MacDowell Colony 2015 Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 2015

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Mission

Edward and Marian MacDowell established the Colony in 1907 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to stimulate creativity and enhance expression in American culture. Since then, the Colony has supported the work of more than 7,700 women and men from around the world. Fellows have earned 78 Pulitzer Prizes and scores of MacArthur, Guggenheim, GRAMMY, Emmy, Sundance, Tony, and National Book Awards. Artists who experience a residency at MacDowell cite the pivotal difference it makes not only in their work but also in their ability to innovate and take creative risks. A registered National Historic Landmark, the Colony was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1997.

MacDowell offers 32 studios to artists in seven disciplines: architecture, film/video, writing, theatre, music composition, visual art, and interdisciplinary art. Each year, more than 250 artists, both emerging and established, are awarded Fellowships that last from two weeks to two months to come to Peterborough to focus on their work. Accepted artists are given a studio, accommodations, and all meals.

There are no fees and anyone may apply.

To continue to provide an ideal working environment for gifted artists, The MacDowell Colony depends on public interest and generosity, and is grateful to the many who have given their support.

JOHN W. HESSION

THE MISSION OF THE MACDOWELL COLONY is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence, which The MacDowell Colony defines in a pluralistic and inclusive way. We encourage applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics, and who are investigating an unlimited array of inquiries and concerns.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the Chairman

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President and Executive Director’s Report

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Fellows Executive Committee

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Artists-in-Residence

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Events

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Community Engagement

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Gifts for Residencies and Studios

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Buildings and Grounds

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Donors

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Treasurer’s Report

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Board and Staff

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A Gift for MacDowell

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

On the Board of

The MacDowell Colony, we spend vast amounts of time sitting around long tables or dialing in on a conference line, trying to figure out for ourselves so that we can tell others, why MacDowell matters, why solitude and fellowship and a picnic lunch matter, why a library matters, why a peer selection matters. And most centrally of all, sometimes overtly and underlying every other discussion, why art matters.

To each of these questions a bleak, clear voice replies, it doesn’t. Or perhaps that small voice throws the question back at us, turns it around, and asks, To whom? Art, lunches, and libraries don’t matter to the universe. They don’t matter to neutron stars, nebulae or gas giants. Rocks, trees and zebras don’t care if our admissions system is unbiased.

When some nut-job takes a knife to a Rembrandt, when the Taliban dynamite a 1,500-year-old, hundred-foot-tall statue of the Buddha, the Earth rolls on, to the next ice age or meteor impact. If there’s no money available to help defray the expense when a painter, who is also a working mother, has to arrange unpaid leave and child care so that she can come for two all-too-brief but transformative weeks at the MacDowell Colony, and as a result she is obliged to give up on painting, for good, the loss fails to register on history and time.

The only ones, of course, to whom tasty and nutritiously composed picnic baskets, the caliber of applicants, or the Afro-Cuban musical tradition matters, of course, is us. Poor little humans, caring about stuff. Caring about art, and tradition, and the creative lives of working mothers, and about each other....

The work that we do matters and because it matters, we matter.

Because those we have lost matter so much to us, we mourn that loss. The extent of the grief we feel is a measure of how much they and their lives and their work mattered. Let the loss serve to renew and to remind us of how much we all matter to each other, and how much it matters that we carry on, in spite of the indifference of galaxies and zebras, with our work.

Michael Chabon Chairman Excerpted from Michael Chabon’s Medal Day address on August 9, 2015.

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PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

What a joy to see

the cover of this report adorned with beautiful images of our new library designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Artists are making great use of the collection and workspaces. The natural landscape design by Reed Hilderbrand has taken hold, and the views from within the buildings and along the walking paths outside are beautiful.

MacDowell welcomed 282 artists in 2015 selected from 1,944 applications from 49 countries, all 50 states, and Washington DC. Behind the scenes, the admissions panels had the all-important task of selecting the most promising artists. The overall caliber was impressive and thus we placed our attention on meeting areas of critical need for artists. We announced our Art of Journalism Initiative in March, committing to doubling the number of fellowships we offer for nonfiction writers working in in-depth journalism each year from ten to 20. A challenge grant from the Calderwood Foundation continues to provide impetus to raise funds to endow the program. Calderwood has also established a project grant fund to help independent journalists with costs associated with getting their stories. Already in 2015, 12 fellowships made possible the type of deep reporting that is being threatened by a changing media landscape. This year MacDowell also began a new initiative in honor of James Baldwin.

The goal is to reach 35% diversity at MacDowell and improve awareness of residencies among artists of color. We began the effort with an anonymous gift to establish the Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship to reinforce literary diversity at MacDowell. With more funding, we can increase the speed and reach of our efforts to help new voices in the arts.

This summer the legendary Jasper Johns, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu, and BBC Television paid visits to the Colony. Johns, the 1994 Edward MacDowell Medalist, toured the property and dropped by several studios, along with Philadelphia

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Susan Davenport Austin

Cheryl A. Young

Museum of Art Curator Carlos Basualdo. Chu visited studios and held a round-table discussion with artistsin-residence to ask how the NEA could strengthen the infrastructure for artmaking. MacDowell receives NEA support for several first-time residencies. A BBC television crew recorded an interview with writer and Fellow Maya Jasanoff about the British Empire’s conquest of India.

Continuing our advocacy for artists and banding together with other arts organizations, we attended Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. in March, meeting with representatives and exploring avenues for advancing the arts. In October, we attended the 25th anniversary of the annual conference of the Alliance for Artist Communities in Providence, RI, where MacDowell was honored as a founding member.

Resident Director David Macy organized a panel that included Fellow and architect Kiel Moe to present opportunities for renewable energy similar to what MacDowell has incorporated in Peterborough. David also served on the Alliance’s search committee to replace its executive director Caitlin Strokosch. Lisa Hoffman was chosen to assume the directorship at the Alliance. Having served three three-year terms, David will be stepping down from the Alliance board in 2016.

Our Friends of MacDowell program led by Barbara Senchak has taken off nationally and internationally.

We had events with MacDowell artists in New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco, and Berlin. We also delved into some new ways of reaching the public with social media via Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Our aim is to bolster our mission and spread the word of MacDowell Fellows’ good works. We now have 700 artist profiles and growing on The Portable MacDowell, our mobile website providing a peek at the latest work made at MacDowell and places to experience it.

MacDowell Fellows collected some nice prizes in 2015.

Poet Gregory Pardlo won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Digest and Julia Wolfe won the Pulitzer for musical composition for her work Anthracite Fields. In addition to 14 Guggenheim Fellowships and numerous other accolades, MacDowell Fellows collected Alpert Awards in the Arts (Sharon Lockhart, Julia Wolfe, Taylor Mac, and Richard Montoya), Suzan-Lori Parks won the Gish Prize, and Laura Poitras won the Oscar for best documentary for CitizenFour.

With 40 buildings the Colony is always engaged in some kind of construction activity. In this report you will read about the improvements to the newly named Eastman Studio to make it a weather tight, bright workspace.

A gathering of artists, friends and staff celebrated the opening of the glorious studio and the generosity of Fellow and Board Member Louise Eastman. On the other side of the property, after much planning and an introduction to ReVision Energy from Board Member Bob Larsen, a new half-acre solar array was installed in the meadow just north of Colony Hall to power 75 percent of our energy needs. We threw the switch and began reaping its electrical benefits just as the New Year began.

It has also been a year of transitions and goodbyes.

After 23 years of truly exemplary service, Treasurer Gerry Gartner started the process of handing off his duties to Peter Jachym. We are glad to say that Gerry is staying on the board. Thanks are due to both for

ensuring our finances are guided well. We must also thank Amy Baker Sandback who retired from the board after 18 years of faithful service. Amy served on the admissions committee, as chair of the nominating committee, and on the library committee among other projects. The Board of Directors mourns the passing of three vibrant and hard-working members in Susan Sollins Brown, George Nicholson, and Jytte Jensen.

Each made invaluable contributions to MacDowell by lending their professional expertise in visual art, publishing, and film respectively and advanced the Colony’s impact on those disciplines and in other areas.

Our long time chef Maryel Chabot also retired after two decades of delicious and caring service.

Lastly, a milestone has been achieved in the decision to purchase new office space in New York. We are happy to report that after 30 years on the Upper East Side, we will make the move to larger space in Chelsea just steps away from the High Line. Michael Chabon and Susan Davenport Austin led the way, and a task force chaired by Fred Clarke undertook the search.

With remarkable leadership gifts from Tom Putnam and Eleanor Briggs the board quickly secured half of the funding to enable the purchase to go forward. The remainder will be raised along with funds for outfitting the space to suit our needs. You will hear more about that in our next report.

None of this would have been possible without the tireless and skilled efforts of the staff, the smart guidance of a talented Board of Directors, and the wonderfully generous help of so many supporters. We thank you!

Susan Davenport Austin, President

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CARL HAZLEWOOD

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Evening presentations to peers is a longstanding tradition at MacDowell. Here, playwright Jeremy O. Harris shows Fellows his work in October 2015.

FEC UPDATE

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through the Fellows Executive Committee to generate and communicate the ideas, opinions, and suggestions of MacDowell Fellows to MacDowell’s executive director and members of the board.

In addition to continuing that primary mission in 2015, we expanded our reach through other initiatives.

During the year, many standard tasks proceeded with a new business-as-usual pacing. The four meetings with MacDowell’s executive director resulted in the presentation of larger Colony initiatives and was a forum for questions about grounds improvements, outreach, and administration. These meetings were also used to plan for the annual Fellows Party held in New York City.

That pacing reflects a new standard for the Fellows Executive Committee. The FEC’s 2014 initiative to begin electing regional liaisons matured into its second round of far-flung volunteers. Liaison efforts led to three additional reunions held in Boston, Los Angeles, and Minnesota. The FEC also used 2015 meetings to create and populate an Emeritus position, thereby retaining experienced volunteering Fellows who are eager to continue serving the Colony. The FEC also resolved to explore hosting an additional NYC-area event aimed at focusing on helping Fellows address 21st Century artist needs. That first “Colony Hall Event” may appear in late 2016 or early 2017.

These expanding projects reflect long-held desires from past FEC members “to do more.” The years ahead will likely provide lessons from these first steps and ideas for still better ways to serve.

FELLOWS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS OFFICERS:

President: Jason Van Nest, architect Vice President: Deric Carner, visual artist Treasurer: Kermit Frazier, theatre Secretary: Brandon Neubauer, interdisciplinary artist MEMBERS:

Jason Van Nest, FEC president

Rosemarie Fiore, visual artist Michael Harrison, composer Larry Krone, interdisciplinary artist Samuel Nigro, filmmaker Wendy Richmond, interdisciplinary artist Andrew Rudin, composer Seamus Scanlon, writer Scott Wheeler, composer Paula Whyman, writer

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ARTISTS -INRESIDENCE

MacDowell consistently attracts the highest

caliber of artists in the country and abroad from among the seven disciplines represented at the Colony. More than 1,900 artists applied to MacDowell from January to December of 2015, 282 of whom received Fellowships, including 8 architects, 24 composers, 28 filmmakers, 16 interdisciplinary artists, 30 theatre artists, 47 visual artists, and 129 writers. These artists came to MacDowell from 35 states and eight countries. The projects they worked on during their residencies and their recent accomplishments are described below and on the following pages.

Architects Anthony Alofsin, Austin, TX, finished three chapters of his book Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, extended work on nine other chapters, and prepared submissions to two major publishers. He also concluded a draft of his memoir, Memphis Stories, which he began on a previous stay at The MacDowell Colony, and started designs for an innovative residence in the Hill Country of central Texas.

Nikole Bouchard, Milwaukee, WI, experimented with context-driven form-finding strategies. She produced scalable photographs, 2-dimensional drawings, and 3-dimensional models (digital and physical) to explore ways of creating space, surface, and texture.

Jordan H. Carver, Brooklyn, NY, started and nearly finished an essay on western lands management and political rhetoric for a book tentatively titled Citizen/Space published by Actar.He also researched and polished a manuscript on secret CIA prisons for UR (Urban Research).

Both publications are scheduled for release in fall 2016.

Michelle Fornabai, Roxbury, MA, completed act 3: mix (To a Water Lily), two landscape-scale works in floating concrete as part of her decade-long project “Concrete Poetry: 10 Conceptual Acts of Architecture in Concrete.”

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aggregate. Each chord of MacDowell’s song was vibrated during setting to affect the air-entrainment of the concrete and its subsequent floating time. Transformed by the song’s resonances, she documented her “concrete poem” in a time-lapse film in Heinz studio.

Jennifer W. Leung, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a book manuscript, portions of which were published in JAE (Journal of Architectural Education) and The Third Rail, in 2015. She also worked on accompanying collagebased multimedia visualization. She received a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism in 2015.

Mike McKay, Lexington KY, completed research relating to anamorphic techniques in architecture. Based on these techniques, Mike installed a temporary installation on the trees next to Colony Hall as well as in his studio. Large scale collages were also completed in preparation for an upcoming solo show at Institute 193 in Lexington.

Caroline O’Donnell, Ithaca, NY, began several design projects that have in common ideas of change in architecture. Work is a project that requires human effort to erect it. Tiny is a house that quadruples its floor area in summer. Melt is a device that collects and warms snow to produce a sauna. Finally, Urchin is an exploration of the aggregation of everyday objects and how we begin to see better its formal and material properties.

James Trainor, New York, NY, worked on his forthcoming book Steal This Playground! New York City and the Radical Play Movement, 1961-1979, to be published by Metropolis Books/ARTBOOK, D.A.P. in spring 2017.

Geoffrey von Oeyen, Los Angeles, CA, is a recipient of the Architectural League Prize, the Faculty Design Award from Harvard, and was a US/UK Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cambridge where he earned his M.Phil. At MacDowell, von Oeyen explored the relationships between sailing and architecture following his symposium and exhibition at the University of Southern California.

Composers Michaël Attias, New York, NY, completed an orchestral commission scheduled to be performed by the Tri-Centric Orchestra at Roulette in Brooklyn. Several of his smallgroup projects were featured during a four-night residency that took place at Ibeam in Brooklyn in July 2015.

John Aylward, Cambridge, MA, spent his time composing his opera, Switch, which premiered at Le Laboratoire in Cambridge in February 2016.

Lembit Beecher, Philadelphia, PA, completed Small Looking Up, a chamber work for violin and cello, as well as sketched a bassoon and marimba duo. Small Looking Up was scheduled to be premiered by Emily Popham-Gillins and Karen Ouzounian in August, 2015 with subsequent performances over the course of the 2015-16 seasons. He received a project grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in June.

Charlotte Bray, London/Berlin, completed a cello concerto for cellist Guy Johnston. The work was commissioned by the BBC Proms for the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo and was scheduled to premiere on August 14, 2016 at the BBC Proms, London. In 2014, Charlotte received a UK Critics’ Circle Award and was winner of the Lili Boulanger Prize.

Jonathan Brigg, London, UK, worked on various musical compositions, focusing mainly on a small ensemble piece commissioned by the Dutch National Youth Orchestra and a suite of piano pieces he planned to submit to the De Bach au Jazz composers’ competition. He also edited parts of a symphonic work composed for members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Jon was a prizewinner at the International Young Composers Meeting in the Netherlands earlier in 2015.

Frank Carlberg, Brooklyn, NY completed a suite for large jazz ensemble to be performed by UMO jazz orchestra in Scandinavia in October. He also completed a 10-part song cycle for voice and piano with poetry

by Alejandra Pizarnik. Carlberg started a song cycle for jazz quintet, projected to be in 8 parts. He was appointed as artist-in-residence at Bates College for 2015-16, and expected a CMA New Jazz Works commission to be released on CD in 2015.

“MacDowell Colony — old, historic, secluded, mountainous, cold, with lurking bears and surrounded by real geniuses. At MacDowell, I was by far one of the youngest fellows and my time was spent listening, observing, learning and playing pingpong. Overall, MacDowell was an enriching experience. I left New Hampshire wiser and full of inspiration.” —Lavar Munroe,

Sophie Cash, Morgantown, WV, completed an electroacoustic album. Set to be 40 minutes in length, the album is scheduled for release in 2016. She was also scheduled to perform songs from the album in local venues and New York.

Christopher Cerrone, Brooklyn, NY, did the majority of the composition of a new work, The Branch Will Not Break at The MacDowell Colony. The work is a 20-minute composition for small choir and small orchestra and sets six poems by James Arlington Wright to music. He received the 2015 Rome Prize and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize.

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Richard Danielpour, New York, NY, wrote Talking to Aphrodite, a six-song cycle for mezzo-soprano, French horn, and string orchestra, during his August 2015 residency. The work, which was to premiere at Lincoln Center in November 2016, was written in collaboration with the writer Erica Jong, and was composed for mezzosoprano Sasha Cooke.

Mark Dresser, Encinitas, CA, completed seven arrangements for the world premiere of his septet in September 2015 at Athenaeum Jazz at TSRI in San Diego.

This same music was recorded in December 2015 for the Portuguese label, Clean Feed. This project was supported by a 2014 Shifting Foundation Grant. Mark was a recipient of 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award.

Elizabeth Hoffman, New York, NY, completed structural design, and created and refined the tools for a collaborative composition in progress for percussionist/ cajon player Patti Cudd. Essential sonic and conceptual ideas became part of the work as a result of contact with poets, writers, and filmmakers at MacDowell. The work is scheduled for a premiere in New York and Europe during 2016-17.

Robert Honstein, Jamaica Plain, MA, completed work on Requiem Reimagined, a collaborative composition with the Sleeping Giant composer collective for the Albany Symphony Orchestra and the Albany Pro Musica. He also began work on a chamber work commissioned by the Utah Arts Festival. Robert recently released Night Scenes from the Ospedale, a collaboration with the Sebastians.

Jerome Kitzke, New York, NY, completed the notation of his piece The Green Automobile, finished the editing of the

string parts for Winter Count and began his new sextet (working title: For Pte Tokahewin Ska), which premiered on the composer’s 60th Birthday Concerts on November 13-14. He also rehearsed The Green Automobile and the reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Footnote to Howl for an April concert.

Lansing D. McLoskey, Miami, FL, completed four new works: Discipline, an 18-minute oboe sonata commissioned by ToniMarie Marchioni; Dear World for SATB choir or solo voices, commissioned by The Crossing (Philadelphia); Two for solo violin, commissioned by the New Spectrum Foundation for violinist Miranda Cuckson; and Sikurtawa for sax quartet, written for TAWA Sax in Lima, Peru. He also started work on the libretto for Zealot Canticles.

Marisa Michelson, New York, NY, began working on her music-theatre piece The Seeds of All: Hildegard and Heloise, about desire and divinity. She wrote several pieces exploring how Sappho’s poetry fragments come alive in the voice, and a number of wordless choral pieces based on Hildegard’s descriptions of her visions. Marisa’s experimental musical, Tamar of the River, was produced off-Broadway in 2013 and the cast album was recently released on Yellow Sound Label.

Richard Nelson, Brunswick, ME, began work on Dissolve for the New York- based contemporary jazz/new music ensemble Pursuit, of which he is co- leader. His extended composition Deep River, recorded by the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, was released in the fall of 2015. He is currently working on a three-movement piece (Cohere, Float, Dissolve) for a thirteen-player NYC-based ensemble of which he is co-leader.

“The opportunity to meet and get to know — personally and professionally — artists from other disciplines, as well as other musicians, is a very important aspect of my stay at MacDowell. I feel inspired by people on a daily basis, a very unique experience.”

