On June 3, the Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative welcomed six undergraduate students from around the country to participate in the second Summer Curatorial Research Project. The students attended museum studies workshops and field trips led by staff at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection and researched Mesoamerican ceramic objects from the collection of The Fralin Museum of Art under the guidance of Adriana Greci Green, Curator of Indigenous Art of the Americas and two UVA graduate students, Natalie Pope (Anthropology) and Matthew Richey (Spanish). Their research efforts resulted in a new exhibition in the Object Study Gallery in The Fralin titled “Beyond Feasting: A Window into Ancient Mesoamerica.”

The call for 2019 participants will be released in November! For more information, contact Amanda Wagstaff, [email protected].

2018 Summer Curatorial Students (from left to right): Jade Flint, Howard University; Amanda Lane, Whittier College; Dalia Kijakazi, Superman College; Tykira Beasley, Elizabeth City State University; Vashti Taylor Jenkins, Florida A&M; Janeth Ruiz Garcia, University of Texas-Permian Basin.