Stephen DiRado, senior lecturer in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has been been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is one of only 181 scholars, artists, and scientists chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in this 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada. DiRado, an acclaimed Worcester photographer and filmmaker, talked with Worcester Magazine about the award. For a Clark video with DiRado and an online interview in which he and several of his students discuss his teaching methods, click here.