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MacDowell Art and artists are made at MacDowell. For more than a century, MacDowell has given artists time, space, community, and freedom to create.

MacDowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the creative imagination.

We are delighted to announce that acclaimed visual artist Amy Sherald (A M Y S H E R A L D), will present the Marian Mac...
10/15/2026

We are delighted to announce that acclaimed visual artist Amy Sherald (A M Y S H E R A L D), will present the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to Sade Lythcott (Sade Lythcott), CEO of the historic National Black Theatre in Harlem and a leading advocate for equitable access to the arts.

We are also honored that philanthropist and social-impact advocate Ruth Ann Harnisch (Ruth Ann Harnisch), will present the Hillcrest Arts Impact Award to Tina Roth Eisenberg (Tina Roth Eisenberg), the Swiss-born designer and entrepreneur behind CreativeMornings, a global
community celebrating creativity and connection.

MacDowell’s 2026 National Benefit will bring together an extraordinary community of inspiring artists, visionaries, and leaders whose work embodies pride, resilience, growth, and faith in the future of the arts. Together, their collective impact strengthens our communities, both locally and globally, and reminds us of the transformative power of art to inspire connection, possibility, and lasting change.

We can’t wait to see you this Monday, October 19, at Gotham Hall!

Earlier this year, architect Gail Peter Borden (Gail Peter Borden ‘10, ‘26) created 90 works on paper exploring the arch...
10/13/2026

Earlier this year, architect Gail Peter Borden (Gail Peter Borden ‘10, ‘26) created 90 works on paper exploring the architectural implications of drawing in projective versus perspectival open structures.

Borden’s work examined architectural archetypes, depicted through the weight and force of material translated into a representational object, and resulted in a series of families of lo-fi architectural primitives.

Thank you to the MacDowell friends, new and old, who joined us in NYC for an evening presented in partnership with the H...
10/09/2026

Thank you to the MacDowell friends, new and old, who joined us in NYC for an evening presented in partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation (Henry Luce Foundation).

We brought together photographer Tonita Cervantes (‘20, ‘22), interdisciplinary artist Bentrice Jusu (Bentrice Jusu ‘24), graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton (wendy macnaughton ) ‘26), and composer Migiwa Miyajima (Migiwa Miggy Miyajima 宮嶋みぎわ ‘24) to speak from lifelong practices of creative and social inquiry. Moderated by Jonathan Holloway, President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, their brilliant conversation on creativity and collective life fulfilled the guiding mission of MacDowell Presents: to create space for vital conversations that connect the arts to daily life and back again.
 
Our heartfelt thanks go to our partners at the Henry Luce Foundation for their generous support of this event and series, as well as to our presenting Fellows, Jonathan, and the MacDowell and Luce team members who made the evening possible. Thank you, too, to everyone who joined us, in the room or virtually, as listeners and witnesses.
 
Couldn’t make it? Catch the full conversation on our YouTube channel.
 
Please mark your calendars for the next and final talk in this year’s MacDowell Presents partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation. On November 10, author and civic leader Sayu Bhojwani will moderate a cross-disciplinary conversation on the arts and civic engagement.

Playwright and actress Sharon Washington (Sharon Washington ’24) will take the stage at our National Benefit alongside f...
10/02/2026

Playwright and actress Sharon Washington (Sharon Washington ’24) will take the stage at our National Benefit alongside fellow MacDowell Fellows to share stories from their creative journeys and reflect on the MacDowell experience.

Join us October 19 at Gotham Hall in NYC for an inspiring evening celebrating artists, their work, and the creative community that makes it possible.

Limited tickets are available. Purchase yours today by visiting: https://www.macdowell.org/events/2026-national-benefit

09/30/2026

LOUR (LOUR ‘26) kicked off residency with the acquisition of The Coveted Blue Bike—and the momentum of this success carried her through finishing the score for AREA D, a genre-smashing musical fusing Arab-pop, punk, and electronic sounds that follows a group of Palestinian friends whose band lands an unexpected shot on the Eurovision stage.

Join us this Friday, October 2nd for MacDowell Downtown: Landscapes of Belief with Deborah Stratman If you go: Who: Fi...
09/29/2026

Join us this Friday, October 2nd for MacDowell Downtown: Landscapes of Belief with Deborah Stratman

If you go:
Who: Filmmaker Deborah Stratman
Date: October 2, 2026
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Peterborough Town Library
Free and open to all (Advance registration encouraged)
Please note this is not a Peterborough Town Library sponsored event.

RSVP: https://give.macdowell.org/event/macdowell-downtown-october/e848822

Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman will introduce shorts and clips chosen from a body of work that has grown to include 44 films. Ranging from a few minutes to an hour or more, Stratman often directs, shoots, and edits her own work, including the sound mix. With a thematic interest in struggles for power, belief, and control, Stratman’s documentary and experimental films often employ the soundtrack as a tool to access the uncanny.

Stratman’s films, photos, drawings, and multidisciplinary works have been exhibited around the globe at venues such as NY’s MoMA, and the Walker Center for the Arts in Minneapolis, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her multidisciplinary practice has been recognized with Fellowships from Creative Capital and United States Artists, as well as the Herb Alpert, Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundations. Currently an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois Chicago, Stratman will use her fourth MacDowell Fellowship to edit a feature documentary about women who are writing (and rewriting) history in Ethiopia.

Join us for an evening of genre-defying film, venturing with Stratman into cinematic investigations of relationships between people, ideas, and the environments they inhabit.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust turns to the future.Happy pub day to Ply by our Board Chair and MacDowell Fel...
09/29/2026

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust turns to the future.

Happy pub day to Ply by our Board Chair and MacDowell Fellow, Hernan Diaz (‘19)!
 
Centuries from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a “pincher,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It’s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.

Filmmaker Ira Sachs (Ira Sachs ’01) will join this year’s featured Fellows at MacDowell’s National Benefit, sharing refl...
09/28/2026

Filmmaker Ira Sachs (Ira Sachs ’01) will join this year’s featured Fellows at MacDowell’s National Benefit, sharing reflections on his experience in residence at MacDowell. 

A Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Yaddo Fellow, Sachs is also the Founding Director of Queer/Art (Queer|Art), an arts organization created to support q***r and trans artists working in film, performance, visual arts and literature. 

Join us for an exciting evening celebrating the arts on October 19 at Gotham Hall in New York City!

Join the World Affairs Council and Evan Gershkovich (Evan Gershkovich ‘25), foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Jo...
09/24/2026

Join the World Affairs Council and Evan Gershkovich (Evan Gershkovich ‘25), foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, for a gripping discussion of This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story, where he speaks for the first time about his arrest and imprisonment in Russia. Blending personal reflection with keen reporting, Gershkovich offers a powerful look at resilience, journalism, identity, and life in modern Russia.
 
Gershkovich completed several chapters of This Cursed Beautiful Land while in residency at MacDowell.

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