Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship

Established in 1986, the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship promotes the exhibition of contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, as well as the teaching of contemporary art principles in the Sam Fox School. The fellowship centers around two core components: teaching in the College of Art and producing work for a solo exhibition for the museum’s Currents series.

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Call for applications: Freund Teaching Fellowship

Applications are open for the Freund Teaching Fellowship

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Isasi and Tossin Named Freund Fellows

Blas Isasi Gutiérrez and Clarissa Tossin have been named Freund Fellows for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic years, respectively.

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Crystal Z Campbell Named 2023-24 Freund Fellow 

Multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer Crystal Z Campbell has been named the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow

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Q&A with Artist Tamara Johnson, 2022-23 Freund Fellow

Artist Tamara Johnson was the 2022-23 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

photo of film installation by Crystal Z Campbell

Applications are open for the Freund Teaching Fellowship

Blas Isasi Gutiérrez and Clarissa Tossin have been named Freund Fellows for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic years, respectively.

Multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer Crystal Z Campbell has been named the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow

Artist Tamara Johnson was the 2022-23 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Open to visual artists working in all media.
Each fellow receives $45,000 (inclusive of ﬂights, car rental, lodging, food, and incidentals)
Fellows travel to St. Louis twice. In the first year, fellows are in residence in St. Louis for the fall semester, during which time they teach one class of their design in the art program as well as have studio visits with graduate students, an artist talk, etc. The fellow is given an on-campus studio space and full access to our shops, facilities, and libraries. The fellow works with the Saint Louis Art Museum staff in conceptualizing their solo exhibition to be held in the following year. The fellow returns the second year for two weeks to install their exhibition and deliver a public lecture there.
Applicants apply online through Interfolio. Applicants will submit a resume, examples of work, teaching statement, artist statement, reference contacts, and website link (if available).

Currents Exhibitions

Currents 122: Meleko Mokgosi

Mokgosi’s project Spaces of Subjection explores the notion of space as a metaphor, theoretical device, and social construct in order to question conventional ideas of what it means to be a subject.

Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan

Within a framework of queer and nonbinary experience, Dugan’s portraits examine intersections between individual identity and the search for intimate connection.

Currents 119: Dana Levy

Levy presents three new works concerned with landscape and memory.

Currents 117: David Hullfish Bailey

Bailey takes the Missouri River watershed and the aquifers of the High Plains as a starting point to investigate the connections among art, geography, and the environment.

Currents 115: Jennifer Bornstein

The exhibited works include a group of etchings, photogravures, and photographs, and 1:1 scale relief-type prints of the interior of a house in London, plus an experimental video work.

Black and white painting of famous historical Black leaders and icons posed together for a portrait.

Inkjet print of a person lying in a field of green plants with small purple flowers, their arms behind their head, staring at the camera.

A large-scale screen, hung from the ceiling, featuring an ornately decorated room that's mostly black-and-white, except for a circular section to the left that is full-color and somewhat blown-out through the window area, showing a person standing in front of the windows.

Office with a marble-topped desk, leather office chair, fan, fringed lamp, and taxidermied turkey. The back wall is painted with a mural of midwest landscape. A riverboat floats down the river and a military helicopter flies overhead with a banner advertising "Big Bags USA."

Within a framework of queer and nonbinary experience, Dugan’s portraits examine intersections between individual identity and the search for intimate connection.

Levy presents three new works concerned with landscape and memory.

Bailey takes the Missouri River watershed and the aquifers of the High Plains as a starting point to investigate the connections among art, geography, and the environment.

The exhibited works include a group of etchings, photogravures, and photographs, and 1:1 scale relief-type prints of the interior of a house in London, plus an experimental video work.

Past Freund Teaching Fellows

Clarissa Tossin (2025-26)
Blas Isasi Gutiérrez (2024-25)
Crystal Z Campbell (2023-24)
Tamara Johnson (2022-23)
Meleko Mokgosi (2021-22)
Jess T. Dugan (2020-21)
Dana Levy (2019-20)
Dave Hullfish Bailey (2018-19)
Jennifer Bornstein (2017-18)
Shimon Attie (2016-17)
Andréa Stanislav (2015-16)
Mariam Ghani (2014-15)
Won Ju Lim (2013-14)
Renata Stih + Frieder Schnock (2012-13)
Chelsea Knight (2011-12)
Ian Monroe (2010-11)
Bruce Yonemoto (2009-10)
Claudia Schmacke (2008-09)
Sarah Oppenheimer (2007-08)
Angelina Gualdoni (2006-07)
Cameron Martin (2005-06)
Matthew Buckingham (2004-05)
Francis Cape (2003-04)
Ellen Gallagher (2002-03)
Catherine Opie (2000)
Phil Robinson (1998)
Michael Byron (1996)