Fellowship Opportunities

The Lloyd Library & Museum provides funds for research at the Library for one to three months. Research projects funded by the fellowships require on-site use of the Library’s collections. Two types of stipends are available. Both require a project at the end of the award period.

Artist-in-Residence
This program funds professional artists to create work based on research at the Library. 2025 Artist-in-Residence details and application

Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship
This program funds academic research using the Lloyd Library & Museum's collections. 2025 Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship details and application

Applications for 2025 are due November 1, 2024.

 

 

2024 Artists-in-Residence

Madelein Hordinski

Madeleine Hordinski is a photographer born and based in Cincinnati. She graduated from Ohio University in December 2020 Summa Cum Laude with two degrees in photojournalism and anthropology. Following graduation, Hordinski interned for the Los Angeles Times. In 2022, she began freelancing full time from Cincinnati, where her work has brought her from Warsaw, Poland, to San Antonio, Texas. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times. Her photos and writing have also been featured in National Geographic, The Washington Post, the BBC, and more.

Project: Lore of Pawpaw

Hordinski will use Lloyd collections to obtain a deeper historical context of pawpaws in Ohio. She will examine the history, presence, and fascination of Ohio’s state and native fruit both locally and abroad at the Lloyd. This includes reviewing with 19th century flora and plant lists of Ohio and early botanical treatise on native plants and trees like The American Grove by Humphry Marshall from 1785 - the oldest botanical work published in United States. The project will culminate in a photo exhibition featuring print photography and video installation.

2024 Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellows

Lauren Cannady

Lauren Cannady is a scholar working at the intersections of art history, intellectual history, and the environmental humanities. In her research and teaching, she explores artistic production and taxonomies of knowledge within interrelated histories of science, religion, technology, and labor in the early modern period. She holds a PhD in Art History from New York University and was previously Assistant Clinical Professor in the Honors College at the University of Maryland, College Park and Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute.

 Project: Green Thoughts: Ornament as Idea in the Early Modern Garden

Cannady will consult 16th, 17th and early 18th century naturalist treatise, garden manuals and illustrated botanicals including herbals by Carolus Clusius and Rembert Dodoens and early classifications of American plants by John Parksinson and Jacques-Philippe Cornut. Her work will result in a book that explores the ways that naturalists, gardeners, and designers attempted to order the natural world in early modern Northern Europe and colonial North America. Green Thoughts calls attention to the complicity of gardeners and naturalists during the European colonization of North America.