Annual Fellowships
Annual Fellowships are contributions designated by the donor to help support one or more residencies in the year of the gift.
1434 Foundation Fellowship
3Arts Fellowship
Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship
James Baldwin Fellowship
Patricia Brown Specter Fellowship
Carnegie Corporation Fellowship
Mary Carswell Fellowship
Clarkeson Family Fund Fellowship
Aaron Copland Fellowship
Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship
First Republic Bank Fellowship
Jeanne Donovan Fisher Fellowship
Ford Family Foundation Fellowship
Charles Gaines Fellowship
Harris Center Fellowship
Hershey Family Foundation Fellowship
Institute for American Indian Arts Fellowship
Pamela Joy Johnson Fellowship
Eugene and Margaret Kilik Fellowship
Anna and John Laynor Fellowship
Emily Leff and James Davis Visual Art Fellowship
Ed & Kathy Ludwig Fellowship
Couch Family Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Flora Nichols Beggs Fellowship
Leonard Nimoy Fellowship
Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship
Patience Haley and Panos Ghikas Fellowship
Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship
Helen Ingram Plummer Foundation Fellowship
Thomas and Barbara Putnam Fellowship
Riverstone Resources Fellowship
Walter M. Robinson Fellowship
Barbara and Andrew Senchak Fellowship
Sonia Sanchez Poetry Fellowship
Anne Stark Locher and Kurt Locher Fellowship
Peter Wirth and Catherine Lou Fellowship
Endowed and Honorary Fellowships
These Fellowships, based on investment income from gifts held in our endowment fund, provide support in perpetuity for one or more residencies each year.
Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship
Benny Andrews Fellowship
Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship
Catherine Boettcher Fellowship
Eleanor Briggs Fellowship
Calderwood Journalism Fellowships
Stanford Calderwood Fellowship
Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship
Marcy Carsey Fellowship
Mary Carswell Fellowship
Chabon Fellowship
Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship
Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship
Nancy Decker Dougherty Fellowship
Jim and Ruth Ewing Fellowship
Fisher Family Fellowship
Gerald Freund Fellowship
Isabella Gardner Fellowship
John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Fellowship
Keith Haring Fellowship
Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship
Ernest and Red Heller Fellowship
Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship
Ezra Jack Keats Fellowship
Kate and George Kendall Fellowship
Paul La Farge Fellowship
Lincoln Financial Fellowship
MacDowell Poetry Fellowship
Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship
Robert Maxwell Fellowship
Elizabeth Ireland McCann Fellowship
Nion McEvoy Fellowship
Musa McKim Guston Fellowship
Katherine Min Fellowship
Marian O. Naumburg Fellowship
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship
New Hampshire Committee Fellowship
Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship
Elodie Osborn Fellowship
Philip Morris Company Fellowship
Barbara and Thomas Putnam Fellowships
Gardner and Vail Read Fellowship
Bernardine Kielty Scherman Fellowship
Frances and William Schuman Fellowship
Arnold T. Schwab Fellowship
Barbara and Andrew Senchak Fellowship
Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship
Norton Stevens Fellowship
Helen S. Tucker Fellowship
DeWittt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship
Thornton Wilder Fellowship
Wilder Green Fellowship in Architecture
Marilyn J. Ziffrin Fellowship
Studio and Facility Grants
Studio and facility grants, whether endowed or annual gifts, help provide for the upkeep of studios and residence buildings.
Stanford Calderwood Studio
Delta Omicron Studio
Valli Dreyfus Firth Studio
Heinz Studio
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Studio
New Hampshire Studio
New Jersey Studio
Pan’s Cottage
Phi Beta Studio
Sorosis Studio
Star Studio
Travel and Financial Awards
Gifts for travel and financial aid awards help remove barriers to taking part for around a third of MacDowell’s annual artists. The aid is used by MacDowell Fellows to cover travel costs, lost income, rent, utilities, and childcare.