Marie-Therese Connolly spent her residency completing a nonfiction book about elder abuse (that afflicts one in ten people 60 and older) and the incongruities of our devotion to lengthening life much more than assuring well-being in the years we've gained.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Marie-Therese Connolly
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
Studios
Wood
Marie-Therese Connolly worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…