Sponsored Fellowships

Aurora Masum-Javed worked in Mansfield Studio and her Fellowship was supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Aurora Masum-Javed worked in Mansfield Studio and her Fellowship was supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Gifts to underwrite Fellowships and to maintain studios and residency buildings are essential to help MacDowell continue its mission. With major gifts designated for Fellowships, we are able to continue our tradition of accepting artists solely on the basis of talent. Annual Fellowships are designated by the donor to help support one or more residencies in the year of the gift. Endowed and Honorary Fellowships, based on income from gifts held in MacDowell's endowment fund, provide support in perpetuity. MacDowell Fellows are selected for annual, endowed, and honorary Fellowships at the end of each calendar year, after their residencies are completed, by an internal committee. Artists and donors are notified early in the following year. Fellows do not apply for these Fellowships and the Fellowships do not impact MacDowell’s admissions process.

Facility grants, endowed or annual gifts, provide for the upkeep of studios and residential buildings. Financial awards provide stipends for travel and other reasons when hardships are identified.

Annual Fellowships

Annual Fellowships are contributions designated by the donor to help support one or more residencies in the year of the gift.

1434 Foundation Fellowship

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3Arts Fellowship

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Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship

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James Baldwin Fellowship

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Patricia Brown Specter Fellowship

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Carnegie Corporation Fellowship

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Mary Carswell Fellowship

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Clarkeson Family Fund Fellowship

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Aaron Copland Fellowship

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Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship

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First Republic Bank Fellowship

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Jeanne Donovan Fisher Fellowship

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Ford Family Foundation Fellowship

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Charles Gaines Fellowship

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Harris Center Fellowship

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Hershey Family Foundation Fellowship

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Institute for American Indian Arts Fellowship

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Pamela Joy Johnson Fellowship

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Eugene and Margaret Kilik Fellowship

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Anna and John Laynor Fellowship

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Emily Leff and James Davis Visual Art Fellowship

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Ed & Kathy Ludwig Fellowship

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Couch Family Foundation Fellowship

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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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Flora Nichols Beggs Fellowship

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Leonard Nimoy Fellowship

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Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship

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Patience Haley and Panos Ghikas Fellowship

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Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship

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Helen Ingram Plummer Foundation Fellowship

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Thomas and Barbara Putnam Fellowship

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Riverstone Resources Fellowship

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Walter M. Robinson Fellowship

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Barbara and Andrew Senchak Fellowship

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Sonia Sanchez Poetry Fellowship

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Anne Stark Locher and Kurt Locher Fellowship

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Peter Wirth and Catherine Lou Fellowship

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Endowed and Honorary Fellowships

These Fellowships, based on investment income from gifts held in our endowment fund, provide support in perpetuity for one or more residencies each year.

Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship

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Benny Andrews Fellowship

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Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship

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Catherine Boettcher Fellowship

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Eleanor Briggs Fellowship

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Calderwood Journalism Fellowships

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Stanford Calderwood Fellowship

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Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship

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Marcy Carsey Fellowship

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Mary Carswell Fellowship

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Chabon Fellowship

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Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship

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Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship

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Nancy Decker Dougherty Fellowship

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Jim and Ruth Ewing Fellowship

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Fisher Family Fellowship

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Gerald Freund Fellowship

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Isabella Gardner Fellowship

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John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Fellowship

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Keith Haring Fellowship

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Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship

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Ernest and Red Heller Fellowship

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Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship

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Ezra Jack Keats Fellowship

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Kate and George Kendall Fellowship

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Paul La Farge Fellowship

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Lincoln Financial Fellowship

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MacDowell Poetry Fellowship

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Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship

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Robert Maxwell Fellowship

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Elizabeth Ireland McCann Fellowship

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Nion McEvoy Fellowship

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Musa McKim Guston Fellowship

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Katherine Min Fellowship

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Marian O. Naumburg Fellowship

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Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship

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New Hampshire Committee Fellowship

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Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship

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Elodie Osborn Fellowship

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Philip Morris Company Fellowship

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Barbara and Thomas Putnam Fellowships

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Gardner and Vail Read Fellowship

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Bernardine Kielty Scherman Fellowship

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Frances and William Schuman Fellowship

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Arnold T. Schwab Fellowship

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Barbara and Andrew Senchak Fellowship

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Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship

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Norton Stevens Fellowship

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Helen S. Tucker Fellowship

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DeWittt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship

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Thornton Wilder Fellowship

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Wilder Green Fellowship in Architecture

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Marilyn J. Ziffrin Fellowship

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Studio and Facility Grants

Studio and facility grants, whether endowed or annual gifts, help provide for the upkeep of studios and residence buildings.

Travel and Financial Awards

Gifts for travel and financial aid awards help remove barriers to taking part for around a third of MacDowell’s annual artists. The aid is used by MacDowell Fellows to cover travel costs, lost income, rent, utilities, and childcare.