Student Spotlight: Ella Langridge '25

Student Spotlight: 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 '𝟐𝟓
2024-2025 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Fellow

As this year’s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Fellow, Ella will work under the guidance of CAMH's Assistant Curator on a major upcoming exhibition and publication that will survey the work of a renowned Houston-based contemporary artist.

Learn more about Ella’s reasons for applying to the CAMH fellowship below:

“My academic focus is Art History, particularly Medieval and Early Modern art history. Last academic year, however, I expanded my interests somewhat into contemporary art, by taking the classes Black Art in America, which focused on the twentieth and twenty-first century, and American Art 1800-1920, whose content in fact extended into the mid-twentieth century. I particularly enjoyed the former, as it provided the opportunity to think critically about the political meanings and uses of art and the art world, especially in reference to museum and non-museum displays of art, such as the 1971 De Luxe Show in Houston, TX, on which I centered my final research project for that class. Since I am interested in going into curation, the opportunity to see and contribute to the process of exhibition development would give me the chance to do work I am interested in, to gain experience and skills in that area, and to evaluate my personal compatibility with curation work. Working with the curatorial department, and gaining the specific practical skills that are necessary on a day to day basis in this field, would be invaluable to my professional development.”