Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Sandra Burns

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: New Haven, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Sandra Burns received a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in 1999 and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art in 2001. She is currently a lecturer at the Yale School of Art in the sculpture department. She is the recipient of the Chenven Foundation Grant, a Northampton Arts Council Grant, the Munson Award, and the Vermont Studio Center Clowes Fellowship. She has held exhibitions at The Norfolk Gallery (New Haven, CT), the Holcombe T. Green Gallery, Yale University (New Haven, CT), and elsewhere.

Studios

Firth

Sandra Burns worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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