Discipline: Visual Art

Cornelia McSheehy

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983
Cornelia McSheehy is a professor of printmaking at RISD and a past recipient of RISD’s John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. She began teaching at RISD in 1977 and was department head from 1979–90. She earned her B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and her M.A. in printmaking from the State University of New York at Albany, where she also taught painting, drawing, lithography, and intaglio as well as printmaking in the Continuing Education Division. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions since 1969 and is included in numerous collections, including the Library of Congress. Affiliations include memberships in the Boston Printmakers, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and the RISD Museum. McSheehy earned an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship in Printmaking, a MacDowell Fellowship, a photography collaboration grant sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Polaroid Corp., and a RISD/Mellon Foundation faculty grant, among others. She was a printmaking finalist in a program sponsored by the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and worked as chief critic in RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome. She has also received numerous purchase awards in national printmaking and drawing exhibitions.

Studios

Putnam

Cornelia McSheehy 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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