Discipline: Visual Art

Jill Bedgood

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: San Antonio, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
More: www.jillbedgood.com
Jill Bedgood is an American sculptor, painter, installation, and multimedia artist. Bedgood received degrees in painting, mixed media sculpture, and art history from Louisiana State University, and the University of Texas at Austin. After completing her study, Bedgood taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Trinity University, Texas State University in San Marcos, Southwestern University, and Austin Community College. Recent solo exhibitions of Bedgood’s work include Soliloquy in Houston, deliver us from evil at the Holocaust Museum in Houston, and Landmines & Poppies which was exhibited in Athens, Greece and at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, The New Art Examiner, High Performance, Sculpture, Art Lies, CNN on line, and NPR. Bedgood has received several accolades for her work, including a Visiting Artist Residency at the American Academy of Rome and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She has also received grants from the New Forms Regional Initiatives Grant, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Studios

Adams

Jill Bedgood worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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