Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Brigid Kennedy

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983, 1985

Brigid Kennedy began exhibiting her sculptures and drawings internationally in the late 1970s and in 1989, she moved to central Connecticut. She has lived and worked in South American, Europe, and Canada exhibiting unique, site-specific sculptures. Kennedy has received an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant to West Africa, a Fulbright Scholar Lecture Research Award to Chile, a State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts Artists Project Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, and National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Grants. Her work is in numerous museums and private collections worldwide.

Studios

Firth

Brigid Kennedy worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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