List Foundation Fellowship Program (LFFP)
Former Award, 1992-2007
2007 Recipient
EunMee Yang ('07)
"Taste from Home: reflections on my mother's kimchee"
demonstration of cross cultural home cooking
McCormick Courtyard
320 Memorial Dr.
Saturday, May 5th 3-5pm
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 and cultural identity in their exploration of traditional and non-traditional art forms." The program continued 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.
Student & Artist-in-Residence Programs acknowledges the importance of
public recognition of creative activity by artists. Therefore, each Fellow
needed to develop a public component in order to share her/his project with
the MIT community. Exhibits, readings, publications, performances or open
rehearsals of works in progress were just a sampling of the opportunities
available to share the richness of each Fellow's creative endeavor with
the MIT community.
Applicants had to be:
Some previous experience in the art form in which students planned to work
had to be demonstrated by portfolio or other format of support material.
Past List Fellows:
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
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 Fail"
Film/Video
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
Helen Lee
"Blanket"
Glass Installation
1998
Zojeila Itzel Flores
"La Pollera y sus bailes"
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 Otitigbe
"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
