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Business Upturn
13-05-2025
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LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE PROFESSOR RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP
Long Beach, CA, May 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Long Beach City College (LBCC) Visual & Media Arts Co-Department Head and Professor of Drawing and Painting, Carolyn Castaño, has been awarded the highly prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2025, which marks the program's 100th anniversary year. She was recognized in the field of Fine Arts for her prior exceptional achievements as well as her future promise. 'This recognition is a powerful reminder of the caliber of faculty we are fortunate to have at Long Beach City College,' said Uduak-Joe Ntuk, LBCC Board of Trustees President. 'Professor Castaño's selection as a Guggenheim Fellow reflects the high level of talent, dedication, and scholarly excellence within our teaching ranks. Her achievements demonstrate what's possible at a community college and shine a national spotlight on the incredible work at LBCC.' 'It's not often that a community college faculty member receives this kind of national recognition, and that's exactly why Professor Castaño's Guggenheim Fellowship is so meaningful for our students,' said Dr. Mike Muñoz, LBCC Superintendent-President. 'Her achievement sends a powerful message that excellence knows no boundaries — and that students at Long Beach City College are learning from some of the most talented, visionary educators in the country.' First awarded in 1925, Guggenheim Fellowships offer support to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form. Each Fellow receives a monetary stipend up to $90,000 to pursue independent work at the highest level under the freest possible conditions. This 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows includes 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines, chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants. Professor Castaño was one of just 32 recipients awarded in Fine Arts. 'I'm very honored to have received the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and thrilled to be in the company of my thoughtful and talented colleagues in the arts,' said Professor Castaño. 'I'm looking forward to bringing the fruits of my research and the subsequent work to my Long Beach City College students, who continue to inspire me to stretch as an artist and a teacher.' Professor Castaño is a Colombian-American visual artist based in Los Angeles whose practice focuses on painting, drawing, video, and mixed-media installations with themes and images originating in Latin and South America. Her work, exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally, uses eco-feminist frameworks in painting, installation, video, and artist books to explore the landscape, migration, female and family identities in works that juxtapose drawing, photography, and performance with patterns found in textiles, design, and geometric abstraction. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master's in Fine Arts from the UCLA School of Art and Architecture. She became a full-time instructor for LBCC in 2015. In addition to this fellowship, Professor Castaño is also the recipient of the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in Painting and Drawing, the 2011 California Community Foundation Getty Fellow Mid-Career Grant, and the 2011 C.O.L.A.-City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship. To learn more about the Guggenheim Foundation and to see the full list of 2025 Fellows, please visit # # # About Long Beach City College Long Beach City College consists of two campuses with an enrollment of more than 35,000 students each semester. The education program's primary purpose is to prepare students for transfer to baccalaureate-granting institutions, entry into work or career development, and to support businesses in economic development. Long Beach City College serves the cities of Avalon, Lakewood, Long Beach, and Signal Hill. Long Beach City College promotes equitable student learning and achievement, academic excellence, and workforce development by delivering high-quality educational programs and support services to our diverse communities. Visit for more information on Long Beach City College. Attachment Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
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LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE PROFESSOR RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP
Professor Carolyn Castaño Joins the 2025 Centennial Class of Fine Arts Fellows Carolyn Castaño Long Beach, CA, May 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Long Beach City College (LBCC) Visual & Media Arts Co-Department Head and Professor of Drawing and Painting, Carolyn Castaño, has been awarded the highly prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2025, which marks the program's 100th anniversary year. She was recognized in the field of Fine Arts for her prior exceptional achievements as well as her future promise. 'This recognition is a powerful reminder of the caliber of faculty we are fortunate to have at Long Beach City College,' said Uduak-Joe Ntuk, LBCC Board of Trustees President. 'Professor Castaño's selection as a Guggenheim Fellow reflects the high level of talent, dedication, and scholarly excellence within our teaching ranks. Her achievements demonstrate what's possible at a community college and shine a national spotlight on the incredible work at LBCC.' 'It's not often that a community college faculty member receives this kind of national recognition, and that's exactly why Professor Castaño's Guggenheim Fellowship is so meaningful for our students,' said Dr. Mike Muñoz, LBCC Superintendent-President. 'Her achievement sends a powerful message that excellence knows no boundaries — and that students at Long Beach City College are learning from some of the most talented, visionary educators in the country.' First awarded in 1925, Guggenheim Fellowships offer support to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form. Each Fellow receives a monetary stipend up to $90,000 to pursue independent work at the highest level under the freest possible conditions. This 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows includes 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines, chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants. Professor Castaño was one of just 32 recipients awarded in Fine Arts. 'I'm very honored to have received the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and thrilled to be in the company of my thoughtful and talented colleagues in the arts,' said Professor Castaño. 