Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art

Megan Roberts

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art
Region: Ithaca, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002

Megan Roberts is a composer and media artist. Raymond Ghirardo is a sculptor and media artist. Together they have been collaborators in video, sound sculpture, installation and performance works since the 1970s.
Roberts was born in New York and received her M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Video from Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. Ghirardo was born in California and received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

At MacDowell, Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo, developed elements for a video installation for exhibition at the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, MO. In the past year site specific exhibitions from their new body of work were presented in Las Vegas, NV, at the Charleston Heights Arts Center and Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, OH.

Studios

Adams

Megan Roberts worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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