Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship

Established in 1986, the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship promotes the exhibition of contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, as well as the teaching of contemporary art principles in the Sam Fox School. The fellowship centers around two core components: teaching in the College of Art and producing work for a solo exhibition for the museum’s Currents series.

Currents Exhibitions

Currents 122: Meleko Mokgosi

Mokgosi’s project Spaces of Subjection explores the notion of space as a metaphor, theoretical device, and social construct in order to question conventional ideas of what it means to be a subject.

Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan

Within a framework of queer and nonbinary experience, Dugan’s portraits examine intersections between individual identity and the search for intimate connection.

Currents 119: Dana Levy

Levy presents three new works concerned with landscape and memory.

Currents 117: David Hullfish Bailey

Bailey takes the Missouri River watershed and the aquifers of the High Plains as a starting point to investigate the connections among art, geography, and the environment.

Currents 115: Jennifer Bornstein

The exhibited works include a group of etchings, photogravures, and photographs, and 1:1 scale relief-type prints of the interior of a house in London, plus an experimental video work.

Black and white painting of famous historical Black leaders and icons posed together for a portrait.

Inkjet print of a person lying in a field of green plants with small purple flowers, their arms behind their head, staring at the camera.

A large-scale screen, hung from the ceiling, featuring an ornately decorated room that's mostly black-and-white, except for a circular section to the left that is full-color and somewhat blown-out through the window area, showing a person standing in front of the windows.

Office with a marble-topped desk, leather office chair, fan, fringed lamp, and taxidermied turkey. The back wall is painted with a mural of midwest landscape. A riverboat floats down the river and a military helicopter flies overhead with a banner advertising "Big Bags USA."

Within a framework of queer and nonbinary experience, Dugan’s portraits examine intersections between individual identity and the search for intimate connection.

Levy presents three new works concerned with landscape and memory.

Bailey takes the Missouri River watershed and the aquifers of the High Plains as a starting point to investigate the connections among art, geography, and the environment.

The exhibited works include a group of etchings, photogravures, and photographs, and 1:1 scale relief-type prints of the interior of a house in London, plus an experimental video work.

Past Freund Teaching Fellows

Crystal Z Campbell (2023-24)
Tamara Johnson (2022-23)
Meleko Mokgosi (2021-22)
Jess T. Dugan (2020-21)
Dana Levy (2019-20)
Dave Hullfish Bailey (2018-19)
Jennifer Bornstein (2017-18)
Shimon Attie (2016-17)
Andréa Stanislav (2015-16)
Mariam Ghani (2014-15)
Won Ju Lim (2013-14)
Renata Stih + Frieder Schnock (2012-13)
Chelsea Knight (2011-12)
Ian Monroe (2010-11)
Bruce Yonemoto (2009-10)
Claudia Schmacke (2008-09)
Sarah Oppenheimer (2007-08)
Angelina Gualdoni (2006-07)
Cameron Martin (2005-06)
Matthew Buckingham (2004-05)
Francis Cape (2003-04)
Ellen Gallagher (2002-03)
Catherine Opie (2000)
Phil Robinson (1998)
Michael Byron (1996)