[SOA] PSA: Lloyd Library announces 2014-15 Fellowship Awardees

[Anna Heran]

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 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 - Three Recipients Announced for
2014/15

 

Cincinnati, OH - March 17, 2014: Following the completion of a
successful first year of Fellowships, the Lloyd Library and Museum was
pleased to offer a new round of Fellowships for the 2014/15 Academic
Year.  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 Curtis Gates
Lloyd Fellowship on a variety of fascinating topics.  From this pool of
proposals, three were selected as being particularly worthy  by
submitting proposals that make excellent use of the Lloyd's varied
collections both from academic and artistic aspects.  Recipients are
both locally and nationally based, working on a wide-range of projects:

Abby Artemisia, Botanist, University of Miami graduate (2013): Artemisia
will be examining the Elizabeth Brockschlager archival collection,
creating a database of plants listed by Brockschlager, a botanist and
consultant for the creation of the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams
County, Ohio, from her trips to Adams County.  Artemisia will then visit
Edge of Appalachia and compare the ca 1970s lists with what is there now
to assess environmental health and development of the area.  A database
of her work will be available through the Lloyd.

Allison Rae Smith, MFA Candidate, University of Cincinnati: Smith will
be researching the depiction of historic "Wunderkammer," or curiosity
cabinets that individuals would use to display what were considered
especially exotic objects and which were most popular in the 16th
century in Europe.  Using the Lloyd's vast historic scientific
literature, Smith will then produce her own series of Wunderkammer,
which will then be on display at the Lloyd as part of an art exhibition
based on Smith's research.

Sasha M. White, Artist, Eugene Oregon: In 2008, White completed an
internship at the United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary in Miegs
County, Ohio, getting her first real introduction to Appalachian
medicinal plants.  At that time she also learned of an odd botanical
relationship between Appalachian plants and similar plants in Eastern
Asia.  White will be studying these two separate, but related,
ecosystems, and then create a handmade artists' book documenting, in an
artistic way, that research, and exploring how these two disparate
ecosystems are seemingly so related.  

 


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.  

For more information and complete details on the awardees and their
projects, see http://www.lloydlibrary.org/fellows.html.

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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