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Type: Artist News
30 MacDowell Fellows Among 2025 Guggenheim Recipients: A Celebration of Artistic Achievement
April 22, 2025
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2025 Fellowship, marking…
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Visual Artist, Architect, and Filmmaker Alfredo Jaar Honored with 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal in Recognition of his Contributions to American Culture
March 11, 2025
Peterborough, NH - Chilean-born visual artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar is this year’s recipient of…
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Arts Icon Yoko Ono Honored with Prestigious MacDowell Medal in Recognition of Work Across Disciplines
April 22, 2024
The artist, musician, and activist will be celebrated during a free outdoor public celebration on…
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Mellon Foundation Awards MacDowell with $600K Grant for Artist Support at its Renowned Residency Program
March 26, 2024
Award highlights common purpose between organizations as Mellon’s belief that arts are essential to human…
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154 Artists Awarded Prized Fellowships to Nation’s First Artist Residency Program this Spring-Summer
March 5, 2024
MacDowell has awarded the equivalent of more than $2.3 million in Fellowships to 154 artists…
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154 Artists Awarded Esteemed MacDowell Fellowships from Second Largest Application Pool
September 12, 2023
An international group of 154 talented artists working in multiple disciplines have been awarded Fellowships…
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Her Work Speaks Eloquently, Beautifully, of Histories We All Need to Face
July 31, 2023
Transcript: Madam Chairman of the Board and Fellow Nell Painter welcomes the crowd to Medal…
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Our True North: Providing the freedom to create with eyes, arms, and hearts open to a future of limitless possibility
July 31, 2023
Transcript: Executive Director Chiwoniso Kaitano addresses the crowd at her first Medal Day, July 23…
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Thank You So Much for This Great, Great Honor
July 31, 2023
Transcript: Alanis Obomsawin Accepts the Edward MacDowell Medal on July 23, 2023 with a brief…
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63rd MacDowell Medal to be Awarded to Abenaki Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin
April 3, 2023
Best-selling author Jesse Wente will introduce Medalist to crowd during free outdoor public celebration on…
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MacDowell Awards Spring-Summer Fellowships to 142 Artists
February 14, 2023
MacDowell will welcome 142 artists from 23 states, Washington, D.C., and 11 countries for spring…
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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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