Jo Yarrington’s drawings, book arts, photographs, and architecturally-based installations have been shown in exhibitions at Aldrich Contemporary, Artspace, and Yale University, CT; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma; Chashama in New York; Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; and Grounds for Sculpture. Yarrington is a recipient of fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Cill Rialaig Artists Residency/Ireland, MacDowell, SIMS Residency/Iceland, Ucross Residency/Wyoming, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Leighton Artist Colony/Alberta, the Brandywine Institute, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. In 2001, she represented the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. In 2010 she won the Bronze Prize at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia, and in 2012 was represented in the Berlin Biennial. Her cyanotype photogram work was recently featured in the October 2016 issue of SciArt Magazine.
Jo Yarrington
Studios
Adams
Jo Yarrington 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…