The Syracuse University Art Museum has announced Charlotte Bingham ’27 as the 2025-26 Luise and Morton Kaish Fellow.
Charlotte Bingham ’27 stands with Luise Kaish’s “Portal IX” in the Syracuse University Art Museum Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery.
Through the philanthropic gift of Syracuse University alumni and prominent artists Luise ’46, G’51 and Morton Kaish ’49, the Kaish Fellowship program was established in 2021. The program provides funding for undergraduate students from any discipline to undertake original research rooted in the museum’s permanent collection. Fellows work directly with museum staff on exhibitions, scholarly publications and public programming.
Bingham is a junior majoring in anthropology and digital humanities with a minor in museum studies. She is part of the Renée Crown University Honors program and has studied abroad in Strasbourg and Edinburgh.
Bingham has enjoyed exploring the connection between humans and the places they inhabit and sees the fellowship as a unique opportunity to explore how the works in our collection represent and interact with our connection to place. The museum’s current permanent collection exhibition, “Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art,” along with other works by Luise and Morton Kaish provide a springboard for Bingham’s research.
“I knew that [the fellowship] would be a great way for me to develop my research interests while also getting to experience work in a museum setting,” Bingham says. “Art and anthropology are very deeply connected. To me, both are trying to reproduce or represent something about human culture … I don’t have a lot of experience interpreting art, so I’m curious to see how I end up analyzing things.”
