PhD candidate Janina Lopez has joined the Smithsonian Institution's Fellowship Program as the Will Barnet Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This fellowship will support work on her dissertation, “The Royal Chicano Air Force’s Comuniversidad: Public Art and Education in Northern California since 1969,” which examines the murals, printed materials, and educational programs of the Sacramento-based collective of artists and activists. López will work under the supervision of Robin Veder, the executive editor of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s peer-reviewed journal for art history scholarship.
Read more about López' award at SAAM.