Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Heather Sheehan

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Cologne, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
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Heather Sheehan, born in the United States, has lived, worked and shown as a visual artist and photographer in Germany for 20 years. She worked on the most personal station of her self-staged analogue photography project delving into the individual mythology of her New England ancestors.

Studios

Nef

Heather Sheehan worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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