Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a poet and visual artist; she has created significant bodies of work in poetry, artists’ books, sculpture, installation, and social practice. Her art projects have received wide recognition with exhibitions and permanent commissions in the U.S., Europe and China. Her essays and critical reviews have been published in magazines and periodicals and reprinted in art history volumes. Her awards in the visual arts and poetry include the National Endowment for the Arts/CEC ArtsLink fellowship, the District of Columbia Individual Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and fellowships from MacDowell, Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), Montalvo Center for the Arts, Djerassi Foundation, the Irish Museum of Modern Art Residency Programme (Dublin), and USF Verftet-AiR/Bergen, Norway.
Mara Scrupe
Studios
Garland
Mara Scrupe worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…