—Charlotte Bray, composer

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Vadim Neselovskyi, Brooklyn, NY, is a Ukrainian-born pianist and composer and worked on his piano concerto, which was scheduled for a premiere on October 4, 2016 in Germany. He has been working for Grammy-winning vibraphonist Gary Burton as a pianist and composer. He also serves as Professor in Jazz Piano at Berklee College of Music.

Arturo O’Farrill, Brooklyn, NY, is a composer, pianist, and non-profit founder who worked on a concerto for revolutionary educator Cornel West and Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. His last two records The Offense of the Drum and Final Night at Birdland won a Grammy and a Latin Grammy respectively. His non-profit, The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, supports performance, education, and preservation activities. He is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and The Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.

Elizabeth Ogonek, Bronx, NY, has received awards and commissions from the ASCAP Foundation, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Most recently, she is the recipient of a Discovery Panufnik Commission from the London Symphony Orchestra.

Elizabeth holds degrees from Indiana University (BM, 2009) and the University of Southern California (MM, 2012).

Sam Pluta, New York, NY, completed a 20-minute work for violin, piano, and electronics to be toured in England in January 2015 and California in May 2015. The work, entitled hydra, combines elements of instrumental improvisation, electronic improvisation, fixed media electronic music, and notated acoustic music into one many-headed beast of sound.

David Rakowski, Maynard, MA, worked on a sixth symphony and a third piano concerto, as well as a longterm project of one hundred piano preludes. Of his many awards, publications, performances, and teaching gigs, none is as important as the gift of time at the MacDowell Colony.

Laura Elise Schwendinger, Madison, WI, composed several works while at MacDowell, including a duo for violin/voice duo Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Colloway, a new work Aviary--using the birds at MacDowell as inspiration for her work--for percussion group Clocks in Motion, a new work for the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, and also began her opera Artemisia, a new chamber opera based on the life of Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a collaborative work with writer and MacDowell Fellow Ginger Strand.

“MacDowell allowed me to write with more time and more silence than I ever have: I was able to explore a new compositional path, writing music that felt more visceral and unpredictable.”

—Lembit Beecher, composer

Alvin Singleton, Atlanta, GA, composed most of PRAYER for tenor solo, chamber choir, and small ensemble, based on a Christian prayer and three spirituals. It was scheduled for a premier on May 22, 2016 at the Cincinnati May Festival with James Conlon conducting.

Scott Wheeler, North Reading, MA, worked on his opera Naga for a fall 2016 premiere in Boston, and Songs to Fill the Void for Robert Barefield and Carolyn Hague, for a fall 2015 premiere at the Hartt School. His work Spirit Geometry has been published by C.F. Peters, and a CD of his piano music, played by Donald Berman, will be released in 2016 on the Bridge label.

Film/Video Artists Michael Almereyda, New York, NY, worked on scripts for a series of short films based on Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales. His most recent movie, Experimenter, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the fall of 2015 by Magnolia Pictures.

Claire Bennett, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, completed a great deal of work on two short, abstract animations which are concerned with treating the medium as a form of painting with light. During her stay at MacDowell she received a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts which will allow her to travel to LA for continued research into the history of this art form.

Deragh Campbell, Toronto, Ontario, completed a first draft of the screenplay Daughters with her co-writer Alexandra Napier as well as made initial plans for

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production expected to be underway in 2016. Deragh’s previous involvement in film has been as an actor, starring in several feature films and recently featured as a ‘Rising Star’ at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Esy Casey, Ithaca, NY, worked with Sarah Friedland on the Memorials documentary film and interactive site, following the creation of four distinctive memorializations in the US: a reef built from cremated remains, a graffiti wall in the inner city, an eco-burial nature preserve, and a mass grave along the Texas border. She has received fellowships from The Princess Grace Foundation USA, The AAUW, and The Center for Asian American Media, and her directorial debut Jeepney aired on PBS in May 2015.

Allison Cekala, Jamaica Plain, MA, edited two short films, Nash Island (working title), a film about island sheep shearing in Downeast Maine and Carrickfergus (working title) a film depicting an underground salt mine in Northern Ireland. She also began shooting a new film inspired by the New Hampshire landscape. She was the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in film/video in 2015.

Tammy Marie Dudman, Warwick, RI, worked to complete an essay film and installation work related to The OLYMPIA Variations. In addition, T. Marie made progress on a series of time-based pixel paintings from her new body of works entitled, Panchrome Series.

Lance Edmands, Brooklyn, NY, completed a new draft of the screenplay for his second feature film, Brightwater.

He also conducted research and compiled an artist’s statement for the purposes of financing the film.

Charles Fairbanks, Yellow Springs, OH, completed a rough cut of his first feature. The Modern Jungle portrays life in a Zoque village in rural Chiapas, Mexico where a shaman falls under the spell of a pyramid scheme. For The Modern Jungle, Fairbanks received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the Wexner Art Center’s film/video studio program.

Héctor Falcón Villa, Querétaro, Mexico, completed the second draft of the screenplay Esperanza & Hope to be shot in Mexico in 2016. He also finished the paper edit of the second cut of The Last Sunrise, a personal feature documentary on the death of his father and his spiritual encounter with the Conchero Dancers. Hector was a filmmaker selected for the DocuLab 7.0 in the Guadalajara International Film Festival in March 2015.

Sarah Friedland, Brooklyn, NY, collaborated with Esy Casey to complete a rough cut of their documentary film Memorials, which focuses on the ways Americans

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“This was a truly magical experience for me. I have never had such an intense and sustained period of creative focus and I feel like my work and my process benefited greatly from this time. I was able to research and read material without interruption, work through ideas thoroughly, and have long blocks of time to shoot and edit my work.... It was extremely fulfilling to be around such a diverse group of artists from different disciplines and I feel like my work benefited greatly from just being around them and learning about their work and practice. ” —Sarah Friedland, filmmaker

memorialize their loved ones. Friedland and Casey’s recent documentary, Jeepney, aired on PBS in May 2015. In 2014 Friedland was awarded a Paul Robeson award from the Newark Museum for her film THE RINK. Noa Gusakov, Tel Aviv, Israel, completed the first draft of a screenplay for her first feature film. Her previous short film Lookout screened in film festivals around the world and won four prizes.

Asad Hussain, Mumbai, India, wrote an early draft of Curfew, a feature about three friends living in a small Indian town at a time of incredible turmoil. Hussain also fleshed out the story of a new film about a man who comes back home, after spending his whole adult life abroad, to look for his missing son who police believe is involved in terrorist activities.

Luke Jaeger, Northampton, MA, completed preproduction and started production on a short animated film on the theme of aging parents. In 2014, he received a State Department grant to curate and present a program of American independent animation to audiences in China.

Mark Kendall, Philadelphia, PA, began editing his second film at MacDowell. The project, which is set in Sweden’s Arctic Circle, was developed in the Talents lab at the 2015 Berlinale and has been invited to screen at the National Gallery of Art upon completion. Kendall received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.

Cynthia Lowen, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a documentary film about cyber harassment targeting women, as well as a non-fiction essay, a script for a film or TV project about Emily Dickinson, and other creative writing pieces. She planned on beginning filming for her documentary in spring of 2016.

Denise Marika, Brookline, MA, worked on a photo series with visual sound compositions based on her recent experimental and documentary videos shot in the last three years while on a Fulbright working with grassroots NGOs in Nepal. This work will be shown in the U.S. and abroad to raise funds for earthquake relief.

Alexandra Napier, Toronto, ON, worked with filmmaker Deragh Campbell on Daughters, their first feature screenplay, which they intend to direct together in 2017.

Irina Patkanian, Brooklyn, NY, has re-edited the third part of her documentary feature Socrates of Kamchatka, (a documentary fable about community in Far East Russia, narrated by a horse); and continued editing a

short documentary with stop motion animation that uses puppets made from decommissioned Civil War guns. Both films have been invited to screen at festivals.

Matthew Porterfield, Baltimore, MD, completed a re-write of his feature screenplay Sollers Point, which he will direct in August 2015. He also began a screen adaptation of his favorite verse novel. Matt’s latest film, Take What You Can Carry, premiered at the Berlinale in February 2015.

Katarzyna Płazinska, Iowa City, IA, completed a screenplay for her first feature-length film.

Katy Scoggin, Brooklyn, NY, completed a new draft of the script for Flood, a hybrid work of fiction, documentary, and public radio that explores deeply held beliefs that polarize people. She presented a number of audio interviews she held with creationists and paleontologists to other artists who encouraged her to push her work further.

Kelly Sears, Denver, CO, focused on writing and animating her new film titled Proceed in Total Darkness that was completed in the fall of 2015. Her recent work has been included on the nationwide Sundance Animation Tour as well as the Sundance, SXSW, Ann Arbor and American Film Institute Film festivals.

Shelly Silver, New York, NY, completed a rough cut of her film SV (working title) on the opulent bedroom communities of Silicon Valley. She had two recent retrospectives of her work at Cinéma du Réel, the Pompidou Center, Paris in spring of 2015, and at DokLeipzig, Germany, in winter 2014.

“The time at MacDowell was very healing for me as an artist; being able to worry about writing the work without deadlines allowed my play to flourish. I wound up getting more completed than I normally do. The socialization helped to break up the monotony of work, and being able to discuss the issues that only my peers can understand allowed me to learn a lot and feel a sense of community.

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Chris Sullivan, Chicago, IL, worked on drawings, writings, and music for his feature animated film The Orbit of Minor Satellites. His most recent film, Consuming Spirits, has played in more than 20 countries. “Critic’s pick…

Entirely original…an inquiry into the darkest zones of the human heart…Weaves a complicated, intoxicating spell…a wonder.” –A.O. Scott, New York Times.

Yaara Sumeruk, Brooklyn, NY, is a South African filmmaker. Her short dark comedy Ringo premiered at The Locarno International Film Festival. She is currently writing a feature length screenplay about assassins.

Chloe White, London, UK, finished a short animation entitled People Who Run Who Can’t Run. During her residency, Chloe edited her documentary, Reversing the Cut, about female genital mutilation. She also conducted research and planned for an upcoming documentary about female lobstermen in Maine.

Sarah Woolner, Swansea, Wales, UK, wrote the first draft of a new feature screenplay. This work was written on spec and she intends for it to be used as a sample script for her agent to send out to the industry in 2016. Sarah won a BAFTA for writing animation short film, Sleeping with the Fishes in 2014.

Sara Zandieh, Los Angeles, CA, will be working on a feature-length screenplay which focuses on themes of migration and displacement. Her last short film premiered at Telluride and Munich Film Festivals. She received a Fulbright grant in Filmmaking in Istanbul in 2010.

Interdisciplinary Artists Meghan Moe Beitiks, San Francisco, CA, completed a short video work on climate change by interviewing MacDowell fellows about the weather. She also completed a video on Biosphere 2 for public presentation at Johns Hopkins University, advanced work on a video commission on the Vacanti ear mouse for an exhibition in Australia, and completed development of a performative lecture for the 2015 Performance Philosophy Conference.

Suzanne Bocanegra, New York, NY, completed writing Studio Visit, a performance by Suzanne Bocanegra, which was performed through November 2015 at the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. At her residency she also worked on Chromatic, an evening length piece created and performed by Susan Marshall, Jason Trueting, and Suzanne Bocanegra that was scheduled to premiere at the Kitchen in NYC in June 2016.

Susan “Black Eyed Susan” Carlson, New York, NY, worked on an adaptation of Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor with director Mallory Catlett. The performance they are developing together is called Dead Time of Plenty and was scheduled to premiere in the 2016/17 season. Her last collaboration with Catlett, This Was the End, won a special citation Obie and Bessie award in 2014.

Mallory Catlett, New York, NY, worked on Dead Time of Plenty, a new performance based on Doris Lessing’s novel, Memoirs of a Survivor. The novel was recorded, short dream sequences were rehearsed, and video content was created. Dead Time of Plenty is one of two new works in a diptych of performance installations of called M/F Future,

“From the minute I arrived, I consistently saw that every aspect of MacDowell is geared towards the artists’ having the most in-depth and productive experience as possible — the guidelines of the Colony foster an atmosphere of creativity and usefulness. I cannot express fully how much I appreciated this aspect of my stay.”

—Yaara Sumeruk, composer

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scheduled to premiere in New York in the 2016/17 season.

She collaborated at MacDowell with Susan Carlson. Their last collaboration This Was the End won a 2014 Special Citation Obie Award.

Julia Christensen, Oberlin, OH, completed a series of 30 drawings made using a digital drawing plotter. The series, titled We Share Our Pictures, is part of a larger project Upgrade Available, which looks into society’s complicated relationships with obsolete technology. This work was funded by Creative Capital and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.

Grisha Coleman, Tempe, AZ, is a New York City native and has worked as a composer, dancer, and choreographer.

She works as an assistant professor of movement, computation and digital media at the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the School of Dance at Arizona State.

Dan Hurlin, New York, NY, worked on completing the puppets for his newest work Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed. The work is based on his own translations from the Italian of four short puppet plays written by Fortunato Depero, an Italian Futurist painter, in 1917.

John Kelly, New York, NY, worked on a graphic novel project based on a recent performance work based on a trapeze accident. The work is comprised of 120 10” x 10” drawings with graphically rendered texts; at MacDowell, he made significant progress, and is happy to report that he left the Colony with 90 of the 120 completed.

Ginger Krebs, Chicago, IL, did research for a performance called Habitats for Missing Masses, which investigates the impact of speed on bodies and ecologies. She also made images and experimental sculpture in relation to this project. She was awarded a MAP Fund grant in 2013.

Isabelle Lumpkin, Brooklyn, NY, worked on the edit of her first feature film Narcissister’s Organ Player, to be premiered in 2016. She also worked on photographic images to be exhibited in conjunction with the premiere of the film. The film is being made with the support of a 2015 Creative Capital Award Grant and through a Theo Westenberger Award Grant, which Isabelle was awarded in July 2015.

Christopher Marianetti, Jackson Heights, NY, completed visual documentation and final coding work on an artificially intelligent music instrument called Rose.

He also worked on an animated music notation series that will ultimately become a string quartet. Chris’ organization Found Sound Nation partners with the US State Department to produce OneBeat, a music diplomacy initiative bringing together musicians, social entrepreneurs, and artistic innovators.

Tracie Morris, Brooklyn, NY, completed the editing of a book project that was scheduled to be released in 2015 and recorded its corresponding sound files. She also finished the first draft of a theater project and the first draft of a new collection of poems. She also outlined a long-worked-on recording project.

Alan Nakagawa, Los Angeles, CA, completed a sound installation using field recordings taken at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and Watts Towers in Los Angeles.

He also began work on an article about the process of making the sound installation for Leonardo Magazine, MIT in collaboration with Sheila Pinkel, a contributing editor at the magazine.

Aurora Nealand, New Orleans, LA, continued work on Hysterical, an operetta based on the history of female hysteria and current studies and societal attitudes toward mental health. Two of the compositions she began while at MacDowell will be included in her upcoming solo album, KindHumanKind, which was scheduled for release in fall of 2015.

Alexander Rosenberg, Philadelphia, PA, did research, practiced skills specific to scientific glass blowing, and worked on a group project about mapping with the participation of the other Fellows. He made a series of glass objects and drawings that will likely be used in an upcoming exhibition. He also wrote to supplement his upcoming lecture at the Glass Art Society conference. His work was featured in the Woodmere Annual Exhibition.

David Whelan, Maspeth, Queens, NY, completed a text to accompany a publication that documents a series of paintings made collaboratively with his mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. The ongoing project, which explores how the collaborative painting process mimics the suspension of identity during Dementia, was to be published by The Seeld Library in spring of 2015.

Theatre Artists Zakiyyah Alexander, New York, NY, completed the first draft of the play, How to Raise a Freeman in a Time of American Warfare. The play focuses on the issues a middle class black family dealing with the fear of police brutality.

She plans to next develop the play in New York.

David Auburn, New York, NY, worked on a stage adaptation of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March for Chicago’s Court Theatre. His most recent play, Lost Lake, premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2015.

Liza Birkenmeier, Brooklyn, NY, completed the first draft of a play called Rare and Visible Cosmic Phenomena, a piece

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Sam Chanse, New York, NY, completed a rewrite of a new musical, Gilgamesh & the Mosquito, for a development workshop in June at the Yale Institute of Music Theatre.

She also started a new untitled play about memory and neuroscience for an EST/Sloan Commission, and worked on another new play, Delivery, about international surrogacy. Her solo play, Lydia’s Funeral Video, was published by Kaya Press in 2015.

Maggie-Kate Coleman, Brooklyn, NY, began writing two new plays, completed several songs for a song cycle, and continued research for a new musical, Marie in Tomorrowland. Set in a post-apocalyptic amusement park, the musical explores America’s relationship to nuclear disaster through a chorus of Marie Curies; it was further developed at The Orchard Project in June, 2015, and at SPACE on Ryder Farm in September 2015.

“I got SO much work done here, I am happy to report; I worked hard, generally 8-10 hours a day. The group of Fellows was a fantastic collection of brilliant minds and hearts, very serious with work, and capable of the occasional party mode. This was perhaps my best art colony experience to date, and I am exceedingly grateful to have had the chance to be here. Thank you!”

—John Kelly, interdisciplinary artist largely influenced by the environment at MacDowell. She continued to work on this project in residency at Ars Nova in Manhattan, where she is a member of Play Group.

Barbara Cassidy, Brooklyn, NY, completed the first draft of her play, Bystander, which examines the murder of a young woman in Queens, NY intersecting with the 1964 killing of Kitty Genovese -- who was raped and stabbed outside of her apartment building where her cries for help went unheeded. She also began work on Mrs. Loman, which delves into the character Linda Loman (from Miller’s Death of a Salesman) and imagines what might happen to her after Willie dies.

Ana Candida de Carvalho, Astoria, NY, worked on her project The Unfit, which covered international surrogacy and genetic manipulation. During her stay, she conducted research, worked on structure, expanded much of her initial idea, and wrote.

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Kia Corthron, New York, NY, worked on final edits for her novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter. She also wrote a short play as part of a documentary theatre biography project for the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, which will be produced this May. In 2014 Kia was awarded the USArtists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award (Honored Playwright), and the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

Gordon Dahlquist, Brooklyn, NY, completed a final draft of Geneva, a nine-hour play made up of three individual plays, titled Headhunting, Site Visit, and Installation. The plays portray the economy of surveillance and security – an industry whose profile has grown exponentially since 9/11 – seen through the lens of a subcontracted, globalized, and outsourced world, where you rarely see where your work is ultimately going, or who it’s going to benefit.

Mashuq Deen, Brooklyn, NY, completed a rough draft of a book called Draw the Circle and Other Writings, which details an Indian-American family’s struggle to come to terms with their transgender son. The book includes a footnoted version of the full-length play Draw the Circle, as well as two short plays and other short pieces.

Lee Sunday Evans, New York, NY, conducted research and generated writing for a contemporary adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara. This project was in early development stages and would not have gotten off the ground without the focus and immersion provided by the MacDowell Residency. Lee is a Director and Choreographer based in NYC; she is the recipient of a 2015 Obie Award for directing.

Daniel Fish, Brooklyn, NY, worked on the performance text and plan for a new work that will premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center in December 2015. The piece will use live

Twitter feeds based on fragments of text from Chekhov’s Three Sisters. He also did research for a work that will premiere in 2017. At present, his work concerns the history of economic inequality in America.

Matthew Freeman, Brooklyn, NY, completed new drafts of three plays: The Starving Dress, The Base, and That Which Isn’t. He is a current resident playwright at New Dramatists.

Madeleine George, Brooklyn, NY, worked on commissions for Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey and the Sloan Foundation. Her most recent play, The (Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence, was a finalist for the Pulitzer.

