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.
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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
What an incredible honor and joy to see my new essay about tiger environmentalism and ADHD as the cover story in #AmericanScholar @theamscho #madeatmacdowell @macdowell1907 @katbhuj @catherene.christian @ella_._bhujwala_ @rajangurung391 @bhujwalajehan
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
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
Join @eveewing.bsky.social (MF 22) for the launch her MacDowell-supported book, ORIGINAL SINS: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism (One World).
TONIGHT, Feb. 10, at the @awmuseum.bsky.social in Chicago! #MadeAtMacDowell
The focus of her 2024 MacDowell residency and second play in her epic nine-play "Ufot Family Cycle," Mfoniso Udofia's (MF 24) THE GROVE begins its world premiere run at Boston's @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social ! #MadeAtMacDowell
See paintings #MadeAtMacDowell by artist Jessica Gandolf (92, 22) in her first Moss Galleries solo show, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, works that slow perception through a delicate layering of figurative and abstract elements.
Up now through April 5 in Falmouth, ME.
Two people sit in chairs on a stage before a sign featuring the cover of the book Mothers and Sons, by Adam Haslett.
Adam Haslett (6x 99-19) reads from MOTHERS AND SONS – his latest novel supported by MacDowell – at a sold out Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, joined by author Adam Rapp (left). #MadeAtMacDowell
MoMA's 2025 Doc Fortnight features the North American premiere of Michael Almereyda (6x 93-15) and Courtney Stephens's (19, 24) MacDowell-supported documentary, JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE.
Screens Feb. 25 (w/filmmakers!) & March 4! #MadeAtMacDowell
The focus of her summer 2016 MacDowell residency, Julie Iromuanya's (16) second novel, A SEASON OF LIGHT, comes out today with @algonquinbooks.bsky.social! #MadeAtMacDowell
With final revisions made in MacDowell's Phi Beta Studio in the spring of 2023, Allegra Goodman's (23) latest novel, ISOLA (@thedialpress.bsky.social), makes its way into the world today! #MadeAtMacDowell
Happy book birthday, Allegra!
Within the granite walls of MacDowell's Phi Beta Studio in the spring of 2022, Beena Kamlani was finishing her debut novel, THE ENGLISH PROBLEM, and the book is out this week with @crownpublishing.bsky.social! #MadeAtMacDowell
Rajee Samarasinghe's (23) MacDowell-supported YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE world premieres at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam!
The film, which Samarasinghe edited at MacDowell, investigates enforced disappearances during the 26-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War. #MadeAtMacDowell
Written and directed by Michael Almereyda (MF 6x 93-15) and Courtney Stephens (MF 19, 24), the MacDowell-supported documentary JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE will world premiere at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam! #MadeAtMacDowell
The film's brand new trailer:
Back from Macdowell and reentering this mortal realm. Here’s a wee photo dump.
1. With my dad’s plaque from 1962 in Eastman (formerly the Shop/Barn)
2. New sketch for tapestry
3. Needlepoint in progress
4. Putnam at twilight
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This year's National Book Critics Circle's finalists include the works of SEVEN MacDowell Fellows, three* of which were directly supported by MacDowell Fellowships! #MadeAtMacDowell
The focus of her 2022 MacDowell residency, Nia Akilah Robinson's (MF 22) new play, THE GREAT PRIVATION: How to flip ten cents into a dollar, will begin its Off-Broadway premiere run on Feb. 26 at Soho Rep! #MadeAtMacDowell sohorep.org/shows/the-gr...
Adam Haslett's (MF 6x 99-19) MOTHERS AND SONS, his latest novel supported by MacDowell, is out today with Little, Brown! #MadeAtMacDowell
"...both moving and deeply compelling, a story about the search for our own humanity, and the lengths we will go to maintain it." — Ann Patchett (MF 96)
Ahamefule J. Oluo's (MF 23) MacDowell-supported project, THE THINGS AROUND US, will have its NYC premiere in the 2025 Under The Radar Festival!
Opens Jan. 9 at @lamamaetc.bsky.social! #MadeAtMacDowell
Final week!
Don't miss artist Harold Smith's (22) "Dr. Blackenstein’s Blacktacular Black Shack of Arts and Sciences," a multidisciplinary solo exhibition with works supported by his 2022 MacDowell residency.
On view at Studios Inc in Kansas City, MO, through Dec. 21! #MadeAtMacDowell
This new collection of essays about courage, reinvention, and personal transformation includes "Departures," a new work authored by Achim Nowak (MF 95, 24) in MacDowell's Star Studio last summer.
DARING METAMORPHOSIS (Angel Lab Editions) is out now. #MadeAtMacDowell
Journalist and MacDowell Fellow David W. Johnson's (MF 18) THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOOKER "BUKKA" WHITE: Recalling the Blues, written with the support of his MacDowell residency, is now out with @upmississippi.bsky.social! #MadeAtMacDowell
Another incredible true crime longread from @sarahweinman.bsky.social (3x 17-24), this one written with the support of her summer 2024 MacDowell residency. #MadeAtMacDowell
A mannequin that looks like the "He-Man" character Skeletor is slumped over a box on his back.
Created with the support of a MacDowell Fellowship (and her fellow artists-in-residence), artist Olivia Mole’s (24) solo exhibition NOCTURNE has been extended at Gattopardo in Los Angeles.
On view through Dec. 15 and by appt. through the holidays! #MadeAtMacDowell
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Watch the world premiere of composer Eric Nathan's (24) flute concerto "The Seas Between Us," which he completed in MacDowell's Delta Omicron Studio last summer! #MadeAtMacDowell
Recorded at @necmusic.bsky.social's Jordan Hall with flutist Alejandro Escuer & the New England Phil. on Oct. 20, 2024.
Out today! Funto Omojola (MF 24) placed finishing touches on their debut poetry collection, IF I GATHER HERE AND SHOUT (Nightboat), at MacDowell!
Its poems broaden "our capacity to choreograph survival through art." – Sawako Nakayasu (MF 20) #MadeAtMacDowell
A stack of 12 fiction and nonfiction books, including two anthologies, sitting on a smooth, dark wood surface. The background is blurred.
A series of black rubbings of tree bark on paper are fanned out across a smooth, dark wood surface.
Three objects on a smooth, dark wood surface: the poem-zine "Work's Tiring," by Adrienne Chung; the album "Slow Violence," by Ken Urban, and the poetry collection "Boomhouse," by Summer Hart.
A newspaper page with the headline "End-of-Life Choices Without Judgement" rests on top of three slender books on top of a smooth, dark wood surface.
MacDowell Fellows donated 17 new MacDowell-supported works to the James Baldwin Library in recent months; and each of which will serve as a resource for artists-in-residence, for posterity! www.instagram.com/p/C4X9HuJprdS #MadeAtMacDowell
