Graduate Students Awarded Travel Stipends

Seven graduate students in Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have been awarded travel stipends. By investing in student travel, the school aims to support creative activity and research.

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art candidates Sophia Hatzikos, Lynne Smith, and Roy Uptain each received awards. Hatzikos traveled to Kent, Washington, to install a public sculpture as part of the Willis Street Greenway Sculpture Exhibition. Smith visited Los Angeles to attend the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s textile show and conduct research. Uptain will travel to Houston, Texas, in March to conduct research at the National Museum of Funerary History.

In the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration & Visual Culture program, Cleonique Hilsaca will visit Italy for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in April, and Maddie Baker will attend ICON, the illustration conference, in Minneapolis this July.

In the Master of Architecture program, Lenora Li traveled to Mexico City and Acapulco in January, with an interest in studying patterns, and Kaitlyn Dooley will continue research on cast iron buildings in New York this spring.

The next student travel award application is due February 23, 2024, to fund travel between March and October, 2024. More information can be found here.