Research Fellows
The Peter E. Pool Research Fellowships are funded with a generous gift from Nevada Museum of Art board member Dr. Peter E. Pool in the amount of $12,000 per year. Fellowships are awarded annually upon invitation from the Institute for Art + Environment (the Institute) for a term of one year.
The purpose of the Peter E. Pool Research Fellowship is to encourage serious engagements with materials held in the Institute for Art + Environment Archive Collections, as well as the art collections of the Nevada Museum of Art.
Prior to the commencement of the Peter E. Pool Research Fellowship in 2018, the Institute appointed Research Fellows for one-year unpaid terms. These individuals were recognized for existing or proposed projects that contributed unique and new understanding of how humans creatively interact with their natural, built, and virtual environments.
Peter E. Pool Research Fellows
Tristan Duke (2024-2025)
Tristan Duke is a Los Angeles-based artist synthesizing methodologies from fields as disparate as art and science. His work often yields groundbreaking new technologies, with his explorations into hand-drawn holography, for example, leading to his invention of the first ever 3D vinyl record hologram process, from which he has created original vinyl hologram artwork for albums for artists such as Jack White and Guns N’ Roses. Duke is also a co-founder of the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio, a collective devoted to recontextualizing photography as a land-based medium and social practice. His Fellowship project is part of his ongoing expeditionary, performative and photographic work Glacial Optics, which began with the artist reconceptualizing glaciers. This project will continue while he works with glaciers in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Fallen Fruit (2023-2024)
The Fallen Fruit Collective, composed of artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, was commissioned by the Museum in 2022 to create a large-scale public work of art entitled Monument to Sharing. The installation and renovation of the Wilbur D. May Sculpture Plaza are the first of a multi-phased Museum expansion scheduled for completion in early 2025. Monument to Sharing involves planting approximately twenty-one fruit-bearing trees, a berry patch and a series of edible pollinators that the public is welcome to “harvest,” inviting guests to explore ideas of generosity, agricultural production and the meaning behind “community.” The project will be completed in 2030. The fellowship was awarded specifically for the Center to collect a 20-year retrospective archive of the collaborative’s work.
Past Research Fellows
2021 – 2023
Janna Ireland
2021 – 2023
Jeff Kelly
2020 – 2021
Emily Eliza Scott
2019 – 2020
Jonathon Keats
2018 – 2019
Melissa Melero-Moose
2017 – 2019
Nina Elder, Erin Elder, Don Gill
2016 – 2018
Catherine Chalmers, Charles Lindsay, Erika Osborne
2015 – 2017
Trevor Paglen, Victoria McReynolds
2014 – 2016
Donald Fortescue, Susannah Sayler & Ed Morris, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson
2013 – 2015
Charles Hood, Kelly Loudenberg
2012 – 2014
Cedra Wood, Jared Stanley, Ken Goldberg, David Stephenson & Martin Walch
2011 – 2013
Terry and Elizabeth Farnsworth, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
2010 – 2012
David Abel, John Carty, Lea Rekow