MacDowell artists sign their names on “tombstones” that reside in each studio.
Artists and Works Supported by MacDowell
The following is a small sample of some of the artists and work that have benefited from MacDowell Fellowships:
| Benny Andrews |
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Various Paintings (visual art) |
| James Baldwin |
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Giovanni’s Room (novel) |
| Leonard Bernstein |
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Mass (composition) |
Willa Cather |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (novel) |
| Michael Chabon |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (novel) |
| Aaron Copland |
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Billy the Kid (musical) |
| Richard Danielpour |
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Margaret Garner (opera) |
| E.L. Doctorow |
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Billy Bathgate (novel) |
| Louise Erdrich |
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Love Medicine (novel) |
| Jeffrey Eugenides |
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Middlesex (novel) |
| Janet Fish |
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Various Works (visual art) |
Scott Frankel, Michael Korie,
and Doug Wright |
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Grey Gardens (musical) |
| Jonathan Franzen |
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The Corrections (novel) |
| Spalding Gray |
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Impossible Vacation (novel) |
| DuBose and Dorothy Heyward |
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Porgy and Bess (novel and musical) |
| Oscar Hijuelos |
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (novel) |
| James Lapine |
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King Lear (play) |
| Audre Lorde |
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Zami (autobiography) |
| Suzan-Lori Parks |
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Topdog/Underdog (play) |
| Josh Marston |
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Maria Full of Grace (film) |
| Meredith Monk |
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Possible Sky (composition) |
| Paul Moravec |
|
Tempest Fantasy (composition) |
| Ruth Reichl |
|
Comfort Me With Apples (memoir) |
| Faith Ringgold |
|
Various Works (visual art) |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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Tristam (poetry) |
| Ira Sachs |
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Forty Shades of Blue (film) |
| Alice Sebold |
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The Lovely Bones (novel) |
| Bright Sheng |
|
H’Un (Lacerations) (composition) |
| Studs Terkel |
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Division Street (nonfiction) |
| Virgil Thomson |
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Mother of Us All (composition) |
| Paula Vogel |
|
How I Learned to Drive (play) |
| Wendy Wasserstein |
|
Third (play) |
| Thornton Wilder |
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Our Town (play) |
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