Announcing the First Cohort of THI Moving Image Lab Public Fellows

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Three graduate students have begun their work in arts curation, production, and archival research as the inaugural cohort of THI Moving Image Lab Yearlong Public Fellows. The 2024-25 fellows bring their academic expertise and scholarly interests to three esteemed arts institutions where they will hone their creative skills, foster relationships between the campus and community organizations, and gain professional experience that will help them succeed as artists, researchers, and curators after graduation. 

Leonard Butingan

History PhD student, Leonard Butingan, is a curatorial archive fellow at the Isaac Julien Studio in London and the Isaac Julien Lab at UC Santa Cruz. Working between London and Santa Cruz, he is assisting with ongoing research projects at both sites and updating the archives in both London and Santa Cruz, with the aim of making these materials more accessible for future research and teaching. Axelle Toussaint, a PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture, is an exhibition fellow at the de Young Museum in San Francisco where she is working alongside Claudia Schmuckli, Curator in Charge of Contemporary Art, to produce Isaac Julien’s upcoming exhibition as well as its accompanying catalogue and public programs. History of Art and Visual Culture PhD student, Jeppe Ugelvig, is a curatorial fellow at the Kramlich Collection in Napa Valley where he is producing an exhibition catalogue for the Collection’s current exhibition, Portraits, and organizing future exhibitions and programs that highlight the uniqueness of the institution’s media art holdings. 

Axelle Toussaint

The THI Moving Image Lab Fellowships are made possible by a $1 million Mellon Foundation grant received by the Moving Image Lab, a partnership between the Isaac Julien Lab and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. The grant funds fine art and moving image research and supports graduate students pursuing careers in the arts under the leadership of artist, filmmaker, and UCSC Distinguished Professor Isaac Julien, and his long-time collaborator, Mark Nash, a critic, curator, and UCSC Professor in History of Consciousness. 

Led by Professors Julien and Nash, the Moving Image Lab is a platform for the production of moving images, photographic works, exhibitions, and publications. It is also a space dedicated to the development of innovative pedagogy that prepares students to engage with the diversity of human experience in cultural, historical, and social contexts as well as a hub that connects students to important public conversations about contemporary art. 

Jeppe Ugelvig

This THI Moving Image Lab fellowship opportunity will be open to eligible graduate students until Fall 2026, with a second cohort recruitment beginning in Spring 2025. The initiative will continue to support students and artists of diverse backgrounds who are interested in pursuing careers in the global fields of art, media art, moving images, and arts curation and research.  

Congratulations to the 2024-25 THI Moving Image Lab Fellows!


Learn more about THI’s Public Fellowship program and read our profiles of previous fellows here: https://thi.ucsc.edu/public-fellowship-program/

 
 
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