Mette Loulou von Kohl is a mixed-race queer femme, born to a Lebanese/Palestinian mother and Danish father. She is a graduate of EMERGENYC- the Hemispheric New York Emerging Performers Program, co-founder of the performance collective A Beautiful Desperation, and current Fellow at University Settlement.
Mette Loulou used her time at MacDowell to complete research, writing, and choreography for her first full-length multimedia solo performance piece No One Likes An Ugly Revolutionary, grappling with Palestinian ancestry, terrorism, and inherited legacies of resistance.
Nef
Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated
by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn
Steffanson Nef
in 1992.
Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an
annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds
for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…