Jennifer Haley, Los Angeles, CA, began the first draft of Intelligence Poem: a Play for Robots: a meditation on how artificial intelligence might process human intelligence.

Her play The Nether, which won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2015, was running throughout the U.S. and in Munich in 2015-2016, and has upcoming productions in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Madrid, and Barcelona.

Jeremy O. Harris, Los Angeles, CA, completed work on the second play in his six-play cycle about desire in Los Angeles entitled Daddy that had a reading at Jack in Brooklyn in October. He also began two collaborations with visual artists Ian Gerson and David Birkin, the project with Gerson is entitled Casper Show. Birkin and Harris planned on presenting their adaptation of The Merchant of Venice in 2016.

Amy Herzog, Brooklyn, NY, completed an outline for the first hour of a miniseries based on the first woman to run for president. She also worked on first drafts of play commissions for the Yale Repertory Theatre and Playwrights Horizons.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Brooklyn, NY, began a number of linked research and writing projects about history,

memory, family, and photography tentatively titled “Living Room.” He received the OBIE award for Best New American Play in 2014.

Len Jenkin, New York, NY, completed a final edit on his play Jonah, to be produced at the Undermain Theater in Dallas Texas in 2015. He also made progress on a screenplay, Stars in my Crown, completed two paintings in in acrylics, and did drawings for a third.

Erica Lipez, Los Angeles, CA, completed a new contemporary play called Exchange Street, set in her hometown of Portland, Maine. The play was scheduled to be workshopped in February at Second Stage Theatre in New York City.

Dano Madden, Hoboken, NJ, completed a rough draft of a new play, which was commissioned by the McCarter Theatre and Middlesex County Technical and Vocational High School. The play focuses on six teenagers who all have one thing in common: they have each lost a parent to a one-way space mission of the Mars Pioneers (the first human missions to settle Mars). Madden is also in postproduction for his original web-series, Precious Cargo, which he wrote and produced.

Richard Montoya, Los Angeles, CA, completed 70 pages for a book for a new musical on the history of Chicano Rock & Roll. The musical has recently found a home at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego where it will be developed into a full stage musical, Come On Let’s Go (working title).

Montoya is a Sundance Institute Alumni.

Megan Murtha, Brooklyn, NY, finished a draft for a new object theater piece tentatively titled “Bone Play,” which consists of poetic monologues and songs to be performed alongside choreographed movement for various bones (leg, skull, jaw and two sections of spine) from the same cow. She received her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College and was a returning artist in residence at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in the Spring of 2015.

“My time here coincided with the tragic earthquake in Nepal and deep concern for my many dear friends there.... As an artist in social practice my time at MacDowell gave me the space and creative freedom to develop this new work and exchange ideas with artists from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds. I am forever grateful and humbled by the experience.”

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Aja Nisenson, Jersey City, NJ, completed a sequel to her first solo show Piccola Cosi, a coming-of-age story about her experience as a naive 21-year old virgin trying to make it as a jazz singer in Bologna, Italy. 5 Years Later is her true-life experience reuniting with the Italian men of her past and re-establishing her roots in jazz. She also began a draft of a new musical. Nisenson was awarded “Best Cabaret” and “Best Musical Direction” in the 2014 United Solo Theatre Festival.

Gabrielle Reisman, Brooklyn, NY, began work on a new play, Flood City, about the 1889 Johnstown Flood. Flood City will be developed with Page 73’s Interstate 73 group in 2015. Her play Catch The Wall won the 2012 Rosa Parks Award from The Kennedy Center and was one of The Kilroy’s 46 Most Recommended Plays of 2014.

Visual Artists Ella Amitay Sadovsky, Mesilat Zion, Israel, completed one short stop-motion video, and initiated a long stop-motion video that contains few scenes. To do so, Ella prepared six paintings to be used within the video.

Alice Attie, New York, NY, worked on a project that concerns borders, boundaries, and crossings. The drawings are comprised of both images and writing. Attie has related pieces in a book entitled These Figures Lining the Hills (Seagull/U of Chicago Press, 2015). Her drawings have recently become part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Normandy Sherwood, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a revision of her play Spiritual Things and began drafting a companion piece called Thingnesses. Both plays deal with the question of whether things have rights. She also worked on some costume renderings for Anne Washburn’s Iphigenia at Aulis. Her play Gentleman’s Choice was scheduled to be performed at University Settlement in February 2016.

Beth Steel, London, UK, worked on the first draft of her new play, which looks at the international lending boom of American banks in the late 1970s resulting in the financial collapse of Latin America in the early 1980s. She received the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2014.

Karinne Keithley Syers, Long Island City, NY, wrote the libretto and drew the choreographic score for her collaboration with composer Brendan Connelly, Untitled Prairie Trilogy, a chamber piece for two dancers and two singers sourced from the prairie novels of Willa Cather (MF 1926), which is scheduled for a premiere at The Chocolate Factory Theater in New York in spring 2017.

Syers is a member of New Dramatists.

Kathleen Tolan, Brooklyn, NY, revised her play I Was Reading A Novel by Javier Marías after a reading at Classic Stage Company in New York with the central character played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. A production was expected in 2016. Kathleen also began work on a new play currently titled The Task of the Translator.

Deke Weaver, Champaign, IL, worked on Bear, the next performance in his lifelong project, The Unreliable Bestiary.

The work has been supported by a 2014-15 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

“For me it was the stillness and quiet of the woods where I could hear the voices in my work, my play. The gentleness there, the restorative power of a place surely Mr. and Mrs. MacDowell had in mind with their generous gift back to the artistic community. Like many, I hated to leave the Colony. I was calmer, more focused, and I can say it saved my creative life — or reminded me of the proper way to work — away from freeways and chatter and the daily noise of our busy lives.”

—Richard Montoya, playwright

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Shimon Attie, New York, NY, worked on three projects during his time at the Colony; the first being the preparation of an art monograph entitled Facts on the Ground from the Nazraeli Press. It will accompany his solo exhibition of his work at Jack Shainman Gallery. He also worked on a site-specific installation that was to be presented in Luxembourg in June 2016. Lastly, Attie worked on a new artwork that will be presented as a solo exhibition at the St. Louis Museum of Art in July 2017. He received the Lee Krasner Award in 2013-2014.

Miranda Austin, Brooklyn, NY, worked on process-based drawings that explored the liminal space between creation and destruction.

Teresa Baker, Beaumont, TX and San Francisco, CA, completed a series of painting to be shown at Kiria Koula Gallery in San Francisco, CA. She uses shape, color, and material relationships to get to an object that is unrecognizable, and not static. She received the Tournesol Award in 2013 from the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Lara Baladi, Cambridge, MA, worked on an interactive timeline of the 2011 Egyptian revolution entitled, Vox Populi, which she plans to complete at MIT. She built a website in correlation to the project, which includes a map of links to archives on the revolution. The site was scheduled to be shown at the end of August 2015 as a part of a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Sackler gallery titled Perspective.

Yevgeniya Baras, Brooklyn, NY, completed a series of 20 paintings while in residency. She experimented with scale and a variety of materials. The paintings are in preparation for her solo exhibition in New York that was scheduled for the spring of 2016. In 2014 Baras received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists. In 2015 she received the Artadia prize and was accepted to the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Residency in New York.

Anne Beresford Clarke, Leverett, MA, created drawings, paintings, and lithographs as part of a solo exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, MA. The show opened in September of 2015. In addition, she continued working on her ongoing series Free4All, which celebrates aspects of life that most of us enjoy for free.

Marina Berio, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a series of photographs about what happens on her studio walls as she makes drawings and simple paper objects. The pictures began serving as aides-memoire to process, and have become a project in their own right: a meditation on formal questions of color, edge, and shape, and the intimate relationship between the walls of a workspace and the objects that are made and contemplated within it.

David Birkin, London, UK, completed a short film script about a military drone pilot as well as a new work exploring state surveillance through the theological precept of Providence. In addition, he began collaborating on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with Fellow Jeremy O. Harris. Birkin is a recent graduate of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and has written for Creative Time Reports, the Harvard Advocate, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Larissa Borteh, Chicago, IL, completed a series of oil paintings and large- scale charcoal drawings for a forthcoming exhibition. Works from the series are loosely tethered to the interior, the hypothetical, and the embarrassing. She is a recent recipient of the George and Ann Siegel Fellowship.

Lea Bult, Coloma and Ann Arbor, MI, continued her series of paintings and drawings related to recent human trafficking cases in the Midwest. Early paintings from the series, which focus on slavery in America today, were included in the group show Unseen at the Eastern Market in Detroit in 2014. She received a Phillip C. Curtis fellowship in 2014 for a residency at Albion College.

Dawn Clements, Brooklyn, NY, produced ink and watercolor works on paper in response to the physical and temporal environment in and surrounding Eastman Studio over the course of her five weeks at MacDowell.

With every passing day each work grew: a patch of field grass, the woods seen from the porch, the objects on the studio work table. These works are part of a body of work that reflected Dawn’s daily life and observances. She has recently been appointed as an assistant professor in the Experimental and Foundation Studies Program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bethany Collins, Atlanta, GA, completed works on paper from her language-based Contronym series shown at the Hudgens Center for the Arts in early 2016. She received a Pollock-Krasner Award and Artadia Award in 2015.

Benjy Davies, Gallipolis, OH, completed paintings and drawings of the New Hampshire landscape as part of his sabbatical research on landscape painting. The work was included in an exhibition of his work in Rio Grande, OH, in September 2015. He received the Excellence in Scholarship award from the University of Rio Grande in 2015 and an Individual Excellence in the Arts Award from the Ohio Arts Council in 2013.

Jeremy Dean, Brooklyn,NY, started a new body of work involving large-scale stereo prints made from Reconstruction-era stereoscopic photographs. The work seeks to reveal the hidden architecture, structure, and

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systems of inequality in the built world. The prints were fully editioned at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York, where he is an artist in residence for 2016.

Mary Jane Dean, Northampton, MA, completed a series of writings with drawings. Some of these text/picture pieces are diaristic, some anecdotal, and some look to her past, drumming up memory where memory was destroyed after a severe brain injury. Her drawings and films can be seen at whitlandia.org.

Noah Doely, Cedar Falls, IA, worked on a series of digital photographic collages, a large-scale steel and resin sculpture, and other photographic works that center around themes of origins, authenticity, and the natural world.

Sean Downey, Jamaica Plain, MA, completed several new oil paintings and sculptures during his time at MacDowell.

He is a 2014 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship award, and a founding member of the artist collaborative kijidome, winner of the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Craig Drennen, Atlanta, GA, completed drawings and other works on paper dedicated to the character of Poet from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. He came to MacDowell right after completing a project at the Globe Theater in London funded by an Art Matters grant.

Denise Dumas, Wilton, NH, created a series of photographs and collected video for the virtual component of her multimedia installation, Mirror Tell Me, (See

Her). This will be further developed, and combined with sculpture, sound, and refracted light patterns to create a theatrical environment evoking the passage of time and the elusive character of memory. Her last installation Mutherer, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, was exhibited in Quebec and at the UMass Lowell art gallery in 2014.

Dagmara Genda, London, UK, originally from Koszalin, Poland, completed a series of collages as part of an ongoing project on the poetics of snow. She will continue this project at the Banff Centre for the Arts and later at the Vermont Studio Centre thanks to the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The aspect of the project worked on at MacDowell will be shown at Gallery 44 in Toronto, Ontario.

Dagmara is the 2014 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Award and the Canada Council International London Residency at Acme Studios.

Ian Gerson, Far Rockaway, NY, worked on a series of large-scale black light-reactive geometric paintings which were part of a site-specific installation and ongoing performance piece in Alexander studio. Ian received a grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2015 to fund a solo show in Brooklyn in 2015.

Jesse Aron Green, Waltham, MA, worked on a project involving sculpture, video, painting, and music that looks at the Puritan origins of the contemporary American self. His most recent exhibition was at the Harvard Art Museums.

LaMont Hamilton, Chicago, IL, completed a large-scale drawing titled Leaves from a Loose Leaf War Diary that

“The time and space to work on ideas to advance my work was invaluable. Being around so many great artists on a day-today basis, getting to know them on a personal level and their work on an intimate level, is a gift beyond words. To me this may have been the most valuable of all the experiences at MacDowell. Not to mention the serenity! Being a city dweller this was a treat beyond measure.”

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showed at EXPO Chicago. LaMont also finalized some crucial movements in his modern dance piece Dapline!, which premiered at the Schomberg Center in Harlem, NY, in late February 2016.

collect at the top of a giant champagne glass pyramid where they melt and cascade down in a flow of liquid metal -- all at room temperature. Kenyon was also a 2015 TED fellow and a Symbiotica fellow.

Emily Hass, New York, NY, continued her series that uses archival architectural records of Berlin buildings where Jews and persecuted artists lived in the 1930s to create grid wall drawing installations. Her most recent project is a series of painted memorial murals of the former homes of the Bauhaus Group. Emily is a research affiliate at MIT.

Steve Locke, Boston, MA, had painting and drawing exhibits in the Hudson Opera House in April of 2015.

Carl E. Hazlewood, Brooklyn, NY, edited a series of his photographs about urban evolution and gentrification for the exhibition “Of Gentle Birth” at Repair The World in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A wall-work made at MacDowell was on view at Corridor Gallery beginning in November 2015, also in Brooklyn. New work by Carl was exhibited at the SCOPE Art Fair in Miami last December.

Valerie Hegarty, Brooklyn, NY, created experimental work with watercolor, oils, acrylic, and papier-maché in order to generate the seeds for a new body of work. She is known for her recreations of early American paintings and sculptures that appear to be disintegrating if not demolished. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence at Drew University in New Jersey for 2014-2015.

She currently has work on view in the American Wing of the Brooklyn Museum of Art in the permanent collection.

Adam Hurwitz, New York, NY, worked on the continuing series of computer-generated videos for his ongoing project Reflective Nostalgia. Shows in 2015 included 53rd International Show at the San Diego Art Institute, “Let’s Be Real” at Projekt722 in Brooklyn, as well as a three-person show at the AC Institute, in New York. He is a 2014 fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Julia Jacquette, New York, NY, is currently working on paintings and also a graphic memoir, both of which will be featured in her upcoming exhibition at the Wellin Museum, at Hamilton College.

Hoda Kashiha, Tehran, Iran, worked on a series of oil paintings and tried to find a good balance between abstract and figurative paintings while creating movement in her works. At MacDowell she made a body of work for her upcoming solo show in Tehran.

Matt Kenyon, Ann Arbor, MI, completed a new artwork, Giant Pool of Money, an interactive installation that investigates the impact of the destruction of public faith in the economy and personal fortune through the unique spectacle of material phase transition. Viewers see coins

Ryan McLaughlin, Sunapee, NH, completed work on a series of oil paintings and monotypes while at the MacDowell Colony. McLaughlin exhibited a number of these paintings in April 2015 at the Frieze Art Fair in New York with Laurel Gitlen. Ideas developed during his time at MacDowell also provided a central framework for his solo exhibition at Laura Bartlett (London) that opened in September of the same year.

Helen Mirra, Cambridge, MA, made tapestry weavings in wool and linen, which were shown in Berlin in January 2016, in a pair of two-person shows with MacDowell Fellow Allyson Strafella. She made a mid-career survey exhibition at Culturgest in Lisbon, and in a related book (WhiteWalls, University of Chicago Press) in 2014.

Lavar Munroe, Germantown, MD (originally from Nassau Bahamas), completed two large-format paintings. Both paintings exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach 2015.

David Opdyke, Ridgewood, NY, completed several works in a series of pen and ink drawings to be exhibited at his next gallery show at Magnan Metz in Manhattan. Many more drawings are in the works, intended to be the raw material for a longer-term collaborative project inspired by the time he spent with composers and authors as either a graphic novel or a hand-drawn animation. He recently installed two large-scale outdoor sculptures, one at Wave Hill in the Bronx, and one for the 12th Havana Biennial.

Rachel Perry, Gloucester, MA, completed five drawings from her “Chiral Lines” series, continued editing a series of photographs made at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as Artist-in-Residence in October 2014, and finished work for an exhibition on the facade of the Gardner Museum that opened in January 2016.

Ann Pibal, North Bennington, VT and Brooklyn, NY, worked on large-scale paintings and a series of works on paper while in residence. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and in Europe. She is included in public collections including The Brooklyn Museum, The MFA in Boston, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum. Her work has been recognized through awards from the Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others.

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Pablo Rasgado, Mexico City, Mexico, has been working on the research for the development of a series of sculptures based on the convergence of literature, art, and urbanism.

He also completed a series of 10 large-scale paintings. He will participate at Skowhegan in 2016.

Julia Rommel, Brooklyn, NY, completed paintings and drawings to be included in a solo presentation at Art Basel, Switzerland, and to be shown at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. She also worked on writings for an artist’s book titled Around Woman.

Carmelle Safdie, Astoria, NY, edited documentary photographs of her nightlife design project The Shape, and worked on watercolor sketches for a new painting series. She recently presented The Shape, an interior design installation and event series, at Downstairs 87 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Carmelle has exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anna Schuleit Haber, New Orleans, LA, worked on the preparatory sketches and paintings of The Alphabet, a daily serial piece on the front pages of a daily newspaper, for which she collaborated with 26 typographers from around the world.

Gyan Shrosbree, Fairfield, IA, worked on approximately 30 paintings. She completed a body of work related to fabric, tapestries, clothing, materials, and the body by using many of the same processes that go into the process of making rugs, quilts, clothing, and other fabrics that require weaving and stitching.

Kazumi Tanaka, Beacon, NY, has developed the new series of sculptural works functioning as musical instruments involving her own hair. Her intricate, small objects were included in the international group show in Hiroshima Japan to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in 2015.

Susan May Tell, New York, NY, used the traditional darkroom in Nef Studio to revisit her earliest black-andwhite negatives from 1974-1982. The work from this era is the basis for her exhibition Structured Moments. Her photographs are included in the book Fossils of Light + Time, curated and designed by Elizabeth Avedon for the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography and published in late 2015. The title of the book comes from Daido Moriyama’s definition of a photograph. Seven of her war-related photographs were on view in the group exhibition “I/Thou” at New York University’s Kimmel Gallery, also in the fall of 2015.

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Whiting Tennis, Seattle, WA, spent his time in Firth Studio making a large collection of collages, paintings, and sculptures, all of various media. His months’ worth of work will likely be the point of departure for much of the work to follow, which was scheduled to be exhibited in New York at the Derek Eller Gallery in the spring or fall of 2016.

Writers Mustafa Abdulrahman, Chicago, IL, wrote, translated, and published six articles about work of recent MacDowell Fellows. He also wrote the beginning of a novella about an Iraqi photographer arriving in Chicago in 1999.

Emily Abendroth, Philadelphia, PA, made substantial headway on a book-length poetic essay project exploring contemporary and historical instances of state surveillance and strategies of resistance to that surveillance. Her first fulllength poetry collection, ]Exclosures[, was published in May of 2014 by Ahsahta Press. She was the recipient of a 2013 Pew Fellowship in Poetry.

Michael Agresta, Austin, TX, continued revisions on his first novel set in the aftermath of a major natural disaster of the early climate change era (modeled after Hurricane Katrina). The novel has multiple characters and is concerned with the psychological dimension of catastrophic climate change. He just received his first journalism byline in Texas Monthly and has been published in Slate and Texas Observer.

Hephzibah Anderson, Lewes, UK, worked on a first draft of her first novel, a ghost story that’s set in New York City in 1911 and centers on a medieval English child murder.

She also added to material that she’s hoping will grow into a series of interlinked stories, developed an idea for a personal essay that might yet evolve into a nonfiction proposal, and wrote the first in an ongoing series of bibliotherapy columns for BBC Culture.

