S. Elise Archias (AH Asst. Prof.): Smithsonian Fellowship 2015-16

S. Elise Archias (Assistant Professor, Art History) is one of 14 new fellows joining the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the 2015-16 academic year. The Smithsonian’s fellowship program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships. Archias was named the George Gurney Senior Fellow for her research project entitled: "Armatures—Joan Mitchell, Lygia Clark and Melvin Edwards circa 1960".

About the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Fellowship Program

The Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates the vision and creativity of Americans with artworks in all media spanning more than three centuries. The museum maintains six online art-research databases with more than a half million records, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture that document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide and extensive photographic collections documenting American art and artists. Since 1970, the museum has hosted more than 565 scholars who now occupy positions in academic and cultural institutions across the United States and in Australia, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and South America. Each year, The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States. Fellowships are residential and support full-time independent and dissertation research. Selected applicants become part of one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished fellowship programs in American art. Learn more about the fellowhip program here.