Discipline: Visual Art

Catherine Drabkin

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Catherine Drabkin received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute/College of Art and her M.F.A. from Queens College/CUNY. She has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections. Her solo exhibition at the Madeline Cohen Gallery of the Community College of Philadelphia traveled to the Blair Gallery in the Hoyt Arts Center in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Her project: Finding Home: an American Neighborhood, is an artist's book inspired by her neighborhood in downtown Wilmington. It received support by an Opportunity Grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts.

She has been represented by Kraushaar Galleries in New York since 1995. A founding faculty of the Delaware College of Art and Design, she has also taught at the University of Nebraska/Omaha, Southern Connecticut State University, Seton Hill University, Point Park University and Dartmouth College.

Studios

Putnam

Catherine Drabkin worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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