Discipline: Visual Art

Debra Weisberg

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Somerville, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1978, 1988
More: www.debraweisberg.com
Debra Weisberg is a visual artist who is active nationally and internationally. She has exhibited at the Paper Biennial in the Netherlands; Art in General and East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, New York; and in the Boston area, the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury; Danforth Art Museum; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; Gallery Kayafas; Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Dedee Shattuck Gallery; and VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley University. In addition to teaching at Boston College and New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Weisberg is an energetic lecturer. She spoke on “Material Drawing: Exploration and Connectivity” for MIT’s Department of Architecture School of Architecture and Planning. This paper, which examined the material of making, intuition and accidents in the digital age, was presented in 2014 at University College, London.

Studios

Mixter

Debra Weisberg worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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