Hite Speed Fellowship Announced

The Hite Art Institute, the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Louisville, is pleased to announce a new fellowship program in conjunction with the Speed Art Museum, renewing the long-standing tradition of collaboration between the two leaders in the visual arts in Louisville. The inaugural Hite-Speed Fellowship (starting January 26) is awarded to Hunter Kissel, first-year graduate student at the Hite Art Institute.

Of equal significance is the appointment of the Hite Art Institute’s Doctoral Candidate Eileen Yanoviak as Exhibition and Project Coordinator at the Speed Art Museum. Her appointment will begin January 20.

The Speed Art Museum and the University of Louisville’s close proximity and shared commitment to art historical research and the contextualization of diverse and multidisciplinary art practices will continue to inform curriculum, exhibition, and publications at The Hite.

Inaugural Hite-Speed Fellow Hunter Kissel is currently pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Public Administration and Critical and Curatorial Studies at the University of Louisville. A native of Louisville, he graduated from Transylvania University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art. Hunter’s research focus is on contemporary artistic practice and post-war painting.

Newly appointed Speed Art Museum Exhibition and Project Coordinator, Eileen Yanoviak is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Louisville studying nineteenth-century American landscape with Professor Benjamin Hufbauer. In 2013-14 she was awarded the Hite Art Institute-Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Curatorial Fellowship where she served as Exhibitions and Collections Manager. She contributes to Burnaway.org and is co-editor of Formations of Identity: Landscape, Society, and Politics, a collection of essays under Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Her essay “Shi Lu’s Beyond the Great Wall: Modernization and Ethnic Minority in Party Painting,” will be published in Art Review in 2015. As president of Aegis, the graduate student organization of the Hite Art Institute, she co-edited the journal Parnassus. Yanoviak earned a BA (2005) and MA (2011) in Art History from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she has been adjunct faculty since 2007.