Congratulations are in order to Julia Volonts (MPS 2017 Art Therapy). She is the College's first institutionally endorsed Fulbright Award recipient, receiving the prestigious grant to research art therapy practices in Latvia and working out of Rīga Stradiņš University from September 2019 to May 2020. Volonts will be focusing on response art, which is art making by therapists to process their clinical work, specifically examining how art therapists in Latvia can use response art to process trans-generational trauma impacting the cultural identity of the country. Current MFA Illustration as Visual Essay student Courtney Menard (BFA 2014 Illustration) and alumnus Nadya Voynovskaya (BFA 2017 Illustration) were named semi-finalists for their grants, a significant accomplishment as well.

"I'm looking forward to being able to integrate my passion and interest in the country with my professional work and developing something that doesn't exist there yet," says Volonts, whose father's family is Latvian. Volonts will also be traveling to Riga at the end of this month to lecture on response art at the Latvian Art Therapy Association annual conference.

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