Jason Anthony, Damariscotta and Bristol, ME, began writing his second book while at MacDowell. With the working title Unnatural Earth: Antarctica and the Anthropocene, the book is an environmental history as well as a close look at how our presence in Antarctica serves as an analogue for our relationship with the Earth.

Anthony was the 2014 Literary Fellow for Maine and a 2014 Nonfiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Donald Antrim, Brooklyn, NY, worked on an untitled fourth novel. He is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and his collection of stories entitled The Emerald Light in the Air was published in 2014.

Catina Bacote, Asheville, NC, completed a chapter for her memoir Eastern Circle. The book chronicles the lasting impact of the 1980s drug epidemic on her family and community. In 2014 she was awarded the first place creative arts prize at the Jakobsen Graduate Conference.

Cathleen Bailey, McKees Rock, PA, worked on a fictionalized memoir, an eclectic hybrid that includes original songs, prose, poetry, interviews, clinical notes, and excerpts from historical documents and letters. The project focuses on historically obscured American voices.

Amy Quan Barry, Madison, WI, completed her fifth poetry collection, Quarry. Most recently she wrote the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born and the poetry collection Loose Strife. Barry received a second NEA Fellowship in fiction in 2014.

Cris Beam, New York, NY, completed chapters for her forthcoming book on philosophies of empathy to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the Spring of

“ I accomplished more work here in four weeks than in the previous nine months. The concentration not only facilitated my work — it had a healing effect on my psyche. After a long winter and strenuous spring, I arrived depleted; I left refreshed.”

—Anthony Alofsin, architect

2017. Her last book To the End of June, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2013.

Deni Béchard, Cambridge, MA, completed his novel Into the Sun, which looks at the impact of expats living in Kabul during the Civilian Surge period of the War in Afghanistan. The novel was to be published in September 2016 by Milkweed Editions (U.S.), the House of Anansi Press (English Canada), and Editions Alto (French). He previously authored three books, Vandal Love (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), Cures for Hunger (an Amazon.ca best memoir of 2012), and Of Bonobos and Men. Gon Ben Ari, Brooklyn, NY, spent the most part of his five-week stay at the MacDowell Colony writing his third novel, Swim, the story of the writer’s fictitious grandfather, who discovers he is one of the last three living Holocaust Survivors. Aside from the completion of around 70 percent of the novel, Ben Ari finished the last draft of his screenplay, the Yiddish Western Der Mensch, winner of the Jerusalem Film Development Fund, now in pre-production with director Vania Heymann.

Emily Bernard, South Burlington, VT, completed and refined a 100-page manuscript proposal which was sold to Knopf in August 2015. Her recent essay, Black Motherhood in the Age of Ferguson, appeared on TheAtlantic.com in July 2015.

Deirdre Boyle, New York, NY, worked on a monograph about the films of Rithy Panh, considered Cambodia’s leading filmmaker. Nominated for an Oscar for his memoir film The Missing Picture, Panh is a genocide survivor and his work bears witness to that traumatic past and its continuance today. His films have had a profound influence on the cinematic portrayal of perpetrators and victims worldwide.

Blair Braverman, Mountain, WI, completed her first book Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, which was published by Ecco. She also wrote stories for This American Life and The Atavist. She also started a proposal for her second book and was engaged to MacDowell Fellow Quince Mountain.

Sarah M. Broom, Woodstock, NY, made crucial revisions on her first book The Yellow House, forthcoming from Grove Press.

James Cañón, Sunnyside, NY, completed a manuscript of his second novel, The Church of Common Sense, about a powerful, haunting religion born amid the violence of the Colombian civil war. Cañon’s first novel won two international awards, was translated into 11 languages and was made into a film.

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Kai Carlson-Wee, San Francisco, CA, worked on his first book of poems entitled Rail, which focuses on Midwestern landscapes, railroad culture, brotherhood, addiction, poverty, grief, and the spiritual significance of the American West. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, and The Missouri Review. He is currently a Jones lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.

Andrés Cerpa, Staten Island, NY, completed his first poetry collection titled Without Spring while in residence.

The collection revolves around the ways in which degenerative disease impacts family dynamics, love, friendship, and addiction. Poems from the manuscript appeared in the Cider Press Review as well as Hayden’s Ferry Review.

Michael Chabon, Berkeley, CA, continued to work on his novel, MoonGlow, which was released in late 2016.

Lan Samantha Chang, Iowa City, IA, made progress on an untitled third novel about a Chinese American family in the Midwest. After her residency, Samantha became a Writing Fellow at the American Library in Paris.

Sharon Charde, Lakeville, CT, completed the final edit of her memoir The Girls and Me and wrote 30 new poems and completed the first draft of a new collection entitled The Glass Is Already Broken. She received first prize in the 2014 Ruby Irene Chapbook contest (Arcadia Press) for Incendiary and first prize in the 2014 Rash Awards (Broad River Review) for her poem “Fiftieth Anniversary.”

Susan Choi, Brooklyn, NY, worked on an as-yet-untitled fifth novel. Her most recent novel, My Education, received a 2013 Lambda Literary Award and was released in paperback in 2014.

Kyle Churney, Chicago, IL, revised and completed poems, revised the ordering of, and titled his first collection, Paradise Theory. Poems from the manuscript have appeared or will appear in publications such as Subtropics, Salt Hill, and The Journal. In 2014, he received a Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council.

Caro Clark, Seattle, WA, made progress on a novel and several short stories. Caro also researched and mapped several essays she will be working on about nomadic sea life in rural Alaska, and living among the whale populations there.

Diane Cook, Oakland, CA, completed the first third of her novel-in-progress, The Mitigation State. She published a story collection, Man V. Nature, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize, PEN/Hemingway award, and Believer Book Award.

Sarah Cornwell, Los Angeles, CA, wrote the first draft of a new short story at MacDowell, as well as the opening pages of what she hopes will be her second novel. Her debut novel, What I Had Before I Had You, was published by HarperCollins in 2014. She works as a screenwriter.

Darcy Courteau, Washington, DC, completed chapters of her first book, a nonfiction novel set in the Ozark Mountain region where she was born. The story follows several people living off the land, among them Hmong

“I woke up every morning feeling fully cowed — in a lovely, motivating way — by the history of my studio, by all the writers who had lived and worked there before me. Each day, I was filled with gratitude that I was allowed to participate in this community, to be a part of its lineage.

There was something so validating and gratifying about that — being told that I belonged there, among those masters, and that my work was important, too. That it deserved the gift of time and space.”

—Amanda Petrusich, writer

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farmers, an undocumented Mexican woman, and a band of cowboys. Darcy’s essays and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and Oxford American.

book about a body of writing more than 1,100 years old and set in an ancient metropolis, is titled City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang’an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China.

Petrina Crockford, Goleta, CA, completed a draft of her first novel about immigrant communities in New York City, Barbados, and on the Texas/Mexico border.

Anne Finger, Oakland, CA, worked on an essay about her mother, who worked in the kitchen at MacDowell in the 1940s. The essay was based on a journal that her mother kept during this period, as well as letters written to her, many from men serving overseas in the war.

Emily Danforth, Providence, RI, completed new chapters and significant revisions for her second young adult novel, Side Talk with Girls, forthcoming from HarperCollins publishers. She also consulted on the film adaptation of her first novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

Stephanie Danler, Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY, was at work on the final edits of her first novel, Sweetbitter, to be published by Knopf in early 2016.

Kendra DeColo, Nashville, TN, revised and generated new work for her second poetry collection, My Dinner with Ron Jeremy, which was to be published by Third Man Books in May 2016. Poems written during her time at MacDowell have recently been accepted for publication by literary journals Gulf Coast and Ninth Letter.

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brooklyn, NY, finished edits of her debut novel, Here Comes the Sun, which was published in summer 2016. She also outlined and worked on her second novel, which is still in the works. Nicole has been included in Go Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” issue which highlighted her writing journey and inspiration.

Thomas Devaney, Philadelphia, PA, completed a draft of a book of poems entitled Noon. The book is a diurnal mediation on noon in three parts: Summer, Winter, and Noon in the Archives (Charles Burchfield’s archives). He received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2014.

Katy Didden, Eugene, OR, completed several new drafts, and substantial revisions for a new manuscript of lyric poems centered on ideas of pilgrimage. She also completed several new erasures for a hybrid verbal/visual manuscript titled The Lava on Iceland. While in residence she completed a critical essay, ‘The Eye Knows What to Skip’: Marianne Moore and the Environmental Poem, for the 21st Century Moore Conference in Houston, TX. Karim Dimechkie, New York, NY, completed a draft of his second book, Stagger Anyway, which is a novel told in interview form.

Linda Rui Feng, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, worked on finishing a novel about music, migration, and Maoist-era China and America. Her forthcoming scholarly study, a

Melenie Freedom Flynn, Truro, MA, completed a draft of her first book, I Gave You The Name of Freedom, a memoir about growing up in the backseat of Delilah, her parent’s big blue Ford LTD, as they drifted back and forth between the Rajneesh commune in Oregon and the casinos of Las Vegas during the 1980s. She received a residency from Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2013.

Darcy Frey, Cambridge, MA, worked on a memoir, The Faraway Child, to be published by Pantheon Books.

Jessica Garratt, Riverdale Park, MD, began working on a collection of poems for young adults, especially girls ages ten and older. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Redux.

Beatrix Gates, Penobscot, ME, researched and worked on poems for a new collection, involving astronomy and ways of seeing. She edited a forthcoming essay on the poet Jane Cooper, and an Arabic translation of Epiphany, from her collection, Dos has been published as “Song of Love,” thanks to another MacDowell Colony Fellow, on the Iraqi literature site: alnaked-aliraqi.net.

Jenny George, Santa Fe, NM, brought her manuscript of poems, First Material, to completion. Poems from the collection have appeared in Beloit Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, FIELD, Indiana Review, and Shenandoah. She received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize in 2013.

Gary Giddins, New York, NY, worked on the second volume of a biography of Bing Crosby, taking advantage of the between-semesters lull at CUNY Graduate Center to make serious headway. Norton released the new edition of his textbook Jazz, and University of Minnesota Press brought out a revised edition of Celebrating Bird (originally published in 1986).

Peter Gizzi, Holyoke, MA, worked on his new collection of poems entitled Archeophonics to be published in 2016 by Wesleyan. Archeophonics is the archeology of lost sound.

It is one way to understand the role of poetry through the centuries, recovering the buried sounds and shapes

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of languages in the tradition of the art, as well as the various private connections that lie undisclosed in various words in one’s emotional memory. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, and Howard Foundation.

Helen Hooper, Arlington, VA, completed a revision of her debut novel, Cardboard House. A recent Stegner Fellow at Stanford, her short fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Common, Bellevue Literary Review, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.

Robert Glick, Salt Lake City, UT, completed the middle sections of his novel The Paradox of Wonderwoman’s Airplane. Chapters from the novel have won the New Ohio Review and Summer Literary Seminar prose contests. A recent section was published in The Collagist.

Ginnah Howard, Gilbertsville, NY, worked on a collection of poetry titled If This is Trouble, Please Call Someone Else.

Book two of her Upstate novel trilogy was a The New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Emily Goldman, Ithaca, NY, worked on her first novel. She was recently awarded the Curt Johnson Prize in Fiction, judged by Joyce Carol Oates. Her winning story, “Face,” was published in December Magazine.

Adele Griffin, Brooklyn, NY, is currently at work on her 14th novel, Your Only Girl. Her previous novels, Sons of Liberty and Where I Want To Be, were finalists for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature.

Rachel Harper, West Hollywood, CA, worked on her third novel. Her second novel, This Side of Providence, will be published in 2016.

John Haskell, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a long fictional essay about a woman who, finding herself in a movie, wrestles with the role models she’s been given in her life.

His most recent work is a remembrance of the writer George Trow, in A Public Space.

Thomas Heise, Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, Canada, worked on a novel titled The Disquieting Muses. In 2015, he received a research and writing grant from the Creative Fund at Ryerson University, where he is a professor.

Noy Holland, Heath, MA, finished work on a long short story while in residence, as well as a few shorter fictions, which will become part of her fourth collection of stories.

She also made a few last revisions to Bird, her first novel, was forthcoming from Counterpoint in November 2015.

Jodie Hollander, Minturn, CO, completed her first fulllength collection of poems, Horse Bones. She also began work on a new project, a series of response poems to the French symbolist poet Rimbaud. She is the recipient of a Fulbright award and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Emma Hooper, Bath, UK, completed a first draft of a new novel slated for publication with Simon & Schuster in fall 2016. Her first novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, won numerous international accolades and was published in 18 languages and 23 countries.

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Samantha Hunt, Tivoli, NY worked on Mr. Splitfoot, a novel that was to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in January 2016; Beast, a story collection to be published in 2017; and a collection of essays that considers the ways we get haunted. Recent work has appeared in New York magazine and Tin House.

William Hunt, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Underground, a non-fiction book about humanity’s relationship to subterranean space, slated to be published by Random House in 2016. He also worked on a chapter about a threeday walk from the southern edge of Paris to the northern edge using only underground infrastructure. He received a New York Fellowship in the Arts grant in 2014.

Greg Jackson, Brunswick, ME, undertook significant revisions of his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Prodigals, to be published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. While in residence, stories from this collection were nominated for a National Magazine Award in Fiction and won a 2014 Balch Prize in Fiction.

Maya Jasanoff, Cambridge, MA, worked on the manuscript of her book about the life and times of Joseph Conrad.

An essay related to the project, describing her journey by cargo ship from China to England, appeared in the New York Review of Books in 2014.

Tyehimba Jess, Brooklyn NY, worked on final revisions for his second book of poetry, Olio, and starting his next project, which is untitled. His first book, Leadbelly, won the National Poetry Series in 2004.

Mario Kaiser, New York, NY, worked on three projects: a memoir about his grandfathers, who were soldiers in the German Army and disappeared in the final months of the Second World War; a story of narrative nonfiction about Israeli soldiers who oppose the occupation of the West Bank; and an essay about the criminal-justice system in the U.S. He is a co-author of the recently published Into the Heart of the World: Germany’s Best Reporters and Their Quest for Truth.

“Professionally, I was able to engage with a longer more ambitious book at a critical juncture. In addition, I was able to have the time and head space to experiment and explore shorter pieces. When inspiration knocked I was always available to open the door.”

—James Sturm, writer

Haven Kimmel, Durham, NC, worked on her ninth book, a literary horror novel focused on the death of the family farm in rural Indiana. It will be published in early 2017 by Algonquin Books. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, four novels, and two books for children.

Nicole Krauss, New York, NY, worked on her fourth novel while at MacDowell, a metaphysical book about the idea of wonder and transformation, about moving in the opposite direction from all that is known and accepted, in favor of a less certain and more radical life. Her last novel, Great House, was nominated for a National Book Award, and her work has been translated into more than 35 languages.

Bronwyn Lea, Brisbane, Australia, wrote poems for her next collection, Judicious Levity, which will be published in Australia by Giramondo Publications. Poems from this collection were presented to the Cork International Poetry Festival in 2016.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, New York, NY worked on a nonfiction book for Random House. It concerns contemporary American masculinity as told through the world of standup comedy. A profile of one of the comedians who appears in the book was published in the May 2013 issue of Harper’s.

LeBlanc, who is in the final stages of the project, has been working on the book for nearly 10 years.

Diana Keren Lee, Los Angeles, CA, continued working on her first collection of poems. Lee’s poetry addresses her Korean American heritage, Asian American representation in the media, environmental issues, and current events.

She recently received an M.F.A. from New York University.

Kathryn Levy, Sag Harbor, NY, worked on a poetry manuscript, The Machine that Abolishes Night. Some poems from the manuscript have already appeared in Cimarron Review, The Minnesota Review, and Hanging Loose Magazine. Her previous collection, Reports (New Rivers Press 2013), was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award.

Mimi Lipson, Kingston, NY, worked on a family memoir, which is forthcoming from Bloomsbury USA. Alessandra Lynch, Indianapolis, IN, worked on new meditative lyric poems for a fifth manuscript as well as the beginning of a new long poetic sequence for her fourth manuscript. Her third collection, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment, will be published by Alice James Books. Her poem Epidemic was published in the Antioch Review and featured on Poetry Daily.

Beth Macy, Roanoke, VA, completed a first draft and began revisions on her second book, a nonfiction narrative entitled Truevine. Her first book, the 2014 bestselling Factory Man, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.

Emily Maguire, Sydney NSW, Australia, began work on her sixth novel, a historical set in the Torres Strait Islands.

Her fifth novel, An Isolated Incident, was published by Pan Macmillan Australian in spring 2016.

Alia Malek, Cockeysville, MD, completed a third of her forthcoming memoir of family, house, and the country of Syria. The book traces the history of Syria through her family, going as far back as her great-grandfather, with heavy focus on her grandmother. In April 2011, Alia moved back to Syria to complete renovations on her grandmother’s house in Damascus. She has been unable to return since May 2013.

Corinne Manning, Vashon, WA, completed a collection of stories, We Had No Rules, that featured queer characters and the longing that societal limitations places on relationships. Work from the collection has appeared or is forthcoming from Story Quarterly and Southern Humanities Review. She also worked on the second draft of the novel Dirty Joke, about a closeted comedian whose brother goes missing.

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seat, the leather chair, the fireplace window seat, and on the lawn. Her next book, Why We Write About Ourselves, was published by Penguin in January 2016.

Ben Marcus, New York, NY, drafted and revised several new short stories, and circled around the beginning of a novel.

Mesha Maren, Alderson, WV, drafted several new short stories and worked on final edits on her novel, Sugar Run (Algonquin Books, 2017). Mesha’s short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Oxford American, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial.

“By far, the most important element is meeting the other colonists, and learning about their work.

Maintaining a high quality of artistry remains the imprimatur of a MacDowell stay. I’m very proud to count myself as one of the Fellows.

And of course, the amazing silence and the respect paid to artists.

Often, it is easy for writers to forget that we are also artists. MacDowell is critically important because it serves as a reminder of that — I found time to roam, to get lost, to meander in the dark, confronting fear, impatience and not knowing, but eventually arriving — the artist’s path in a nutshell. Thank you!

—Sarah Broom, writer

Peter Manseau, Annapolis, MD, completed half of a narrative history of spiritualism and photography in America, as told through the lives of 19th century “spirit photographers,” who claimed they could take pictures of ghosts. This work will be published as The Apparitionists by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2016.

Meredith Maran, Oakland, CA, wrote the first 75 pages of her new memoir Old Bitch, New Tricks, to be published

by Penguin in 2017. She also wrote a book review for The Chicago Tribune and completed her project entitled Using Every Square Inch of Calderwood for the Creation of Literature, writing chapters at the desk, in the loft, the bathtub window

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Laura Marris, Brooklyn, NY, finished a draft of her translation of Louis Guilloux’s novel Le Sang Noir to be published by the New York Review of Books Classics series in 2015. She also worked on Night Palace, her first collection of poems. She is the recipient of a 2013 Daniel Varoujian award from the New England Poetry Club and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship from Boston University.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Cambridge, MA, completed a draft of her nonfiction book, Any One of Us. The book is to be published by Flatiron, a division of Macmillan, in 2017, and is expected to be published in the UK, the Netherlands, and Taiwan. The research and writing of the book has been supported by a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (2014) and a Rona Jaffe Award (2010), as well as residencies at Yaddo (2011, 2012) and a previous residency at MacDowell (2011).

Albert Mobilio, Brooklyn, NY, wrote a significant portion of his forthcoming book of short fictions titled Games and Stunts. This book is forthcoming from Black Square Editions.

