Latest News & Press Releases
Type: Press Releases
MacDowell Joins Family, Friends of Katherine Min to Celebrate Author’s Life, New Fellowship
March 2, 2021
On Being a Sprinter: The Inaugural Katherine Min Fellowship Celebration – a live reading and memorial…
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MacDowell to Receive $25,000 Grant From the National Endowment for the Arts
February 8, 2021
Essential funding arrives at a critical time to benefit an artist who has never been…
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MacDowell Reaches Full Solar Electrical Generation
February 1, 2021
Last month, MacDowell celebrated the first anniversary of renewably generating all electrical energy powering the…
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92Y and MacDowell Team Up for Discussion on Women, Art & Identity
December 2, 2020
A Conversation on the Enactment of Identity: Andrea Martin, Indhu Rubasingham and Jacqueline Woodson speak…
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MacDowell to Reopen Modified Residency Program for Artists This Month
October 13, 2020
A detailed safety plan developed by staff and medical experts will provide for safe resumption…
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First Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to be Presented to Ava DuVernay for ARRAY at MacDowell Benefit
September 27, 2020
Inaugural award to be presented by Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, with evening host Nell…
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Virtual MacDowell “Residency” to Kick Off in August
July 28, 2020
Virtual MacDowell: Connection through Conversation will begin with eight artists whose residencies were cancelled as…
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MacDowell Removes “Colony” from Name
July 7, 2020
Board of Directors of 113-year-old artist residency program votes unanimously to remove terminology with oppressive…
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Composer/Performer Rosanne Cash to Receive MacDowell Medal, Celebration Postponed to August 2021
May 18, 2020
MacDowell plans virtual salons and concerts over next few months to highlight more than a…
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MacDowell Announces Temporary COVID-19 Closure
March 13, 2020
Artists-in-residence will be assisted with early departures; no new Fellows to arrive until danger of…
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MacDowell Presents: Composers Aruán Ortiz and João Luiz – From Contemporary Chamber Music to Avant-Garde Jazz
March 2, 2020
An evening of performances and discussion with a multilayered look into the musical influences and…
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MacDowell - Urban Word Present Evening of Afro-Latinx Poetry
February 11, 2020
This Afro-Latinx Poetry Salon pairs literary figures with teen poets as part of yearlong series…
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Best-selling Author and Visual Artist Nell Painter Appointed Chair of MacDowell Colony Board of Directors
January 22, 2020
The award-winning author takes over for novelist Michael Chabon.
Nell Painter, the author of The New…
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MacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists
January 14, 2020
Seven international artists join Americans from across the country
The MacDowell Colony has awarded Fellowships…
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Laurie Anderson, Margaret Atwood to Join Author Michael Chabon at MacDowell Chairman’s Evening
November 5, 2019
The MacDowell Colony’s Chairman’s Evening on Monday, December 9, promises provocations on art and culture…
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