Discipline: Film/Video

Joanna Kiernan

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987, 1991, 2002

Joanna Kiernan is a filmmaker and documentary editor from Los Angeles, California. She earned a B.A. in painting and film making from St. Martins School of Art in London and an M.F.A. in film making from the University of California, San Diego. She has been working as a documentary editor for 20 years and her works include the feature film, Azul, and more recently, JANZ In the Moment, as well as many stand-alone documentaries for PBS and episodes of “Frontline” and “Art 21.”

Studios

Mansfield

Joanna Kiernan worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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