Quince Mountain, Mountain, WI, completed an especially difficult section of his book of narrative nonfiction, You Are A Prince, dealing with masculinity and unlikely self-help.

He also began work on a radio essay.

Mai Nardone, San Francisco, CA, completed the first draft of his short story collection titled Welcome Me to the Kingdom, which takes place in Thailand. Mai’s recent stories have appeared in American Short Fiction and The Iowa Review.

Jimmy Newborg, Brooklyn, NY, came to MacDowell to work on a novel, but from the moment he arrived he was unable to work on anything but a memoir project called Abandonado. It follows his life in the year after his boyfriend’s death in a bicycle accident in 2013, and the two and a half years they were together prior to the accident.

Ngwah-Mbo Nkweti, Iowa City, IA, is a CameroonianAmerican writer and recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop whose work has been featured in numerous magazines, journals, and online publications. She is currently completing Like Walking on Cowry Shells - a linked short-story collection that focuses on the lives of hyphenated-Americans who share her multi-culti heritage in the United States and Africa.

Kate Northrop, Laramie, WY, wrote a number of new poems to be included in her 4th poetry collection forthcoming from Persea Books. She is a 2014 recipient of the Jeanette Haien Ballard Writers Award, an award given annually for a young writer of proven excellence in poetry or prose.

Dennis Nurkse, Brooklyn, NY, worked on sequencing and individual poems for a new manuscript which touches on time, the immigrant experience, and the heritage of the wars of the last century, alternating between prose and lyric poems. His work appears in the 2013, 2014, and 2015 editions of Best American Poetry. His most recent book is A Night in Brooklyn (Knopf, 2012).

Lu Olkowski, Brooklyn, NY, edited 37 hours of audio footage that will become an hour-long documentary and a series of audio pieces distributed as a podcast. This work, tentatively titled Golden Girls, is a continuation of Cargoland, which chronicles the hidden stories of longshoremen and a vanishing industry. She received a 2015 Regional Murrow Award for Cargoland.

Susan Orlean, Studio City, CA, continued work on a forthcoming book about the Los Angeles Public Library

and the catastrophic arson fire there in 1986. The book will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2016. Orlean was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction.

Amanda Padoan, Gava, Barcelona, Spain, worked on her second book. Her first book, Buried in the Sky, received the NCTE George Orwell Award, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ award for non-fiction in 2012.

William Patten, Mount Desert, ME, his initial book project on the U.S. public’s perception of the U.S. penal system did not materialize. He completed dozens of poems and a first draft of a two-act play based on a men’s group in Worcester, MA. He also read to MacDowell Fellows from these poems and his published book, My Three Fathers.

Ed Pavlic, Athens, GA, completed and edited a final draft manuscript of his novel, Another Kind of Madness, which takes place between Chicago and the coastal region of Kenya. The atmosphere of the world is in constant interaction with the music of the Chicago-born soul singer, Chaka Khan. His book entitled, Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: INFERNO was a National Poetry Series Selection for 2015.

Jen Percy, Brooklyn, NY, worked on drafting a new nonfiction book and completed several long form articles based on reporting from Iraq and Syria.

Amanda Petrusich, Brooklyn, NY, completed several pieces for a new collection of essays based loosely on the idea of epiphany. Her most recent book, Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm

“I felt so supported, and everyone I interacted with, from administration to staff, was without fail considerate, helpful, and welcoming. I really enjoyed the community of artists and met a bunch of people who I’m sure will be friends for a long time to come.”

—Michael Agresta, writer

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Records was released in paperback this year, and her criticism and reporting continue to appear regularly in The New York Times and the Oxford American.

Nina Puro, Brooklyn, NY, wrote a “long poem” that turned out to be longer than book-length as well as a few dozen unrelated poems; they will likely form a second collection.

She also revised a first manuscript, which she thought was finished. Her work has been published in several dozen tiny lit journals, some of which are well-regarded by the minuscule number of poetry readers in existence.

Kirstin Valdez Quade, Decatur, GA, worked on her novel, which is set in northern New Mexico. Her story collection, Night at the Fiestas (Norton), was released in March 2015 and received a “5 Under 35 Award” from the National Book Foundation. Beginning in the fall of 2016, she will begin teaching as an assistant professor at Princeton University.

Kelly Ramsey, Austin, TX, completed new work and revisions for her collection, Finding a Man in America. Her prose recently appeared in Hobart and Covered with Fur. Elizabeth Reeder, Glasgow, UK, is originally from Chicago and started her next novel at MacDowell. Her previous novels are Ramshackle and Fremont. Ramshackle was shortlisted for a Saltire Book Award in 2012 and a Scottish Mortgage Investment Literary Award in 2013. She teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow.

Nancy Reisman, Nashville, TN, worked on new short stories. Her second novel, Trompe L’Oeil, was published in May 2015 by way of Tin House Books.

Frances Richey, New York, NY, finished the first draft of a poetry collection and worked intermittently on a small fiction piece that she anticipates will become a novella someday. Additionally, Frances wrote deep into a memoir that she had begun before her time at MacDowell.

Robin Romm, Portland, OR, worked on a memoir about working with mothers in prisons, and on motherhood more generally. She completed about 100 draft pages while in residence. Additionally, she worked on her forthcoming book, Double Bind: Women on Ambition, which is forthcoming from Liveright.

Jacob Rubin, New York, NY, worked on his second novel, a follow up to his debut, The Poser, which was published by Viking in March of 2015. He also began work on two new short stories.

Anne Sanow, St. Louis, MO, worked toward completion of her second book, a novel titled The Dailies. She also began work on her next project, a novel set in the Middle East focusing on military characters during the era of “Don’t 28 MACDOWELL 2015

Ask, Don’t Tell.” She received an NEA fellowship in 2010.

Rebecca Schiff, Brooklyn, NY, worked on several stories that will be in her second story collection. Her first story collection, The Bed Moved, was published by Knopf in spring 2016.

Salvatore Scibona, New Haven, CT, continued work on a novel, the opening chapter of which appeared in The New Yorker in 2010. The first draft of his first novel, The End, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, was completed at MacDowell during his first stay in 2004. A new short story came out in Harper’s during his residency at MacDowell.

Courtney Sender, Baltimore, MD, completed final revisions to her first novel (working title The God of Longing). The novel follows three characters from each of the Abrahamic religions as they move in and out of one another’s lives over the course of 40 years. She was the American Short Fiction featured author of the month, and Glimmer Train featured her story Even Angels are Astonished as the Fiction Open contest first-place winner.

Diane Seuss, Kalamazoo, MI, completed revisions on her fourth collection of poetry, Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf Press, 2018). She also generated new work while in residency. Her third book, Four Legged Girl, was published by Graywolf Press in October 2015 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016.

Solmaz Sharif, Oakland, CA, worked on her first collection of poems, Look, and began a second collection that deals with exile. In 2014, she was awarded a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, and a Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.

Kent Shaw, Huntington, WV, finished assembling the poems for his third manuscript of poems, tentatively titled The Definitions of Lucky Are Too Numerous. His poems have appeared in The Believer, Ploughshares, Boston Review, and elsewhere.

Joshua Shenk, Santa Monica, CA, is an essayist and curator based in Los Angeles and in Las Vegas, where he directs the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. He’s the author of Lincoln’s Melancholy and Powers of Two, a study of creative intimacy.

Eric Slater, New York, NY, completed the first draft of a memoir to be published by Melville House in 2017. He is a former journalist and in 1998 shared in a Pulitzer for breaking news.

Evan Dalton Smith, Beacon, NY, completed work on a book of literary nonfiction, Looking for Andy Griffith, which is forthcoming from UNC Press.

James Sturm, Hartland, VT, worked on his graphic novel, a follow-up to his award winning 2008 book Market Day. In addition, James cartooned short stories for print and performance (working with musically inclined Fellows).

Lynne Tillman, New York, NY, worked on her sixth novel, Men and Apparitions. Her collection of essays, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? was nominated and became a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Ruchika Tomar, Brooklyn, NY, completed a new draft of her manuscript, Travellers. Tomar is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine, and Columbia University’s M.F.A. program. In 2015, she was named one of the New York Center for Fiction’s Emerging Writer Fellows.

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, South Bend, IN, completed work on her second novel, a bizarre love story and the journey of a lifetime through the Western Mediterranean.

The novel in progress is a somewhat fantastic and darkly comic exploration of the relationship between literature, space, and mortality from the point of view of a narrator who suffers from intense bouts of literature sickness.

Lara Vapnyar, New York, NY, worked on her third novel, Virtual Grave. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

G.C. Waldrep, Lewisburg, PA, continued work on an extended eco-poetical cycle entitled Glebelands. He also completed drafting a separate manuscript, tentatively entitled Hive Artifact, that he began at MacDowell in 2012. His most recent publications include a long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013).

Tommy Wallach, Brooklyn, NY, finished his second novel, Thanks For The Trouble, and wrote the first half of his third novel, half of a feature-length screenplay, and a number of songs. He also did final line edits on his debut novel, We All Look Up, which was published March of 2015, and has been optioned for film by Paramount Pictures.

Dawnie Walton, Brooklyn, NY, continued work on her first novel, Aural History: The Story of Opal & Nev, and completed a new short story, Only One. A journalist and digital media consultant, she will be using much of the work she created at MacDowell in applications for M.F.A. programs and fiction fellowship opportunities.

Robin Wasserman, Brooklyn, NY, completed the final draft of her novel, Girls on Fire, which was published by HarperCollins in 2016. She also researched and wrote the first in a series of essays about photography, memory, and the construction of personal narrative.

Ellen Doré Watson, Conway, MA, wrote new work and shaped old to complete her sixth book of poetry, Pray Me Stay Eager. In November 2014, she was featured reader at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in the U.K. Her most recent work of translation is The Mystical Rose, Selected Poems by Adelia Prado (Bloodaxe Books, 2014).

Susan Wicks, Kent, UK, worked on new poems and short fiction. Her second translated book of poems by the French poet Valerie Rouzeau recently won the OxfordWeidenfeld Prize. Her seventh collection of poems will be published by Bloodaxe in 2016.

Paige Williams, Tupelo, MS, a staff writer at The New Yorker, worked on a book of narrative journalism called The Dinosaur Artist, about fossil smuggling, the earth sciences, and the global obsession with natural history.

The book expanded Williams’s 2013 New Yorker story “Bones of Contention.”

Julia Wolf, Berlin, Germany, finished a new draft of her novel Walter Nowak bleibt liegen, which is the second part of a trilogy. The first part, Alles ist jetzt, published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt in February 2015 received the Lotto Brandenburg Kunstpreis for literature 2015.

Rebecca Wolff, Hudson, NY, worked on a draft of a novel called, A Cinch, and wrote some poems for a fifth book.

Her fourth book of poems, One Morning--, is forthcoming from Wave Books.

Anya Yurchyshyn, Brooklyn, NY worked on her memoir, My Dead Parents, which will be released by Crown in 2016. In 2015, her short story “The Director,” originally published in NOON, was included in Queen’s Ferry Press’ Best Small Fictions of 2015 anthology.

Alexi Zentner, Ithaca, NY, worked on a novel tentatively titled Destroyer of Worlds, focusing on the men and women who developed – and dropped – the first nuclear weapons.

His second novel, The Lobster Kings, was recently shortlisted for an Ontario Library award for general adult fiction, and for the New England Society Book Awards.

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EVENTS

2015 Benefit Participants (L-R) Lauren Adams, John Hodgman, Michael Chabon, Michael Almereyda, John Palladino, Maya Beiser, Michael Harrison, Ruben Santiago Hudson.

National Benefit in NYC Raises the Roof

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collaboration between the two Fellows and cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser. Ruben Santiago-Hudson read an excerpt from James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, which Baldwin worked on during a 1954 residency at the Colony.

Cellist Maya Beiser’s mesmerizing performance of Just Ancient Loops, a piece

by Michael Harrison and Bill Morrison, was a highlight of the program portion of the National Benefit.

TOP: STEVEN TUCKER; BOTTOM: BRIAN SARGENT

Comedian and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman made for a supremely entertaining emcee at MacDowell’s 2015 National Benefit on May 18. Chairman Michael Chabon hosted the annual event, which brought in nearly $420,000 in critical operating funds for the Colony. The evening highlighted the work of nine extraordinary artists.

Carrie Mae Weems’s magnificent photographs greeted an audience of 275 supporters, artists, and friends as they arrived at The TimesCenter, home of The New York Times, in midtown Manhattan. The Art of Journalism was brought to the fore with readings from the works of Sheri Fink, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Michael Paterniti. Filmmakers Michael Almereyda and Dee Rees shared their latest projects. Composer Michael Harrison and Filmmaker Bill Morrison presented their piece, Just Ancient Loops – a

Martin Scorsese, Lin-Manuel Miranda Join Michael Chabon for Chairman’s Evening Lin-Manuel Miranda and Martin Scorsese talked about the impact of music on their work, their influences, and more with MacDowell Colony Chairman Michael Chabon at the third annual Chairman’s Evening on December 7, 2015 at the New Museum for Contemporary Art. Chabon interviewed the two iconic artists at this exclusive annual member event to showcase the kind of high-octane conversation about creativity that takes place at the Colony every day. The Oscar-winning director and the Tonywinning playwright, performer, and composer offered their own intimate looks into their creative influences. Watch the entire discussion as well as five short excerpts from the evening at MacDowell’s Vimeo page at: vimeo.com/ themacdowellcolony.

NH Benefit Nets Important Support Spring came to the Colony just in time for our annual New Hampshire Benefit. On April 11th, Fellows Florent Ghys and Elna Baker performed at this sold-out event.

Held on the grounds of the Colony in Savidge Library and Bond Hall, with dinner prepared by Colony Chef Scott Tyle, this annual event brings together artists-in-residence, board, Friends of MacDowell, and business leaders from around the Monadnock region and beyond. More than $40,000 was raised in support of the residency program.

MacDowell Rocks Berlin!

The annual Friends of MacDowell trip explored the sights, sounds, and artist spaces of Berlin the week of October 4-10. Highlights included a house concert with jazz percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck (14), a toast with Berlin Philharmonic conductor Sir Simon Rattle following a performance of Beethoven, a viewing

of Heiko Kalmbach’s (04) work at the German Historical Museum, and visits to the studios of S.E. Barrett (14) and other artists in the Kunstfabrik, a factory turned artist workspace that was once part of the Berlin Wall.

Special thanks to Deutsche Bank, Marylea van Daalen, and tour guide Tarek Ibrahim.

Friends Trips & Outings We held a joint fundraiser with the Rock On Foundation in January, an exhibition tour with Sascha Braunig in March and a tour of the new Whitney Museum with Akosua Adoma Owusu in May. The Friends of MacDowell also saw the Broadway revival of On The Town (Bernstein), had talkbacks with Lisa Kron following Fun Home on Broadway in April, and with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ after watching Gloria OffBroadway in June. Julia Jacquette hosted a live radio event during the Miami UNTITLED Art Fair heard on local arts station Wynwood Radio on December 3.

The segment featured original sound art by William Cordova, Adriana Corral, and Alma Leiva; interviews with Tamar Ettun and Jim Gaylord; and a playlist curated by MacDowell Chairman Michael Chabon.

Salons: March 24, 2015: NYC Salon at the home of Szilvia SzmukTanenbaum featuring writer Suki Kim April 23, 2015: Boston Salon at the home of Betty and Russ Gaudreau, featuring writer Tommy Wallach November 3, 2015: Boston Salon at the home of Ann and Ed Kania, featuring composer Vadim Neselyovski November 18, 2015: NYC Salon at the home of Diane Posnak, featuring playwright Annie Baker

JOHN MARTIN

2015 Chairman’s Evening Hosted by Michael Chabon with guests Lin Manuel Miranda and Martin Scorsese.

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(Clockwise from top left): Chairman Michael Chabon, Executive Director Cheryl A. Young, Resident Director David Macy, WQXR radio host Terrance McKnight, President Susan Davenport Austin, and composer Yehudi Wyner gather in front of the library shortly before the Medal ceremony.

Medal Day: Gunther Schuller In 2015, we recognized music composition on a day glorious for its perfect weather. Nearly 1,100 people gathered at the MacDowell Colony Sunday, August 9 to commemorate composer, educator, and conductor Gunther Schuller as the 56th Edward MacDowell Medalist. It was also a day to celebrate “the creative spirit that he embodied so durably and so inexhaustibly,” said author Michael Chabon in opening the Medal Day ceremony in his capacity as Chairman of the MacDowell Board. Before he could accept the award, Schuller died at the age of 89 on June 21 as preparations were underway for his visit to the Colony.

Public radio host Terrance McKnight memorialized Schuller before celebrated composer and pianist Yehudi Wyner spoke about his friend. Wyner accepted the Medal on behalf of the Schuller family.

Schuller was named the 2015 Medalist in April by a selection committee that included composers Augusta Read Thomas, Sebastian Currier, Aaron Jay Kernis, Paul Moravec, David Rakowski, Alvin Singleton, and Melinda Wagner.

Following the award ceremony at the free public event, guests enjoyed picnic lunches on Colony grounds and then toured the paths of the Colony’s 450 acres to visit 31 open studios. The annual event offers the public the rare opportunity to visit with artists-in-residence to experience what’s happening on the leading edge of contemporary arts around the world.

Since 1960, The MacDowell Colony has awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal to an artist of enduring vision and creativity who has made a timeless contribution to American culture. The artistic discipline in which the award is given rotates to celebrate all the creative fields practiced at MacDowell.

“ Before he was twenty, he was in the Cincinnati Orchestra and soon after in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. But he was already composing and arranging, insatiable in his appetite for all styles of music including jazz. It was not long before he gave up horn playing to devote himself to composing, conducting, and all manner of musical enterprises.”

Chairman Michael Chabon and presentation speakers composer Yehudi Wyner and radio host Terrance McKnight share a laugh on stage.

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— Yehudi Wyner on his friend Gunther Schuller

(Clockwise from far left): Visual artist David Opdyke talks about his work in Alexander Studio with visitors; presentation speakers Terrance McKnight and Yehudi Wyner share a laugh on the way to the Medal Day tent; writer Donald Antrim speaks with a visitor in Calderwood during open studios in the afternoon.

MEDALISTS 2014 Betye Saar, visual artist 2013 Stephen Sondheim, composer 2012 Nan Goldin, photographer 2011 Edward Albee, playwright 2010 Sonny Rollins, composer 2009 Kiki Smith, visual artist 2008 Thom Mayne, architect 2007 Les Blank, filmmaker 2006 Alice Munro, writer 2005 Steve Reich, composer 2004 Nam June Paik, visual artist 2003 Merce Cunningham, interdisciplinary artist 2002 Robert Frank, photographer 2001 Philip Roth, writer 2000 Lou Harrison, composer 1999 Ellsworth Kelly, visual artist 1998 I.M. Pei, architect 1997 Chuck Jones, filmmaker

1996 Joan Didion, writer 1995 George Crumb, composer 1994 Jasper Johns, visual artist 1993 Harry Callahan, photographer 1992 Richard Wilbur, writer 1991 David Diamond*, composer 1990 Louise Bourgeois, visual artist 1989 Stan Brakhage, filmmaker 1988 William Styron, writer 1987 Leonard Bernstein*, composer 1986 Lee Friedlander, photographer 1985 Robert Motherwell, visual artist 1984 Mary McCarthy, writer 1983 Elliott Carter, composer 1982 Isamu Noguchi, visual artist 1981 John Updike, writer 1980 Samuel Barber, composer 1979 John Cheever, writer 1978 Richard Diebenkorn,

visual artist 1977 Virgil Thomson*, composer 1976 Lillian Hellman, writer 1975 Willem de Kooning, visual artist 1974 Walter Piston, composer 1973 Norman Mailer, writer 1972 Georgia O’Keeffe, visual artist 1971 William Schuman, composer 1970 Eudora Welty, writer 1969 Louise Nevelson, visual artist 1968 Roger Sessions, composer 1967 Marianne Moore, writer 1966 Edward Hopper, visual artist 1965 Edgard Varese, composer 1964 Edmund Wilson, writer 1963 Alexander Calder, visual artist 1962 Robert Frost, writer 1961 Aaron Copland*, composer 1960 Thornton Wilder*, writer

*MacDowell Colony Fellow

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ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY

MacDowell Fellows engage members of the local

community each year in numerous programs and venues that offer opportunities to meet the artists and experience the art created at the Colony.

