Associate Professor and Artist Mahwish Chishty Awarded 2024 Kala Art Institute Fellowship
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Associate Professor of Art Mahwish Chishty was named one of the six recipients of the 2024 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, an artist residency award for local, national, and international artists.
Fellows each receive a $3,000 stipend, unlimited access to Kala’s facilities for one to nine months, one month of free housing (for artists living outside of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties), one Kala class, and a culminating show in the Kala Gallery. The Fellowship is geared towards supporting artists in completing specific projects or bodies of work that would benefit from Kala’s specialized equipment in printmaking and digital media.
"I am deeply honored to be one of the six recipients of the Kala Art Institute fellowship and eagerly anticipate my time in Berkeley, CA next summer," Chishty says.
For over 30 years, Kala Art Institute has awarded artists time, space, and financial support for their work through the Kala Fellowship, which is awarded annually to six artists from a variety of disciplines based on conceptual creativity, originality, and artistic excellence.
The 2024-25 Fellowship submissions were juried by Kala’s Co-Director Mayumi Hamanaka, Fellowship alum Weston Teruya, and Anthony Graham, Senior Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), and chaired by Kala’s Artist Residency Manager Leyla Rzayeva.