Curlee Raven Holton & Raven Fine Art Editions Distinguished Art Fellowship Past Fellows
2025 Fellow
Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB)
Rashayla Marie Brown (Professor RMB) is a Berlin, Germany based undisciplinaryâ„¢ artist-scholar who bends time-based media to transform narratives of power, access and mastery. Her works examine themes of ethics, visibility, vulnerability, and perception in performance, photography, and film, often deeply regarding the context and genre in which they unfold. Bold aesthetics and a wide emotional-spiritual range unite her approach to culture and knowledge. RMB has completed projects in venues on five continents, including Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva; Metrograph, NYC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Qalam wa Lawh, Rabat; Recess, Brooklyn; Rhodes College, Memphis; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Slamdance Film Festival, Park City; and Turbine Hall, Johannesburg.
2024 Fellow
Stephanie J. Woods
Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, serves as an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art at the University of New Mexico. Born in Seneca, SC, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, Woods cultivates an artistic practice that focuses on preserving and celebrating her culture.
In 2021, Woods was selected to attend the artist residency Black Rock Senegal and was awarded the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art by the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina. In the summer of 2023, she opened two solo museum shows, one at the Sarasota Art Museum and another at the Harvey, B. Gantt Museum for African American Art + Culture.
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2023 Inaugural Fellow
Willie Cole
is an internationally recognized artist who has exhibited nationally, with a diverse studio practice including sculpture, printmaking, drawing and painting. Cole's work uses contexts of postmodern eclecticism, and combines references and appropriation from African and African-American imagery.
Cole’s artist fellowship at KSU included an exhibition in the CVA gallery between Oct. 24 – Dec. 1, 2023, an artist lecture and gallery reception. He also spent time in the classroom working with graduate and undergraduate print media and photography students.
