[SOA] PSA: Press Release - Fellowship Winners Announced

[Anna Heran]

In this email - find news about the inaugural recipients of the Curtis
Gates Lloyd Fellowship for the 2013/14 year.  This exciting fellowship
offers research opportunities at the Lloyd Library and Museum with both
publication and artistic outcomes promised.  

This fellowship brings new people to Cincinnati and helps them see the
city as a research and cultural destination.  For more information, read
below.

 

 

 

 Lloyd Library and Museum - www.lloydlibrary.org
Media Contact:
Anna Heran, Outreach Coordinator
513-721-3707, aheran at lloydlibrary.org
917 Plum St. | Cincinnati, OH 45202

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ANNOUNCES FELLOWSHIP WINNERS

Curtis Gates Lloyd Research Fellowship - Inaugural Year

Three Recipients Announced for 2013/14

 

Cincinnati, OH - March 11, 2013: This past year, the Lloyd Library and
Museum instituted a research fellowship designed to showcase the variety
of materials within the collection as well as to provide long-term
access to unique research materials to scholars from around the country.
This endeavor serves to highlight Cincinnati as a destination for
research, because this locally little-known library has patrons from
around the world and holds materials that are not often available
elsewhere, either in the United States or beyond that are invaluable in
reconstructing our American past, in inspiring new artistic works, and
forwarding downtown Cincinnati's mission to provide cultural enrichment
for Cincinnatians and the world.

 

The Library received many qualified applications for the inaugural year
of the Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship.  From this interesting pool of
proposals, three were selected as being particularly worthy and making
excellent use of the Lloyd's varied collections.  Recipients are both
locally and nationally based, working on a wide-range of projects:

*         Rachel Craft, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kansas: Craft
will be doing research in conjunction with completing her dissertation
for a doctorate in Sociology.  Her research will focus on exploring the
ways in which medicinal plant usage were conveyed through both written
and oral traditions and how those uses were preserved down to today.

*         Ken Henson, Assistant Professor, Art Academy of Cincinnati:
Henson will be completing two projects.  The first will research the
artist John Augustus Knapp and his work for John Uri Lloyd (a founder of
the Lloyd Library) on Lloyd's book, Etidorhpa (an intriguing novel set
in a hidden, underground world that is said to reveal secrets of the
Masons).  Henson's second project will center on the Lloyd's extensive
alchemical collection, with an artistic outcome planned.  Exhibition
will be set for next Winter (2014).

*         Melissa Morris, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University: Morris
will be exploring the role tobacco, as a crop, played in encouraging
European settlement of the Americas, as well as the culture developed
around learning to cultivate the crop, which was more difficult than
most imagine, and how that shared experience solidified communities
beyond the economic impact.  Her research is also in conjunction with
completing a doctorate in History.

 

Fellows will be expected to deliver a brief lecture concerning their
findings.  Artists will also be expected to exhibit their artistic works
resulting from this research.  Dates and times will be announced at a
later time.  

 

About the Lloyd: The Lloyd Library and Museum, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit
organization, is a local and regional cultural treasure, which began in
the 19th century as a research library for Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists,
Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the period.  Our
mission is to collect and maintain a library of botanical, medical,
pharmaceutical, and scientific books and periodicals, and works of
allied sciences that serve the scientific research community, as well as
constituents of the general public, through library services and
programming that bring science, art, and history to life.  For more
information, visit the Lloyd website at www.lloydlibrary.org.

 

 

Anna K. Heran

Exhibits Curator & Education/Outreach Coordinator

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

513-721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Bringing Science, Art, and History to Life, Because the Past is the Path
to the Future

 

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