Made at MacDowell

Contemporary Iconographies: Francesca Mavaracchio’s Doors

Francesca Mavaracchio’s "Doors" emerged from an extended process of collecting, observing, and organizing the visual language of contemporary protest imagery.

Tracing Time Through “...arching, reaching, breathless”

Time is the quiet architecture beneath …arching, reaching, breathless, the new release from composer and seven-time MacDowell Fellow Eric Chasalow. It is not simply that the album spans thirty years of creation, from 1997 to 2022, but that it reveals how a life in music builds, ebbs, flows, and transforms. Each piece on this new record carries the imprint of when and where it was written, together forming something more continuous like a long measured breath across decades.

Dwayne LeBlanc: Cinema of Stillness and Migration

Dwayne LeBlanc (‘25) is a Los Angeles–based, first-generation Caribbean American filmmaker whose work explores migration, visibility, and the quiet distances that shape identity. A self-taught artist, he has emerged as a singular voice in contemporary cinema—one attentive to stillness, portraiture, and the charged spaces between speech and silence.

Bending Time, Reanimating Memory: The Work of Lydia Marie Hicks

Lydia Marie Hicks seeks to resurrect and reanimate Black histories—particularly those rooted in family lineage, land, and migration—treating history not as a static record but as a living, responsive force. Hicks approaches Black memory as embedded in ecosystems, labor, built environments, and oral traditions, blending rigorous research with imaginative storytelling, collaborative practice, and ritualized labor.

In the Hands of Wen Liu, Sculptures Hold and Heal

Wen Liu’s sculptural practice traces the emotional and physical imprints of lived experience, preserving both tangible materials and the intangible weight of memory.

A Vision Born at MacDowell

Outpost Office Wins Small Lots, Big Impacts Competition with "Growing Together"

Melissa Koziebrocki performs "Sit and Spin"

Fellow Melissa Koziebrocki on her site-specific work "Sit and Spin" performed in Eastman Studio on February 17, 2025.

An 'Anarchic' New Play for Jacobs-Jenkins & Troyano

Freedom of MacDowell yields an "anarchic" new play about art and identity for Alina Troyano and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Lilliam Rivera’s Tiny Threads

The author focuses on final threads of new thriller - and two new projects - at MacDowell.

Robert Hutchison Explores the Collective Memory of Landscapes

With “Memory Landscapes,” Robert Hutchison investigates the power of collective memory in sites of natural disaster.

Lucha Libre and Life in Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey

Alex Espinoza’s novel about a dying lucha libre star pulls no punches — or thrown chairs or choke holds, for that matter.

New Work and Relationships Grew from Essie Chambers' Residency

At MacDowell, found are not only the roots of Essie Chambers' debut novel, Swift River, but also those of a collaboration that yielded an award-winning film.

Ferns and Family History in Wei Tchou's Experimental Memoir Little Seed

Part personal field guide to ferns, part narrative about her family, Little Seed considers botany and the life of plants in relation to her experience navigating identity and grappling with mental health.

Amina Ross' Body Vessels

Developed at MacDowell, artist Amina Ross' "Body Vessel" sculptures debut in Hard Ground exhibition at MoMA PS1.

Jayne Anne Phillips' Night Watch Wins Pulitzer

The Pulitzer board hailed Night Watch, the author's newest MacDowell-supported novel, as a “beautifully rendered novel."

London Premiere for Nia Akilah Robinson's The Great Privation

Nia Akilah Robinson's MacDowell-supported play, The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar), has world premiere at Theatre503 in London.

June Edmonds' Meditations on African Resilience

MacDowell Fellow June Edmonds’ (23) third solo exhibition at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Meditations on African Resilience, debuted new paintings the artist created MacDowell’s Eastman Studio.

Benji Hart’s "World After This One"

World After This One, a movement and spoken word performance by Benji Hart, finds meaning through oppositional forces.

Michael Gitlin Knew He Had to Return to MacDowell

The elusive luna moth was a species Gitlin never saw anywhere but at MacDowell, and it features prominently in The Night Visitors, which premiered in October 2023 at the New York Film Festival.