Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art

Birgit Rathsmann

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004

Birgit Rathsmann, completed animation for her video installation, The Breugel Kitchen, while at MacDowell. She also worked on a proposal for a documentary film. Grit and Polish- Heroines from Hong Kong. Her previous documentary, won prizes in palm beach and Telluride.

Studios

Chapman

Birgit Rathsmann worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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