The Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) enables students to conduct extended, focused research in close cooperation with a Pomona faculty member. Research projects, which receive funding from Pomona and from public and private foundations, take place both on campus and in the field. Although the natural sciences account for the largest number of projects, the humanities, social sciences and interdisciplinary disciplines are also well represented.
Summer of 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pomona College launched Remote Alternative Independent Summer Experience Program (RAISE). RAISE为学生提供了一个为期数周的奖学金机会,学生可以选择任何最有效的虚拟形式, 它既可以促进学生的独立项目,也可以将学生与学院的研究项目联系起来.
2021 Museum RAISE Fellows including Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern
Maggie Allegar (23):为即将举办的两个展览提供策展研究协助:巴黎生态:19世纪版画和绘画中的城市转型和17世纪漫长的光学艺术和科学以及相关课程
Zaid Al Zoubi (’24): curatorial research assistance for Parisian Ecologies
Hannah Avalos: producing season 3 of our podcast “Inside the Benton,” which she co-founded last summer
Aitzin Cornejo-Reynoso (哈维马德学院1922年):盖蒂骨髓注册和收藏研究本科生实习生, Aitzin will undertake projects focused on our permanent collection
Ananya Goel (24):研究(并最终为游客和学生的数字指南)公共艺术在皇冠体育学院和超越ID1课程“公共艺术:纪念碑和纪念性”
Austin Kim (23):创作一系列以韩国侨民战后记忆建构为主题的被子, engaging with personal family narratives, the poetry of Isabella Cho (Harvard ’24), and resources at the Benton and elsewhere relating to borderland studies, emotional citizenship, and statehood
Vivian Kuo (’23): research for the upcoming exhibition and publication on Fred Eversley, which was just awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation for Pacific Standard Time 2024
Eva Molina (’23): creating a book of poetry, and possibly a virtual art gallery, inspired by her project Poiesis of the Self from her Visual Poetics class
Ansley Ngando (’24): curatorial research assistance for Parisian Ecologies
Jeffrey Pendo (’24): curatorial research assistance for Parisian Ecologies
Noor Tamari (’22): curatorial research for Art and Science of Optics in the Long 17th Century
2020 Museum RAISE Fellows
Sam Chan (2022), Noor Tamari (2022), and Kali Tindell-Griffin (2022); Mentors: Victoria Sancho Lobis, Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director; Claire Nettleton, academic curator
In Our Care: Institutional History in Material Form
Mei Ge (2022); Mentor: Rebecca McGrew, senior curator
Madeleine Mount-Cors (2022), Maelvi Nunez (2022), and Grace Sartin (2021); Mentor: Dr. Rosalía Romero, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History
CrossBorder Photography: Images from the US and Mexico Border in the Permanent Collection
2018 Museum SURP Fellow
Vivienne Yixuan Shi (2019); Mentor: Kathleen Howe
Mutuality in Dichotomy: Photography from the Permanent Collection
Mutuality in Dichotomy: Photography from the Permanent Collection is curated by Vivienne Yixuan Shi (2019). 这是学生策展人在皇冠体育学院艺术博物馆本顿策展实习和暑期本科生研究计划(SURP)下开发的一系列展览中的第五个. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated brochure.
2017 Museum SURP Fellow
Dmaia Curry (2019); Mentor: Kathleen Howe
Establishing Justice: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Establishing Justice explores one facet through which we construct justice in the United States—the criminal justice system. 展览中的艺术作品探索了刑事司法系统的运作机制,并带我们穿过监狱经常关闭的大门, courtrooms, and police departments that encompass our justice system.
Funding Provided by: Janet Inskeep Benton
2016 Museum SURP Fellows
Romario Ramirez (2018); Mentor: Rebecca McGrew
Project Series 51: Incendiary Traces
Project Series 51: Incendiary Traces presents artist Hillary Mushkin’s newest project. Incendiary Traces is an experimental art, research and media initiative investigating how landscape imagery is used in international conflict. It brings groups of artists, scholars, and students to active, local militarized sites to draw, observe and otherwise “trace” locations that have included the 29 Palms Marine Corps Base, the US/Mexico border, San Clemente Island Naval Weapons Testing Range, among others.
Funding Provided by: Janet Inskeep Benton
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Andy Starr (2018); Mentor: Kathleen Howe
Now Screening: Andy Warhol Prints
Now Screening: Andy Warhol Prints 探讨了沃霍尔丝网版画在技术和主题上的变化,并展示了安迪沃霍尔视觉艺术基金会最近赠送的七幅版画以及其他永久收藏的沃霍尔作品.
