Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Suzanne Williamson

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989, 1994, 2000
More: www.suzannewilliamsonphoto.com
Suzanne Williamson has received several fellowships to the pre-eminent artist colonies, MacDowell and Yaddo, and served on the Board of Directors of MacDowell. Williamson received an award for her pictures of a Midwest drought, published in Ohio Magazine. Her photographs, made primarily in black & white, are in museum and private collections, and have been published in American Archaeology, Harpers, Ohio Magazine, and Texas Monthly. Currently Williamson is photographing remnants of early history in the Florida landscape for her series Sacred Land and Shelter. The Photo Editor of ARTnews magazine until early 2008, Williamson also worked at The New Yorker and Newsweek magazines. Williamson has managed photography galleries and collections in New York City, and was part of a collective that launched a photographic exhibition of the events and our response to 9/11. The show was entitled "Here is New York," and was installed in downtown SoHo, and traveled in the U.S. and overseas. The show came to Tampa and was exhibited at International Plaza. Williamson was director of the 2009 Self Employment in the Arts Conference, a regional artist-led event supporting arts entrepreneurship, held at The University of Tampa.

Studios

Putnam

Suzanne Williamson worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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