100 High St.
Peterborough, NH 03458
(603) 924-3886
MacDowell NYC
521 West 23rd St
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 535-9690
Freedom to create.
Discipline:Literature – nonfiction
Wyatt Mason
Discipline:Literature – nonfiction
Region:Germantown, NY
MacDowell Fellowships:2006, 2011
Wyatt Mason worked on a book while in residence. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Writer in Residence at Bard College, a senior fellow of Bard's Hannah Arendt Center, and a professor in the Bard Prison Initiative.
Portrait by Hannah Tennant-Moore
Studios
MacDowell
Wyatt Mason worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built
in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in
recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music
students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed
walls were intended to be soundproof.
Like
many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s
when the program began welcoming…