Funding Provided by: Janet Inskeep Benton
2015 Museum SURP Fellow
Davis Menard (2017); Mentor: Rebecca McGrew
R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona
R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona 通过将参与该计划的杰出艺术家与洛杉矶地区的新一代艺术家联系起来,庆祝50个项目系列展览的里程碑. The exhibition features seven artists—Justin Cole, Michael Decker, Naotaka Hiro, Wakana Kimura, Aydinaneth Ortiz, Michael Parker and Nikki Pressley
Funding Provided by: Janet Inskeep Benton
2014 Museum SURP Fellow
Zoë Jameson (2015); Mentor: Kathleen Howe
项目概述:我正在研究当代美洲原住民艺术家,为皇冠体育学院艺术博物馆的展览做准备,该展览将在大约3到5年内举行. 一位当代本土艺术家将与博物馆的美国本土藏品并肩展出他们的艺术作品, which is really big and full of things from the late 1800s and early 1900s. This exhibition will enliven the collection and make sure it’s still getting seen. I’ve read a bunch of books and done tons of Googling, trying to find younger artists whose work might be particularly interesting. In the last week or so, the options narrowed down to a group of about 10 people. Because I’m graduating this year, I won’t be the one who’s here when final decisions are being made, 所以我要确保将来做这份工作的人不会重新做我所有的研究,也不会去翻那些在六个不同地方的潦草笔记. Full Interview
2013 Museum SURP Fellows
Nidhi Gandhi (2015); Mentor(s) Terri Geis, Kathleen Howe
Resonant Minds: Abstraction and Perception
摘要:抽象艺术的各种形式——从表现主义到极简主义——都与关于大脑如何工作的神经科学理论相呼应. Whether exploring a precise order or practicing more chaotic techniques, 抽象的微妙方面为质疑大脑如何处理我们的感知提供了一个平台. It can provide a window into the mind's unceasing efforts to make sense of the human experience. Abstract art may be viewed in relationship to theories and explorations of the mind, as we consider how it prompts the viewer to interpret the unexpected and indeterminate. 抽象艺术家通常将他们的艺术前提建立在形式和颜色的微妙变化如何改变我们对艺术品的吸收的理论之上. Similarly, neuroscientists have explored perception from different perspectives, 研究在观看图像时所获得的印象是如何触发神经元冲动和无意识反应的. 共振心灵:抽象与感知探索了我们对抽象艺术的感知揭示我们心理过程的不同方式, and asks us to reflect on the ways we perceive.
Funding Provided by: Janet Inskeep Benton
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Benjamin Kersten (2015); Additional Collaborator(s): Kathleen Howe; Mentor(s): Frances Pohl; Rebecca McGrew; Steve Comba
Pages: The Poetry of Mirella Bentivoglio
Abstract: Despite an early career as a verse poet, Mirella Bentivoglio’s prolific career spans many artistic genres. A poet, sculptor, performance artist, concrete poet, and visual poet, 她用批判的方法和讽刺的幽默来探索语言和图像之间的关系,挑战我们社会中给定的意义和权威体系. Bentivoglio has achieved international success; however, 回顾她过去五十年的多媒体实践将填补美国可用学术材料的空白. My work followed key steps in the process of preparing an exhibition. The first included reading past materials, 包括波尔教授写的展览建议和重要文章,以便准备参观本蒂沃里奥在罗马的家和工作场所. Over the course of our visit, we collected information on specific works, including interpretations and installation instructions. I also compiled answers for an interview that will be published in the accompanying catalog. Back at the museum, I photographed, accessioned, and entered new works into the museum database while cleaning up the exiting archive. This public information will be necessary for constructing an exhibition layout and checklist. Bentivoglio’s subversive work draws connections between the language and images of everyday life, 与模糊学科和权力结构之间界限的重要和实验性艺术保持一致.
Funding Provided by: Pomona College SURP
2012 Museum SURP Fellows
Zoë Jameson (2015); Additional Collaborator(s): Steve Comba; Gary Murphy; Mentor(s): Kathleen Howe
Making an Exhibition – Marking/Remarking: Aerial Photographs by Marilyn Bridges
Abstract: This SURP was an eight-week internship, culminating in the mounting of an exhibition, Marking/Remarking: Aerial Photographs by Marilyn Bridges, at the Pomona College Museum of Art. The exhibition complements the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative: this year's theme is Earth. 这些照片包括古代和现代文明以及地质过程在地球上留下的痕迹, while giving each mark equal weight through an impartial aerial view. Offering an alternative to the ancient-natural/modern-intrusive dichotomy, Marking/Remarking investigates the necessary cooperation between land and civilization as marks on the earth are made, erased and altered. From ancient geoglyphs to industrial farmland and impressive volcanoes, the photographs of Marilyn Bridges provide a different view of the earth, its history and our marks upon it. During my eight weeks, I learned about Marilyn Bridges and her photographs and about museum processes. I was given a lot of freedom with the project, in both analysis and action. I was primarily responsible for research and the selection and sequencing of images for the exhibition. I wrote the wall texts, press information and a short essay that details my analysis of Bridges's photographs, which we published in an exhibition brochure. 我与展览的合作使我熟悉了策展过程的每一步,以及博物馆的各种其他任务和功能, such as installation and collections management.
Funding Provided by: Janet Inskeep Benton
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Hannah Pivo (2014); Mentor(s): Rebecca McGrew
Adam Overton, The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses, and Social Practice
Abstract: The essay “Adam Overton, The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses, and Social Practice,” represents the culmination of my research project. As the Pomona College Museum of Art’s curatorial assistant, 我和洛杉矶艺术家Adam Overton一起参与了即将到来的展览的构思和策划, entitled Project Series 44: The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses. This project explores issues of speech, power, 并通过由奥弗顿和他的合作者领导的每周一次的博物馆参观者参与活动进行表演. Overton engages in “social practice,这个术语描述了最近出现的跨学科艺术实践,将社会互动作为社区参与和公众参与的一种手段. Social practice is currently thriving in the Southern California art scene,在过去的十年里,许多洛杉矶地区的艺术博物馆开始与从事社会实践的艺术家和组织合作. Through research, personal interviews, and by working with Overton during the planning of his project at Pomona, 很明显,这种类型的合作给艺术家和相关机构带来了许多挑战, yet it also represents some of the most experimental and innovative activity in the art world today. The essay will be published in the Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition catalogue in November 2012.
资助:Graham“Bud”55年和MaryEllen 56年基尔斯比捐赠基金在皇冠体育学院艺术博物馆实习学生