List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1998
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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1998
Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
Don L. Anderson Don L. Anderson Don Lynn Anderson is an American geophysicist who has made important contributions to the determination of the large-scale structure of the Earth's interior, especially using seismological methods. He is Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor emeritus of geophysics at the California Institute of... |
Natural Sciences | Earth Science |
José W. Araújo | Creative Arts | Film |
Arthur P. Arnold | Natural Sciences | Neuroscience |
Adam Baer | Creative Arts | Photography |
Margarita Bali | Creative Arts | Choreography |
Teodolinda Barolini | Humanities | Italian Literature |
Burt Barr | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Mitchell C. Begelman | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
Bei Dao Bei Dao Bei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
Eugene W. Beier | Physics | |
Nicola Beisel | Sociology | |
Rafael D. Benguria | Mathematics | |
Robert G. Bergman | Chemistry | |
Lenard R. Berlanstein | French History | |
Cindy Bernard | Fine Arts | |
Bruce C. Berndt Bruce C. Berndt Bruce Carl Berndt is an American mathematician. He attended college at Albion College, graduating in 1961, where he also ran track.... |
History of Science & Technology | |
Pallab K. Bhattacharya | Engineering | |
William Hayes Biggs | Music Composition | |
Barbara Bloom Barbara Bloom Barbara Bloom is an American writer and TV programming executive. She earned a bachelor of science degree in theater from Skidmore College.-Career:... |
Fine Arts | |
Andrew Borowiec | Creative Arts | Photography |
Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym is the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University, and a media artist, playwright and novelist. She is also an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University. Much of her current work is focused on... |
Slavic Literature | |
Richard D. Brown | U.S. History | |
Tania Bruguera Tania Bruguera Tania Bruguera is a Cuban installation and performance artist, trained at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bruguera's work pivots around issues of power and control.... |
Fine Arts | |
Ellen Bruno | Creative Arts | Film |
Barbara K. Burgess | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Scott G. Burnham | Music Research | |
Judith Butler Judith Butler Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler received her Ph.D... |
Literary Criticism | |
Jin-Yi Cai | Computer Science | |
Antonio Caro Antonio Caro Antonio Caro is a contemporary artist known for using conceptualizations and iconic visuals that often make political commentary about his home country. Since 1970, Caro has built a career that, according to the categorizations of history and criticism, denotes an authentic example of conceptual... |
Fine Arts | |
Anne Carson Anne Carson Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987.... |
Poetry | |
Clare Cavanagh | Slavic Literature | |
Sun-Yung Alice Chang Sun-Yung Alice Chang Alice Chang is a Chinese American mathematician specializing in aspects of mathematical analysis ranging from harmonic analysis and partial differential equations to differential geometry. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the department at Princeton University.-Life:Chang was born in... |
Mathematics | |
Albert Chong Albert Chong Albert Chong is an artist of African and Chinese descent. His works are mainly photographs, but he also works with installations and sculptures. Chong states that the purpose of much of his art is to "represent and reanimate his family history."... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
Demetrios Christodoulou Demetrios Christodoulou Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime... |
Applied Mathematics | |
Horacio Crespo | Iberian & Latin American History | |
David Crumb David Crumb David Crumb, born May 21, 1962, is a contemporary composer born into a musical family. His father is composer George Crumb, and his sister is singer Ann Crumb... |
Music Composition | |
John D'Emilio John D'Emilio John D'Emilio is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg... |
U.S. History | |
Richard Dellamora | English Literature | |
Justin N. Dello Joio | Music Composition | |
Yemane I. Demissie | Creative Arts | Film |
Suzanne Desan | French History | |
Jared Diamond Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA... |
Science Writing | |
Tom Donaghy Tom Donaghy Tom Donaghy is a playwright whose work has been produced by major theatre companiesacross the United States, including Atlantic Theater Company, Lincoln Center Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons in New York City, the Goodman Theater in Chicago, the La Jolla Playhouse and South Coast Repertory in... |
Drama & Performance Art | |
Rackstraw Downes Rackstraw Downes Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. His oil paintings are notable for their meticulous detail accumulated during months of plein-air sessions, depictions of industry and the environment, and elongated compositions with complex perspective.-Education:Born Rodney Harry... |
Fine Arts | |
Kathy Eden | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
Daniel Eisenberg | Creative Arts | Film |
A. Roger Ekirch | Humanities | British History |
Peter T. Ellison | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
Jody Enders | Humanities | Medieval Literature |
Steven A. Epstein | Humanities | Italian History |
Ticio Escobar | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
