Fellowships - Menil

Fellowships - Menil
Fellowships
Menil Drawing Institute
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellowship
Morgan-Menil Research Fellowship
Fellowships are key components of the Menil Drawing Institute program as a leading research center on modern and contemporary drawing. These fellowships foster the highest level of scholarship and allow rich, interdisciplinary, object-based conversations on the drawing medium’s history, theory, criticism, and practice.
Conservation
Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Training Fellowship in Art Conservation
The conservation department at the Menil Collection has offered advanced training fellowships since 1991, supported by an endowment from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The appointment rotates between specialties in paintings conservation, paper conservation, and objects conservation, providing an enriching environment in which emerging conservation professionals can build their research and treatment portfolios. The application cycle is open at minimum every three years.
Current and Past Fellows
Samson Young
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellow, Summer 2026
Artist
Jennifer Marine
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2025-2026
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia
Research topic: Registering the Invisible in Fin de Siècle Europe
Charles Haxthausen
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellow, Spring 2025
Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History in the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College
Research topic: Temporality and the Art of Cy Twombly
Jana La Brasca
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2024-2025
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas, Austin
Research topic: The Machine That Makes the World: Alice Aycock to Scale (1968–1986)
Audrey Storm
Morgan-Menil Research Fellow 2024-2025, Fall 2024
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California, Dornsife
Research topic: Through Line: Making Abstraction in the Transpacific Northwest
Björn Egging
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellow, Spring 2024
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Research topic: The drawings of Joseph Beuys
Michelle Donnelly
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2023-2024
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
Research topic: Spatialized Impressions: American Printmaking Outside the Workshop, 1935-1975
Renee Gladman
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellow, Fall 2023
Writer and artist
Research topic: Figuration as Field
Isabel Bird
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2022-2023
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Research topic: Drawn from the Classroom: Process, Perception, and Learning in US Drawing Practices, ca. 1960-1980
Margaret Holben Ellis
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellow, Spring 2023
Eugene Thaw Professor Emerita of Paper Conservation; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra Developing a Protocol for Describing the Color of White Paper
Research topic: Pietra Developing a Protocol for Describing the Color of White Paper
Brian Leahy
Morgan-Menil Research Fellow, 2022-2023
Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
Research topic: For Immediate Release: Contemporary Art and Exhibition Media in the United States, 1968-1984
Anna Lovatt
Menil Drawing Institute Research Fellow, 2022
Associate Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University
Research topic: Lines of Resolution: Drawing and the Small Screen
Filippo Bosco
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2021-2022
Ph.D. Candidate, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Research topic: Drawing and conceptualism: paradigms, practices and transnational exchanges in Italy (1969-1979)
Saskia Verlaan
Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2020-2021
Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Research topic: Disegno Aperto: Drawing in Italy, 1959-1979
Charlotte Healy
Morgan-Menil Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2020-2021
Ph.D. Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Research topic: Paul Klee’s Hand
Antonia Pocock
Morgan-Menil Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2019
Ph.D. Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Research topic: Drawing The Street: Claes Oldenburg and Figurative Expressionism in the 1950s
Erica DiBenedetto
Morgan-Menil Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2015-2016
Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
Research topic: Drawing from Architecture: The Conceptual Method of Sol LeWitt’s Art, 1965–80
Kent Minturn
Morgan-Menil Fellow, 2013-2014
Lecturer, Columbia University, New York
Research topic: Drawing, Writing, Speaking: Jean Dubuffet’s “lerdlacanpane” (1948) and the Emergence of “Écrits Bruts”
Barbara Rose
Morgan-Menil Fellow, 2011-2012
Independent Scholar and Curator, New York
Research topic: The Impact of Medieval Illumination on Modern Drawing
Alexis Kho
Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Training Fellow in Objects Conservation, 2024-present
Abby Schleicher
Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Training Fellow in Paper Conservation, 2022-2024 Assistant Paper Conservator, Harvard Art Museums
Anne Schmid
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2018-2022
Paintings Conservator, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Desirae (Peters) Dijkema
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2015-2018
Associate Paintings Conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Erin Stephenson
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2012-2015
Paintings Conservator, Stephenson Art Conservation, Washington DC
Katrina (Bartlett) Rush
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2009-2012
Paintings Conservator, Art Institute of Chicago
Ellen Hanspach-Bernal
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2006-2009
Conservator of Paintings, Detroit Institute of Arts
Christa Haiml
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2003-2006
Painting Conservator in Private Practice, and lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Elizabeth Jablonski
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 2001-2003
Conservator, Collections Manager and Owner, Fine Art Paintings Conservation and Collections Management, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dr. Pia Gottschaller
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 1998-2000
Reader, The Courtauld Institute of Art, History of Art, Conservation
Elizabeth Ardrey
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 1995
Margaret Contompasis
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, 1991-1993 Beverly J. and Gayl W. Doster Conservator of Paintings at Indiana University
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