Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Constance Costigan

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977

Constance Costigan is professor of fine arts emeritus at George Washington University. Her works are in such major collections as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, the University of Iowa Museum, the George Washington University Permanent Collection, and other public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Cleveland, as well as England, Scotland, and India.

Costigan, the winner of numerous jurists’ awards, has received Fellowships from the Ossabaw Island Foundation, MacDowell, the Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation, and the George Washington University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Facilitating Fund. She was and has served as distinguished visiting professor at the American University in Cairo.

A frequent lecturer and juror for art programs, Costigan has conducted numerous workshops at educational and arts organizations. She received her B.S. from Simmons College and the Boston Museum School, and her M.A. in painting from American University in Washington D.C.

Studios

Adams

Constance Costigan worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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