Thank you to @BloombergDotOrg for supporting this project through their #DigitalAccelerator program. This generous support has enabled us to strengthen our technology infrastructure, operate more efficiently, and better align with our strategic goals in today’s rapidly evolving arts landscape.

"Artists, she argues, should be present in every room where solutions are being shaped, whether the issue at hand is climate change mitigation, A.I. ethics or lifting up economically vulnerable communities."

Using plastic bottles to make works that reference objects of the past offers me a space to playfully explore the transformation of form and material while reflecting on issues of history, culture, and value.” — Shari Mendelson ‘18

Join us at MacDowell NYC for a conversation with four remarkable Native artists, directors and curators. Wednesday, July 16 • 6:30PM www.macdowell.org/events/2025-...

Tomorrow, NH Gives begins! We thank you for standing with us. Your generosity fuels creativity, supports artists, and sustains the spirit of artistic freedom at MacDowell. give.macdowell.org/campaign/680...

New England folks! I'm talking about writing cultural criticism with Lucy Sante (!) in Harrisville, NH on June 26 @macdowell1907.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/a-medal-da...

MacDowell Fellow Joseph Keckler (@josephkeckler , ‘11, ‘14, ‘19, ‘24) to perform at The Met @metmuseum.org

During her MacDowell residency, Vietnamese American poet Cathy Linh Che worked on Becoming Ghost, a long-awaited collection tracing her parents’ journey as Vietnamese refugees hired as extras in Apocalypse Now. #MadeAtMacDowell

Join us for May’s edition of MacDowell Downtown with interdisciplinary artist and musician Marcus Fischer. Fischer is known for his immersive and layered compositions that blend sound, space, and memory. MacDowell Downtown May 2, 2025 Monadnock Center for History and Culture 7:30 p.m. #MacDowell

30 MacDowell Fellows are 2025 Guggenheim honorees—a powerful testament to the impact of time, space, and creative community. We’re proud to see so many alumni recognized as the Guggenheim Foundation marks 100 years of excellence. Congratulations fellows! #ContemporaryArtists #MacDowell

Congratulations to MacDowell Fellow Phillis Levin on the publication of her poetry collection An Anthology of Rain!

MacDowell Fellow Ethel Rackin’s "Forge" is today's featured poem on the Slowdown podcast! Created/hosted by MacDowell Fellow Major Jackson, The Slowdown offers listeners a moment of reflection & connection through the power of poetry. “Forge” is included in her new book IN TIME from The Word Works.

Join us at MacDowell NYC as we dive into the evolving world of journalists and collectives redefining news media with innovative storytelling and interdisciplinary approaches. RSVP at buff.ly/TbMdT41

MacDowell Fellow A. Kendra Greene returns with NO LESS STRANGE OR WONDERFUL (@tin_house, 2025). Featuring artwork by Greene, this collection explores life’s biggest and smallest questions. #MadeAtMacDowell

Alfredo Jaar is this year’s recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal. Jaar, whose work confronts some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our time, will be honored at MacDowell on 6/29/25 with the presentation of the Medal during a free, public event. Learn more here buff.ly/q3GWzlx

In this season of uncertainty, support from individuals like you is critical. We invite you not just to support MacDowell but celebrate it. In our spring fundraiser, the Studio Showdown, our studios compete in pursuit of our goal to raise a MacDowell Fellowship. See link to play.

Announcing the Spring-Summer 2025 MacDowell Fellowship recipients! 149 artists working in seven disciplines will arrive at MacDowell March-August 2025. Visit buff.ly/43bRd5q for the full list of incoming Fellows.

From my beloved NEF studio at @macdowell1907.bsky.social

Either/Or Ensemble's recording of composer Richard Carrick's (MF 23) THE ATLAS, composed in MacDowell's Monday Music Studio in the winter of 2023, is out today with @newfocuslabel.bsky.social ! #MadeAtMacDowell

Out today! Created in MacDowell's Nef Studio last winter, PaviElle French's (MF 25) new album, SOVEREIGN: ALIGNED, is now streaming everywhere! #MadeAMacDowell

I have made it to MacDowell, where I am working in — no pressure! - the cabin where Thornton Wilder wrote OUR TOWN. Still feeling a wee bit overwhelmed. But it’s so welcoming and peaceful. @macdowell1907

"'Letter from a Region in My Mind' offers proclamations and predictions, delivered as jabs and right hooks while the author shadowboxes with God." Kevin Young (MF 6x 93-13) appraises the immense impact of James Baldwin's (MF 3x 54-60) 1962 essay, a work that would gain "the force of prophecy."

Experience the resonance visual artist Thomas Matsuda (20) & composer David Dominique (16, 20) found between their work during their shared MacDowell residencies in Matsuda's solo exhibition at Mount Wachusett Community College's art gallery in Gardner, MA. On view thru March 14! #MadeAtMacDowell

With a draft completed in MacDowell’s Mixter Studio, @eveewing.bsky.social’s (MF 22) new book, ORIGINAL SINS: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Youth and the Construction of American Racism, is out today with One World! #MadeAtMacDowell

The release of MacDowell Fellow @laurenfsharma.bsky.social's (16) third novel, CASUALTIES OF TRUTH, was welcomed by a rave in the NYTimes by her fellow Fellow Violet Kupersmith (14)! "...a brutal history lesson in the guise of a thriller. The novel is taut and deftly plotted..."

