Smart Scholars
The Smart Scholars program supports research opportunities for UChicago students at the Smart Museum of Art resulting in an original creative work (of visual art, music, dance, writing), program, or scholarly essay. Students propose their own projects grounded in academic research (library, database, archive, conservation, materials science laboratory, or other museums) into one or more objects in the Museum’s collection.
Smart Scholars is an initiative of the Smart Museum of Art’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry made possible in part by generous funding from the Smart Family Foundation of New York. Additional support has been provided by the University of Chicago’s College Center for Research & Fellowships (CCRF).
Archive of 2022–2023 Smart Scholars projects Eli Bec 2022–2023 Smart Scholar Taking two 20th-century photographs in the collection, Interior of a Butcher Shop by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Butcher with Hog…
Archive of 2021–2022 Smart Scholars projects Sarahi Rincon Molina 2021–2022 Smart Scholar Andrew Luk is a contemporary artist who uses non-traditional materials in his art practice, highlighting form and materiality,…
Archive of 2020–2021 Smart Scholars projects Marco Kaisth 2020–2021 Smart Scholar The chapbook the unfinished world by Marco Kaisth was created in response to research into the provenance of two…
Archive of 2019–2020 Smart Scholars projects Roger Brown, Sinking , 1977, Etching and aquatint with hand burnishing. Smart Museum of Art, Gift of Roger Brown, courtesy of The School of…
Archive of 2018–2019 Smart Scholars projects Juhi Gupta2018–2019 Smart ScholarJuhi Gupta is a new media and installation artist and progressive political organizer in Chicago who is originally from the San…