The has announced Charlotte Bingham 鈥27 as the 2025-26 Luise and Morton Kaish Fellow.
Charlotte Bingham 鈥27 stands with Luise Kaish鈥檚 “Portal IX鈥 in the 黑料不打烊 Art Museum Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery.
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 any discipline to undertake original research rooted in the museum鈥檚 permanent collection. Fellows work directly with museum staff on exhibitions, scholarly publications and public programming.
Bingham is a junior majoring in anthropology and digital humanities with a minor in museum studies. She is part of the Ren茅e Crown University Honors program and has studied abroad in Strasbourg and Edinburgh.
Bingham has enjoyed exploring the connection between humans and the places they inhabit and sees the fellowship as a unique opportunity to explore how the works in our collection represent and interact with our connection to place. The museum鈥檚 current permanent collection exhibition, “Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art,” along with other works by Luise and Morton Kaish provide a springboard for Bingham’s research.
鈥淚 knew that [the fellowship] would be a great way for me to develop my research interests while also getting to experience work in a museum setting,鈥 Bingham says. 鈥淎rt and anthropology are very deeply connected. To me, both are trying to reproduce or represent something about human culture 鈥 I don鈥檛 have a lot of experience interpreting art, so I鈥檓 curious to see how I end up analyzing things.鈥
