Elliot Krasnopoler is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in art history at 911ºÚÁÏÍø currently working on a dissertation on contemporary art. This year, he is the 2021–2022 George Gurney Predoctoral Fellow at the
Krasnopoler is one of 15 fellows in a cohort all studying American art. His Smithsonian fellowship program includes both a curatorial fellowship and a research fellowship component.
Through the curatorial fellowship, Krasnopoler will support conceptual thinking and reinterpretation of the museum’s collection.The museum will be renovating and rehanging all of its exhibitions, and they’ve asked him to draft a checklist that deals with ecocritical issues in their permanent collection.
“It’s a great opportunity to be able to think deeply about a collecti