Type: Events

Toni Morrison Describes How She Began to Be a Writer

August 15, 2016

Transcript: The 57th Edward MacDowell Medalist explains the genesis of The Bluest Eye on August…
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Director Peter Sellars to Introduce Toni Morrison to Medal Day Crowd August 14

July 24, 2016

Public invited to tour open studios at free event honoring Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Lincoln Financial and MacDowell Team Up to Engage Students With the Arts

June 9, 2016

Grant seeks to get more students involved in Medal Day honoring novelist Toni Morrison PETERBOROUGH…
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Toni Morrison to Receive 2016 Edward MacDowell Medal

April 7, 2016

Nobel and Pulitzer winner joins venerated group of recipients and will be honored at free…
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Choreographer Richard Siegal Wrapping Busy Summer and Fall

September 17, 2015

Innovative performances of his work included stops in NYC, Marseille and Munich. Richard Siegal has been…
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He Was the Whole Man and a Remarkable, Majestic Human Being

August 21, 2015

Transcript: Fellow composer Yehudi Wyner and friend of the Medalist reviews the genius that was…
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Music is a Force that Brings Humans Together

August 21, 2015

Transcript: WQXR Radio Host Terrance McKnight explains the universe of activity that was Gunther Schuller. …
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MacDowell Colony Chairman Welcomes Medal Day Crowd with Some Big, Universal Questions

August 20, 2015

Transcript: Michael Chabon reflects on mortality Thank you, thank you all for being here on this…
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National Benefit in New York City Raises the Roof

May 15, 2015

Comedian and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman made for a supremely entertaining emcee at MacDowell’s…
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MacDowell Medalist Betye Saar Delights Medal Day Crowd

September 10, 2014

Public attends as Michael Chabon presents 55th Edward MacDowell Medal to assemblage and installation artist. …
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Michael Chabon Welcomes Medal Day 2014 Visitors

September 9, 2014

Transcript: Michael Cabon on three stages to the making of a work of art: the…
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A Praise Song for Betye Saar

September 1, 2014

Transcript: Lowery Stokes Sims Introduces Medalist Betye Saar on August 10, 2014. I’m entitling this…
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It’s Saying for Me: You Go, Girl!

August 28, 2014

Transcript: Assemblage and installation artist Betye Saar accepting the 55th Edward MacDowell Medal on August…
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MacDowell Connects Artists and Public: To the Benefit of Students, Residents, and Fellows

July 20, 2014

MacDowell in the Schools and MacDowell Downtown brings together almost 2,000 local residents with artists…
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Betye Saar to be Presented MacDowell Medal by Michael Chabon on August 10

April 20, 2014

Public invited to free ceremony and open studios at Medal Day honoring visual artist Betye…
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