Emma Ressel is an artist working with large format film photography, re-photography, and archives. Her current work researches natural history collections to examine how we describe nature to ourselves over vast timescales. Ressel earned her BA in Photography at Bard college and her MFA here at the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited solo shows at The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and Strata gallery, Sante Fe, NM. Her work is in permanent collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Recently, Ressel was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Central for Regional Studies. The CRS (Central for Regional Studies) annually awards this fellowship to support scholars whose research aligns with the center’s mission to discover, create, preserve, disseminate and promote a culture of broad inquiry within and beyond the UNM community. With regards to this fellowship, Ressel says, “I am very thankful to the Center for Regional Studies for supporting this work. At a time when arts funding is scarce-both for artists and institutions-I hope this project demonstrates the value of continued artists research into photo history and museums in the region. I see so much potential for artists to work with museums and archives to deliver research and histories to a wider audience in inventive and effective ways, and I look forward to honing my work at this exciting juncture of disciplines.”
The CRS postdoctoral fellowship includes a $50,000 award, distributed in 12 monthly payments, along with a $2,000 research stipend to support travel and related expenses. Fellows also receive dedicated office space at the Center for Regional Studies. Congratulations Emma! We are incredibly proud and look forward to seeing your future work with this fellowship.
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1) Learn more about Emma on her website: https://www.emmaressel.com/about
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