Jonathan VanDyke and David S. Gassett Receive Research Grants from the American Philosophical Society
L–R: Jonathan VanDyke, visiting artist in residence at Studio Arts (photo by Shawn Poynter, Loghaven Artist Residency); David S. Gassett, doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center.
Two members of the Bard College community have been honored with research grants from the American Philosophical Society, given annually to support the cost of noncommercial research leading to publication. Jonathan VanDyke, visiting artist in residence at Studio Arts, has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant, which are given annually to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. David S. Gassett, a doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center, has received a Phillips Fund 2025, which provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental US and Canada.
VanDyke’s grant will support further research on his project, “Remote Color: Plant Pigments of the Far North,” during which he will deepen fieldwork in interior and coastal Alaska, ethically gathering, analyzing, and processing plant pigments with regional experts and Alaska Native partners to fill critical knowledge gaps and model sustainable visual-arts practices rooted in reciprocity. Gassett’s grant will provide funding for his project “Art/Artifact/Ancestor: Museum Decolonization and Native American Material Culture Forty Years After ‘Primitivism.’”
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” It supports research and discovery through grants and fellowships, lectures, publications, prizes, exhibitions, and public education.
Post Date: 08-27-2025
VanDyke’s grant will support further research on his project, “Remote Color: Plant Pigments of the Far North,” during which he will deepen fieldwork in interior and coastal Alaska, ethically gathering, analyzing, and processing plant pigments with regional experts and Alaska Native partners to fill critical knowledge gaps and model sustainable visual-arts practices rooted in reciprocity. Gassett’s grant will provide funding for his project “Art/Artifact/Ancestor: Museum Decolonization and Native American Material Culture Forty Years After ‘Primitivism.’”
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” It supports research and discovery through grants and fellowships, lectures, publications, prizes, exhibitions, and public education.
Post Date: 08-27-2025