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Fellows Win Five Pulitzer Prizes, Eight More Are Finalists

May 11, 2020

The Guggenheim Foundation is extremely pleased to recognize the five Guggenheim Fellows who won 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, announced by Columbia University on May 4. They are Colson Whitehead, Fellow 2013, for his novel The Nickel Boys: he also won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2017 for The Underground Railroad. Jericho Brown, Fellow 2016, the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in…

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2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winners announced

April 9, 2020

2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winners announced On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists. 2020 Fellows are drawn from 53 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 78 different academic institutions, 31 states and the District of…

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Gift from Philip Roth Creates Fund for Fellows

December 15, 2019

Philip Roth, a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, has made an extraordinary gift to the Foundation.  Roth died in 2018, and in a stunning act of generosity, he left the Foundation $1,600,000 to support the Guggenheim Fellowships. He  designated a portion of his gift for the Joel Conarroe Fund, which honors his life-long friend, the Foundation’s President Emeritus, and provides funding for…

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Outside Prison Walls: Waiting, Spinning, Flying

September 19, 2019

Guggenheim Fellow, Jo Kreiter (Choreography, 2019), and her company, Flyaway Productions, are currently on tour to Ossining, NY to present THE WAIT ROOM: PART 1 OF THE DECARCERATION TRILOGY at the Sing Sing Prison Museum. For further information, please see this article in the New York Times from September 19, 2019: Read more ->

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Mary Beth Keane

May 28, 2019

Guggenheim Fellow, Mary Beth Keane (Fiction, 2015), is pleased to announce the publication of Ask Again, Yes (Scribner, May 28, 2019). Follow this link for more information and news about appearances and events.

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Shari Mendelson

May 18, 2019 to September 1, 2019Hunterdon Art Museum

“Shari Mendelson: Amphorae and Apparitions,” is on exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum through September 1. Mendelson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2017.

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Karen Russell

May 24, 2019Powell’s City of Books

Karen Russell, Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, 2011, will discuss her new short story collection on Friday, May 24, at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon.

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Brad Temkin

May 10, 2019

Brad Temkin (Photography, 2017) is pleased to announce the publication of Brad Temkin: The State of Water (Radius Books, 2019) which will be released on May 21. An exhibition will open at The Field Museum on September 13 and will run through January 12. Follow this link for more information about the book. Temkin’s Guggenheim Fellowship supported his work on this project.

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Stanley Greenberg

May 9, 2019

Stanley Greenberg, Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, 2005, is pleased to announce the publication of Codex New York: Typologies of the City (The Monacelli Press, 2019). Follow this link to read the press release.

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Shalini Shankar

May 1, 2019NYU Bookstore

Join Shalini Shankar on May 1 at 6 PM. Shankar (Fellow in Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 2017) is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist concerned with issues of race and ethnicity, youth and migration, language use, and media. Her latest book, Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’s New Path to Success, will be released April 30.

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Garry Winogrand

April 19, 2019PBS, WNET

PBS will present an American Masters Film, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable (April, 2019) directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, on April 19 at 9/8c. Garry Winogrand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1964, 1969 and 1978.

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Fellowships Awards in the United States and Canada

April 10, 2019

On April 9, 2019, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 168 scholars, artists, and writers. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-fifth competition. Follow…

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Carlos Javier Ortiz

April 11, 2019 to July 7, 2019The MoCP, Chicago

The MoCP, Chicago, is pleased to present Chicago Stories: Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol, showcasing photographs and films by Carlos Javier Ortiz, Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video, 2016, and David Schalliol from the museum’s permanent collection and the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP).

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Kasumi

April 5, 2019Glo at Lab Studios

A Soldier’s Tale, by Guggenheim Fellow, Kasumi (Film and Video, 2011) will be presented in concert with the Cleveland Institute of Music’s New Music Ensemble on Friday, April 5, at 7:30. Follow the link for more information about this event.

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Phyllis Galembo

April 3, 2019

Guggenheim Fellow, Phyllis Galembo (Photography, 2014) is pleased to announce the publication of her newest book, Mexico, Masks & Rituals (Radius Books/D.A.P., 2019). Galembo photographs cultural and religious traditions as well as the transformative power of ritual dress in Africa and the Americas. Her interest in these traditions began in 1985 during her first visit to Nigeria. Since then…

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Armin Moczek

March 22, 2019

A new grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded to Armin Moczek, Guggenheim Fellow in Organismic Biology & Ecology, 2017.

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Etienne Charles

March 22, 2019

Etienne Charles, Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, 2015, featured in the New York Times. On Friday, March 22, he will release “Carnival: The Sound of a People, Vol. 1.”

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Akosua Adoma Owusu

March 29, 2019Ann Arbor Film Festival

Join Guggenheim Fellow, Akosua Adoma Owusu (Film-Video, 2015) on Friday, March 29, for her juror presentation, Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu, at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival.

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Peter Rock

March 11, 2019

The Night Swimmers (Penguin Random House), by Peter Rock, Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, 2014, will be released on Tuesday, March 12

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Gene Robinson

March 19, 2019Indiana University, Bloomington

Biologist Gene Robinson, Guggenheim Fellow in Organismic Biology & Ecology, 2003, will present “Sociogenomics and the Dynamic Genome: A New Perspective on Nature and Nuture” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on March 19 at Indiana University.

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