Established in 1992 with support from the Albert A. List Foundation "to
encourage a broad range of artistic endeavor and to further cultural
investigation, affirmation and understanding through the arts by
supporting students exploring personal racial and cultural identity
in their exploration of traditional and non-traditional art forms." The
program continued through 2006, with the support of the John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation in 1999 and beginning in 2000 by
the Provost’s
Office.
The fellowship awarded up to $5,000 annually to one eligible MIT
undergraduate for yearlong projects in the performing, literary,
visual or media arts. Students were encouraged to work with artists
of similar backgrounds as mentors during the project. The fellowship
supported projects that both invited students’ personal artistic
expression and directly affirmed their cultural heritage. The fellowship
was an extra-curricular exploration, but could be used to support
student academic work.
2006 |
EunMee Yang
"Taste of Home"
Performance (demonstrating cross-cultural home cooking and
reflecting on her mother's kimchee in an exploration of
personal and cultural identity) |
2005 |
Nadeem Mazen
"Save
the Hijabi Princess: A Look at Muslim-American Culture through
Fiction and Film"
Film |
2004 |
Dang
Vu
"The Poison Clan Suite: A Celebration of Mutant Culture"
Music Composition and Performance
Pre award concert Tech
Talk story |
2003 |
Katherine Lin
"Taiwanese in the West or Westerners in Taiwan:
A Study of
Taiwan's Musical Evolution"
Taiwanese Music |
2001 |
Carolyn Chen
"How I Learned to Fall"
Film/Video
(Picture-caption) Melissa Edoh
"Inside the Rhythm: An Exploration of Aural Learning and Cultural Identity in Senegal
Senegalese Drumming
|
2000 |
Vincent Carballo
"Lost Sons"
Painting
Talia Kingsbury
"Origin/Destino"
Chapbook |
1999 |
Kevin Choi
"Wish You Were Here"
Documentary Film
Helen Lee
"Blanket"
Glass Installation |
1998 |
Zojeila Itzel Flores
"La Pollera y sus Balles"
Folkloric dances of Panama
Rigel Stuhmiller
"Infinity" explorations of the on-line graphic novel
(Not completed) |
1997 |
Sumita Pennathur
"Carnatic Jazz"
Comparative Music
Isela Rodriguez
"Mexico Lindo: Canciones de Romance"
Mariachi Music |
1996 |
Eto Otitgbe
"Suntoucher Tragedy"
Printmaking |
1995 |
Kori Bevans
"Peruvian Textiles: A Journey through Central Peru"
Textile Making/Photography |
1994 |
Oneymachi Akoma
"Dwellings"
(not completed)
Monica Gomi
"Becoming a Japanese American Playwright"
(not completed) |
1993 |
Cheston "Chip" Buchanan
"Pike"
Novel
Sherondalyn Johnson and Nelly Rosario
"Bring on da Meat: The Butcher Gon' Crazy"
Playwrighting/Performance |
1992 |
Malay Kundu
"My Place in the Big Picture"
Photographs of India |
