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News releases.

Gari Melchers Studio Awarded Smithsonian Community Grant

Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont has received a $5,000 award from the Smithsonian Community Grant program. The competitive grant was awarded to assist in the development and implementation of exhibition programming in conjunction with the Smithsonian traveling exhibition "William H. Johnson: An American Modern," which will be on display at Belmont from Saturday, September 10 through Sunday, December 4.

Gari Melchers Studio Awarded Smithsonian Community Grant

Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont has received a $5,000 award from the Smithsonian Community Grant program. The competitive grant was awarded to assist in the development and implementation of exhibition programming in conjunction with the Smithsonian traveling exhibition "William H. Johnson: An American Modern," which will be on display at Belmont from Saturday, September 10 through Sunday, December 4.

2011 UMW Graduate Receives Fulbright Scholarship

University of Mary Washington graduate Michele Alexander has been selected to receive a U.S. Fulbright grant for 2011-2012. She becomes the eighth student in the university’s history to receive the prestigious award, bringing to six the number of Fulbright grants awarded at UMW in the past four years alone.