{"id":3693,"date":"2014-12-12T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcftr-dev.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/news\/meredith-smith-receives-trewartha-undergraduate-honors-research-grant\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:14:25","slug":"meredith-smith-receives-trewartha-undergraduate-honors-research-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/2014\/12\/12\/meredith-smith-receives-trewartha-undergraduate-honors-research-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Smith Receives Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communication Arts student Meredith Smith has received a Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant. After the application process, the grant was awarded to Smith for her excellent senior thesis, which explores Hollywood costume designer Dorothy Jeakins\u2019 career in the 1960s. While her thesis is still in progress, the grant will provide Smith with $1,500 to cover the expendable supplies, travel expenses, and related costs needed to complete her research.<span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/meredith-smith-trewartha-grant.jpg\" title=\"WCFTR Assistant Director Mary Huelsbeck and Trewartha Grant recipient Meredith Smith peruse Dorothy Jeakins sketches at the WCFTR.\" class=\"colorbox colorbox-insert-image\" rel=\"gallery-all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image-large size-full wp-image-3692\" title=\"WCFTR Assistant Director Mary Huelsbeck and Trewartha Grant recipient Meredith Smith peruse Dorothy Jeakins sketches at the WCFTR.\" src=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/meredith-smith-trewartha-grant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Smith has already been hard at work researching Dorothy Jeakins in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/\">Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR)<\/a>&nbsp;archive here on campus. Assisted by Assistant Director Mary Huelsbeck and Head Film Archivist Amy Sloper at the WCFTR, Smith has been able to delve into Jeakins\u2019 papers, costume sketches, workbooks, wardrobe notes, audio interviews, and more. Smith will use the grant funds to travel to LA for a week in January to do additional research. There she will visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/library\">Margaret Herrick Library<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema.ucla.edu\/\">UCLA Film &amp; Television Archive<\/a>&nbsp;which both have collections on Dorothy Jeakins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorothy_Jeakins\">Dorothy Jeakins<\/a>&nbsp;once worked with famous costume designer Edith Head, but later became an independent freelance costume designer, not tied to a studio as Head was. Jeakins is best known for her work on<em>&nbsp;The Night of the Iguana<\/em>&nbsp;(1964), for which she won an Oscar,&nbsp;<em>The Sound of Music<\/em>&nbsp;(1965), and&nbsp;<em>Hawai\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;(1966), which won Best Picture. Smith\u2019s honors advisor, Professor Kelley Conway, explained that studying Jeakins \u201cwill allow Meredith to gain insight into the constraints and opportunities that were available to independent costume designers working in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Professor Conway could not praise Smith enough, stating \u201c[she] is an unusually ambitious and intellectually curious person who\u2019s learning how to do archival research.\u201d Professor Conway added that it is a privilege to be her advisor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Meredith Smith\u2019s research trip is funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison L&amp;S Honors Program through a Trewartha Senior Thesis Research Grant awarded by the L&amp;S Honors Program.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication Arts student Meredith Smith has received a Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant. After the application process, the grant was awarded to Smith for her excellent senior thesis, which explores Hollywood costume designer Dorothy Jeakins\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[263],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}