'I'm looking forward to bringing the fruits of my research and the subsequent work to my Long Beach City College students, who continue to inspire me to stretch as an artist and a teacher.' Professor Castaño is a Colombian-American visual artist based in Los Angeles whose practice focuses on painting, drawing, video, and mixed-media installations with themes and images originating in Latin and South America. Her work, exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally, uses eco-feminist frameworks in painting, installation, video, and artist books to explore the landscape, migration, female and family identities in works that juxtapose drawing, photography, and performance with patterns found in textiles, design, and geometric abstraction. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master's in Fine Arts from the UCLA School of Art and Architecture. She became a full-time instructor for LBCC in 2015. In addition to this fellowship, Professor Castaño is also the recipient of the 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in Painting and Drawing, the 2011 California Community Foundation Getty Fellow Mid-Career Grant, and the 2011 C.O.L.A.-City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship. To learn more about the Guggenheim Foundation and to see the full list of 2025 Fellows, please visit # # # About Long Beach City College Long Beach City College consists of two campuses with an enrollment of more than 35,000 students each semester. The education program's primary purpose is to prepare students for transfer to baccalaureate-granting institutions, entry into work or career development, and to support businesses in economic development. Long Beach City College serves the cities of Avalon, Lakewood, Long Beach, and Signal Hill. Long Beach City College promotes equitable student learning and achievement, academic excellence, and workforce development by delivering high-quality educational programs and support services to our diverse communities. Visit for more information on Long Beach City College. Attachment Carolyn Castaño CONTACT: Stacey Toda Long Beach City College 5629384004 stoda@ in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
15-04-2025
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CT artists, professors among 2025 Guggenheim Fellows celebrating foundation's 100th anniversary
The latest group of Guggenheim Fellows was announced on Tuesday, and many on the list have Connecticut connections. Guggenheim fellowships go to groundbreaking and innovative artists, writers, scholars, scientists and others. The awards were created in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim. Recipients receive a stipend which allows them to pursue their work independently. According to a release, the 198 recipients, which represent 53 disciplines and artistic fields, were selected from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants and 'were tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.' Many of this year's recipients are affiliated with a college or university — in Connecticut, that includes Yale University, Wesleyan University and the University of Connecticut — but a third of the list have no such affiliation, including some artists who live or work in the state. This is the 100th class of Guggenheim fellows. Those connected to Connecticut include: Composer Katherine Balch, who teaches at the Yale School of Music and received her master's degree from the university, is known for incorporating 'found sounds' and nuanced natural processes in her work. Molly Brunson is an associate professor in Slavic languages and literature at Yale who also teaches the history of art at the university. Brunson is the author of 'Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890.' Tom Burr is a conceptual artist who was born in New Haven and still lives and works in Connecticut. Burr had a show at the Wadsworth Atheneum & Museum's prestigious modern art MATRIX space in 2019 and is about to publish a book documenting his Torrington Project, which displayed numerous phases of his work in an abandoned factory building. Matthew Issac Cohen is a professor of theater arts and performance studies in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in Indonesian shadow puppet theater. UConn has one of the top puppetry programs in the country. Cohen is both a scholar of puppet history and a puppeteer himself. Azza Elsiddique is an installation artist who got her MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art and is still based in New Haven. Last year, Elsiddique had a show at one of the premiere galleries in the country for large-scale installation, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. While she has not had a solo exhibit in Connecticut yet, Elsiddique was part of a group show while she was at Yale and also contributed to the school's online digital art project. Roger Mathew Grant is a professor of music and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Wesleyan University. Grant, who has also taught at Yale, is the author of 'Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical.' Oona Hathaway is a law professor at the Yale Law School where she is also director of the school's Center for Global Legal Challenges. Jiliane Jones, a sculptor who teaches at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, lives in New Haven and has earned the Connecticut Commission Fellowship among her many honors. Other fellows include performers whose work has been performed in the state numerous times such as choreographer Donald Byrd (who spent some time as a student at Yale and later taught both there and at Wesleyan), novelists such as Jonathan Lethem, who not only has visited Connecticut regularly on book tours but whose personal archives reside at Yale's Beinecke Library, as well as essayist and humorist Sloane Crosley, who spoke at Hartford's Mark Twain House & Museum just last month. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation does not itemize the amounts of the stipends given to individuals, but they are said to be in the $30,000 to $45,000 range. In the first century of its existence, the foundation has given more than $400 million to over 19,000 fellows. For its 100th anniversary, the foundation is launching a new website this month and is the subject of an exhibit in New York City. 'At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers and artists,' said Edward Hirsch, the foundation's president, in the release on Tuesday. 'We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society toward a better and more hopeful future.'
