2008-2009

JEFFERSON S. ARAK ’07
Brandeis University
Project: produce a film about the town of Zipolite, Mexico, focusing on the personal stories of community members, especially a group of lifeguards and the staff of a rehabilitation clinic

SHARON B. MADANES ’08
Yale University
Project: development of a body of paintings and prints, examining the paths to maturity in American and Israeli cultures

NOMADUMA R. MASILELA ’07
Columbia University
Project: study of the origins and development of a revolutionary youth movement in 1980s Dakar, Senegal, expressed through a study of mural paintings made throughout the city and the artists who created them