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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.

Apply to MacDowellThe application period for Spring Summer 2027 residencies closes on September 10 at 5:00PM ET. MacDowe...
09/03/2026

Apply to MacDowell
The application period for Spring Summer 2027 residencies closes on September 10 at 5:00PM ET.
 
MacDowell.org/Apply

Crossing Worlds | Presented by Yuhan Su and Edward SimonWho: Composers Yuhan Su and Edward SimonDate: Friday, September ...
08/31/2026

Crossing Worlds | Presented by Yuhan Su and Edward Simon

Who: Composers Yuhan Su and Edward Simon
Date: Friday, September 4, 2026
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monadnock Center for History & Culture
Free and open to all (Advance registration encouraged)

RSVP: https://pro.gofundme.com/event/macdowell-downtown-september-2026/e838569

Join us for an evening of live music and select recordings of works by two current Fellows: acclaimed vibraphonist and jazz composer Yuhan Su and award-winning pianist and composer Edward Simon.

Featuring two composers in one evening, Friday’s event will offer a mixture of live performance, audio & video recordings. As a bridge between the two composer presentations, Su and Simon will perform a few of Su’s compositions for four-hand piano, so new they have yet to be recorded.

Yuhan Su grew up in Taiwan and moved to the United States 16 years ago. Her acclaimed album OVER the MOONs reflects her experience of living between two languages, systems of logic, and cultures—two worlds that continually intersect and collide, like “two moons.” Through her music, Su transforms an experience of internal complexity into sound, experimenting with musical language, contrast, and layering.

Venezuelan-American composer and pianist Edward Simon will share insight into his multidisciplinary project, “When the Dogs Howl”, an immersive work encompassing music, dance, and storytelling to illuminate the fate-defying journeys of Venezuelan refugees seeking safety and a new life in the United States. This project grew out of Simon’s deepening concern about the social and political realities facing his homeland. Since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution, millions of Venezuelans have left the country amid a prolonged political and humanitarian crisis.

Join us for an exciting musical evening with Yuhan Su and Edward Simon as they lead us into their musical praxes.

It is with immense excitement that we announce Tina Roth Eisenberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CreativeMorni...
08/31/2026

It is with immense excitement that we announce Tina Roth Eisenberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CreativeMornings, as the recipient of the 2nd Annual Hillcrest Arts Impact Award.

An accomplished graphic designer, Tina Roth Eisenberg (Tina Roth Eisenberg) moved to New York City without knowing a single person. With a passion for bringing creative people together, she went on to create one of Brooklyn’s first co-working spaces, laying the foundation for what would become a much larger creative movement.

From that spirit of community, CreativeMornings (CreativeMornings) was born. What began as a small breakfast lecture series has grown into the world’s largest face-to-face creative community, with a presence in over 250 cities across 73 countries. 25,000 designers, artists, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers around the globe gather monthly to form this community, thanks to the hard work of over 1,500 dedicated CreativeMornings volunteers.

The Hillcrest Arts Impact Award recognizes institutional or corporate leaders whose contributions to the arts and culture sector have had a profound impact on the work, wellbeing, and amplification of artists. Named for Hillcrest, the historic home of Edward and Marian MacDowell, the award honors the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of MacDowell’s founders who worked tirelessly from the seed of an idea to build and sustain a vibrant organization supporting artists around the world.

Please join us for our National Benefit at Gotham Hall in New York City on October 19, 2026, for an evening of dinner, performances, and Fellow testimonials as we come together to celebrate our incredible honorees.

MacDowell is thrilled to announce Sade Lythcott, Chief Executive Officer of the historic National Black Theatre, as the ...
08/25/2026

MacDowell is thrilled to announce Sade Lythcott, Chief Executive Officer of the historic National Black Theatre, as the recipient of the 7th annual Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award.

Since 2008, Lythcott (Sade Lythcott) has fiercely led National Black Theatre, championing women and people of color across the cultural sector. A dedicated activist for socio-spatial justice, she has carried forward NBT’s mission with great force, creating a home for Black artists and generating catalytic experiences that uplift African American cultural identity by amplifying intersectional stories of Black life since 1968.

The Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award honors those who profoundly and uniquely support artists, aligning with our founder Marian MacDowell’s legacy and her championship of artists as they create bold new works that spark our imagination, illuminate our world, and celebrate our humanity.

Please join us for our National Benefit at Gotham Hall in New York City on October 19, 2026, for an evening of dinner, performances, and Fellow testimonials as we come together to celebrate our incredible honorees.

Apply to MacDowellThe application period for Spring Summer 2027 residencies is open now!  MacDowell offers residencies a...
08/17/2026

Apply to MacDowell
The application period for Spring Summer 2027 residencies is open now! 
 
MacDowell offers residencies at no cost to artists and provides need-based stipends to help cover expenses incurred during the residency, including rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income. Travel reimbursements are also available.
 
