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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.

Join us in Harrisville for an afternoon exploring the studios of resident artists and artisans of the town’s historic mi...
06/18/2026

Join us in Harrisville for an afternoon exploring the studios of resident artists and artisans of the town’s historic mill complex. The studio tour will be followed by a conversation between acclaimed jazz critic Nate Chinen (’16) and award-winning musician and composer Du Yun ('22) on new directions in contemporary music.

Open Studios
Saturday, June 27
12:00PM - 2:30PM
69 Main Street
Harrisville, NH

In Conversation: Du Yun and Nate Chinen
Saturday, June 27
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Village Community Center
23 Church Street
Harrisville, NH

These programs are free and open to the public.

For more information and to RSVP, please visit this page on our website: https://www.macdowell.org/events/2026-medal-day/june-27-medal-day-weekend-in-historic-harrisville

Award-winning composer, playwright, and poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes (’18, ’26) brings Juneteenth: The Musical in Concer...
06/16/2026

Award-winning composer, playwright, and poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes (’18, ’26) brings Juneteenth: The Musical in Concert to Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater as part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 celebration.

Friday, June 19th | 9:30PM | Joe's Pub The Public Theater

Juneteenth: The Musical follows Elijah, an enslaved man who runs north to join the Union Army, and Anna, the woman he loves — who makes her own break for freedom, escaping south across the border into Mexico, where slavery had been abolished for decades. The two are separated by a war and a continent: Elijah fights to win the Civil War while Anna runs south to freedom in Mexico where she meets Sancho and other Mexican abolitionists. When the war ends and Elijah returns to Texas to marry her, freedom is the law — but not yet real. It takes General Order No. 3 read aloud at Galveston, Mama Rue leading the enslaved off the plantation, Anna's return alongside borderland fighters and Mexican abolitionists, and Elijah's return with Union troops to make emancipation more than a promise. Blending gospel, folk-blues, zydeco, corrido, conjunto, and more into one living inheritance, this bilingual, dance-driven musical celebrates the origins of America's newest federal holiday — and the ordinary people who forced a nation to keep its word.

Tickets: https://publictheater.org/performances-jp/2026/j/juneteenth-the-musical-in-concert-by-darrel-alejandro-holnes/

With nearly two dozen Top 40 hits, 14 Grammy nominations, and four Grammy Awards, Rosanne Cash is one of the most influe...
06/15/2026

With nearly two dozen Top 40 hits, 14 Grammy nominations, and four Grammy Awards, Rosanne Cash is one of the most influential musical voices in the United States. Cash forged her own distinctive artistic path, blending country, folk, rock, and pop with thoughtful, literary songwriting that explores themes of identity, memory, and family. Her landmark albums produced enduring hits such as Seven Year Ache and Blue Moon With Heartache, while her later works Black Cadillac, The River And The Thread, and She Remembers Everything earned acclaim for their emotional depth and narrative sophistication.

Join us on June 28 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, as we celebrate another fearless, boundary-defying contemporary artist, Anthony Braxton. For more information, visit: https://www.macdowell.org/events/2026-medal-day

Andrew Sean Greer (9x ’01-’24) , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, showcases his wit, sophistication, and deep know...
06/12/2026

Andrew Sean Greer (9x ’01-’24) , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, showcases his wit, sophistication, and deep knowledge of focaccia in Villa Coco, a tale of a young man who takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills.

Greer completed the first half of this new novel during his most recent MacDowell fellowship in 2024. Arriving with hundreds of unconnected parts, he found a narrative structure, a point of view and, most importantly, a sense of humor.

The Art of Hospitality: Head Chef Erik Johansen on Food, Memory, and Community Artists arrive at MacDowell carrying the ...
06/10/2026

The Art of Hospitality: Head Chef Erik Johansen on Food, Memory, and Community

Artists arrive at MacDowell carrying the practical necessities of travel and the mental residue of whatever they left behind: unfinished work, long flights, interrupted sleep, ideas still taking shape. Some have crossed continents before stepping into the woods of southern New Hampshire. Others have come only a few hours. Either way, arrival often means disorientation before it means focus, and Head Chef Erik Johansen thinks carefully about how to ease that transition.

