2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship Panelists to Give Public Talk at Haggerty Museum of Art, November 20

The twenty-third cycle of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program continues with the appointment of a panel of recognized visual arts professionals to select five Fellows from among 168 applicants. Anthony Graham, Senior Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; Mia Lopez, Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; and Eileen Jeng Lynch, Director of Curatorial Programs, The Bronx Museum, New York, will be welcomed at an informal reception on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at 6 pm at the Haggerty Museum of Art. The panelists will offer brief overviews of their home institutions and curatorial interests beginning at 6:30 pm. The event is free, but registration is encouraged.

Free and open to the public, the Haggerty Museum of Art is located on the campus of Marquette University. For directions and parking information: www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/directions-parking.php

More information about the jurors here: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/content/nohl-jurors

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Funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund and administered by the Lynden, the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists provide unrestricted funds for artists to create new work or complete work in progress. In addition to receiving an award ($20,000 for each of two Established artists; $10,000 each for Emerging artists) and a $5,000 professional development/production budget, the Nohl Fellows can participate in an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, opening in June 2027. The eighteen-month fellowship period, January 2026-June 2027, will include professional development opportunities such as studio visits from curators and artists outside the area and occasional public programs. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally. The program is open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties). The program also includes a Suitcase Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area.

The panelists will spend two days visiting the studios of twelve finalists: six in the Established Artist category and six Emerging Artists. The awards will be announced in early January 2026.

About the Jurors

Anthony Graham is Senior Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where he organizes exhibitions across the museum’s program and works closely with the museum collection. His recent exhibitions include Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection and solo projects with Tanya Aguiñiga, Young Joon Kwak, and Griselda Rosas.

Mia Lopez is the inaugural Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked with artists and leading contemporary art institutions across the United States for over 15 years. She recently curated the exhibition Rasquachsimo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility and co-curated the exhibition Synthesis & Subversion: Redux at Ruby City. Lopez has previously held curatorial positions at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Exhibitions and publications she has contributed to include Remember Where You Are, LatinXAmerican, and International Pop. Lopez is an alumnus of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute. She holds a BA in Art History from Rice University and dual MAs in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Eileen Jeng Lynch is The Bronx Museum’s Director of Curatorial Programs who stewards the Museum’s curatorial initiatives and exhibition schedule with an eye toward expanding its presence in The Bronx and beyond. Jeng Lynch made her curatorial debut at The Bronx Museum with Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, the artist’s first museum survey, which traveled as In the Fullness of Time to Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 2024. Jeng Lynch also curated Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, an exhibition showcasing work by artists who completed The Bronx Museum’s flagship AIM Fellowship, a career accelerator program designed to give promising artists the knowledge and skills to sustain a successful practice. Previously, Jeng Lynch was the Senior Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill in The Bronx, where she organized exhibitions and programs, commissioned artists for site-specific projects, and managed the residency and emerging artists programs. Jeng Lynch has held positions at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and The Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art, and she has been a guest curator at various organizations and galleries. As the founder of Neumeraki, Jeng Lynch has launched national and global community-based curatorial initiatives. Jeng Lynch received her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from Syracuse University.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is Wisconsin’s largest community foundation and was among the first established in the world. For more than a century, the Foundation has been at the heart of the civic community, helping donors achieve the greatest philanthropic impact, elevating the work of changemakers across neighborhoods, and bringing people and organizations together to help our region thrive. Racial equity is the Foundation’s North Star, guiding its investments and strategies for social and economic change. Leveraging generations of community knowledge, cross-sector partnerships, and more than $1 billion in financial assets, the Foundation is committed to reimagining philanthropy, recentering communities, and remaking systems to transform our region into a Milwaukee for all.

The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University is a place where art and ideas come alive—free of charge and open to all. Through innovative exhibitions, arts education experiences, and thought-provoking public programs, we invite both the university campus and the broader Milwaukee community to discover, question, and connect. Working with regional and national artists, collaborating with distinguished faculty across all disciplines, partnering with community organizations, and advancing collections inquiry, the museum is a vital forum for dialogue—to spark reflection, inspire action, and encourage positive change for the greater good.

Lynden works with artists, educators, students, and communities to create, support, and share experiences at the intersection of art, nature, and culture. We operate as a laboratory, continually re-imagining Lynden’s landscape, collection, and place in the community through exhibitions, performances, residencies, and hands-on education programs.

For further information about the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Program for Individual Visual Artists, please visit https://lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl

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