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Our next application deadline is September 10, 2023 for Spring-Summer 2024 residencies. The application period will open in August.

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Latest News + Events

DeSantis’ Dearth of Understanding of America’s Past Fails Everyone in the Present

Madam Chairman of the MacDowell Board, Fellow, and author Nell Painter identifies the recent efforts to censor history as a repetition of the past in a new essay for our Why MacDowell Now? series. “Here we are again,” she writes, “face to face with powerful attempts to push Black Americans ... out of the American consciousness.”

Chiwoniso Kaitano Named MacDowell Executive Director

New Director, former executive director of Girl Be Heard, is charged with focusing on expanding sources of support and deepening access for underrepresented artists.

MacDowell Awards Spring-Summer Fellowships to 142 Artists

MacDowell will welcome 142 artists from 23 states, D.C., and 11 countries for spring and summer residencies. These Fellowships at the nation’s first artist residency program were granted from a pool of 1,822 applications from 54 different countries and every state except Hawaii.

Virtual MacDowell: Connection Through Conversation

We created Virtual MacDowell as a space where Fellows could engage in earnest collaboration and exchange ideas. With an emphasis on bringing artists together to build community and broadening MacDowell’s outreach efforts, Virtual MacDowell (VM) is not an online residency, but a new program.

Susan Unterberg, Founder of Anonymous Was A Woman, Honored with Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award

Visual artist, MacDowell Fellow, and founder and funder of Anonymous Was A Woman, Susan Unterberg, received the 2022 Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award during MacDowell’s National Benefit on October 17 at New York’s Ziegfeld Ballroom.

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Grant Helps MacDowell Go Greener

With a new grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, MacDowell will eliminate the need to purchase and burn 2,200 gallons of heating oil, per year.

Explore Our Comprehensive Artist Index

We list all Fellows from 1907 to the present in this comprehensive artist index. Try the search window to see who's been in residence at MacDowell.

Our Mission, Values and Vision

In the summer of 2021, MacDowell’s staff and board of directors began the process of articulating a shared set of organizational values and revisiting our mission statement. We held our continuing work around diversity, equity, inclusion, and access at the core of these conversations. Read the full “Mission, Values, and Vision” statement here.

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Find out who has gone through our community and how their artistic dreams and passion are being fulfilled.

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Land Acknowledgement

MacDowell’s staff and board acknowledge that our residency program takes place in Wabanaki, the Dawnland, on the traditional homelands of the Western Abenaki people ...

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Artist Accolades

The writers, visual artists, composers, filmmakers, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and architects who have attended MacDowell have won:

99 Pulitzer
Prizes

868 Guggenheim
Fellowships

33 National
Book Awards

8 National
Medals for the Arts

34 MacArthur
Fellowships

122 Rome
Prizes

9 Academy
Awards

18 GRAMMY
Awards

31 Tony
Awards

A house of dreams untold – It looks out over the whispering treetops and faces the setting sun.

- Edward A. MacDowell