Read the full story: www.macdowell.org/news/chef-erik-johansen-the-art-of-hospitality

06/01/2026

Star-Trails over MacDowell with Healing Honey Flows, 2026, 01:30, 4K Digital Video with Original Soundscape.

Created onsite at MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire during Virginia L. Montgomery’s (.l.montgomery ’26) Fellowship in May, Star-Trails over MacDowell with Healing Honey Flows is a surreal, lens-based moving-image work that juxtaposes macro and micro scales.

Using practical effects, Montgomery pours real honey over a glowing digital screen, merging viscous golden flows with collaged imagery of star-trails captured across the MacDowell landscape. Through layered textures of light, movement, and celestial accumulation, the work reflects on healing and cosmic time.

Writing Forbidden Histories with Louisa Lim Date: Friday, June 5 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Monadnock Center for Histo...
06/01/2026

Writing Forbidden Histories with Louisa Lim
Date: Friday, June 5
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monadnock Center for History & Culture
Free and open to all (Advance registration encouraged)

Join us for a fascinating evening with award-winning foreign correspondent Louisa Lim. Drawing on more than a decade reporting from China for NPR and the BBC, Lim has earned a reputation for keen analysis of complex international issues from an insider’s perspective.

Born in London and now working out of Melbourne, Australia, Louisa Lim is the author of The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (2014), and Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (2022). Lim’s most recent book is a personal and deeply researched historical investigation, intentionally centering Hong Kongers in telling their own story. In addition to her work as a foreign correspondent, Lim is a podcaster and associate professor of journalism and podcasting at the University of Melbourne. The Little Red Podcast, which Lim co-hosts with Graem Smith, has been downloaded more than a million times. The most recent episode explores a rapidly expanding industry dominated by China: humanoid robots.

At MacDowell, Louisa is working on her third non-fiction book, her most personal and intimate project to date.

Join us for a timely and interactive evening with Louisa Lim as she synthesizes her experiences as a foreign correspondent and what it means to bear witness for two of the world’s leading public broadcasting organizations.

RSVP: https://give.macdowell.org/event/macdowell-downtown-june-2026/e803661

For one day each year, MacDowell opens its campus to the public, offering a rare glimpse into the spaces where artists l...
05/29/2026

For one day each year, MacDowell opens its campus to the public, offering a rare glimpse into the spaces where artists live and work.

The studios, typically private places of reflection, experimentation, and creation, welcome Medal Day guests inside to encounter works in progress and engage directly with artists in residence. It is a longstanding tradition we are honored to continue.

Join us this Medal Day as we celebrate visionary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, 66th recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal. Following the ceremony, the afternoon will unfold with open studios, conversations with Fellows, and picnics across campus in honor of artistic fellowship and creative exchange.

To purchase a picnic basket, make a donation, or learn more about the day, follow the link in our bio.

05/27/2026

A multimedia meditation on the borders between experience and memory by Avi Amon ( ‘24)

Part concept album, part memoir, part immersive concert, Avi Amon’s MOTHER/ROAD invites audiences to participate in an act of emotional memory.

For this production, Amon creates a musical meditation on grief, memory, and family using cassette tapes carried by his parents when they immigrated to the United States from Istanbul in 1979.

The piece explores the porous nature of time, how it fades and distorts, and how—like a cassette tape—it can rewind, warp, and overwrite itself. Out of the stuff of memory, music and sound compose new worlds at once fragile and infinite for the generations to inhabit together.
 
July 17-18

The Medal Day picnic tradition is a simple and cherished one. Following the Medal Day ceremony, visitors gather amid the...
05/21/2026

The Medal Day picnic tradition is a simple and cherished one.
 
Following the Medal Day ceremony, visitors gather amid the gardens and greenery to enjoy a picnic meal that resembles the lunch baskets our artists in residence receive every single day. The afternoon unfolds with walks along the meandering roads of MacDowell’s campus, leading to the open studios that await exploration.
 
For more information on Medal Day, including the purchase of a picnic basket catered by , visit the link in our bio.

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