Assistant Professor of Art Amanda Russhell Wallace Amanda Russhell Wallace, assistant professor of art at Connecticut College, has received a research and development grant from the prestigious Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The $6,500 grant will support Wallace’s lens-based project, “The East Texas Oilfield as an Architecture of Memento Mori,” which relates to the Great Migration narrative, characterized by Black Americans fleeing the South for better lives in Northern cities during the early 20th century. Wallace, who joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2020, is a lens-based multimedia artist who specializes in digital photography and time-based media. Her work has been featured in a variety of venues including the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, El Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Newark Museum of Art, Flux Factory and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Wallace also previously received the 2020 Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Documentary Essay Prize for her series, “Mourning Breaks,” a project that ties together poetry and family photography.