From January through December of 2015, 34 Colony Fellows volunteered to share their work in the community. These efforts reached more than 3,000 adults and children in groups large and small in the Monadnock region. In addition to the formal community programs outlined below, the Colony maintains a partnership with the Peterborough Town Library through its MacDowell Collection, which consists of donated works by MacDowell Fellows. Via this collection, members of the public enjoy access to music, films, books, and other media created at the Colony.

MacDowell in the Schools MacDowell in the Schools, begun in 1996, brings the excitement of the creative process to classrooms in the Monadnock region. Students in grade school, high school, and college all benefit from the time and expertise of MacDowell Fellows as they share their passion and their work with the next generation of artists and art lovers. The following MacDowell Fellows volunteered time during their residencies in 2015 to go into a local school to share their expertise and work with students: Composer David Rakowski, interdisciplinary performance artist Alexander Rosenberg, poet Sharon Charde, playwright Mashuq Deen, visual artist Benjy Davies, writer Anya Yurchyshyn, composers Christopher Cerrone, Vadim Neselovskyi, and Laura Schwendinger, playwright Jeremy O. Harris, photographer LaMont Hamilton, visual artist Ian Gerson, mixed visual artist David Birkin, and visual artist Jeremy Dean.

MacDowell Downtown Launched in 2002, MacDowell Downtown is a series of free presentations by MacDowell artists that takes place on the first Friday of the month from March to November in downtown Peterborough. Each season of MacDowell Downtown features a wide array of programming, including film screenings, readings, visual presentations, performances, talks, and more.

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Performance artist Aja Nisenson entertains at MacDowell Downtown in October.

The following artists shared their work with the public at MacDowell Downtown during 2015: Filmmaker Katarzyna Płazinska, multidisciplinary artist Deke Weaver, writer Michael Agresta, composer Scott Wheeler, composer Vadim Neselovskyi, composer Frank Carlberg, playwright and performer Aja Nisenson, and actor, playwright, and spoken-word artist Richard Montoya.

Other Engagement Throughout the year, members of MacDowell’s staff — acting as representatives of the Colony — participate in meetings, events, and conferences around the world in an effort to sustain and further develop the Colony’s image as an important cultural institution. MacDowell Fellows

Chu received a briefing on Colony operations and sat down with current artists-in-residence in Savidge Library.

Accompanying her for those activities and a luncheon were Laura Scanlan (NEA), Elizabeth Auclair (NEA), Van McLeod (Commissioner, NH Dept of Cultural Resources) and Ginnie Lupi (Director, NH State Council on the Arts).

Later that week, Jasper Johns, visual artist and 1994 Edward MacDowell Medal recipient, visited the Colony with Carlos Basualdo, senior curator of contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum. Cheryl Young and David Macy answered questions about how the residency program works and gave the two guests a tour of Calderwood, Firth and Heinz studios, where they had a chance to meet the artists working in each.

Visual artist Benjy Davies brought his experience and drawing expertise to ConVal High School art studio students.

also host visitors to their studios, share their work at local venues, and present their work at meetings MacDowell holds with other community-based organizations in New Hampshire. Below, we share highlights of a few of these efforts that took place in 2015.

FEBRUARY Contoocook Valley Regional High School convened a weekly faculty meeting in February in the Eugene Coleman Savidge Library. Resident Director David Macy spoke about the history of MacDowell as well as the MacDowell in the Schools program, and the program’s coordinator, Ann Hayashi, discussed the various artists and classes that have taken part in the program.

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INDIGENT BOHEMIANS The Indigent Bohemians, a band of rotating members made up of MacDowell Fellows, had a busy summer and fall of 2015. The band performed at numerous open mic nights, typically Wednesday evenings, at Harlow’s Pub in downtown Peterborough. The members of the band included (in order of seasonal appearance) Liza Birkenmeier, Scott Wheeler, Luke Jaeger, Lembit Beecher, Noah Doely, Sophie Cash, Emily Goldman, and Aja Nisenson.

MAY Savidge Library hosted the annual meeting of the NH Chapter of American Institute of Architects. David Macy presented a short history of MacDowell and was then joined by Brent Buck (TWBTA project architect) and Tim Groesbeck (general contractor) for a discussion of the design development and execution of the Savidge Library expansion.

JUNE Executive Director Cheryl Young and Resident Director David Macy hosted a visit by NEA Chairman Jane Chu.

MacDowell board member Bob Larsen hosted Paul Staller, development director of the Currier Museum of Art of Manchester, NH, for an informational meeting and luncheon at Colony Hall.

A BBC crew visited MacDowell to film and interview artistin-residence Maya Jasanoff for a forthcoming production.

They recorded inside and outside Savidge Library.

Writers Donald Antrim and Alex Halberstadt visited Peterborough to take part in the 8th annual art and music festival “The Thing in the Spring.” Both read and signed books at Toadstool Bookshop in downtown Peterborough.

SEPTEMBER Thirty-seven members of the Monadnock Writers’ Group met at Savidge Library in September for their monthly meeting while their regular meeting place was being remodeled. Communications Manager Jonathan Gourlay spoke about MacDowell’s Journalism Initiative, explaining the impetus of the project and its goals. He explained the need to support long-form nonfiction writers and then introduced two writers-in-residence, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. Each described their current projects and explained how programs like The MacDowell Colony are vital to ensuring that deeply reported journalistic projects like theirs eventually see the light of day.

OCTOBER Ed Ford brought 16 third- and fourth-year architecture students from the University of Virginia to MacDowell as part of an assignment: design a studio for interdisciplinary artists. Resident Director David Macy spoke to the group about how MacDowell works and explained the desired functionality of the new studio.

They studied a model of a studio designed by Charles Rose Architects (Rose is a former student of Ford) and then visited the construction site, the amphitheater, the log cabin, and Adams Studio.

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GIFTS

Support for residencies and studios

comes in the form of contributions to underwrite Fellowships for artists and to maintain studios and residency buildings. These are essential in helping MacDowell continue its mission. With major gifts designated for Fellowships, the Colony is able to carry on its tradition of accepting artists solely on the basis of talent. In all, 94 annual and endowed Fellowships, and six annual and endowed studio maintenance grants were given in 2015 thanks to the generosity of many friends of the Colony.

ANNUAL FELLOWSHIPS Annual Fellowships are contributions designated by the donor to help offset the cost of one or more residencies in the year the gift is made.

Anonymous Kirstin Valdez Quade In recognition of an anonymous donor’s generous gift to MacDowell’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist working in any discipline.

The William Banks Fellowship Nancy Reisman In recognition of board member William Banks for his generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency in any discipline.

The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Fellowship Mashuq Deen This fellowship supports artists working in LGBT-themed, performance-based disciplines that examine historical contexts.

John S. Carroll Fellowship Paige Williams This fellowship was established in 2015 by Neil Pearlstine to honor John S. Carroll, the late veteran editor of The Baltimore Sun and Los Angeles Times. The Fellowship supports MacDowell’s Art of Journalism Initiative.

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Mary Carswell Fellowship James Trainor In recognition of board member Mary Carswell for her generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency in any discipline.

Michael Chabon Fellowship Aurora Nealand In recognition of board member and Chairman Michael Chabon’s generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency in any discipline.

Fred and Laura Clarke Fellowship Alice Attie In recognition of board member Fred Clarke and Laura Clarke, his wife, for their generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency in any discipline.

Aaron Copland Fellowship Vadim Neselovskyi This annual fellowship established in 2014 by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music supports an artist working in musical composition.

Markos and Eleni Kounalakis Fellowship Jennifer Percy This fellowship was established in 2015 by Markos Kounalakis, a broadcast and print journalist and author, and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, his wife and former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, and supports MacDowell’s Art of Journalism Initiative.

Edward MacDowell’s log cabin is no longer occupied by artists, but served as the prototype for our 32 studios.

The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships Mike McKay, Elizabeth Hoffman, Kelly Sears, Grisha Coleman, Alan Nakagawa, Ana Candida Carneiro, Bethany Collins, Andrés Cerpa, Caro Clark, and Jesse Aron Green The National Endowment for the Arts awarded an Artist Communities grant to MacDowell in 2015 to help support residencies for emerging artists from diverse backgrounds and artistic disciplines who have not previously worked at the Colony.

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Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship Julia Rommel In recognition of board member Robert Olmsted and Stephanie Olmsted, his wife, for their generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency in any discipline.

The Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Fellowship Caroline O’Donnell In recognition of Pelli Clarke Pelli’s generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency in any discipline.

Thomas and Barbara Putnam Fellowship Valerie Hegarty In recognition of board member Thomas and Barbara Putnam’s generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, this fellowship supports an artist residency for a printmaker.

Andrew and Barbara Senchak Fellowship Nikole Bouchard In recognition of board members Andrew and Barbara Senchak for their generous gifts to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit, these fellowships supporting artist residencies in any discipline were named in their honor.

Anne Stark and Kurt Locher Fellowship Rachel Perry This fellowship to support the residency of a photographer was established by MacDowell board member Anne Stark Locher and Kurt Locher, her husband, with their generous gifts to The MacDowell Colony’s National Benefit.

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The TransCanada Fellowship Carl Hazlewood A 2013 grant from TransCanada Corporation supports this fellowship for New York City-based artists.

Ilse Traulsen Fellowship David Opdyke This fellowship supports artists working in all disciplines and was established with a generous 2013 gift from board member Ilse Traulsen.

The Vilcek Foundation Fellowship Mario Kaiser This fellowship was established to support a journalist or artist in any discipline who has immigrated to the United States.

ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS These Fellowships, based on investment income from gifts held in the Colony’s endowment fund, provide support in perpetuity for one or more residencies each year.

Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship, est. 1999 Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Friends and family of Nadya Aisenberg, a poet, author, scholar, and Colony Fellow, established this fellowship in her memory to support the residency of a female poet.

Perennials add some color along the edge of MacDowell’s kitchen vegetable garden.

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Benny Andrews Fellowship, est. 2012 Lavar Munroe The Andrews Humphrey Family Foundation donated this fellowship in tribute to late MacDowell Fellow and board member Benny Andrews to support visual artists who advance the diversity of The MacDowell Colony’s residency program.

Milton and Sally Avery Fellowships, est. 1983 Ann Pibal and Whiting Tennis The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, in tribute to the memory of Milton Avery, a Colony Fellow, endowed a fellowship for a painter of outstanding ability. In 1990, Mrs. Avery, also a Colony Fellow and a board member from 1989-2003, expanded the fund to provide for two Fellowships.

Cathrine Boettcher Fellowship, est. 1991 Emily Bernard Cathrine Boettcher Felding, a longtime supporter and friend of the Colony, established through her will a fund to support residencies at MacDowell.

Eleanor Briggs Fellowship, est. 2005 Lara Baladi, Helen Hooper, Charles Fairbanks, and Denise Marika These fellowships for artists of all disciplines honor board member Eleanor Briggs for her outstanding support of The MacDowell Colony’s Campaign for the Second Century.

Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship, est. 1985 Christopher Cerrone The Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship for composers was established by the board of directors in recognition of Mrs. Crofts’ very generous support of the Colony, her devotion to music, and her commitment to helping provide creative opportunities for modern composers.

Nancy Decker Dougherty Fellowship, est. 2013 Mimi Lipson The Estate of Nancy Decker Dougherty, who was a nonfiction writer and a Fellow, endowed one fellowship for a woman writer over 45 interested in non-fiction writing.

Ewing Fellowship, est. 2003 Alia Malek A fellowship for a creative artist at MacDowell was endowed by Ruth Ewing, a longtime friend of the Colony and board member from 1975-2000, and her husband, Jim Ewing, a member of the board of directors from 1961-1975 and its vice president from 1966-1974.

Writer Corinne Manning was in residence in late summer.

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Stanford Calderwood Fellowships, est. 1998 Sharon Charde, Deirdre Boyle, Maya Jasanoff, Meredith Maran, Donald Antrim, and Deni Bechard To repay writers for the joys of a lifetime of pleasurable reading, Stanford Calderwood, a member of the board of directors from 1968-1978 and its treasurer from 19711977, established a fund to support the residencies of all writers who work in Calderwood Studio.

Mary Carswell Fellowship, est. 2006 Beth Macy This fellowship honors board member Mary Carswell for her outstanding support of The MacDowell Colony’s Campaign for the Second Century.

Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship, est. 2015 Cathleen Bailey In honor of literary agent Charlotte Sheedy’s achievements in cultivating diversity in contemporary literature, this fellowship supports writers whose work explores cultural differences.

Ann Cox Chambers Fellowship, est. 2012 William Patten, Catina Bacote, and Lu Olkowski MacDowell board member Anne Cox Chambers endowed three fellowships to seed MacDowell’s Art of Journalism Initiative.

Gerald Freund Fellowship, est. 1996 Petrina Crockford Friends of Gerald Freund, an advisor to and longtime friend of the Colony, established a fellowship for emerging writers in honor of his 40-year career in philanthropy and his commitment to funding exceptionally creative individuals in the arts and sciences.

Isabella Gardner Fellowship, est. 1982 Kendra DeColo The family and friends of Isabella Gardner, as a tribute and a memorial, established this fellowship for a young female poet.

Wilder Green Fellowship, est. 2006 Anthony Alofsin The Wilder Green Art Fund, in tribute to former MacDowell board member and architect Wilder Green, endowed a fellowship for an architect of exceptional ability.

John Hargraves & Nancy Newcomb Fellowship, est. 2005 Julia Wolf and Karinne Keithley Syers These fellowships for artists of all disciplines honor board member John Hargraves and his wife Nancy Newcomb for their outstanding support of The MacDowell Colony’s Campaign for the Second Century.

Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship, est. 1989 Benjy Davies The Heathcote Art Foundation, in tribute to its founder and benefactor, Josephine Mercy Heathcote, an 18thcentury decorative arts scholar and collector, endowed a Fellowship for an artist of exceptional ability.

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Ernest and Red Heller Fellowships, est. 2004 Richard Montoya and Ngwah-Mbo Nkweti Rose “Red” Heller, a longtime friend of the Colony, board member from 1980-2002, and director emerita from 2002-2003, established through her will a fund to support fellowships for two creative artists each year.

Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship, est. 2008 Darcy Courteau In memory of best-selling novelist Rona Jaffe, the Rona Jaffe Foundation endowed a Fellowship for an emerging woman writer. The fellowship carries a stipend of $2,500.

Kate and George Kendall Fellowships, est. 1990 Anne Finger and Peter Manseau Friends of the Kendalls established this fellowship as a tribute to George Kendall, general director of the Colony from 1951-1971. In 1999, the fund’s endowment received a generous bequest from George Kendall.

Lincoln Financial Fellowship, est. 1990 Beatrix Gates Chubb Life America made a grant to establish a fellowship to support artists from New Hampshire or northern New England. The fellowship was renamed after Chubb merged with Lincoln Financial.

MacDowell Poetry Fellowship, est. 1990 Ginnah Howard Edwin C. Cohen, member of the board of directors from 1984-1999, established this fund to support the residency of a poet of exceptional ability.

Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship, est. 2002 Mustafa Abdulrahman A bequest from Colony Fellow Patricia Mangione established a fellowship to support the residencies of senior writers and artists who have worked at their crafts for at least 30 years.

Robert Maxwell Fellowship, est. 1989 Blair Braverman In recognition of Robert Maxwell’s generous legacy to the Colony, the board of directors established this fellowship for an artist of any discipline.

Marian O. Naumburg Fellowships, est. 2011 LaMont Hamilton and Allison Cekala This fellowship providing residencies for photographers was established by a generous 2011 gift from the Estate of Marian O. Naumburg to the Campaign for the Second Century.

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship, est. 1990 Susan May Tell

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Composers Chris Cerrone, Laura Schwendinger, and Vadim Neselovskyi hosted a seminar for young composers from the Walden School of Music.

This fellowship to support the residency of a photographer was given by Evelyn Stefansson Nef, who has been a member of the board of directors since 1991 and also serves as a vice chairman.

New Hampshire Committee Fellowship, est. 1991 Denise Dumas The New Hampshire Committee raised funds from 19871991 to establish an endowed fellowship for an artist from New Hampshire.

Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowships, est. 2005 Noah Doely, Dawn Clements, Diane Cook, and John Haskell These fellowships for artists of all disciplines honor board member Robert Olmsted and his wife Stephanie Olmsted for their outstanding support of The MacDowell Colony’s Campaign for the Second Century.

Elodie Osborn Fellowship, est. 1984 Michael Almereyda In honor of Elodie Osborn’s efforts to establish film as a discipline at the Colony, her friends created a film fellowship. Osborn was a member of the board of directors from 1969-1986 and president of the Colony from 19751977.

Philip Morris Company Fellowship, est. 1991 Amanda Petrusich The Philip Morris Company, in recognition of MacDowell’s contribution to the arts, established this fellowship in literature.

Barbara and Thomas Putnam Fellowships Jeremy Dean and Anne Beresford Clarke These fellowships for artists who work in the Rosamund and David Putnam Studio honor board member Thomas Putnam and his wife Barbara Putnam for their outstanding support of The MacDowell Colony’s Campaign for the Second Century.

Gardner Read Fellowship, est. 2007 Richard Danielpour In memory of Gardner Read, a composer and Colony Fellow, and Vail P. Read, his wife, a fellowship for a composer was established in his name by their daughter, Cynthia Read.

Bernardine Kielty Scherman Fellowship, est. 1975 Susan Orlean In recognition of Bernardine Scherman’s long association with the Colony and her love of good writing, the Scherman Foundation established a fellowship in her name for a writer.

Arnold T. Schwab Fellowship Tyehimba Jess As part of the Arnold T. Schwab bequest, one fellowship has been endowed for a poet. A three-time Fellow, Schwab wrote many poems and scholarly articles as an English professor at California State University, many chronicling the lives of Edward and Marian MacDowell.

Barbara and Andrew Senchak Fellowship in Poetry, est.

2009 Frances Richey This fellowship to support the residency of a poet was donated by board member Andrew and Barbara Senchak during the Campaign for the Second Century.

Norton Stevens Fellowships, est. 1975 Charlotte Bray, Laura Schwendinger, Arturo O’Farrill, and Jonathan Brigg In honor of MacDowell Fellow Aaron Copland’s 75th birthday, the Norlin Foundation established an endowment to provide fellowships for composers.

DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowships, est. 1978 James Sturm, Salvatore Scibona, Susan Choi, and Lan Samantha Chang DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund established an endowment to provide fellowships for writers.

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Frances and William Schuman Fellowship, est. 1990 Lembit Beecher The Schuman Fellowship was established as a loving tribute to the composer William Schuman, MacDowell

Medalist in 1971, board member 1972-1979, chairman 1980-1983, and honorary chairman 1984-1990; and Frances Schuman, board member 1977-1994.

