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  Graduate Fellowship
We encourage University of Washington graduate students to apply for the Bill Holm Center Graduate Fellowship by April 6, 2009. This fellowship will fund UW graduate students doing research and writing on Native art of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Past Grant Recipients
Past Bill Holm Center Graduate Fellowship Recipients
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New Bill Holm Center Visiting Research Awards were granted for Spring, Summer and Fall 2009: Manuel Salazar / Cowichan
Manuel Salazar is affiliated with the Cowichan Tribe of Duncan, B.C, and lives in the Seattle area. He apprenticed with Delmar Johnny and Art Vickers, and spent several years working at the Native Heritage center in Duncan, B.C. He is a printmaker and painter who specializes in painted drums. His drum was featured on the poster for In the Spirit of the Ancestors exhibit at the Burke Museum in 2007. Manuel Salazar studied Coast Salish prints at the Burke Museum in January 2009. Fred Fulmer / Tlingit
Fred Fulmer, Sat-Kaa, is a carver and performing artist from the Chookaneidee, Eagle Brown Bear clan, from the Glacier or Ice House. He studied with his late clan uncle Ray Nielsen, Sr. as well as Israel Shotridge and Scott Jensen, and apprenticed with Haida carver Ralph Bennett. He researched Tlingit carvings at the Burke Museum, March 30-April 2, 2009, focusing on paddles, bowls, spoons, seal clubs, canoes, combs, rattles, clappers, staffs, and war gear. Robin Lovelace-Smith / Tlingit
Robin Lovelace-Smith is a Tlingit sculptor, carver, and who has spent the last ten years training under, studying, and collaborating with Frank Perez, David Boxley, Donald Varnell, Nathan and Stephen Jackson. She was apprenticed to Stephen Jackson when he created Nearing Completion, the Kaats housepost (cat. no. 2006-85/1) for the Burke Museum in 2005. The main focus of her research is Taku River Tlingit Yanyeidí clan carvings, stories, songs, and regalia. She has been meeting with elders and has been documenting stories and photographs and compiling a clan history/family tree. She researched the Burke's Tlingit collection May 4-8, 2009. Margaret Hartley
Margaret Hartley is a K-8 teacher at Saint Catherine School in North Seattle. She has a B.A. in art history from Auckland University in New Zealand, and a Masters of Education degree from Grand Canyon University, Arizona. She is developing a curriculum on Coast Salish art for K-8 students at her school, focusing on depictions of birds and fish. She studied Coast Salish prints at the Burke Museum, July 6-7, 2009. |
