Press Release

Oglethorpe Faculty Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

ATLANTA – Alan Loehle, Associate Professor of Studio Art at Oglethorpe University, was recently announced as a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Loehle has been teaching at Oglethorpe for 18 years and received the fellowship in painting.

Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. Loehle joins the prestigious group of fellows, which since 1925 has included Ansel Adams, W.H. Auden, Aaron Copeland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Eudora Welty.

Loehle is one of 189 artists, scholars and scientists selected from 2,800 applicants to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 83rd annual U.S. and Canadian competition. The new fellows include writers, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities. Many of these individuals hold appointments in colleges and universities with 77 institutions being represented by one or more fellows.