Bogliasco Fellowship Recipients
Fall 2023 & Spring 2024

Felecia Davis

Associate Professor, the Stuckeman Center for Design and Computation at Pennsylvania State University – USA

Felecia Davis’ work in computational textiles questions how we live and re-imagines how we might use textiles in our daily lives and in architecture. Davis is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University and is the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. Her design work in architecture connecting art, science, and engineering was featured by PBS in the Women in Science Profiles series and received the 2022 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum for Digital Design.

Tuning In is an artistic textile and drawing work that captures and uses electromagnetic waves to act as antennas to speak to the enmeshing of the physical and cyber that shape spaces today. The work will focus on using natural and biodegradable yarns in combination with metal yarns to make antennas and antenna sample fabrics and drawings. The sample fabrics and drawings will be shown as part of the Made in PA exhibition that will open at the Palmer Museum at Penn State University in 2024.

Sigal Bergman

Choreographer, dancer, and Alexander Technique teacher – United States/Israel

Sigal Bergman is a choreographer, dancer, and Alexander Technique teacher based in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was educated in Israel, Holland, and NYC in various physical and psychophysical techniques, including Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Tai Ji (Yang), Yoga (Iyengar), and Alexander Technique. Her recent choreographic work includes Revert to Manual #2 (2022), Red Bitter (2020), Revert to Manual (2018), and Pale Fire (2016), all works that mix speech and movement. Her choreographies were supported by multiple grants from Mifal HaPais, the Israeli Council for Culture and Arts, the Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts, and by many residencies.

For an upcoming dance trio to be performed in 2024, Sigal Bergman will be creating movement sequences that reflect on transforming chaos into strength. Drawing from images of political upheaval and violence as well as Renaissance paintings depicting physical struggle and torment, she is studying the ways in which forceful energy can be turned into feminine power, personal order, and beauty.

Louis Cherry

Architect and Principal at Louis Cherry Architecture – United States

Project in collaboration with Marsha Gordon

Louis Cherry is an architect, artist, filmmaker, and musician. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and recipient of many art and architecture awards. Louis co-directed three award-winning short documentaries, Nesting (2020), All the Possibilities… (2019), and Ren-dered Small (2017). Louis leads the architecture firm Louis Cherry Architecture in Raleigh, NC, designing residential and diverse community-based environments.

This Beautiful Vision, The Artistry of Alexander Bogardy will be a non-narrative short documentary film celebrating the unique style and colorful life of Hungarian-born outsider artist Alexander Bogardy. The visual elements of This Beautiful Vision will be drawn entirely from Bogardy’s paintings (produced from the mid 1950s thorough the mid 1980s) and notebooks, and the audio will derive from archival recordings in which he discusses his passions and creative work.

Robert Clines

– (History) – Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Western Carolina University – United States

Robert Clines (he/him) is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University. His first book, A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean, was published in 2019. His essays and public pieces have appeared in postmedieval, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, and The Washington Post. He has received research support from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The American Academy in Rome, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the US-Italy Fulbright Commission.

Robert Clines will be working on a book that explores how racecraft informed Italian humanists’ relationship with the textual and physical remains of antiquity, and how Italian Renaissance humanism never was a respite from racial difference, contestation, and conflict. Instead, humanism is defined through race. Further, this book will give us a richer view of the historicity of race in Europe as well as the ties between the classical tradition and European nationalism and imperialism.

Marilia Marchetti

Full Professor of French literature – Italy

Marilia Marchetti is a Full Professor of French Literature. Her scholarly activity includes studies on the 18th and 19th centuries, contemporary themes, the poetics and rhetoric of irony, and the Francophone world. She has collaborated with the Middle Eastern Studies Department of Duke University, among many others. She has served on the Arab World Commission on Franco-Arab Literature. In 2016, she was awarded the title of Officier des Palmes Académiques by the President of the French Republic François Hollande for her contribution to the dissemination of French culture in the world.

Marilia Marchetti intends to finish a graphic novel entitled Towns. Each chapter evokes a different city through the story of a person who inhabits it and who represents that city in Marilia's eyes. Each chapter is accompanied by one or more photos of a detail of the place. They are not photos one would expect but they rather show one or more unpublished details, which look like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The whole novel has a cohesion that will become clear as the reading progresses.

Patricia Alessandrini

Composer, Sound Artist, and Assistant Professor of Composition at Stanford University – United States

Patricia Alessandrini is a composer and sound artist. Her interactive, intermedial compositions have been presented in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and over 15 European countries. She studied at the Conservatorio di Bologna, Conservatoire de Strasbourg and IRCAM, and holds PhDs from Princeton University and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC). She teaches at Stanford University/CCRMA, and performs research on immersion, interaction, creative AI and instrument design for inclusive performance.

Patricia Alessandrini will be working on a theatrical, collaborative intermedial work for coloratura virtuoso Marisol Montalvo and Donatienne Michel-Dansac and ensemble, based on a libretto by novelist Alexandra Kleeman. Drawing on her previous physical computing experience, Patricia will create soft robotics systems with musical and visual interest for this duodrama. Marisol and Donatienne will contribute to its core feminist-futurist themes: an interplanetary dialogue between two women, informed by cyberfeminist theory.

Walter Byongsok Chon

Dramaturg, critic, translator, educator, scholar, and Associate Professor of Dramaturgy at Ithaca College – South Korea/United States

Walter Byongsok Chon is a dramaturg, critic, translator, educator, and scholar from South Korea. He is an Associate Professor of Dramaturgy at Ithaca College in the US and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Korean National University of Arts. His work has been played at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, and the New York Musical Festival. He is the co-author of Dramaturgy: The Basics (Routledge, 2023, with Anne M. Hamilton). He received the 2022 Daesan Foundation Translation Grant and received his D.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.

This project in collaboration with Anne Hamilton is an English Theatrical Translation of Korean Plays by Myung-Wha Kim - Walter Byongsok Chon will translate four plays (THE WIND’S DESIRE, THE BIRDS DON’T CROSS THE CROSSWALK, OEDIPUS: THE FATE OF THE STORY, and THE SOUND OF THE MOON). Anne Hamilton is the English translation consultant. The English translations of Ms. Kim's plays across several genres explore Korean history, culture, and sentiments, enhancing intercultural theatrical exchange.

Abigail DeVille

Artist – United States – Anonymous Was A Woman Bogliasco Special Fellow

Abigail DeVille's sculptures and installations often focus on themes of the history of racist violence, gentrification, and lost regional history. Her most recent solo exhibitions include In the Fullness of Time, The Heart Speaks Truths Too Deep for Utterance, but a Star Remembers, JTT NYC (2023); Original Night at Eric Firestone Gallery (2022-23); and Bronx Heavens, Bronx Museum of the Arts (2022-23). DeVille’s awards include a 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation grant, a 2018 United States Artists Fellowship, and a 2017-2018 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.