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Linda Lindroth and Craig Newick are an artist/architect collaborative team who live and work in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1996 Lindroth + Newick were selected by the Architecture League of New York for their prestigious Emerging Voices
lecture series. Newick is a registered architect in the State of Connecticut, a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Connecticut Society of Architects. They have been collaborating on projects combining art and architecture since 1988. Newick has a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture from Lehigh University. Lindroth has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Art from the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Douglass College.

In the past 10 years the team of Lindroth + Newick have won over 20 awards, grants and prizes including Craig Newick's Third Place prize in the Astronaut's Memorial Design Competition in 1988. Lindroth + Newick won an Honorable Mention for the project entitled Camera Obscura: The Camera as Physical Space in the Pittsburgh Corning Architectural Design Competition(1988.) In 1989 they won another Honorable Mention in the National Peace Garden Design Competition in Washington, DC and in 1992 when the winning entry failed to receive approval from the Fine Arts Commission they were invited to participate in the new phase of the design review for a National Peace Garden. Their set design for the Hartford Ballet, Articulating Wing, won the Ballet's American Visionary Set Design Competition, and then went on to win a 1990 Annual Design Review Award in ID/International Design Magazine's environments category. The project entitled Simultaneous Space (which won a 1991 Annual Design Review Award from ID Magazine) earned them a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts/New Forms Regional Initiative (1989-90). Archaeology/Body/City was also awarded this grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts in 1992-3. Other support for projects has come from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in 1989 and 1990, the Polaroid Corporation Artist's Program and private sources. In 1991 Lindroth + Newick were honored by the Architecture League of New York's Young Architects Forum for Simultaneous Space. Their work has been exhibited and published extensively. In 1993 Craig Newick won a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Regional Fellowship in Sculpture. In 1994 Lindroth
+ Newick won a Second Prize in the African Burial Ground Memorial
Competition sponsored in part by the Municipal Art Society, New York City.

This year Linda Lindroth has won a grant from the John Anson Kitterage Foundation. In 2002 Lindroth received a grant from the Te Foundation and a National Endowment for the Arts project grant. In 2001 she was a finalist for the Howard Foundation fellowship in Art from Brown University.

In 1995-96 Linda Lindroth won a NEA regional fellowship in Photography and a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant in Painting. In 2000 she won a Connecticut Commission grant in sculpture. She has exhibited her work in over 100 solo and group shows in the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the former Yugoslavia. Her work is represented in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Newark Museum, the International Polaroid Collection, First Bank of Boston, Bear Stearns Company and Price Waterhouse and Company, New York. In 1995-1996 she won individual artists fellowships in painting and photography from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.