Meet Our 2025-26 Fellows

william cordova, Ossorio Fellow
william cordova is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner interested in the roots of abstraction, history of textile encoding and non-linear narratives. He is a co-founder of the Bass Collective and CCC (Coffee Cup Collective), founder of the Florida AIM BIENNIAL, and co-curated the Greenwood Centennial in Tulsa, OK in 2021.

Bryant holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Yale University.

Established in 2019 and supported by the Ossorio Foundation, the Alfonso Ossorio Creative Production Grant provides financial support to artists affiliated with the Colby Museum and its Lunder Institute to further their intellectual pursuits, research, and the creation of new artworks that expand the boundaries of American art.

Alexandra Grant, Lunder Institute Fellow
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles and Berlin-based visual artist whose work explores issues around communication across languages, literary traditions, and cultures.  is a co-founder of independent publisher X Artists’ Books and the creator of the grantLOVE Project, which has raised funds for arts-based nonprofits. She is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery, New York and carlier | gebauer, Berlin and Madrid. 

Grant holds a  MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and her BA from Swarthmore College.

Hannah Haynes, Lunder Institute Fellow
Hannah Haynes is an author and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Department of Communication and Intercultural Studies at a public liberal arts college in New England. She writes on white rhetoric, critical and comparative ethnic studies, and social movements and is currently completing her second book tentatively titled Vulnerable Agents: Childhood, White Women, and Multicultural Whiteness that draws on intersectional scholarship while attending to gendered and racialized power dynamics.

Haynes holds a PhD and MA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Williams College.

Dianne Smith, Lunder Institute Fellow
Dianne Smith is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, painting, photography, and video. She is a Nancy Graves Foundation Awards Grant Recipient and received a Fulbright from The United States Consulate General in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Smith holds a MFA from Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany via Plymouth University in the UK.

Michael Namingha, Lunder Institute Fellow
Michael Namingha (Tewa/Hopi) is a photographer that utilizes his work to document environmental changes and the impacts of industrial excavations. His work he's able to create dialogue between the ancestral landscapes of the Pueblo people and the oil industry with a non-confrontational approach that invites audiences to witness the true environmental effects of the oil and gas industries and brings attention and awareness to the treatment of Pueblo homelands.

Namingha holds a BBA from Parsons School of Design.

Catherine Haley-Epstein
Jessa Rae Growing Thunder, Ossorio Fellow, Visiting campus in Spring 2025
Dylan Robinson
Legacy Russell
Natani Notah 
Dwayne Tomah