Discipline: Visual Art – installation

Leigh-Ann Pahapill

Discipline: Visual Art – installation
Region: Toronto, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

At MacDowell, Leigh-Ann Pahapill worked on a sculpture and video installation that was exhibited at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, FL, and the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Alberta.

Her current research is focused on Caspar Neher's stage designs for five of Brecht's plays produced between 1926-1962, the 1977 Cassavetes film Opening Night, and Jan Svankmajer’s surrealist short film Quiet Week in the House (Tichy tyden v dome), 1969.

Studios

Heinz

Leigh-Ann Pahapill worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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