Candace Falk | Humanities | U.S. History |
James R. Farr | Humanities | French History |
Gilles R. Fauconnier | Social Sciences | Psychology |
Paula Findlen | Humanities | Renaissance History |
Maurice A. Finocchiaro | Humanities | History of Science & Technology |
David Fludd | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Nina Y. Fonoroff | Creative Arts | Film |
Hal Foster | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
Eduardo Fradkin | Natural Sciences | Physics |
Kenji Fujita | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Salvo Galano | Creative Arts | Photography |
Julio Pedro Garcia-Espinosa Romero | Creative Arts | Film |
David Gates David Gates David Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame... |
Fiction | |
Marvin Gates | Fine Arts | |
William M. Gelbart | Chemistry | |
Ana Gerzenstein | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
Timothy J. Gilfoyle | U.S. History | |
Margo Glantz Margo Glantz Margo Glantz is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.- Biography :Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth Shapiro in Odessa, where they married... |
Fiction | |
Francisco Goldman Francisco Goldman Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at , the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez... |
Fiction | |
Billy Golfus Billy Golfus Billy Golfus is an activist for disabled people in the United States. He is renowned for his documentary When Billy Broke His Head... and Other Tales of Wonder which was released in 1994. It won numerous awards including an Emmy nomination and a Sundance Festival award. Although he has had plans to... |
Creative Arts | Film |
Nury González | Fine Arts | |
Ain Gordon Ain Gordon -Life:He began writing and directing for the stage in 1985. He emerged on to the downtown dance/performance scene with four consecutive seasons at Dance Theater Workshop plus performances at Movement Research, The Poetry Project, and Performance Space 122... |
Drama & Performance Art | |
Alma Gottlieb | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
J. Raul Grigera | Physics | |
Larry Gross Larry Gross Larry Gross is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasionally a director. He won the 2004 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for We Don't Live Here Anymore.-Filmography:... |
Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
George Gruner | Physics | |
Mauro F. Guillén | Sociology | |
Tom Gunning Tom Gunning Thomas Francis Gunning was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, from 1884 until 1889, for the Boston Beaneaters, Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics.... |
Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
Sue Halpern | General Nonfiction | |
Abdellah Hammoudi | Near Eastern Studies | |
Lee Haring | Humanities | Folklore & Popular Culture |
Julie Hecht Julie Hecht Julie Hecht is a contemporary American fiction writer specializing in interlacing short stories. She is best known for her book Do the Windows Open?, a series of short stories some of which first appeared independently in The New Yorker... |
Fiction | |
Michael W. Herren | Medieval Literature | |
Carla Hesse | French History | |
Jody Hey Jody Hey Jody Hey is an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. In the 1980s and 1990s he did research on natural selection and species divergence in fruit flies . More recently he has worked on the divergence of cichlid fishes from Lake Malawi, on chimpanzees and on human populations... |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
Susan Hiller Susan Hiller Susan Hiller is an American-born artist who lives in London, UK. Her art practice encompasses installation, video, photography, performance and writing.-Early Life and Education:... |
Fine Arts | |
A. M. Homes A. M. Homes Amy M. Homes is an American writer. She is best-known for her controversial novels and unusual stories, most notably The End of Alice , a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer... |
Fiction | |
Marie Howe Marie Howe Marie Howe is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time . Her first book, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series... |
Poetry | |
Raymond B. Huey Raymond B. Huey Raymond B. Huey is a biologist specializing in evolutionary physiology. He has taught at the University of Washington , and he earned his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University under E. E. Williams. He is currently the chairman of the UW Biology Department.-Education:Huey earned his A.B... |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
Ann Hutchinson Guest Ann Hutchinson Guest Ann Hutchinson Guest is an internationally-recognized expert on dance notation. She wrote a history on the subject, and her works have been translated into multiple languages. She is the co-founder of the Dance Notation Bureau, New York, 1940... |
Dance Studies | |
John Jasperse John Jasperse John Jasperse is an American choreographer and dancer. Since 1990 he has been artistic director and choreographer of the New York City-based John Jasperse Company.... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
Bill Jensen | Fine Arts | |
Michael Joo | Fine Arts | |
Eileen Julien | African Studies | |
Frances Myrna Kamm | Philosophy | |
Paul Kane Paul Kane Paul Kane was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country.... |
American Literature | |
Dennis Kardon | Fine Arts | |
John F. Kasson | U.S. History | |
Demetrius A. Klein | Creative Arts | Choreography |
Timothy Kramer | Music Composition | |
Christopher Kyle | Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
Robert K. Lazarsfeld | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
