@artisttrust Fellows Among Us

The sixteen 2011 Fellowships funded by Artist Trust were announced on 19 May 2011. According to their website, these fellowships are awarded “to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability. The Fellowship is a merit-based, not a project-based award.” Among this year’s recipients is Painting + Drawing Professor Zhi Lin. He will use this funding to support a new research project titled “Invisible and Unwelcomed People: the 19th Century Chinese American in the Northwest,” in which he will focus on the major anti-Chinese incidents that took place around Puget Sound. In an earlier project, Lin looked at the Chinese who worked on the railroads from California to Wyoming. Three of the other fellowship winners are School of Art alumni: Dan Corson (MFA 1992), Susan Robb (MFA 1995), and Brent Watanabe (BFA 1995).