Discipline: Visual Art – drawing, Visual Art – installation, Visual Art – painting, Visual Art – photography

Katie Merz

Discipline: Visual Art – drawing, Visual Art – installation, Visual Art – painting, Visual Art – photography
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2009, 2011

Katie Merz worked on drawings for her installation for Art Attack. It took place out of the back of a moving truck that relocated every hour in New York City in the spring of 2011. Otherwise, her time is filled with teaching at Cooper Union, making, wondering, and keeping a cattle dog busy.

Studios

Eastman

Katie Merz worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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