Discipline: Visual Art

JoJo Ans

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Pawling, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 1997
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Jojo Ans was raised in Holmes, NY, earned a B.F.A. in photography, and then traveled throughout Europe and the U.S., spending extended periods photographing in the Dordogne, France and Northern New Mexico. She has received residencies to MacDowell and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. She arrived at the Center for Photography at Woodstock to train as an arts administration intern in 1994, becoming site manager from 1998-2000. Over the years, JoJo has fully employed the center’s services and resources – from the darkroom to sharing her latest work with staff – to nourish and enrich her creative work. JoJo has been published in Saveur and PhotoMetro.

Studios

Putnam

JoJo Ans worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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