Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Meg Harders

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Poughkeepsie, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005
More: www.megharders.com
Meg Harders is a painter whose figurative works are featured in Robert Altman’s film Short Cuts. In 1996 she was commissioned to design the poster for the Semaine de la Critique section of the Cannes Film Festival. Her work is included in the book New American Paintings Volume 55 and she has been a featured artist in the Catskill Mountain Region Guide. Meg has also shown in numerous group and solo museum and gallery shows. After 11 years as a digital artist in Hollywood, Meg has many film and commercial credits (aka Meg Freeman). Meg currently paints full time in the Hudson River Valley where she lives with her husband. Collectors include: The Microsoft Art Collection, Rhythm & Hues, Robert and Kathryn Altman, Philip Baker Hall, Fred Hoffman.

Studios

New Hampshire

Meg Harders worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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