Discipline: Architecture – design

Kira Appelhans

Discipline: Architecture – design
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Kira Appelhans came to MacDowell at the end of a semester hiatus from the East Coast made possible by a visiting lecture position in the landscape architecture program at UT Austin. When living in New York, she works for the landscape architecture firm Balmori Associates and spends her free time in the printmaking studio.

Studios

Putnam

Kira Appelhans 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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