We welcome applications from artists of all backgrounds and nationalities in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. Established artist collectives or groups of 3-12 people working on a joint project may now submit under one application.
 
For more information and to apply, visit macdowell.org/apply or follow the link in our Linktree.
 
Join Our Admissions Q&A Session!
Date: August 20 Time: 2:00 p.m. ET • Location: Zoom
The admissions team will share a brief overview of the process and answer your questions.

To register, visit: bit.ly/4yYVAxU (or LinkTree).

Join us TOMORROW evening for an intimate evening with artist Karina Aguilera Skvirsky as she unpacks a trio of multi-dis...
08/06/2026

Join us TOMORROW evening for an intimate evening with artist Karina Aguilera Skvirsky as she unpacks a trio of multi-disciplinary works made over the past two decades.

With an MFA in photography, Skvirsky’s innately visual way of thinking and fascination with memory are evident throughout her artistic career. Having exhibited, screened, and performed her work in Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Rome, and New York City, Skvirsky is currently in Peterborough to prepare for a solo exhibition at El Museo Nacional de Guayaquil, Ecuador.

In the late 1970s, Skvirsky’s parents broke away somewhat impulsively, moving the family to Ecuador for what became a two-year sojourn. From age nine to 11, Karina found herself immersed in her mother’s familial home, far in every sense from what had been her known world near Washington, D.C. As an adult visual artist, Skvirsky has treated her youthful attempts to comprehend these transitions as material culture, a means to explore her multi-racial heritage and the legacies of colonialism.

Tomorrow in Bass Hall, personal narrative and geopolitical history will intertwine in Skvirsky’s visually compelling accounts.

If you go:
Who: Multidisciplinary Artist Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monadnock Center for History & Culture

Introducing Collectives. Collaboration has always been part of MacDowell’s story. For generations, artists working in pa...
08/05/2026

Introducing Collectives.
 
Collaboration has always been part of MacDowell’s story. For generations, artists working in pairs and small teams have found the time and space to create together through our residency program.
 
Artist collectives or groups of 3-12 people working on a joint project may now submit under one application. Collective residencies will take place over two weeks, with shared studio spaces tailored to the needs of each project.
 
We can’t wait to welcome more artists whose creative process is rooted in working together and to see the new ideas, conversations, and works that emerge from these shared experiences.
 
Please note that space in this new application category is limited. We can accept up to 10 collective applications each season, and once that number has been reached, submissions for the season will close. If you’re planning to apply, we encourage you to submit early.
 
Applications for Spring/Summer 2027 residencies open on August 17. Learn more and apply at MacDowell.org/Apply

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Photo by Datachoir

Inspired by monumental medieval bronze doors, “Doors” consists of an 11-foot-tall, two-panel door made of an aluminum fr...
07/22/2026

Inspired by monumental medieval bronze doors, “Doors” consists of an 11-foot-tall, two-panel door made of an aluminum frame and eight silver-gilded wood bas-reliefs. The design reflects the door as both a physical threshold and a symbol of monumentality and transition.

The work engages with recurring visual motifs and contemporary protest iconographies drawn from media imagery between 2020 and 2022, exploring how repetition accumulates significance and generates meaning within a shared visual language.

Architect Francesca Mavaracchio (Francesca Clark ’23) reflected on her time at MacDowell where she first began developing the piece: “The quiet and seclusion made it easier to sit with that uncertainty, and in that stillness the questions around my practice became clearer and, in a way, louder. No work really exists without doubt, but in everyday life that space is often cut short by deadlines or the pressure to move on.”

Learn more about “Doors” at macdowell.org/made-at-macdowell

Pat Oleszko (’01, ’08, ’14) has been awarded the 2026 Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award, one of the most prestigious hono...
07/20/2026

Pat Oleszko (’01, ’08, ’14) has been awarded the 2026 Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award, one of the most prestigious honors in contemporary American art.
 
Oleszko’s award-winning installation, Blow Hard (1995), is a monumental inflatable sculpture featuring a giant green face blowing into a trumpet that shoots out flames. True to Oleszko’s playful approach, the title works as a clever pun—referring both to the act of blowing into the instrument and to someone whose oversized ego matches their oversized words.
 
For more than five decades, Oleszko has blurred the boundaries between sculpture, performance, and public art. Through oversized costumes, inflatable environments, and sharp humor, she transforms complex themes of feminism, consumer culture, nationalism, and the climate crisis of into experiences that are engaging, witty, and impossible to look away from.

Michael Montlack’s farewell dinner speech was, of course, a poem. Montlack (Michael Montlack ‘26) spent much of his time...
07/17/2026

Michael Montlack’s farewell dinner speech was, of course, a poem.
 
Montlack (Michael Montlack ‘26) spent much of his time in MacDowell’s common spaces, preferring to work amid conversation and the buzz of bees rather than in the solitude of his studio. His presence reminded us that creativity flourishes here in isolation as well as in the gentle rhythms of community.

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