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Performance artist and writer Huimeng Wang

MacDowell Stands with the Asian Community

A message from our executive director on behalf of the MacDowell community as we stand with the Asian community in condemning all violence against Asians and Asian Americans, especially against Asian women.

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Why MacDowell NOW?

In January of 2020 we introduced a new series of essays written by our Fellows, intended to interrogate the transcendent relevancy of the American artist residency at this particular moment in time. You can access them here.

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Latest News + Events

Do not disappear the words.

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen reflects on both words’ power to do harm and the harm we can do ourselves through their banishment from our language. Beginning with the trepidation he felt when MacDowell dropped “Colony” from its name last summer, Deen writes on art, learning, and the healing that can take place when we examine words closely.

92Y and MacDowell Team Up for Second Salon

A virtual conversation May 6 on the Enactment of Identity: P. Carl, Michael Chabon, and Chang-rae Lee speak to Nell Painter about how artists’ personas inform their work.

Riva Lehrer on Writing Her Award-Winning Memoir at MacDowell, ‘Snags’ and All

MacDowell landed in my life like a meteor crashing onto the sidewalk before my feet. The impact spun me around, sent me heading in a totally different direction. An impact that changed everything I had planned, and who I thought I was....

MacDowell, Family, and Friends of Katherine Min Celebrated the Author’s Life, New Fellowship

Watch the replay of the Tuesday, March 30 reading and memorial to commemorate the life and work of the author and which celebrated the establishment of the Katherine Min Fellowship with writers Victoria Chang, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Min’s daughter, Kayla Min Andrews.

Latest: Conversation About Social Justice: Part 3

The third installment of our series presenting Fellows' “art of redress” as conceived by Madam Chairman of the MacDowell Board Nell Painter presents a wide variety of views into the issues critical to our society's success. While we are hopeful for the future, the need for systemic change continues to call us to make a space to present art made in protest of previous and current injustices.

Listen to Rosanne Cash's interview on NHPR

Composer-Performer Rosanne Cash, 2021 Edward MacDowell Medalist, appeared with WQXR personality and board member Terrance McKnight on NHPR's "The Folk Show" with Kate McNally on August 9.

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Artist Accolades

The writers, visual artists, composers, filmmakers, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and architects who have attended MacDowell have won:

93 Pulitzer
Prizes

868 Guggenheim
Fellowships

33 National
Book Awards

8 National
Medals for the Arts

33 MacArthur
Fellowships

111 Rome
Prizes

9 Academy
Awards

17 GRAMMY
Awards

31 Tony
Awards

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- Edward A. MacDowell

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