NATIONAL
ARTS JOURNALISM PROGRAM SELECTS 2002-03 FELLOWS
NEW YORK: The National Arts
Journalism Program (NAJP) has selected 15 arts and cultural
journalists for mid-career, research and senior fellowships for
the 2002-03 academic year.
This is the ninth year in which
the NAJP, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, has offered
fellowships to arts journalists. The 2002-03 class of fellows was
selected from a record number of applications, and its members --
who include two Pulitzer Prize recipients -- are among the most
distinguished critics, reporters and editors in their respective
fields of cultural coverage.
The senior fellows, and their
writing projects, are:
* Robert Brustein, theater
critic, The New Republic; Project: a history of the American
Repertory Theatre
* Robert Campbell,
architecture critic, The Boston Globe Project: essays on
architecture
* Robert Christgau, senior
editor, The Village Voice Project: a world history of popular
music
* Margo Jefferson, critic,
The New York Times, and Elizabeth Kendall, author and adjunct
professor, Bard College Project: a photo/text panorama of American
women artists
Research fellows are:
* Carole Carmichael,
assistant managing editor, The Seattle Times Project: strategies
for covering new arts and cultural movements
* Michael Wise,
contributing editor, Architecture Project: a conference on
cultural diplomacy
Mid-career fellows are:
* M.J. Andersen, editorial
columnist, The Providence Journal
* Sasha Frere-Jones,
freelance writer on popular music
* Anya Grundmann,
supervising editor, Performance Today, National Public Radio
* Allan M. Jalon,
freelance literary journalist
* Donald Munro, film
critic, The Fresno Bee
* Joshua Seftel, freelance
film producer
* Kristin Tillotson,
columnist and reporter, Minneapolis Star Tribune
* Douglas Wolk, freelance
arts writer
Mid-career fellowships offer arts
critics, reporters and editors an academic year in which to
immerse themselves in curricula at Columbia University, and in an
independent practicum under the auspices of one of New York's arts
and cultural organizations. Research fellows also engage in
academic curricula, and pursue a research project leading to an
NAJP-sponsored publication or event. Three-month senior
fellowships are awarded to a select few arts and cultural
journalists of national distinction who aim to advance independent
writing and research projects. ...
The 2002-03 fellows were selected
by NAJP's advisory board, whose members are: Helen Donovan,
executive editor, The Boston Globe; Arthur Gelb, director, The New
York Times Scholarship Fund; John Horn, film writer, Newsweek;
Ileana Oroza, professor of journalism and photography, University
of Miami; Abe Peck, professor and chair of the magazine program,
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University; Peter
Plagens, art critic, Newsweek; Ray Rinaldi, arts and entertainment
editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Susan Stamberg, special
correspondent for the arts, National Public Radio; and Isabel
Wilkerson, correspondent, The New York Times.
SOURCE: NAJP
