henry was awarded a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship. Joseph’s work focused on the early work of the Dresden-based German Expressionists “Die Brücke”. In particular, he is interested in Die Brücke’s output through their joint background in architecture and design.

Francesca Kaes was awarded a Met-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellowship. Francesca’s fellowship was primarily a curatorial training post with a focus on eighteenth-century French and British prints and drawings. Her doctoral research focuses on British eighteenth-century drawing master Alexander Cozens and the interaction between printmaking and other media in his artistic practice and theoretical writings.

Angel Jiang was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to study Spanish plateresque architecture and its relationship with ornamental media.

Julia Lillie was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to investigate a network of Protestant engravers from the Netherlands who fled persecution and migrated to Cologne, Germany, in the sixteenth-century.

Thea Goldring was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to examine the ways in which French materialism transformed the context and conditions of artistic production in the second half of the eighteenth-century.

Julia Lillie was awarded a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship to investigate a network of Protestant engravers from the Netherlands who fled persecution and migrated to Cologne, Germany, in the sixteenth-century.

Daniella Berman was awarded a Marica and Jan Vilcek Fellowship in Art History to explore the complex relationships between drawings and stylistically unfinished paintings in the output of Jacques-Louis David and his circle and their relationship to aesthetic experimentation during the French Revolution.

Jeroen Luyckx was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to examine the graphic output of the Liefrinck family and complete a book project on this dynasty of printmakers from sixteenth-century Antwerp.

Maria Lumbreras was awarded a Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship to revise and publish her dissertation on the circulation of prints in early modern Spain and the prints’ contemporary interest in error, ignorance, and the fringes of knowledge production.

H. Horatio Joyce was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research/Collections Specialist Fellowship to research and catalogue American architectural drawings and related materials, including letters, diaries, photographs, and publications in the Department of Drawings and Prints.

Saskia van Altena was awarded a Met–Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellowship to receive curatorial training and to pursue research projects related to The Met collection of drawings and prints leading to a focused installation in the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr., Gallery.