Strong Heart Of Glass – Michael Janis – United Kingdom 2012
The University of Sunderland is home to the National Glass Centre in the UK, as well as the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG). As a glass artist, this was exactly where I wanted to do my Fulbright Fellowship. Artist and studio mate Tim Tate was also a recipient of a Fulbright Specialist award, […]
Sleuthing in Russian Emigré Paris – Aliss Valerie Terrell – France 1971
In 1971, I got a Fulbright to enroll at the Sorbonne and research Alexei Remizov, modernist author who emigrated from Revolutionary Petrograd to Paris and died there in 1957. My application promised a photographic essay on “Remizov’s Paris.” So, I lugged my Pentax reflex to all the places he mentioned in his writing. I needed […]
A visit to the studio of Uzbek artist Sergei Alibekov – Laurence Jarvik – Uzbekistan 2002
While I was in Tashkent, I visited the Uzbekfilm Studios and met director Sergei Alibekov, who asked me to do some very brief English-language voiceovers for his animated film “Echogram,” about the collapse of the USSR. Following the recording session, for which he insisted paying me the prevailing wage–$5 US–he invited me to see his […]
Animated China – Tom Gasek – China 2018
I was awarded a five and a half week Fulbright grant to teach animation in northeastern China in the city of Changchun. I was hosted by the Jilin Animation Institute (JAI), one of the very few private institutions that concentrate on the arts in China. As an animator, director, author and teacher, I was excited […]