| Sylvia de Swaan, a photographer and lecturer at Hamilton College, has been awarded a grant in photography by the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. The foundation annually gives grants to poets, creative writers and visual artists in the central and western counties of New York State. Since 1990 de Swaan has been working on a project about memory and identity that counterpoints present-day journeys through Eastern Europe with references to her early history as a survivor of the Holocaust. She combines photojournalism, portraiture, collages and interventions to stretch the boundaries of documentary photography and to depict the subjective, the invisible and the by-gone. De Swaan exhibited photos from the project at Hamilton's faculty art exhibition, "Multiple Perspectives," last spring.
Her work has been supported by the New York Foundation of the Arts, ArtsLink, Art Matters Inc., the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Light Work, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Hamilton College and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Other recent exhibitions include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha; Cankarjiev Dom in Slovenia; Art in General, New York City; and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.
The Constance Saltonstall Foundation awarded 14 grants for $5,000 each in its fifth annual grant awards. Since 1996 Saltonstall has awarded 70 grants. The awards are selected by an outside jury made up of artists, professors, curators and other professionals from across the country.
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