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MacDowell Approaches Full Capacity, Awards Fellowships for Fall-Spring to 136 Artists
September 8, 2021
Record number of applications leads to international contingent of art makers from seven countries and…
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MacDowell Stands With Afghanistan’s Cultural Workers
August 26, 2021
MacDowell has joined hundreds of artists and arts organizations in signing an open letter to…
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Freedom to Connect
August 17, 2021
It was a different world: February of last year. We were in the final days…
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Walking Each Other Home Through this World
August 10, 2021
Transcript: Rosanne Cash on being honored with the Edward MacDowell Medal on July 1, 2021…
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Rosanne Cash – A Truly American Artist with a Body of Work of Incredible Breadth and Depth
August 10, 2021
Transcript: Kurt Andersen introduces the 61st Edward MacDowell Medalist Rosanne Cash on July 1, 2021…
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Introducing a Bold Vision for a Twentieth-Century Fellowship
August 10, 2021
Transcript: Nell Painter welcomes guests to Medal Day 2021 in MacDowell’s Bond Hall.
Greetings, in person…
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K’wlipaiôn, Nidôbak! Welcome, Friends, to Abenaki Country!
August 10, 2021
Transcript: Fellow and poet Cheryl Savageau, a member of the Abenaki nation, offers a land…
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MacDowell Champions Vital, Essential Art Makers – Including Voices on the Perimeters
August 10, 2021
Transcript: MacDowell Executive Director Philip Himberg opens the ceremony honoring Rosanne Cash on July 1…
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New Americana
July 20, 2021
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new…
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Reflections on Shitty Performance Art, Crisis, and Isolating Ourselves Intentionally After Isolating Unintentionally
June 14, 2021
This is an essay with starts, variants, losses, but no clear end. Sort of like…
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MacDowell Aims for Generational Impact with Anti-oppression/Anti-racism Work
June 4, 2021
In the spring of 2019, when Philip Himberg was hired as MacDowell’s new executive director…
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MacDowell Names 47 Artists from 13 States and Three Countries for Rescheduled Summer Residencies
May 26, 2021
One of the nation’s leading arts organizations schedules residencies deferred from 2020 due to the…
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Rosanne Cash to Receive MacDowell Medal in NHPBS Broadcast Featuring Kurt Andersen, Roz Chast and Special Musical Guest
May 18, 2021
Medal Day special to premier on New Hampshire PBS on August 8. Program includes interview…
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In Pursuit of Tenderness for All Living Things
May 17, 2021
I’m sure I made even the moss giggle on the velvety boulders left in the…
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Do not disappear the words.
April 21, 2021
i.When MacDowell dropped “Colony” from its name, I felt trepidation. Certainly any person or organization…
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