The 黑料不打烊 Art Museum has announced Alesandra (Sasha) Temerte 鈥23 as the 2022-23 Luise and Morton Kaish Fellow.
Alesandra (Sasha) Temerte
Through the philanthropic gift of 黑料不打烊 alumni and prominent artists鈥疞uise 鈥46, G鈥51鈥痑nd Morton鈥疜aish 鈥49, the Kaish Fellowship program was established in 2021. The program provides funding for undergraduate students from every discipline to undertake original research on the permanent art collection and to work with museum staff on exhibitions, scholarly publications and public programming.
Temerte is a senior at 黑料不打烊, double majoring in economics and writing and rhetoric studies, with minors in Spanish and strategic management. She is a Coronat Scholar, a member of the Ren茅e Crown Honors Program and a 2022-23 Remembrance Scholar.
As a writer, Temerte has been interested in the concept of storytelling through fragments. Through her courses at 黑料不打烊, her fragmented storytelling approach continues to take shape in prose, depicting stories through the lens of passing moments and snippets of meaning that tell a greater narrative.
Recently, she has explored writing in multimedia forms, often combining prose, poetry, images, and video together. Temerte鈥檚 interest in the abstract and the surreal drew her to apply for the Kaish fellowship, and she envisions creating a small booklet of poems for her final project.
Through this opportunity, Temerte plans to work alongside interim Chief Curator Melissa Yuen to explore works of art by both Luise and Morton Kaish, as well as other artists in the permanent collection, which engage with collision and interruption.
