Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Marsha Ginsberg

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2000

Marsha Ginsberg has worked on Will Pomerantz: wAve, Ma-Yi Theater, New York; Lascivious Something, Women’s Project/Cherry Lane; Habit, Watermill Center; and the Obie Award-winning Telephone, Foundry Theater. Internationally, she has worked at the Bleak House, Bauhaus Festival, Theaterhaus Jena; Kafeneion, Athens/Epidaurus Festival; Knock-Out (Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Theaterhaus Jena. Her opera credits include Ariadne auf Naxos, Opera National de Bordeaux; Phaeton, Saarlindishes Staatstheater; Proserpina (sets/costumes), Spoleto Festival USA; Don Pasquale, Nationaltheater Weimar; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Theater Basel; Imeneo, Glimmerglass Opera; La Finta Giardinera, Rita, Pauvre Matelot, San Francisco Opera; Elektra, Bluebeard’s Castle, Long Beach Opera; Carmen, Nationaltheater Mannheim; In Mahler’s Shadow, Eos Orchestra.

She has received grants and awards from NEA/TCG Early Career Design Fellowship and MacDowell. She has taught at the Buhnenbild Szenischer Raum, TU, Berlin and the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons, NYC. Ginsberg has an M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Visual Arts at Whitney Independent Study Program, and a B.F.A. from Cooper Union.

Studios

Nef

Marsha Ginsberg worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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