{"id":1847,"date":"2019-11-22T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/?page_id=1847"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:51:40","slug":"2020-student-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/past-years\/theme\/2020-student-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Skidmore Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skidmore <\/b>Student Fellows<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the 2020 Storytellers’ Institute will happen virtually this June.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Olivia Arthen \u201821<\/strong> transferred to Skidmore in the spring of 2019 and is a self-determined Film major. She\u2019s been working in theater and film since high school with a passion for both going back longer than she can remember. This past spring, she was given the opportunity to photograph inside of the ritual spaces of the Pagan community she was raised in, which was both challenging and exciting in ways she hadn\u2019t expected. She\u2019s interested in further exploring how different people\u2019s creativity interacts in storytelling.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Mickey Baroody \u201821<\/strong> is a rising senior and <\/span>S<\/span>tudio <\/span>A<\/span>rt<\/span> m<\/span>ajor<\/span>.<\/span> His primary disciplines are drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work focuses on the figure, ranging from portraits of friends and family, to abstract representations of the body. Drawing from philosophy, history, and personal experience, his work aims to consider the complexities of recognition and the ways in which identity is revealed.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Kadijatou Diallo \u201820<\/strong> is a filmmaker interested in the role of storytelling within social justice work. She spent her entire junior year studying abroad and conducting field research across six cities. While studying at the University of the Arts London, she assisted on a number of post-graduate narrative shorts, along with directing two of her own,<\/span> Invisible <\/span><\/i>and<\/span> On the Surface<\/span><\/i>. Her most recent work is a short film, S<\/span>anctuary, <\/span><\/i>she created with <\/span>Khenya<\/span> Bridgewater, a multimedia artist based in New York. <\/span>Sanctuary<\/span><\/i> follows a conversation between activists, artists, and community organizers in the NYC and LA areas; who are involved with the physical spaces that queer people gather and the mental space one uses to heal.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Ben Hayes \u201820<\/strong> is an <\/span>A<\/span>merican Studies <\/span>m<\/span>ajor currently working on a thesis about privacy and domestic space. His artistic background is in writing, photography, and videography, with increasing engagement in documentary work. He is interested in documentary as a vehicle for participating in and gaining an experiential understanding of a situation firsthand and sharing that with others. His favorite documentarians include W<\/span>e<\/span>rner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Joshua Oppenheimer.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Shana Kleiner ’20<\/strong> is a <\/span>S<\/span>ocial <\/span>W<\/span>ork <\/span>m<\/span>ajor and a <\/span>S<\/span>ociology <\/span>m<\/span>inor. She has interned at multiple community organizations, and started doing work surrounding motherhood and mother activism while studying abroad in Durban, South Africa. This past summer, she helped conduct research on elder self-neglect policy and response, and she is dedicated to dialogue and storytelling as activism. Shana is interested in exploring motherhood, grief, healing, and restoration.\u202f<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Simone Teague \u201820<\/strong> is an English major and a Media and Film Studies minor. Growing up, Simone did not see people that resembled herself or her loved ones in commercials, on tv, or in magazines; with her degree she hopes to tell the stories of those underrepresented in mainstream media. She has experience writing for <\/span>Saratoga Living <\/span><\/i>and working with archival material from literary magazine <\/span>Salmagundi. <\/span><\/i>Simone\u2019s first experience with video making was in tenth grade at a Vassar program, Digital Storytelling. There she and a friend wrote, directed, stared in and edited an alien talk show, and her love of video production has been apparent ever since. Her documentary work includes <\/span>the <\/span>2018 short film <\/span>Look at Me<\/span><\/i>, which celebrates trans women of color in the entertainment industry, and more recently <\/span>A Skateboarding Story<\/span><\/i> which explores the passion skateboarders, like herself, have for their sport.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Keshawn Truesdale \u201821<\/strong> is an English major a<\/span>nd<\/span> Media and Film Studies<\/span> minor<\/span>. His interests include mentoring children to develop their passion for reading and communicating with others. In Spring of \u201819, Keshawn worked at Lake View Elementary School in Saratoga Springs, New York <\/span>where he <\/span>rekindled his love for storytelling <\/span>by<\/span> witnessing the children<\/span>\u2019s enjoyment of <\/span>story time. This past Summer, his curiosity and understanding for film<\/span>,<\/span> particularly documentary<\/span>,<\/span> was <\/span>grew<\/span> through his <\/span>attendance of Rooftops Film events<\/span> in New York City<\/span>. <\/span>Throug<\/span>h his participation in Storytellers<\/span>\u2019<\/span>, Keshawn hopes to provide a vehicle <\/span>to lift up the<\/span> voice<\/span>s<\/span> of everyday people from his community.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/b>Tianyu Shi \u201821<\/strong> is a self-determined <\/span>Film <\/span>major<\/span>, with a <\/span>minor in <\/span>D<\/span>ance. She loves making videos and short films of things happening around her, and she was inspired greatly by the diversity of Shanghai where she grew up. This mix of urban and intimate environment shaped her into who she is today.\u202f<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skidmore Student Fellows Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the 2020 Storytellers’ Institute will happen virtually this June. Olivia Arthen \u201821 transferred to Skidmore in the spring of 2019 and is a self-determined Film major. She\u2019s been working in theater and film since high school with a passion for both going …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3128,"parent":964,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1847","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1847\/revisions\/3142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdocs.skidmore.edu\/storytellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}