Artists of Medal Day 2025

Louise Aronson

Discipline Literature – nonfiction
Region San Francisco, CA
At MacDowell 2018

Louise Aronson, a leading geriatrician and UCSF professor of medicine is the author of the…
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Alice Elliott Dark

Discipline Literature – fiction
Region Montclair, NJ
At MacDowell 2014, 2021

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England…
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Dominic Finocchiaro

Discipline Theatre – playwriting
Region Brooklyn, NY
At MacDowell 2017, 2019

Dominic Finocchiaro is a playwright whose work has been produced and developed around the country…
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Shayan Lotfi

Discipline Theatre – playwriting
Region Brooklyn, NY
At MacDowell 2022

Shayan Lotfi is the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at the Atlantic Theater, where his play What Became…
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Claire Luchette

Discipline Literature – fiction
Region Madison, WI
At MacDowell 2018

Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon (worked on at…
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Alexis Mitchell

Discipline Film/Video – experimental
Region Brooklyn, NY
At MacDowell 2018

Alexis Kyle Mitchell is an artist and scholar based between New York and Glasgow. Her…
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Alex Romania

Discipline Interdisciplinary Arts – movement
Region Brooklyn, NY
At MacDowell 2022

Psychic Wormhole (Alex Romania + Stacy Lynn Smith) is a NYC duo making live interdisciplinary…
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Kimi Takesue

Discipline Film/Video – documentary, Film/Video – experimental
Region Brooklyn, NY
At MacDowell 2001, 2003, 2012, 2016

Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker/artist whose films have screened internationally at film festivals and…
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G.C. Waldrep

Discipline Literature – poetry
Region Lewisburg, PA
At MacDowell 2001, 2006, 2012, 2015

THIS STUDIO IS CLOSED FOR MEDAL DAY. G.C. Waldrep is the author of the collection feast…
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