Join @eveewing.bsky.social (MF 22) for the launch her MacDowell-supported book, ORIGINAL SINS: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism (One World). TONIGHT, Feb. 10, at the @awmuseum.bsky.social in Chicago! #MadeAtMacDowell

✨Four MacDowell Fellows worked on this project!✨ Created by Jerry Lieblich (20), directed by Paul Lazar (16), costume design by Suzanne Bocanegra (08, 15), and with Jess Barbagallo (13) among an amazing cast, THE BARBARIANS is coming to @lamamaetc.bsky.social this Friday, Feb. 14!

Today is the final day to submit your application for a Fall Winter 2025-2026 residency at MacDowell. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST!

The focus of her 2024 MacDowell residency and second play in her epic nine-play "Ufot Family Cycle," Mfoniso Udofia's (MF 24) THE GROVE begins its world premiere run at Boston's @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social ! #MadeAtMacDowell

See paintings #MadeAtMacDowell by artist Jessica Gandolf (92, 22) in her first Moss Galleries solo show, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, works that slow perception through a delicate layering of figurative and abstract elements. Up now through April 5 in Falmouth, ME.

Brand new music from James Brandon Lewis (MF 22)! The composer & saxophonist's APPLE CORES is out today with Anti-Records. The album is named after the 1960s DownBeat column by poet & jazz theorist Amiri Baraka and includes influences from trumpeter & multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry.

Wishing the happiest #NewMusicFriday to Sam Moss (MF 12)—"a writer of generous songs and a maker of gracious records"—whose new album, SWIMMING, begins streaming wherever there is internet and spinning wherever there are record players.

MacDowell Fellows Milo Cramer (21), Normandy Sherwood (13, 15), and Jess Barbagallo (13) are among the winners of this year's Obie Awards!

Two MacDowell Fellows in conversation! Ariana Reines (17) will be talking about her new collection of prose and poems, WAVE OF BLOOD (Divided Publishing ), with poet and writer Eileen Myles (5x 91-19) at Brooklyn's Pioneer Works on Friday, February 14.

CONGRATS to MacDowell Fellows Christina Anderson (18) and Mfoniso Udofia (24) on being named winners of the 2024 Steinberg Playwright Awards! The annual $100,000 awards are bestowed upon to two early-to-mid-career playwrights by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

Lesa Cline-Ransome (23) has won both a Coretta Scott King Author Honor and a Newbery Honor for her novel ONE BIG OPEN SKY! Announced at last week's @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's Youth Media Awards, the awards are the latest accolades for the book, which Cline-Ransome was revising at MacDowell.

We'll be accepting applications for this position until Friday, February 21!

Adam Haslett (6x 99-19) reads from MOTHERS AND SONS – his latest novel supported by MacDowell – at a sold out Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, joined by author Adam Rapp (left). #MadeAtMacDowell

Everyone! (but especially ppl who love poetry): @newyorker.com poetry editor Kevin Young (MF 6x 93-13) has adjudicated 100 years of poems from the magazine, organizing them into sections honoring times of day as well as chronology, for a new collection marking the publication's centennial.

Congrats to MacDowell Fellows Haruna Lee (21) and Else C. Went (20) on being named finalists for the 2024-2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize!

MoMA's 2025 Doc Fortnight features the North American premiere of Michael Almereyda (6x 93-15) and Courtney Stephens's (19, 24) MacDowell-supported documentary, JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE. Screens Feb. 25 (w/filmmakers!) & March 4! #MadeAtMacDowell

The focus of her summer 2016 MacDowell residency, Julie Iromuanya's (16) second novel, A SEASON OF LIGHT, comes out today with @algonquinbooks.bsky.social! #MadeAtMacDowell

With final revisions made in MacDowell's Phi Beta Studio in the spring of 2023, Allegra Goodman's (23) latest novel, ISOLA (@thedialpress.bsky.social), makes its way into the world today! #MadeAtMacDowell Happy book birthday, Allegra!

Meshell Ndegeocello's NO MORE WATER: The Gospel of James Baldwin (@bluenoterecords.bsky.social) won the GRAMMY for Best Alternative Jazz Album! Watch Ndegeocello perform two tracks that would become part of the album at the 2019 #MacDowellBenefit: "The Price Of The Ticket" and "What Did I Do?"

MacDowell is hiring a full-time Communications Officer – Editorial & Social Content – in Peterborough, NH! Help us connect the public with our mission of providing essential support to artists! Compensation is $50k-55k/year & benefits include paid time off and employer contributions to retirement.

As part of its James Baldwin (MF 3x 54-60) centennial celebration, The Apollo is presenting Samora Pinderhughes's (MF 22) "The Baldwin Essays: As Much Truth as One Can Bear," a multimedia experience created by the composer and multidisciplinary artist. Feb. 22 at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria!

“Troping the Colors, Between Painting and Sculpture,” an exhibition of new work by Anthony Smith Jr. (MF 23) at Cedar Crest College’s Ctr for Visual Research, is open now thru March 3. The title of the series comprising the show, along with the titles of its works, serve as a love letter to Gen X!

Congratulations to composer and MacDowell Fellow Caroline Shaw (17) and the ensemble Sō Percussion on their GRAMMY win for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their album RECTANGLES AND CIRCUMSTANCE! This is Shaw's 5th #GRAMMYs win and seventh nomination!