Congratulations to Watson Frank, CC’25, recently named a Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow!
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Watson Frank, CC'25, Named a 2026-2027 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow
The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship supports graduating seniors or recent graduates in the visual and fine arts, including art history, conservation, studio art and photography, for travel and living expenses to pursue independent, year-long field-related projects outside of the United States.
Watson Frank, CC’25, a Visual Arts and Creative Writing major, has been named a 2026–27 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow. A multidisciplinary storyteller and artist working across book arts, printmaking, and craft media, Frank was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to New York City to attend Columbia University, where they graduated in 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and Creative Writing. While at Columbia, Watson held internships at the Lower East Side Printshop, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, where they assisted in producing work for artists including Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, and Valerie Hammond.
With support from the Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, Watson will travel to the United Kingdom to study traditional willow coffin weaving. Their project will explore the creation of an experimental woven artist’s book and installation centered on the imagined voice of the willow tree and its cultural and material histories in the United Kingdom