Discipline: Visual Art

Ginna Brand

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Underhill, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981, 1983
Ginna Brand is an American painter and visual artist. Brand grew up in a small town on the Ohio River south of Pittsburgh in the 1930s. After a year at Edinboro State Teachers College she transferred to Kent State University earning a degree in art education. She received a degree in painting while caring for her children. Her studio work eventually evolved from painting to creating small sculptures using a glue gun and discarded plywood. Unlike a designer, who first plans on paper, Ginna works directly with the wood using shapes and lines to create abstract sculptures. This process often creates options that can lead to more sculptures. Her pieces in her “Generations” series were created in this manner, thus exemplifying her process of creation. Both the process and the wood generate new work. With the help of an assistant she acquired professional woodworking tools and expanded both the scope and size of her sculptures. One of her larger sculptures is part of the Putnam collection at Case Western Reserve University, hanging in the lobby of the Olin Building, the engineering school.

Studios

Firth

Ginna Brand worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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