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MacDowell Admissions Dept. Ramps Up After Surge in New Applicants

MacDowell Admissions Director Courtney Bethel answers our questions after a record number of applications for…
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Professor and international lecturer is a Langston Hughes Award and Robert Frost Medal winner and…
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Unoccupied for longer than the pandemic, Pan’s Cottage residence hall at MacDowell is finally welcoming…
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Freedom to Create has always been a touchstone of MacDowell’s core vision and values. We…
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Last year in Harper’s, the queer writer Garth Greenwell wrote an essay, “Making Meaning: Against…
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First-time Fellows will benefit from newest round of NEA funding. The National Endowment for the…
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I first met Stephen Sondheim at his home in New York City, a few months…
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Second Annual Arts Advocacy Award to be presented during free program of performances, readings, and…
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For #GivingTuesday this year, we are spotlighting MacDowell’s commitment to environmental sustainability and some of…
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A question about an early 20th-century photographer and a 12-year curiosity about a map have…
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MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, has announced it will suspend a longstanding admissions…
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The historic appointment of Deb Haaland as U.S. Secretary of the Interior can be traced…
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Record number of applications leads to international contingent of art makers from seven countries and…
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MacDowell has joined hundreds of artists and arts organizations in signing an open letter to…
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It was a different world: February of last year. We were in the final days…
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