Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – performance

Peter Flaherty

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – performance
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Peter Flaherty works across genres in cinema, visual art, and performance. He worked on his first feature film, Signal from Shore, which was shot in South Korea. It debuted at film festivals in 2009 and has won several "Best Short Film" awards. His virtual reality work The Surrogate was a SXSW Interactive Innovation Award Finalist.

Studios

Heinz

Peter Flaherty worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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