Type: Press Releases

NEA Grant Supports 10 MacDowell Artists from Diverse Backgrounds

March 13, 2017

When composer Travis Alford came to The MacDowell Colony for the first time last year…
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MacDowell Fellowships Awarded to 74 Artists In Multiple Disciplines

January 11, 2017

PETERBOROUGH, N.H., JANUARY 11, 2017 -- The MacDowell Colony has awarded fellowships to 74 artists…
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New Funding: Middle Eastern Artists, Artists with Children, and Oregon Visual Artists

November 16, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Nov. 16, 2016 -- The MacDowell Colony is proud to announce…
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Director Peter Sellars to Introduce Toni Morrison to Medal Day Crowd August 14

July 24, 2016

Public invited to tour open studios at free event honoring Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Architects of MacDowell Library Will Design Obama Presidential Library

July 11, 2016

PETERBOROUGH, N.H., JULY 11, 2016 -- President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have chosen…
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Lincoln Financial and MacDowell Team Up to Engage Students With the Arts

June 9, 2016

Grant seeks to get more students involved in Medal Day honoring novelist Toni Morrison PETERBOROUGH…
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MacDowell Awards Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship to Cathleen Bailey

April 26, 2016

NEW YORK, April 26, 2016 – Writer Cathleen Richardson Bailey has been named the first recipient…
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Toni Morrison to Receive 2016 Edward MacDowell Medal

April 7, 2016

Nobel and Pulitzer winner joins venerated group of recipients and will be honored at free…
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MacDowell Turns On the Power of the Sun

January 28, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Jan. 28, 2016 -- A new half-acre array of solar panels…
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68 Artists in Varied Disciplines Awarded Fellowships

January 4, 2016

PETERBOROUGH, N.H., JANUARY 4, 2016 -- The MacDowell Colony named sixty-eight artists who have been…
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Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship Supports Diverse New Literary Voices

July 8, 2015

Michael Chabon announces anonymous gift in honor of agent Charlotte Sheedy expands MacDowell Colony’s commitment…
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New Journalism Fellowship Honors Distinguished Editor John S. Carroll

June 18, 2015

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – June 18, 2015 – The he MacDowell Colony, the nation’s first artist residency program…
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Guggenheim Fellowships to 14 MacDowell Fellows

April 20, 2015

Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu is among 14 MacDowell Fellows who’ve recently won 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships…
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Calderwood Grant Challenge Supports Writers of Long-Form Journalism

March 17, 2015

MacDowell launches Art of Journalism Initiative dedicated to narrative reporting. A new initiative at MacDowell…
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MacDowell Colony Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant

January 23, 2015

Grant to support first-time residencies for 10 artists from diverse backgrounds. Ten artists from across…
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