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Evansville native James A. Sanders is an art patron, an advocate for students at the University of Southern Indiana, and a generous donor. He funded the James A. Sanders Fellowship to sustain student artists who have achieved a level of distinction and who plan a career in art management.
Sarah Howard is a studio artist and an art major at USI. As a Sanders Fellow, Howard worked at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries.
As an intern, Howard was introduced to many aspects of gallery management. She created reference files of New Harmony’s public art, and she wrote copy about the art for a visitors’ brochure. Howard also interacted with artists in New Harmony and assisted Josh Rodenberg with the installation Cubeular, a three-dimensional show.
While at the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, she assisted with the preparation of The Paces in Maine exhibition by completing research of the period Stephen Pace was in Maine, identifying paintings with themes based on Pace’s time in Maine, and preparing the works for installation.
She also prepared “virtual exhibits” for the art center’s web site. The virtual exhibits are based on artwork exhibited in the center and art from the USI collection.
Susan Sauls, art collection registrar, explained that Howard prepared a step-by-step guide on how to prepare the virtual exhibit. Sauls said, “I hope to have other students follow in this new way of sharing artwork with a broader audience.”
The experience the fellowship provides is invaluable to students. “They are able to observe the process of preparing and installing an exhibition, and they learn it is more than gathering pictures and hanging them on the walls,” Sauls said. “Art is selected with a definite purpose and placed with forethought.”
Students selected for the fellowship are studio artists. Sauls said the fellowship gives an inside view of the gallery relationship, allowing the student fellow to learn to present the work and oneself with professionalism.
Howard received the John McNaughton Woodworking Award, named for an accomplished artist and USI professor emeritus of art. The Purchase Award and the Student Art Show Merit Award went to Howard during USI’s 2009 Student Art Show.
Woodworking is her personal art interest. Her work renovating a home she shares with husband Chris and four- and five-year old sons sparked that curiosity.
She is the first recipient of the James A. Sanders Fellowship.
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