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The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, on behalf of the Jerome Foundation, is honored to spotlight the recent work of the recipients of the 2018/19 51���Ϲ���–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists: Mara Duvra, Marjorie Fedyszyn, Tucker Hollingsworth, and Boone Nguyen, all of the Twin Cities.

EXHIBITION CATALOG

2018/19 51���Ϲ���-Jerome Foundation Fellowships Catalog PDF

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mara Duvra’s current body of work is a continuation of a project, Tending: meditations on Blackness and interiority. With photographs, found objects, and texts, this work uncovers poetic representations of tenderness, calm, and silence as visual and tactile modes of self-study. “To allow for breath, space, and time. To allow also for the body.” (Gabrielle Civil). Read an interview with Duvra.

Marjorie Fedyszyn has been working with handmade, overbeaten abaca paper for the duration of the fellowship. With this new material, Fedyszyn continues to explore the tensions between power or control and vulnerability. Integrating memories and feelings of her life experiences through her art, she strives to reach her viewers and elicit conversations on our shared human experiences. Read an interview with Fedyszyn.

Tucker Hollingsworth is continuing to make work that expands the perceived limits and definitions of what a camera is possible of making, doing, and even in some cases, being. These images captured “from nature” have the