Assistant professor of art Michael Ashkin has been awarded a 2011 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He will be in residence at the colony in New Hampshire in June.

Ashkin works in various media, from sculpture and installation to photography, video, poetry and text. His work addresses landscape and urbanism issues. His recent exhibitions include a Johnson Museum show in 2010 and the Vienna Secession in Austria in 2009. Ashkin's previous honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2009 and Cornell's Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence in 2007.

The MacDowell Colony, founded in 1907, is the oldest artists' colony in the United States, with a mission to nurture the arts "by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination." More than 6,000 writers, poets, playwrights, artists and composers have attended including Leonard Bernstein, Willa Cather, Milton Avery, Aaron Copland, James Baldwin, Alice Walker and Jonathan Franzen.