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Marianna Dixon Williams

Honor

Marianna Dixon Williams (GA), Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (NY), Irene Fenara (Italy) Presents New Worlds: Technologies Panel on March 13, 2024 from 12 to 1 pm ET. Register: https://secure.nmwa.org/488/498

Williams, D. 2023. Visiting Artist Lecture at UMass Amherst on October 12, 2023.

Williams, D. (2023) Artist Talk at Valley Art Salon on October 26, 2023.

Williams, D., (2023) Group Exhibition, Curated by Shaina Gates

Williams, D. (2023) Solo exhibition at Oresman Gallery, Smith College

Williams was selected through a multi-year, competitive process to be exhibited in "New Worlds," a major exhibition on view from April 14 - August 4, 2024, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.. One of the first major exhibitions to follow NMWA’s reopening after renovation, "New Worlds" will immerse visitors in the museum’s renewed spaces. It is the seventh and largest installment of the museum’s Women to Watch exhibition series, featuring the work of 28 National and International artists.

Williams has been selected as one of five artists representing Georgia in a curated exhibition sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts at the Atlanta Contemporary Museum. Williams is currently exhibiting a media installation at the European Cultural Center’s Palazzo Bembo in tandem with the 59th Venice Art Biennale. Additionally, they are exhibiting an installation at the 2022 Florence Night Out Festival and are presenting a solo exhibition at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art at Augusta University.

Craig Woodard

Grant

NSF MRI Grant, “Acquisition of integrated laser scanning/spinning disk confocal microscopy system to advance multidisciplinary research and training at Mount Holyoke College” (co-PI with Ken Colodner, Kyle Broaders, Kerstin Nordstrom, and Jared Schwartzer), September 2018 - August 2021

Craig Woodard received a National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI Grant, "UBM-Institutional: Collaborative Research: Four College Biomath Consortium," with Amherst, Smith and Hampshire Colleges. (Mount Holyoke co-PI: Martha Hoopes), September 1, 2011-August 31, 2016.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2008 Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Grant (with Janice Hudgings) September 2008 - August 2012