All month, we’re sharing studio stories from our Fellows community. We invite you to reflect on how vital creative spaces are for artists. If you’re inspired, please consider making a gift.
Sean Dunnington (‘26) shares his experience staying in Delta Omicron.
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One woman builds a life. The other risks hers searching for where she came from. A new novel by New York Times bestselling author Tayari Jones (’03, ’07, ’16)
Portrait by Kendrick Brinson for NYT
Anthony Braxton is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Edward MacDowell Medal.
Learn about the composer and multi-instrumentalist’s immeasurable contributions to music composition, pedagogy, and writing which will be celebrated this summer on our website.
MacDowell.org/events/2026-medal-day
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The application period for Fall 2026 Winter 2027 residencies is now open!
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"Artists, she argues, should be present in every room where solutions are being shaped, whether the issue at hand is climate change mitigation, A.I. ethics or lifting up economically vulnerable communities."
Using plastic bottles to make works that reference objects of the past offers me a space to playfully explore the transformation of form and material while reflecting on issues of history, culture, and value.”
— Shari Mendelson ‘18
Join us at MacDowell NYC for a conversation with four remarkable Native artists, directors and curators.
Wednesday, July 16 • 6:30PM
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New England folks! I'm talking about writing cultural criticism with Lucy Sante (!) in Harrisville, NH on June 26 @macdowell1907.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/a-medal-da...
MacDowell Fellow Joseph Keckler (@josephkeckler , ‘11, ‘14, ‘19, ‘24) to perform at The Met @metmuseum.org
During her MacDowell residency, Vietnamese American poet Cathy Linh Che worked on Becoming Ghost, a long-awaited collection tracing her parents’ journey as Vietnamese refugees hired as extras in Apocalypse Now.
#MadeAtMacDowell
Join us for May’s edition of MacDowell Downtown with interdisciplinary artist and musician Marcus Fischer. Fischer is known for his immersive and layered compositions that blend sound, space, and memory.
MacDowell Downtown
May 2, 2025
Monadnock Center for History and Culture
7:30 p.m.
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30 MacDowell Fellows are 2025 Guggenheim honorees—a powerful testament to the impact of time, space, and creative community. We’re proud to see so many alumni recognized as the Guggenheim Foundation marks 100 years of excellence.
Congratulations fellows!
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Congratulations to MacDowell Fellow Phillis Levin on the publication of her poetry collection An Anthology of Rain!
MacDowell Fellow Ethel Rackin’s "Forge" is today's featured poem on the Slowdown podcast! Created/hosted by MacDowell Fellow Major Jackson, The Slowdown offers listeners a moment of reflection & connection through the power of poetry. “Forge” is included in her new book IN TIME from The Word Works.
Join us at MacDowell NYC as we dive into the evolving world of journalists and collectives redefining news media with innovative storytelling and interdisciplinary approaches. RSVP at buff.ly/TbMdT41
MacDowell Fellow A. Kendra Greene returns with NO LESS STRANGE OR WONDERFUL (@tin_house, 2025). Featuring artwork by Greene, this collection explores life’s biggest and smallest questions. #MadeAtMacDowell
Alfredo Jaar is this year’s recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal. Jaar, whose work confronts some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our time, will be honored at MacDowell on 6/29/25 with the presentation of the Medal during a free, public event. Learn more here buff.ly/q3GWzlx
In this season of uncertainty, support from individuals like you is critical. We invite you not just to support MacDowell but celebrate it. In our spring fundraiser, the Studio Showdown, our studios compete in pursuit of our goal to raise a MacDowell Fellowship. See link to play.
Announcing the Spring-Summer 2025 MacDowell Fellowship recipients! 149 artists working in seven disciplines will arrive at MacDowell March-August 2025.
Visit buff.ly/43bRd5q for the full list of incoming Fellows.
From my beloved NEF studio at @macdowell1907.bsky.social
Beautiful!
Either/Or Ensemble's recording of composer Richard Carrick's (MF 23) THE ATLAS, composed in MacDowell's Monday Music Studio in the winter of 2023, is out today with @newfocuslabel.bsky.social ! #MadeAtMacDowell
Out today! Created in MacDowell's Nef Studio last winter, PaviElle French's (MF 25) new album, SOVEREIGN: ALIGNED, is now streaming everywhere! #MadeAMacDowell
I have made it to MacDowell, where I am working in — no pressure! - the cabin where Thornton Wilder wrote OUR TOWN.
Still feeling a wee bit overwhelmed. But it’s so welcoming and peaceful. @macdowell1907
"'Letter from a Region in My Mind' offers proclamations and predictions, delivered as jabs and right hooks while the author shadowboxes with God."
Kevin Young (MF 6x 93-13) appraises the immense impact of James Baldwin's (MF 3x 54-60) 1962 essay, a work that would gain "the force of prophecy."
Experience the resonance visual artist Thomas Matsuda (20) & composer David Dominique (16, 20) found between their work during their shared MacDowell residencies in Matsuda's solo exhibition at Mount Wachusett Community College's art gallery in Gardner, MA.
On view thru March 14! #MadeAtMacDowell
With a draft completed in MacDowell’s Mixter Studio, @eveewing.bsky.social’s (MF 22) new book, ORIGINAL SINS: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Youth and the Construction of American Racism, is out today with One World! #MadeAtMacDowell