William Leavitt William Leavitt William "Bill" G. Leavitt was an American jazz guitarist and arranger best known for his long series of guitar instruction books and for developing a related curriculum at Berklee College of Music as chair of the guitar department.-The Method:Leavitt's books contain no guitar tablature and consist... |
Fine Arts | |
Lyle Leverich | American Literature | |
Mariano J. Levin | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy... |
U.S. History | |
Mary Lindemann | German & East European History | |
Estela Susana Lizano Soberón | Physics | |
Nancy Lorenz | Fine Arts | |
Robert C. Maggio | Music Composition | |
Juan Maidagan | Fine Arts | |
Dusan Makavejev Dušan Makavejev Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s... |
Creative Arts | Film |
Dionisio D. Martinez Dionisio D. Martinez Dionisio D. Martinez , is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.His work appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review.He... |
Poetry | |
Elizabeth Anne McCauley | Photography Studies | |
Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken is an American author.McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and... |
Fiction | |
Campbell McGrath Campbell McGrath Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks , Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , and In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys .- Life :McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and... |
Poetry | |
Christopher F. McKee | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
Tununa Mercado | Fiction | |
Sabeeha Merchant | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Lorenzo Meyer | Political Science | |
Mattison Mines | South Asian Studies | |
Marilyn Minter Marilyn Minter Marilyn Minter is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Marilyn Minter has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005, the Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Les Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2007,... |
Fine Arts | |
Peter Mombaerts | Neuroscience | |
Russell K. Monson | Plant Sciences | |
Judith Moore | General Nonfiction | |
Susan J. Napier Susan J. Napier Dr. Susan Jolliffe Napier is Professor of the Japanese Program at Tufts University. She was formerly Professor of the Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin, and a visiting professor at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University... |
Humanities | East Asian Studies |
Piotr Nawrot | Humanities | Music Research |
Joachim Neugroschel Joachim Neugroschel Joachim Neugroschel was a well known literary translator from French, German, Italian, Russian, and Yiddish, and also to German. He also published poetry and was a poetry magazine founder.- Biography :... |
German & Scandinavian Literature | |
Jane O. Newman | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
Roger Newton | Creative Arts | Photography |
Tom Noonan Tom Noonan Tom Noonan is an American actor and film writer-director.-Early life:Noonan was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Rosaleen and Tom Noonan, who worked as a dentist and jazz musician respectively... |
Creative Arts | Film |
Thomas V. O\'Halloran | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
Donald B. Oliver | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
Luis A. Orozco | Natural Sciences | Physics |
Marta María Pérez Bravo Marta Maria Perez Bravo Marta María Pérez Bravo , a Cuban artist who is best known for her dream-based black-and-white photography. Often using her own body as the central subject to express her own mythological beliefs.-Education:... |
Fine Arts | |
Janet Peery Janet Peery Janet Peery is an American short story writer and novelist.-Life:Daughter of a teacher and a judge, the eldest of six children, Peery grew up in Kansas and Wisconsin. She held a series of odd jobs, waiting tables, working as a lifeguard and swimming instructor and as a hospital respiratory... |
Fiction | |
Laura Ann Petitto | Neuroscience | |
Paul Pierson Paul Pierson Paul Pierson is a professor of political science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2007-2010 he served at UC Berkeley as Chair of the Department of Political Science... |
Political Science | |
Sergio Pitol Deméneghi | Fiction | |
Sarah B. Pomeroy | Classics | |
Gopal Prasad Gopal Prasad Gopal Prasad is an Indian mathematician. His research interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups.He is the Raoul Bott Professor of Mathematics at... |
Mathematics | |
Gonzalo de Prat Gay | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Alan S. Prince | Linguistics | |
Jorge Pullin Jorge Pullin Jorge Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University, known for his work on black hole collisions and quantum gravity.-Biography:... |
Physics | |
Fernando Quevedo Fernando Quevedo Fernando Quevedo Rodriguez is a Guatemalan physicist. He was appointed director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in October 2009; he succeeds K. R. Sreenivasan, who was the director since 2003.... |
Natural Sciences | Physics |
Eloise Quiñones Keber Eloise Quiñones Keber Eloise Quiñones Keber is Professor of Art History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she specializes in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Latin American art... |
Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
Fidel Ramón | Neuroscience | |
Christopher A. Reed | Chemistry | |
Paula Richman | Religion | |
David Riggs | English Literature | |
Miguel Angel Rios | Fine Arts | |
Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir... |
Creative Arts | Film |
Kenneth Rogoff Kenneth Rogoff Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is also a chess Grandmaster.-Early life:... |
