Discipline: Visual Art

Elizabeth Awalt

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Concord, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982

Elizabeth Awalt is an American painter born in Baltimore. Awalt studied fine art at Boston College, where she returned to teach and resides as a tenured professor. Awalt then received her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. From there she completed several fellowships including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the Millay Colony. She has received both the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Painting, and an Individual Artist Grant in Painting from the National Endowment of the Arts. Awalt has had a series of solo exhibits at the Danforth Museum, Clark Gallery, Soprafina Gallery, and the Thomas Segal Gallery in Boston. Her work has also been featured in a series of group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT; the Decordova Museum in Lincoln, MA; and the McMullen Museums of Art.

Studios

Cheney

Elizabeth Awalt worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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