Do Good Fund Fellowships
Since Lauren Henkin served as our first artist-in-residence in 2015, we’ve supported select photographers working on projects in the American South including Stacy Kranitz, Carolyn Drake and Jared Ragland. “Artist-in-residence” didn’t quite fit these collaborations, so we’ve re-titled these collaborations as Do Good Fund Fellowships
Image courtesy of Adair Freeman Rutledge
2024-2025 Do Good Fund Fellow
The Do Good Fund is very pleased to formally introduce Adair Freeman Rutledge as our 2024-25 Do Good Fund Fellow! Over the next year she will be expanding her series The Royals, where she explores ideas of tradition, femininity, and legacy through small-town festivals in the South. The fellowship will culminate in an exhibition of the series in the Do Good Fund Gallery from August 15 - October 17.
The Do Good Fund Curatorial Fellowship
The Do Good Fund Curatorial fellowship is a six to twelve month residency in Columbus, Georgia that provides the opportunity for individuals holding an MFA to take part in curatorial research and develop exhibitions that highlight the diversity and breadth of The Do Good Fund collection. Applications for the next fellowship open February 1, 2025.
Portrait of Emily Rena Williams courtesy of Raul Rodriguez
2025 Do Good Fund Curatorial Fellow
The Do Good Fund welcomes Emily Rena Williams as our inaugural Do Good Fund Curatorial Fellow! From April to August, Emily will join us at The Do Good Fund to research and put together collections for traveling exhibitions.
Emily is an artist and educator interested in investigating communal and individual memory, identity, and placemaking through photography, writing, and audio. She holds a BA in fine arts and history from Haverford College and an MFA in photography from Louisiana State University. After earning her MFA, she served as a curatorial fellow at The Do Good Fund in Columbus, Georgia. Emily is currently a first year in the American Studies PhD program at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where she is a Tau Epsilon Phi Fellow at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Her work, titled We had to know who we were; We had to know who we weren't documents Jewish communities past and present in the rural and small-town Deep South through photography and oral history interviews. She has received support from the Southern Jewish Historical Society, Texas Jewish Historical Society, the LSU School of Art Graduate Student Scholarly & Creative Activity Support Fund, the Alabama Folklife Association, and the Texas State Historical Association.