Economics | |
Christina D. Romer | Economics | |
James Romm | Classics | |
Jay Rosenblatt | Creative Arts | Film |
Frank Salomon | Iberian & Latin American History | |
Guadalupe Santa Cruz | Fiction | |
Roberto A. Sánchez-Delgado | Chemistry | |
Carlos Sánchez-Gutierrez Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez is a Latin-American composer and teacher. He currently resides near Rochester, New York.... |
Music Composition | |
Daniel L. Schacter | Psychology | |
Emanuel A. Schegloff | Sociology | |
Bambi B. Schieffelin | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
John G. Sclater | Earth Science | |
Neil H. Shubin | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Berta M. Sichel | Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
Joseph H. Silverman Joseph H. Silverman Joseph Hillel Silverman is currently a professor of mathematics at Brown University. Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 under the direction of John Tate. He taught at M.I.T... |
Mathematics | |
Jeffrey Chipps Smith | Fine Arts Research | |
Robert Smythe | Drama & Performance Art | |
Robin Chapman Stacey | Medieval History | |
Bruno Stagno Bruno Stagno Bruno Stagno is a Costa Rican architect.Stagno combines conceptes from the contemporal international architecture with concepts from the tropical architecture. With it he developped an own syncretic style which he practices in the Institute for Tropical Architecture in San José, which he founded... |
Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
Henry Staten | English Literature | |
Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American, essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known for his insights into American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures.- Life :Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico to a middle-class Jewish family from the Pale... |
General Nonfiction | |
Sidney Strickland | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Susan Strome | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Wendy Sussman | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Michael T. Taussig | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
Bob Thall Bob Thall Bob Thall is a Chicago photographer specializing in street scenes. He is Chair of the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago. His photographs, of gritty urban street scenes, have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
Salvatore Torquato | Natural Sciences | Engineering |
Nancy J. Troy | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
Shripad Tuljapurkar | Natural Sciences | Statistics |
Donna N. Uchizono | Creative Arts | Choreography |
Gisela von Wobeser | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
Patricia Waddy | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
Elisabeth Weber | Humanities | French Literature |
Martin Weber | Creative Arts | Photography |
Barbara Weinstein Barbara Weinstein Barbara Weinstein is a diver from Michigan, United States. She won a gold medal in platform diving at the 1979 Pan American Games.She was selected to represent United States at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but did not go because of the boycott.-References:... |
Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
Richard H. Weisberg Richard H. Weisberg Richard H. Weisberg is a professor of constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City, a leading scholar on law and literature.-Biography:... |
Social Sciences | Law |
Kate Wheeler Kate Wheeler Kate Wheeler is a Canadian television reporter and news anchor.One of Canada's most respected television journalists, Wheeler began her on air news career in 1987 at CFTO in Toronto, as a reporter where she would become an anchor the following year and the weekend news anchor in 1990... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
Lawrence L. Widdoes | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.-Biography:... |
Creative Arts | General Nonfiction |
Linda Williams Linda Williams Linda Williams is the name of:* Linda Williams , folk singer in duo Robin and Linda Williams*Linda Williams , Dutch singer*Linda Williams , American academic... |
Humanities | Film, Video, & Radio Studies |
David Wilson David Wilson -In arts and literature:*Sir David M. Wilson , British archaeologist and Director of the British Museum*David Henry Wilson , English writer*David Niall Wilson , American writer of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Jay Winter Jay Winter Jay M. Winter is an American historian. He is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, where he focuses his research on World War I and its impact on the 20th century... |
Humanities | Intellectual & Cultural History |
Robin Winters | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter | Humanities | Russian History |
Susan Wood Susan Wood (poet) Susan Wood is an American poet and the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University.-Life:She received her B.A. from East Texas State University, and her M.A... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
Michael Woodford Michael Woodford Michael Woodford is the name of:*Michael Woodford, Jr., American ice hockey player*Michael Woodford , American macroeconomist*Michael Woodford , former CEO of Olympus Corporation... |
Social Sciences | Economics |
Baron Wormser Baron Wormser Baron Wormser is an American poet.In 2000, he was appointed Poet Laureate of Maine.In 2000, he was writer in residence at the University of South Dakota.... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
Richard A. Wright | Social Sciences | Geography & Environmental Studies |
Dolores Zinny | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |