Maria Sanchez (IMDA ‘27) is featured in the NEXTGEN 12.0 exhibition, on view through July 20 in the Kaplan Gallery at VisArts in Rockville, MD. (Image featured)
Jennie Thwing (IMDA ‘05) received a 2025 Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support her creative work. Sponsored by Fractured Atlas, this award will fund her animation The World Said No.
Irene Chan (Professor, Visual Arts) has been awarded a 2025-26 Fulbright Scholar Award for Teaching/Research at the University of Arts and Design in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Professor Chan will be teaching courses in silkscreen and book arts and will pursue research on Romanian folk tales and embroidery traditions for a series of new books incorporating hand-embroidered elements inspired by Romanian and Chinese folk art with influences from American quilting.
Natalie Groom (Affiliate Artist, Music) was awarded a 2025 Dresher Center for the Humanities Summer Fellowship. Natalie will research, study, engrave, and publish a Trio for clarinet, horn, and bassoon that was written by music history pioneer Pauline Oliveros (1932—2016).