Debra Olin is a printmaker, living and working in Somerville, Mass. She received her M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 1980. Olin has shown in exhibitions across the U.S., South Africa, and Cuba. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library; Temple Israel, Brookline, Mass.; YIVO Institute, NYC; The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass.; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. In 2004 Debra was awarded the Rappaport Prize, the largest public annual award to an individual artist in New England.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Debra Olin
Studios
Putnam
Debra Olin 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…