Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Martha Clippinger

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Durham, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Martha Clippinger constructs colorful objects that reside somewhere between painting and sculpture. She is the creator and director of The Dirty Dirty, an alternative art space at her home in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.

Studios

Heinz

Martha Clippinger 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 Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building.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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