The Institute unlocks the potential of Still’s extraordinary gift, enabling artists and thought leaders the freedom to innovate and transform our present and future.
The Institute Residential Fellowship Program at the Clyfford Still Museum focuses on three pillars of study: art; education; and social enterprise. The two art-focused areas include:
- Studio Art – The Fellow will pursue studio practice that would benefit from research on and engagement with CSM’s collection and/or archives.
- Art History or Criticism – The Fellow will deeply study CSM’s collections and archives to illuminate the historical and philosophical stakes of Still’s art and writings, to bring his work in vibrant conversation with the work of his peers as well as those of subsequent generations, and/or find critical resonance between his work and that of contemporary artists.
2025 Art Fellows
The Art Fellows selected to participate in 2025 are Geovanni “Geo” Barrios in Studio Art and Kealey Boyd and Michael Holloman in Art History/Criticism.
Geovanni “Geo” Barrios (b. 1999) is a musician and visual artist whose work explores the evolution of American masculinity. Originally trained as an orchestral tubist, he transitioned into performance art, developing a multidisciplinary practice that examines identity, power, and social structures through music, drawing, sculpture, and archival research. Barrios holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and has worked in arts conservation at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His experiences with historical objects and preservation techniques inform his artistic practice. As a musician, he has performed across the United States at venues such as the Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Yale Center for British Art, and Yale University Art Gallery, as well as internationally in Mexico, Brazil, and Germany.
Kealey Boyd is a writer and art critic. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and The Art Newspaper and her work is featured in the Los Angeles Times, Colorado Public Radio, Frieze, Art Papers, The Belladonna Comedy, College Art Association, Artillery Magazine, and several art catalogs and books, including this year’s Artists as Writers, published by Intellect Books as part of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series. She is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA) and she served as an Executive Board Member for Redline Contemporary Art Center from 2018 to 2024. She earned her BA in Economics and MA in Art History from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include methodologies for interpreting painting and other visual forms as an integral element of political and cultural discourses.
Michael Holloman, parent, artist, curator, and fine arts professor, is an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Native American art history and the studio arts at Washington State University while maintaining duties as the college’s coordinator for Native Arts, Outreach and Education. His scholarship addresses the historic issues and visual record of Plateau settler colonialism and Native adaptation and self-assertion—regarding Clyfford Still, Holloman stresses the aesthetic dimension of his work as being infused with a spiritual power that sustains familial and communal memory while offering inspiration for a new generation.
Art Advisory Board Members
- Harry Cooper, Bunny Mellon Curator of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art
- Bridget Cooks, Professor of African American Studies and Art History, UC Irvine
- Odili Odita, Artist
Past Art Fellows
- Sarah Faux, studio art, 2024
- Kevin Appel, studio art, 2024