Guggenheim Fellowship [SEP] conferred by
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."
Each year, the foundation issues awards in each of two separate competitions:
- One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.
- The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors
a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a recipient of the Logan Medal of the Arts for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. During his life, he had 300 exhibitions and his work is included in 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
In 2007, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College.
Hayes resided in Coventry, Connecticut since 1958, where he had 57 acres of land to