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Best-selling Author and Visual Artist Nell Painter Appointed Chair of MacDowell Colony Board of Directors
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 and screenwriter Michael Chabon, who has held the post of chairman at one the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations since December of 2010.
Read moreMacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists
Seventy-six percent of the upcoming artists-in-residence are first-time Fellowship awardees and come from 21 states and seven countries. The incoming Fellows reflect seven artistic disciplines and will arrive from locales as far apart as Poland, Mexico, Belgium, and Israel, as well as Tennesee, Washington, and Minnesota.
Read more2020 Public Season of Works-in-Process and Artist Conversations in New York
Beginning with a musical salon featuring performances and conversation about a work soon to premier at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, the 2020 MacDowell NYC season features the work created at MacDowell by the 300 artists granted Fellowships there each year. Monthly events – both free to the public and ticketed – include gatherings small and large.
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Find out who has gone through our community and how their artistic dreams and passion are being fulfilled.
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