Discipline: Visual Art

Livio Saganic

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983

Livio Saganic grew up in Vidovici, on the island of Cres, in former Yugoslavia, now Croatia. In 1964 he emigrated to the United States and settled in West New York, NJ. After attending Pratt Institute he enrolled in Yale's M.F.A. program on a full scholarship where he was selected to be a teaching assistant in Yale's Summer Art Program in Norfolk, CT. Prior to graduation he was nominated for the Fulbright Fellowship, which he declined in order to join the Art Department at Drew University as a full time faculty member, a position he held for 36 years and is now professor emeritus. Setting up studio and living in Manhattan from 1976 onward, he began exhibiting sculpture with Julian Pretto, Hal Bromm, and Armstrong galleries, and doing projects for Creative Time and at MoMA-PS1. Currently he lives in the New York metropolitan area and in Croatia

Studios

Mixter

Livio Saganic worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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