Art professor earns fellowship at Yale Center

Jennifer Way, assistant professor of visual arts, has received a fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art for the summer of 2001.

At the Yale Center, Way will research the influence of American culture on British life and culture in the 1950s. In addition, her project will focus on the links between the development of cultural studies in England and the Independent Group, a group of London artists that was active in the 1950s.

The month-long visiting fellowship is given to scholars or museum professionals interested in researching British art. The Yale Center for British Art contains an extensive collection of English art and literature, considered the most comprehensive collection outside of England.

Way will begin her research this summer in London, where she will work at the Tate Gallery archives using a junior faculty summer research grant from UNT. At the Yale Center, she will continue that research by studying essays, reviews, art and other resources related to the Independent Group.

She ultimately plans to publish her findings in a book, but she also expects to share her research with her students.

"Any time you do research, you're opening new ways of thinking and topics for the classroom. Ideally, research is feeding teaching," she says.

Way joined the UNT art faculty in 1998. She received her bachelor's degree in art history from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, her master's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and her doctoral degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin.

BY ELLEN SCHROEDER paiswril@pres.admin.unt.edu

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