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❱❱ GIFTS FOR RESIDENCIES AND STUDIOS

Thornton Wilder Fellowship, est. 1990 Jennifer Haley In recognition of Thornton Wilder’s generous legacy to the Colony, the board of directors established a fellowship in his name for an artist of any discipline. Wilder was a ninetime MacDowell Fellow, as well as the first recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1960.

STUDIO AND FACILITY GRANTS Studio and facility grants, whether endowed or annual gifts, help provide for the upkeep of individual studios and residence buildings.

Stanford Calderwood Studio In 1999, Stanford Calderwood funded the construction of a new studio for writers and established an endowed fund to cover the annual costs of maintaining the studio.

Valli Dreyfus Firth Studio In 1993, Barn Studio was dedicated to Valli Dreyfus Firth, who supported the Colony generously for many years.

In her memory, the Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation funded extensive renovations to the visual artists’ studio and established an endowed maintenance fund for its upkeep.

Heinz Studio In 1996, Drue Heinz, a vice chairman of the Colony, donated funds to re-create the old icehouse as a sculpture studio and establish a studio maintenance fund.

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Studio In 1992, Vice Chairman Evelyn Stefansson Nef funded the construction of a new photography studio and established an endowed fund to cover the annual costs of maintaining

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the studio. It was the first new studio built on Colony grounds since 1936.

New Hampshire Studio In 1990, the Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed fund to maintain and improve New Hampshire Studio. In 1992, through a generous bequest given in memory of Colonist Victor Candell, the studio was renovated, enlarging and improving the space available for use by visual artists.

New Jersey Studio The New Jersey Studio (1920-1921) was funded by the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, which has continued as a longtime contributor to its maintenance.

Delta Omicron Studio Members of Delta Omicron, an international music club, funded the building of Omicron Studio in 1927. In 1996, the Delta Omicron Foundation made a gift to refurbish a Mason & Hamlin grand piano, dedicated in memory of Roxine Beard Petzold and Adelaide Louise Collyer, two past presidents of the fraternity. In 2015, Delta Omicron contributed to an ongoing pledge to help meet annual maintenance costs and initiate renovation of the studio.

Pan’s Cottage Built as a men’s residence in 1919, Pan’s Cottage was given by Sigma Alpha Iota, an international fraternity for women in music. Sigma Alpha Iota made contributions in 2015 to help meet expenses for utilities and upkeep.

Phi Beta Studio Phi Beta Fraternity, a national organization for professionals in music and speech, provided for the

construction of Phi Beta Studio (1929-1931) and continued to help support its upkeep with grants in 2015.

Star Studio Since 1971, Alpha Chi Omega, the first organization to contribute a studio to the Colony, has helped to maintain Star Studio, which was built in 1911-1912. In 2015, the organization made contributions to help meet the studio’s expenses as did its Iota Upsilon Iota Alumnae association.

Sorosis Studio Sorosis Studio was built in 1924-1926 with funds provided by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis, which made contributions in 2015 toward the studio’s maintenance.

TRAVEL AND FINANCIAL AWARDS Two major gifts make travel grants possible for artists to help pay domestic and international transportation costs, respectively. Financial aid for writers, based on need, is provided through grants from several foundations. Annual stipends for composers are supported by an endowed gift.

MacArthur Transportation Fund In 1990, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded the Colony a $200,000 grant that has been set aside to establish an endowed transportation fund for artists who cannot afford domestic travel to and from the Colony. In 2015, 36 grants totaling $16,369 were awarded to enable artists to come from 17 states.

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The David and Rosamond Putnam Transportation Fund This endowed fund was established in 1989 by Mr. and Mrs. David F. Putnam, longtime friends and generous benefactors of the Colony, to provide financial assistance for international travel to and from the Colony for artists who could not come at their own expense. In 2015, 12 grants totaling $12,608 were awarded to enable artists from eight countries to come to MacDowell.

The Lesher Fund for Composers The Lesher Fund for Composers, created in 2007 with an endowed gift from Dr. Tom Lesher, provides annual stipends to cover living and travel expenses for composers. In 2015, five grants totaling $3,000 were awarded.

Pollack-Krasner Foundation Stipend In 2015, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded a two-year grant to provide financial-aid stipends for visual artists to cover ongoing costs during a residency, such as rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income. Through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation has the mission of providing financial assistance to individual artists of established ability.

Writers’ Aid Fund Through a grant from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the Colony awards grants of up to $1,000 each to writers needing financial assistance in order to attend The MacDowell Colony. This program, made possible by the foundation’s generous support since 1998, provides a significant benefit to writers at MacDowell and serves as a model for stipend programs in other disciplines for which funding is being sought. In 2015, 39 grants totaling $35,100 were awarded.

Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship The Alpert Awards in the Arts, administered by the California Institute of the Arts and funded by the Alpert Foundation, seeks to identify those artists who contribute “something significant — even visionary — to contemporary life.” In our hope of spreading the word about MacDowell to non-New York artists, The MacDowell Colony and The Alpert Awards in the Arts have collaborated to bring a number of outstanding artists to MacDowell. During 2015, the following fellowship recipients were named Alpert Fellows: Grisha Coleman, interdisciplinary artist T. Marie Dudman, filmmaker Matthew Porterfield, filmmaker Chris Sullivan, filmmaker Richard Montoya, playwright

The Leon Levy Stipend Fund The Leon Levy Foundation, beginning in 2008, has generously provided a three-year grant to support financial aid for artists of any discipline. In addition to covering living expenses that continue during a residency, these funds may be used for equipment and supplies for artistic projects. In 2015, 34 grants totaling $29,000 were awarded.

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FACILITIES

Shop Emerges as Eastman Constructed in 1915 as an expansion of Hillcrest barn when MacDowell was operating a working farm, Shop Studio was christened when it began serving artists in 1956, a time of primitive insulation practices. Early in 2015 all interior wall, floor, and ceiling surfaces were demolished, giving access for the application of spray foam insulation in all wall and ceiling cavities. When it reopened in early summer, it became the first MacDowell studio equipped with an electric heat pump. With extreme efficiency achieved by the insulation, a small heat pump is sufficient to keep the studio comfortable all year round.

Thanks to generous contributions from visual artist and MacDowell board member Louise Eastman, the studio now provides 400 square feet of creative work space beneath a 15 foot cathedral ceiling. In addition to natural light from windows on three sides of the studio, indirect LED lights are combined with track lights to bounce light off the ceiling and wash the walls. Converted to serve as a live-in studio, a bedroom and a full bath were added at the south end of the existing structure. Groesbeck Construction of Peterborough handled the renovation and Sheldon Pennoyer Architects of Concord served as architects.

The deep energy retro-fit approach to this renovation serves as a model for future MacDowell upgrades. The interior comfort and discipline-specific details incorporated into this design will support a broad spectrum of creative work for decades to come.

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DONORS

Special Projects and Endowed Fellowships

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NEW YORK SPACE – as of May 1, 2016 Thanks to these gifts from the “New York Circle” and other donors, MacDowell will have new offices in New York City which will improve the Colony’s visibility and outreach to artists, patrons, and other cultural organizations.

William N. Banks Mr. and Mrs. William Beekman Eleanor Briggs* Barbara K. Bristol Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman Susan Davenport Austin and Kenneth Austin Louise Eastman Edmée and Nicholas Firth Sarah Garland-Hoch and Roland E. Hoch Mary Garland Gerald and Teresa Gartner Elizabeth and Russell

Gaudreau Hershey Family Foundation Dan Hurlin IAC* Peter and Eileen Jachym Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Robert and Sylvia Larsen David Macy Scott Manning and Frank Guerra Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation* Mollie Miller and Robert K. Rodat John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Robert and Stephanie

Olmsted* Carol Ostrow and Michael Graff John and Olivia Parker Tom and Babs Putnam* Peter and Suzanne Read Leslie E. Robertson and Sawteen See Brian Rogers

Barbara and Andrew Senchak* Anne Stark Locher and Kurt Locher* Theresa M. Stone and Charles F. Stone, III Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Cheryl Young and Robert I. Carswell *Denotes New York Circle giving of $100,000 or more

ART OF JOURNALISM INITIATIVE – as of May 1, 2016 The Art of Journalism Initiative was launched in 2015 to advance creativity and innovation in longform journalism and to help independent journalists sustain their work in the changing media landscape. As of May 1, 2016, the following donors have helped raise more than $2.3 million toward a $4.5 million goal.

Anonymous (2) Jonathan Barton and Amanda Foreman Lara Bazelon Liza Birkenmeier Eleanor Briggs The Calderwood Charitable Foundation Anne Cox Chambers Linda Dittmar in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Elizabeth Halstead in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Will Hermes Janet Kinasewich in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Markos Kounalakis and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Warren and Jean Little in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Meredith Maran Shaun Newport Michael Paterniti Norman Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Time Inc. in honor of John S. Carroll John Petrowsky in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Mary Potter in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Janaki Ranpura Nicholas Reinhardt in memory of Sylvia Canfield Winn Vilcek Foundation Peter Watrous Paige Williams in honor of Bill Kovach Tracy C. Winn in support of Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship for Environmental Writing Wendy Wolf ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS ARNOLD T. SCHWAB FELLOWSHIP Arnold T. Schwab Living Trust CHARLOTTE SHEEDY FELLOWSHIP Anonymous in honor of Charlotte Sheedy

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❱❱ DONORS

Annual Operating Gifts

A half-acre solar array installed in late 2015 now supplies 75 percent of the Colony’s electrical needs.

Friends of MacDowell

AARON COPLAND CONTRIBUTORS $50,000 OR MORE The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund The Leon Levy Foundation The MacDowell Colony Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation BENNY ANDREWS CONTRIBUTORS $25,000 OR MORE Sarah Garland-Hoch and Roland E. Hoch Anne Stark Locher and Kurt Locher Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Tom and Babs Putnam Andrew and Barbara Senchak THORNTON WILDER CONTRIBUTORS $10,000 OR MORE Anonymous Susan Davenport Austin and Kenneth Austin William N. Banks Eleanor Briggs Barbara K. Bristol Robert and Mary Carswell

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Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman Fred Clarke and Laura Weir-Clarke Christine and Todd Fisher The Ford Family Foundation Gerald and Teresa Gartner Elizabeth and Russell Gaudreau Adele Griffin and Erich Mauff Drue Heinz Trust Peter and Eileen Jachym Lincoln Financial Foundation Jeffrey and Jacqueline Morby Carol Ostrow and Michael Graff Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Inc. Penguin Random House, Inc. Pine Tree Foundation of New York The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Theresa M. Stone and Charles F. Stone, III Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum TransCanada Corporation Ilse Traulsen Helen S. Tucker/ The Gramercy Park Foundation The Walbridge Fund, Ltd. Anne Wardwell The John Wesley Foundation WILLA CATHER CONTRIBUTORS $5,000 OR MORE Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William Beekman Charles Christ Arthur D. Clarke and Susan P.

Sloan John and Ann Clarkeson Ann and George Colony The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Darrell B. Crawford Edmée de M. and Nicholas Firth Diane Garthwaite and Matthew Liang John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Robert and Sylvia Larsen Monica and Michael Lehner / Orchard Foundation Honorable Samuel K. Lessey, Jr. and Christine Joosten MacDowell Colony Fellows Robert MacNeil Keith Kearney and Debby McLean Marsyas Fund Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC Mollie Miller and Robert K. Rodat John and Olivia Parker Diane Posnak Peter and Suzanne Read Bernard Rice and Waltraud Ireland RiverStone Resources, LLC Leslie E. Robertson and Sawteen See Rock On Foundation Leslie Spencer and James Huffman Susan Tucker / The Gramercy Park Foundation Lisa Tung and Spencer Glendon Cheryl Young and

Robert I. Carswell Michael and Nina Zilkha MILTON AND SALLY AVERY CONTRIBUTORS $2,500 OR MORE Sydney Avent David Baum and Terry Reeves BMI Peter Cameron John Cetra and Nancy Ruddy Marylyn Dintenfass and John Driscoll Rowan Finnegan and Emilie Jacobs Tatiana Golovnya The Darrell Harvey Family Foundation, Inc. Michael Hoeh and John McGovern Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Michael and Jenny Krinsky Ketly Michel, MD. PC. and Stephanie Medina Risa Mickenberg Sally and Marc O’Brien Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program Sean Pierce Rebecca Marshall Saidenberg Barbara and Andrew Senchak Charlotte Sheedy and Miranda Barry Patricia Brown Specter Peter J. Wirth Jacqueline Woodson Rafael Yglesias Mary N. Young

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A community of lead patrons who donate $2,500 and up to sustain MacDowell and inspire the brave new work that artists make at MacDowell.

Contributors MacDowell is grateful for donors of all levels who believe in the importance of investing in artists and the creative process.

GALWAY KINNELL CONTRIBUTORS $1,000 OR MORE Alchemy Foundation David Auburn Andi Axman and Mark Goldstein Paula Berry Reiner and Lisa Boehning Welch & Forbes, LLC Brent Buck and Katie Barthmaier Deborah Butler Vinton Cerf in honor of Natalia Almada and David Cerf James and Nancy Coghlin in honor of Ryan McLaughlin Patty Crane Tom and Ellen Draper Mark Dresser Louise Eastman Caroline and Thomas Ewing Ruth and Arthur Feder The Nomi P. Ghez Foundation Patricia Green Jennifer Haley Joel Harrison Harrisville Designs, Inc. Richard House Nene Humphrey Emily G. Kahn Martha and Peter Karoff Werner H. Kramarsky John and Mary Liz Lewis Susan and David Lord Joanne Lyman Scott Manning and Frank Guerra Ben Marcus and Heidi Julavits McLane Law Firm Melanson Heath & Company, PC The Mountain Corporation Northeast Utilities Matching Grants Program Nina Nyhart Katherine Olmsted and John Grossman Susan Orlean William Patten John and Sarah Perry in honor of Rachel Perry Nicholas and Sheila Platt Putnam Foundation at the recommendation of Emilie Jacobs Alan Reische Patti Roberts Terry and Linda Robinson Phyllis and Jim Rogers Helen Klein Ross Andrew Rudin Mary Pat and Tom Santel Brian Selznick and David Serlin Vijay Seshadri Sheldon Pennoyer Architects

Joshua Wolf Shenk Mona Simpson John Taylor Nechama Tec Patricia Volk Myron C. and Carol Warshauer Family Foundation Carrie Mae Weems Michel and Caroline Zaleski WENDY WASSERSTEIN CONTRIBUTORS $500 OR MORE Anonymous (3) Beta Omega Beta Phoenix Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega Cecily Bastedo Bellows-Nichols Insurance Martha Bennett Patricia and Bob Boyd Mary Jane Brock Lloyd Brown Mrs. Abram T. Collier Ronald and Judith Davenport Katy Didden Hilary Easton and Joshua McHugh Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Eaton, III Jesseca Ferguson Sheri Fink Judith Frank Jonathan Franzen Cheryl and Stanley Fry Mary Laura Gibbs Isobel Glover L.B. Green Vartan and Clare Gregorian Darrell and Robin Harvey Tom and Kathryn Hildreth Ginnah Howard Priscilla Hurlin Linda Wesselman Jackson in honor of Mary Carswell Keith Johnson Brady Sullivan Properties / Benjamin and Karina Kelley Johannes Knoops Michael F. Lythcott Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. Jessica Nagle Doug and Joanne Wise Family Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Bonnie Newman Northeast Delta Dental Nathaniel and Anne Peirce Rachel Perry Frederic and Penny Putnam David Rakowski Wendy Richmond RiverMead Brian Rogers Danny Rubin John R. Sasso in honor of Bert Seager Bert Seager The Segal Company Helen Tsanos Sheinman Shell Oil Company Foundation Matching Gifts Melissa Stern in honor of David Baum

Craig Stockwell and Sarah Jane Mustin Rebekah Sturges and Jack Harris Ben and Kate Taylor Foundation Lynne Tillman Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Tommy Wallach Basil Walter Londa Weisman Victoria Westhead and John Levy Joan Wickersham Rita Garcia-Williams Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Bess Wohl Rolf Yngve Mark and Susan Zankel HELEN FARNSWORTH MEARS CONTRIBUTORS UP TO $500 Anonymous (10) Anonymous in honor of David Baum Emily Abruzzo William D. Adams Golnar Adili Suzanne and James Aisenberg Elizabeth Albert Edith A. Albritton Jane Alexander Alpha Chi Omega, Gamma Upsilon Gamma Chapter AmazonSmile Foundation Suzanne Ambrose Idris Anderson Maggie Anderson Mary and Mark Armstrong L.S. Asekoff Michael Ashkin Michael and Joyce Askenaizer The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Mirra Bank Yevgeniya Baras Temme Barkin-Leeds Amy Quan Barry Jennifer Barth Lynn Bassler Ann Bauleke Cris Beam Susan Nisenbaum Becker Myron Beldock †and Karen Dippold Belletetes, Inc. Bruce Bensetler Ted Bent Marina Berio Vivian Berman Hayes Biggs Judith Bischoff Sophie Cabot Black Chana Bloch Theresa Bloise Jennifer Taub and Steve Bloom Skip Blumberg Kathleen and Ray Bollerud James Boorstein Nancy Bowen Debbie Bowie Marco Breuer

David Bristol Michael Broek Margaret Brouwer Brenda Brown Emily Brown Martha F. Brown Jane Brox Susan Brynteson Walter and Barbara Burgin Joseph Cady Ada Calhoun David M. Call Mark Campbell Sheila Canby Deric Carner David Carpenter Catherine Castellani Mallory Catlett Philip and March Cavanaugh Lynn Cazabon Christopher Cerrone CGI Business Solutions Lan Samantha Chang William Chapman and Ricardo Barreto Sharon Charde Karen Chase Adele Chatfield-Taylor Leland Cheuk Laurel Chiten Harriet Clark Andrea Clearfield Dawn Clements Margot Close Henry Cobb Eleanor Cogswell Jennifer Cohen Tom Cole Maurice Colton, III Aleta Connell Kelli Connell Richard Connerney Laura Crandall Donna Crane Meehan Crist Richard W. and Sherrill Atherton Crow Megan Cump Jan Cunningham and Helena Brett-Smith Virginia Cuppaidge Sebastian Currier C. Michael Curtis Jack Damer Richard Danielpour Yolande Daniels Alice E. Dark Thomas A. Dart Stuart and Suellen Davidson Dorothy and Harold Davis Jack E. Davis Nicholas Dawidoff and Kaari Pitkin Jean Day Kyle Decamp Mashuq Deen Carina del Valle Schorske Robert Dell Stephen Dembski Nickitas Demos Thomas Devaney A.N. Devers Catharine Dill

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❱❱ DONORS

Lisa Dinhofer Jeff Dolven Tim Donovan Douglas Dorst Jim Dougherty Christopher Doyle Kathy Drasher Kate Driscoll Coon Eleanor Drury Amy Dryansky Richard Dubugnon Denis Dumas Richard and Susan Dyer Rona Edington Charles A. Edwards Ronit Eisenbach Jonathan Elliott Angie Eng Mary Evans, Inc. Peter Falion and Elizabeth Tannenbaum Charles and Charlotte Faulkner Gene Faxon Melissa Febos Sam Feder Cecelia Feld Linda Feng Richard and Judith Fernald Michael Fiday Peter Filkins Rosemarie Fiore Elizabeth Folman Lisa and George Foote Michelle Fornabai Shirley M. Franchi Joslin Kimball Frank Barbara M. Fraser Kermit Frazier Darcy Frey Dr. William F. Fritz Lise Funderburg Mark Foster Gage Lillian Garcia-Roig Barbara S. Gard and Philip L. Kohl Micah Garen Peter Garfield Charlotte Garrett Currier Dr. Iqbal Geoffrey Jenny George Gary Giddins Lucy Gillespie Anne Gilman Andrew Ginzel Denise Ginzler Paul Glass Sam Gold and Amy Herzog Barbara Goldberg Neil Goldberg David Goldes William Goldstein Jim Goss Alena Graedon Elizabeth Greenwood Leah Griesmann through the Carolyn V. Burton Living Trust George Griffin Richard Griswold Joan Grubin Susan Gubernat Polly Guth Rachel Hadas Meron Hadero Mark Hage Judson D. Hale, Sr. Patience Haley Ghikas Sydney K. Hamburger Lisa Hamilton Henry H. Hammond Bang Geul Han Jenny Han

