Fulbright’s Art Collection  

A Commission collection of 10 art works by 7 accomplished artists and Fulbrighters has been created due to their extremely generous donations; all on display at HQ. A celebratory launch was held on November 21 with many alumni, stakeholders and commissioners in attendance. And we are delighted to announce a Spring/Summer 2025 reception to celebrate our esteemed art collection at our London HQ with further available details soon. 

UK Fulbrighter Carole Robb, a Glasgow School of Art graduate played a critical role in our outreach to Fulbright artists, donating a large oil painting entitled “Villa d’Este”. Carole’s other art works are part of prestigious public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in London’ the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Imperial War Museum. She spent her Fulbright year in 1980s New York City alongside artists colonies in New Hampshire and Virginia. Robb's work seamlessly blends classical mythology with contemporary art practices, characterized by a sense of grandeur. 

US Fulbrighter, Don Cooper, born in Texas and working out of Georgia for the past 50 years. Don is a University of Georgia MFA who was subsequently drafted to fight in Vietnam. He spent his Fulbright experience in London followed by Edinburgh (1985). His donation to the Commission collection is entitled “Indigo Gold Bindu” and is watercolour and acrylic on Indian handmade paper. Don has had thirty-one solo exhibitions and 72 group exhibitions. His work is in the collections of The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, The High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and the Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, GA), “the oldest museum in the country that is specifically devoted to the art and artists of the American South.”   

You can read more about our Fulbright Artistic Scholars and donors – Dr Pamela Harris Lawton, Lee Arnold, Carol Elkovich, Karen Lofgren, Bella Denise and MJ Sharp here.