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Executive Director Philip Himberg Calls Medal Day a Jubilee Celebrating Art’s Power to Transform
Transcript: Philip Himberg’s remarks to the Medal Day crowd on July 10, 2022 and his introduction of Presentation Speaker Novelist Walter Mosley.
Good afternoon. Welcome everyone to this splendid occasion, when at long last, we are assembled in real space and time, the way human beings are meant to be together…
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Blazing Her Path on Freedom’s Legs
Transcript: Nell Painter Welcomes the Crowd Gathered to Honor 2022 MacDowell Medal Winner Sonia Sanchez.
Hello everyone.
First, I'd like to give the land acknowledgement:
MacDowell's staff and board acknowledges that our Residency program takes place in Wabanaki, the Dawnland, on the traditional, unceded homelands of the Western Abenaki people, on the…
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Poet, Playwright, Songstress, Titan, Warrior, and Mother to Hope
Transcript: Introductory speaker, novelist, and MacDowell Fellow Walter Mosley introduces 62nd MacDowell Medalist Sonia Sanchez.
Hello, nice to see you there today.
You know, I always pride myself on doing introductions of anybody in a page – I can do it in a page. I did it with Angela Davis, I did…
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Let us Walk our Brightness as Brothers and Sisters on this Earth
Transcript: Sonia Sanchez on the importance of the arts, teaching, and respect for our fellow man as she accepts the 2022 MacDowell Medal.
I just want to thank all of you who have come out. You lovers of writers and architects and composers and playwrights, and just some great human beings…
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Artist Residencies Are Essential to a Burning World
Zusha Elinson and I came to MacDowell in March 2022 to work on our manuscript about the history of the AR-15 rifle, the gun used in some of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. Less than two months after we left, a white supremacist walked into a Buffalo grocery…
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The MacDowell National Benefit
For the first time in three years, the MacDowell National Benefit returns to New York City~Join us on Monday, October 17, 2022, for our grandest NYC celebration since 2019 and the presentation of the third annual Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award!The event will feature works by artists supported by MacDowell…
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