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MacDowell to Receive $15,000 Grant From the National Endowment for the Arts
First-time Fellows will benefit from newest round of NEA funding.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has approved a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, to provide critical support for an artist working in one of MacDowell’s various disciplines. The grant…
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The Eternal Importance of the Artist’s Mystery
Last year in Harper’s, the queer writer Garth Greenwell wrote an essay, “Making Meaning: Against Relevance in Art,” where he detailed the material and metaphysical pressures artists experience for their work to be “relevant”:
“Artists feel the anxiety of relevance during every season of fellowship applications, those rituals of supplication, when…
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Mission, Values, Vision
Our Mission What We DoMacDowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the creative imagination.Our Values What We BelieveMacDowell believes that the arts, artists, and creative processes are of primary importance. MacDowell was founded in 1907…
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