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Best-selling Author and Visual Artist Nell Painter Appointed Chair of MacDowell Colony Board of Directors

The award-winning author takes over for novelist Michael Chabon. Nell Painter, the author of The New York Times bestseller The History of White People and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Old In Art School, is The MacDowell Colony’s new chairman of the board. She takes over from novelist…
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Nell Painter is a distinguished and award winning scholar and writer, visual artist, and madam chairman of the board of MacDowell and serves on its Executive Committee. A graduate of Harvard University, Painter went on to become the Edwards Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. She is the…
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Cuban-born composer Ileana Perez Velazquez is a professor of music composition at Williams College and a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. The New York Times has praised the “imaginative strength and musical consistency” of her compositions. She was awarded a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University…
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