Jay and Deborah Last Artist Fellowship

The Jay and Deborah Last Artist Fellowship is for creative and performing artists and writers.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2012 Nancy Bowen Brooklyn, NY Mixed Media Artist Series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs"
2011 Mary Beth Ellis Cincinnati, OH Non-Fiction Writer PBS documentary under development by historian and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers"
2010 Stephanie Solomon Hermosa Beach, CA Performer Research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution"
2009 Carol Flueckiger Lubbock, TX Mixed Media Artist Mixed media works about feminism and early American reform practices
2008 Janet Pritchard Mansfield Center, CT Photographer More Than Scenery: Yellowstone, An American Love Story
2007 Sarah McCoubrey Fayetteville, NY Painter Hannah Morse: A fictive archive of the mid 19th century landscape painter
2017-18 Kathrinne Duffy Brown University PhD Candidate Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
2013-14 Caroline Frank Brown University Visiting Scholar Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America
2007-08 Joanna Cohen University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate "Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876