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Director Peter Sellars to Introduce Toni Morrison to Medal Day Crowd August 14
July 24, 2016
Public invited to tour open studios at free event honoring Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Architects of MacDowell Library Will Design Obama Presidential Library
July 11, 2016
PETERBOROUGH, N.H., JULY 11, 2016 -- President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have chosen…
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Journalism Initiative Support Makes Finding the Long Arcs Possible
June 19, 2016
Deep reporting in writer's project about U.S.-Canada border is one of 15 fellowships assisted by…
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Lincoln Financial and MacDowell Team Up to Engage Students With the Arts
June 9, 2016
Grant seeks to get more students involved in Medal Day honoring novelist Toni Morrison
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MacDowell Awards Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship to Cathleen Bailey
April 26, 2016
NEW YORK, April 26, 2016 – Writer Cathleen Richardson Bailey has been named the first recipient…
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Toni Morrison to Receive 2016 Edward MacDowell Medal
April 7, 2016
Nobel and Pulitzer winner joins venerated group of recipients and will be honored at free…
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MacDowell Turns On the Power of the Sun
January 28, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Jan. 28, 2016 -- A new half-acre array of solar panels…
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68 Artists in Varied Disciplines Awarded Fellowships
January 4, 2016
PETERBOROUGH, N.H., JANUARY 4, 2016 -- The MacDowell Colony named sixty-eight artists who have been…
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Meehan Crist Wins Rona Jaffe Award
November 20, 2015
MacDowell Fellow secures Jaffe Award for work on head injury inquiry
Meehan Crist was in Fiji…
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Robert Dell Papers to be Part of Smithsonian Archives of American Art
October 13, 2015
Sculptor who became inventor and director of Center for Innovation and Applied Technology at The…
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Choreographer Richard Siegal Wrapping Busy Summer and Fall
September 17, 2015
Innovative performances of his work included stops in NYC, Marseille and Munich.
Richard Siegal has been…
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He Was the Whole Man and a Remarkable, Majestic Human Being
August 21, 2015
Transcript: Fellow composer Yehudi Wyner and friend of the Medalist reviews the genius that was…
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Music is a Force that Brings Humans Together
August 21, 2015
Transcript: WQXR Radio Host Terrance McKnight explains the universe of activity that was Gunther Schuller.
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MacDowell Colony Chairman Welcomes Medal Day Crowd with Some Big, Universal Questions
August 20, 2015
Transcript: Michael Chabon reflects on mortality
Thank you, thank you all for being here on this…
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Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship Supports Diverse New Literary Voices
July 8, 2015
Michael Chabon announces anonymous gift in honor of agent Charlotte Sheedy expands MacDowell Colony’s commitment…
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