Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, one of the nation’s leading residencies for emerging visual artists, received a $250,000 gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. The funds provided for a new studio building which was constructed on its rural campus in central Maine.

Image: Helen Frankenthaler at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, June 1986. Photo by Barbara N. Lapcek