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MacDowell Grants Residencies to 129 Artists as Program Returns to Full Capacity
September 14, 2022
Latest group of incoming artists will work in seven disciplines and arrive from 21 states…
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Salman Rushdie Attack an Assault on All Artists and the Freedom to Create
August 17, 2022
Author Salman Rushdie (at far right above), who remains in serious condition after being stabbed…
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Artist Residencies Are Essential to a Burning World
August 2, 2022
Zusha Elinson and I came to MacDowell in March 2022 to work on our manuscript…
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Let us Walk our Brightness as Brothers and Sisters on this Earth
July 29, 2022
Transcript: Sonia Sanchez on the importance of the arts, teaching, and respect for our fellow…
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Poet, Playwright, Songstress, Titan, Warrior, and Mother to Hope
July 29, 2022
Transcript: Introductory speaker, novelist, and MacDowell Fellow Walter Mosley introduces 62nd MacDowell Medalist Sonia Sanchez.
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Blazing Her Path on Freedom’s Legs
July 29, 2022
Transcript: Nell Painter Welcomes the Crowd Gathered to Honor 2022 MacDowell Medal Winner Sonia Sanchez.
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Executive Director Philip Himberg Calls Medal Day a Jubilee Celebrating Art’s Power to Transform
July 29, 2022
Transcript: Philip Himberg’s remarks to the Medal Day crowd on July 10, 2022 and his…
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Arrival of 65 Artists at MacDowell Marks Last of COVID-related Reschedules
May 26, 2022
Incoming group of artists working in seven disciplines will arrive from 19 states and eight…
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Swimming in It: Art and (Im)Morality
April 21, 2022
It’s early spring in Paris, and the days are cold and rainy. When the sun…
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Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Lecturer, Activist for Peace and Racial Justice, Will Receive 2022 MacDowell Medal
March 7, 2022
Professor and international lecturer is a Langston Hughes Award and Robert Frost Medal winner and…
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MacDowell Decries Artistic Censorship
February 4, 2022
Freedom to Create has always been a touchstone of MacDowell’s core vision and values. We…
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The Eternal Importance of the Artist’s Mystery
January 27, 2022
Last year in Harper’s, the queer writer Garth Greenwell wrote an essay, “Making Meaning: Against…
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Librarian’s Probe into Photographer Leads to Discovery of 1925 Painting of MacDowell Grounds
November 1, 2021
A question about an early 20th-century photographer and a 12-year curiosity about a map have…
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Invisible No More!
September 22, 2021
The historic appointment of Deb Haaland as U.S. Secretary of the Interior can be traced…
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MacDowell Approaches Full Capacity, Awards Fellowships for Fall-Spring to 136 Artists
September 8, 2021
Record number of applications leads to international contingent of art makers from seven countries and…
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