The Book(s): Ned O'Gorman Artist Books
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edited by Elizabeth Howard
Elizabeth Howard completed a number of projects in residence, including designing an exhibition as well as writing and editing the catalogue for an exhibition at Georgetown University around the archives of Ned O'Gorman. She also read three James Baldwin novels in preperation to cover a Baldwin symposium for the Harlem Bee, wrote the outline for a children’s book, and after not playing the piano for almost 50 years, learned several pieces after having the opportunity to work in a composers studio.
Portrait courtesy of SHUM NY
Studios
MacDowell
Elizabeth Howard worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built
in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in
recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music
students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed
walls were intended to be soundproof.
Like
many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s
when the program began welcoming…