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Robert Handel and Joy Katz Don Hannah Stephen Harby Elizabeth Harington Baxter and Bonnie Harris Marina Harrison Michael Harrison Anthony and Cecie Hartigan Vanessa Hartmann Frederica Harvey Adam Haslett Dr. James and Liza Hayashi Richard W. Hayes Carol Hebald Valerie Hegarty Lisa Hein David Hellerstein Stephen Hendee Kit Henry and Henry Sanders William K. Henze Robbie and Paul Hertneky Jane Hirshfield Phoebe Hoban Harrison and Janelle Hobart Rolaine Abrahams Hochstein Paul Hodes Allen Hoffman David Hoffman and Deborah Friedman Patricia Hoffman Litty Holbrooke Richard Holeton Elliott Holt Ronna Zalman Honigman Lynne Horiuchi Gladys Howell Lisa Howorth Anne and Joel Huberman Mary-Beth Hughes Michelle Huneven Dan Hurlin Simeon Hunter Lewis Hyde Samuel Hynes Catherine Ingraham Denise Iris Elizabeth S. Ives Jack Daniels Motor Inn Greg Jackson Luke Jaeger Lucy Jarvis Maya Jasanoff Emily Jenkins Diana Jensen Sue Johnson Kevin Jones Michael and Nancy Kaehr Gabriel Kahane Amos Kamil David Kamp in honor of Cheryl Young Cleve Kapala and Lucia Kittredge Bruce Karlin Nancy Kates Ellen Kaufman Celine Keating Susan Keizer Brian Kellman John Kelly Mark Kendall Katrina Kenison Lewers Nancy Keystone Mark Kilstofte Sam Kim Tony King John S. King The Kingsbury Fund Jerome Kitzke Michael Klingbeil Dean Klingler

Tom Knechtel Lindsay Knowlton Peter L. Koenig Edith Konecky Zane Kotker Christina Kotz Cornejo Darlene R. Krato Arthur Kreiger Lisa Kron Larry Krone Karen Kubey Julia Kunin Lake Sunapee Bank the lakes gallery at chi-lin Angel Lam Deece Lambert Emily Noelle Lambert Sam and Casey Lambert Steve Lawson Lead Pencil Studio Alexandra Lee Blake Leister Michael and Marjorie Lennon Tania León Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Deane Leonard Hector Leonardi Ann Deborah Levy Kathryn Levy Stuart Lewis Lyn Lifshin Jennie Livingston Robert Lombardo Sergio Lopez-Pineiro Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lord, Jr. Andrea Louie Peter B. Lucke Daniel Ludwig and Anne Leone Mary Lum Erik Lundborg Daniel and Marcy Lyman Donald Lystra MacDowell Music Club of Chattanooga MacDowell Ensemble, Ogden Chapter Joan MacPhail Charlton MacVeagh David Macy Macy’s Department Store Foundation T Kira Madden Sangram Majumdar Anne Makepeace David and Louise Malcolm Caroline Mallonée Jan Mammey Holly W. Manley Jaine Manrique Chris Marianetti Denise Marika Laura Marris Brenda Marsh Steve Marston Manuel Martinez Alice Mattison Missy Mazzoli Mitch McCabe Gardner McFall Doreen McGuire Lynda Reeves McIntyre Frances McKay Jeredith Merrin Elizabeth Meryman Judy Rowe Michaels Barbara Milbauer Blanche Milligan Damaris Mills Dennis Mires and Nancy Slate Charles Mirotznik Honor Moore

Paul Morris Michael Morse Susan Mullally Laura Mullen Lavar Munroe Joan Murray BettyJoyce Nash Brandon Neubauer Itty Neuhaus Jeffrey and Lisa Neville New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Anonymous Aline Newton in honor of Bert Seager Kathy Nilsson Matthew Northridge Benjamin Nugent Alan Dennis Nurkse Stephen O’Connor Morgan O’Hara Michael O’Reilly Patrick J. and Tina O’Rourke Pat Oleszko David Opdyke Shelly Oria Orr & Reno, P.A. Julie Orringer Jena Osman Alicia Ostriker James Packard Max Page in honor of Dan Hurlin and Kazu Nakamura Gail Papp Theresa Pappas Jane Park Elizabeth Parker Richard Parker in honor of Bert Seager Michael Paterniti Kathryn Paulsen Molly Peacock Louis Pelosi Ruth and Nick Perencevich Ronald Perera David Petersen Dorothy Peterson Pamela Petro Anna Mae Petrusha Anthony Phillips Diane Pieri Barbara A. Pike Sam Pluta Harry and Nina Pollock Nancy Potter Joanne Pottlitzer Cristina Puglisi in honor of Dan Hurlin and Kazu Nakamura Nina Puro Sharon Pywell Carolyn Bunch-Reich and Alan Reich Marylin Quint-Rose Iva Radivojevic Kelly Ramsey Janaki Ranpura Benita Raphan Julia Reckless Gary Urgonski and Virginia Reiser Nancy B. Reisman Frances Richey Sally Heath Rives Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo Nancy B. Roberts Elizabeth Robinson Lisa M. Robinson Rosemary Rodriguez Jay Rogoff Jeff and Kellye Rosenheim Jean Rosenthal

Peter Ruof Mrs. Robert V. Russett Gregory Sale Ayelet Salter Tanu Sankalia Paul D. Santoleri Annita Sawyer Seamus Scanlon E. Patterson Scarlett Yoelene and Robert Schaefer Anthony Schneider Charles L. Schultz in honor of Natalia Almada Tony Schuman Adrienne Mim Elliot Schwartz Karen Schwartman in honor of Bert Seager Courtney Sender Ravi Shankar Alex Shapiro Myra Shapiro C. James Sheppard Normandy Sherwood Barbara Shoenberger Kim Siebert Macphail Shelly Silver Amanda Dawn Marsh and Eric Simon Derek Simonds Alvin Singleton Stephen Judge and James Skelton Emma Sloley Edward Smaldone Michael T. Smith Rheta Smith Andrew Solomon and John Habich Solomon Rosalind Solomon Peter Sourian Kathleen Spivack Melinda and Lewis Spratlan Peggy Stafford Scott Stark Donald Steele Stacey Steers William Steiger Amanda Stern Jessica Stern Robert L. Stern Matthew Stevenson Jeffrey Stone Isabelle and Jim Storey Anne Stuart and Paul Santos James Sturm Elisabeth Subrin Louise A. Sullivan-Blum Chip Sullivan and Elizabeth Boults Nova Ren Suma Ilene Sunshine Andrew Supplee Kunal J . Suryavanshi Rachel Sussman Terese Svoboda Annagreta and Glen Swanson John Swope Sam Swope Eileen Tabios Eva Talmadge Julian Taub Christian Teal Sumru Tekin Susan May Tell Lenore Tenenblatt The Lyceum Agency Helen Thorpe Lois H. Thurner Sara R. Timmons The Toadstool Bookshop

Kathleen Tolan Steve Toltz Daniel Torop Joseph and Elizabeth Torrisi in honor of Bert Seager Sarah Tortora Preston Trombly William Trowbridge Memye Curtis Tucker Nan Tull Paul Tuller Mrs. Anne Twitchell Valta Us Amanda Valdez Mary Vallier-Kaplan Jason Van Nest Aynsley Vandenbroucke Kimetha Vanderveen Tabitha Vevers Frances Von Mertens G. C. Waldrep, III Joy Walker Lou Ann Walker James Walsh Mrs. Marian J. Ware Daniel Wasserman in honor of Bert Seager Ellen Watson Philip Weisman Elaine F. Weiss Trevor Weston Dr. and Mrs. Lennard Wharton Elizabeth Wheeler Scott Wheeler John and Martine White Thomas Whitman and Mira Rabin Paula Whyman Susan Wicks Leslie Wilkes Lyn and E.T. Williams, Jr. Jane Williams Hyla Willis Julia Wolfe Meg Wolitzer Mark W. Woods Dana Woody David B. Wristen Robert Wykes Yankee Publishing, Inc. Christopher C. York Sharon Young Kathleen and Stephen Young Anya Yurchyshyn Eric Zahler and Eliot Schrefer

Chester Zaneski Joshua Zeman BEQUESTS The Carol DeMond Downs Trust Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust Arnold T. Schwab Living Trust STUDIO MAINTENANCE Alpha Chi Omega Foundation.

Inc. Iota Upsilon Iota Alumnae of Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Delta Omicron Foundation, Inc. Phi Beta Fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Sorosis, Inc. IN-KIND DONATIONS Ann Bauleke Susan Davenport Austin and Kenneth Austin Mark Dresser Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gartner Adele Griffin Matt Kenyon Susan May Tell Paula Whyman IN MEMORIAM Vivien Collens in memory of SHUREE ABRAMS

GIFTS in memory of GEORGE M. NICHOLSON The 1997 Lydia Freeman Charitable Foundation Christopher Davis Elinor Day David Gale Arthur Klebanoff Linda Z. Knab Tom and Laura McNeal Paul Moravec and Wendy Lamb Dr. Mary P. Tarbox and Dr. Robert M. Nicholson Dr. Lissa Paul Patricia Pfitsch Susan Rubin Seymour Simon Joyce Sweeney Lori Williams Norman and Naomi Zucker Gudrun Mirin-Orloff in memory of NEIL ORLOFF Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn in memory of DEBORA PHILLIPS Susan Hodges in memory of JON SMILEY The Wilder Family in memory of THORNTON WILDER

Maureen N. McLane in memory of RICHARD BRICK

Jonathan Blunk in memory of C.K. WILLIAMS

Julia Christensen in memory of VIRGINIA CHRISTENSEN

Helen Zindars in memory of EARL ZINDARS

The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts of Oklahoma City in memory of PAT HARDIN AND NELDA LATHAM Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel in memory of WILLIAM KIMBREL Barbara K. Bristol in memory of GALWAY KINNELL Pauline Uchmanowicz in memory of BILL KNOTT

ROYALTIES American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Sealaska Coporation Finley Resources Harold Ober Associates Fitzgerald Farms v Chesapeake Settlement Fund Seaport Inc. Chesapeake Operating, LLC ConocoPhillips

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RESTRICTED GIFTS

UNRESTRICTED GIFTS

PUBLIC FUNDING

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund

MEDAL DAY CORPORATE SPONSORS

JOHN W. HESSION

NATIONAL BENEFIT SPONSORS

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TREASURER’S REPORT

The financial

position of the Colony remains strong, buoyed by the gains in the stock market and in fixed income securities. At March 31, 2015, investments were approximately $33.2 million. The physical plant of the Colony is in excellent shape and green initiatives such as the installation of solar panels will improve both the Colony’s financial position as well as its environmental footprint. The Colony also had year over year growth in revenues during the year ended in 2015. Expenses are tightly controlled and within budget, and include necessary provisions for the maintenance of the 40 Colony structures and studios.

In 2015, the Colony changed its fiscal year end from March 31 to December 31. Although we recognized that this will make year-to-year comparisons difficult for the 2015 period, the change will simplify reporting in the future, and will more closely align the financial statements of the Colony with the timing of revenue received.

Although the Colony is in a strong financial position, it faces some significant challenges. Unlike other arts organizations, such as museums or performance groups, we are not in a position to earn revenue from ticket sales and are reliant on annual contributions and an allocation from the investment portfolio to meet our annual budget.

The funds drawn from the investment portfolio to meet expenses in 2015 were more than offset by the increase in fair market value of the investment portfolio. However, with financial markets entering a period of greater uncertainty and likely lower investment returns, our draw on the portfolio will need to be closely monitored in order to meet financial sustainability objectives and to ensure future strength.

In addition, with the purchase of the New York space on West 23rd Street, MacDowell will incur greater operating costs. However, as the new space provides more opportunities for fundraising, we expect that enhanced annual giving will offset these expenses and may lessen the draw on the portfolio. This purchase is expected to have minimal impact on the portfolio as it will be largely funded by generous contributions from MacDowell donors, the sale of the current office space, and a mortgage on the new space, which will carry an interest rate at historically low levels. In the long-term, we expect the new space will add to MacDowell’s fundraising capability and strengthen the financial sustainability of the Colony.

Peter Jachym, Treasurer

Selected financial information for 12 months ending March 31, 2015 FY15 EXPENSES, Number of artists-in-residence 292 Program 2,364,592 58% Total number of artists days 8,722 Administration 919,824 22%

Investments at Fair Value 33,248,614 Development 811,845 20% Total Assets 39,893,439 Total expenses 4,096,261 100% Total Liabilities 177,432 Total Net Assets 39,716,007 FY15 SUPPORT and REVENUE Total Support & Revenue 2,949,622 Contributions 2,601,512 64% Total Expenses 4,096,261 Application Fees, Royalties and Other 108,110 3% Difference Before Investment Return (1,146,639) Campaign contributions 240,000 6% Net Investment Return 2,422,880 Total support and revenue 2,949,622 72% Change in Total Net Assets 1,276,241 Excess (Deficiency) (1,146,639) 28%

Net Investment

Return 2,422,880 Change in Total Net Assets 1,276,241 100%

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Board of Directors as of December 2015 Michael Chabon, Chairman Susan Davenport Austin, President William N. Banks, Mary Carswell, Drue Heinz, Helen S. Tucker, Vice Chairmen Gerald J. Gartner, Treasurer Robert M. Olmsted, Secretary Cheryl A. Young, Assistant Secretary David Baum Robert Beaser William B. Beekman Varujan Boghosian Eleanor Briggs Barbara K. Bristol

Staff as of December 2015 Cheryl Young Executive Director David Macy Resident Director ADMINISTRATION Ann Hayashi Assistant to the Resident Director Amy McLaughlin Assistant Director, New York Office Courtney Brecht Development Database Manager Cynthia Fallows Administrative Assistant Jody Garnick Technology Coordinator Colette Lucas Librarian Dan Millbauer Program Assistant Jenni Wu New York Office Manager ADMISSIONS Courtney Bethel Admissions Director Karen Keenan Admissions & Scheduling Coordinator Ann Putnam Admissions & Library Circulation Assistant COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Gourlay Communications Manager DEVELOPMENT John Martin Director of Development

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Ken Burns Peter Cameron Anne Cox Chambers Fred Clarke Alexander Cortesi Nicholas Dawidoff Nickitas Demos Louise Eastman Ruth M. Feder Edmée de M. Firth Christine Fisher Mark Foster Gage Mary Garland Sarah Garland-Hoch Elizabeth F. Gaudreau Andrew Ginzel Vartan Gregorian Adele Griffin Rob Handel John A. Hargraves Larry Harris Dan Hurlin

Peter Jachym Julia Jacquette Carol Krinsky Lisa Kron Robert M. Larsen Monica Lehner Tania León Anne Stark Locher Robert MacNeil Scott Manning Mollie Miller Paul Moravec Julie Orringer Carol Ostrow Olivia Parker Thomas P. Putnam Peter C. Read Leslie E. Robertson Brian Rogers Jeff L. Rosenheim Amy Baker Sandback Andrew M. Senchak

Barbara Case Senchak Vijay Seshadri Alvin Singleton Charles F. Stone III Robert Storr Ilse Traulsen Jamie Trowbridge Jason Van Nest Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Cheryl A. Young, Executive Director David Macy, Resident Director

Dean Klingler Director of Special Events Jessica Viada Development Associate Shaun Newport Development Assistant Marissa Cinquanti Events Assistant

Maintenance Foreman James Sargent Assistant to the Maintenance Foreman Jeromy Brett Maintenance Assistant Emily Drury Head Gardener

KITCHEN Scott Tyle Chef Jennifer Case Cook Robin Cherof Cook Amy Manny Cook Jeannine Wegmueller Cook/Baker James Morse Kitchen Assistant Billy Morse Kitchen Assistant Thomas Hall Kitchen Assistant Meagan Hall Kitchen Assistant Caleb Putnam Kitchen Assistant George Shiarella Kitchen Assistant

FINANCE Judy Jones Parker Chief Financial Officer Karin Kraft Financial & Human Resources Administrator Tammy Lester Assistant Financial

Administrator

Matt Keenan Tammy Lenski Paul Lucas Melinda Maguire Andrew Marsh John Matthias Tim Matthias Susan Moody Esther Moverman Louisa Munk Linda Nickerson Clare Pollock Arthur Pope Carolyn Saari Sonia Sawyer Mary Ann Shea Christine Sheldon Ken Sheldon Lori Shepard Beth Stevenson Charlotte Thibault Doug Ward

HOUSEKEEPING Deb Marsh House Manager Andrea Kierstead Lead Housekeeper Ellen Gordon Housekeeper Lauren Morrissey Housekeeper Blake Tewksbury Fellows’ Services Coordinator MAINTENANCE & GROUNDS John Siesweirda

COMMUNICATIONS INTERNS Rachel Shunamon John Tibbetts VOLUNTEERS Jason Anthony Tom Badgley Rhonda Barkley Laura Bedard Marsha Campaniello Bea Corriveau Bruce Dennis Joanne Donoghue DeCenzo Spencer Doolittle Hannah Fitch Laura Gourlay Sally Graf Betty Gray Steve Gray Jessica Griebler Ilan Harris Ben Haubrich Robin Haubrich Brooke Hubner Devon Hubner Sarah Jordan

The MacDowell Colony would like to thank the following directors, who retired from the board during 2015: Amy Baker Sandback

Editor: Jonathan Gourlay Design and Production: Melanie deForest Design, LLC All photographs not otherwise credited: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey For more information about MacDowell, including instructions on how to apply, go to www.macdowellcolony.org.

The MacDowell Colony is a member of the Alliance of Artists Communities, a nationwide consortium and professional organization for the field; and ResArtis, a worldwide network of artist residency programs.

A Gift to MacDowell AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, The MacDowell Colony relies on gifts to sustain the excellence of its residency program and its leadership among artist communities. The Colony gratefully accepts donations of cash, property (such as securities and real estate), and gifts-in-kind from individuals, foundations, and corporations. Gifts may be left unrestricted for general operating use or designated for a specific purpose, such as a studio endowment or a Fellowship. Unique naming opportunities are available for studios, rooms, special equipment, landscaping elements, Fellowships, stipends, and endowment funds.

Each year, a significant portion of the Colony’s operations is funded by planned giving, including cash bequests, stocks, real estate, the rights to and royalties from works of art, and useful items such as books, equipment, and furnishings. The Marian MacDowell Society is a group of artists, patrons, and board members who have chosen to remember MacDowell in their wills or other estate plans. The legacies created by these gifts help guarantee that the Colony can offer the same transformative experience to future generations of artists.

Please consider expressing your commitment to MacDowell through an annual contribution, endowed gift, or planned gift. We would be pleased to assist you and your legal or tax advisors. To discuss ways in which your gift can help artists and to learn about possible significant tax savings in planned giving, please call Director of Development John Martin at 212-535-9690.

From left: (Front Row) Courtney Brecht, Marissa Cinquanti, Ann Putnam, Ellen Gordon, Karen Keenan, Cheryl A. Young. (Along wall) Tom Reynolds, Janice Williams, Cindy Fallows, John Sieswerda, Ann Hayashi, Hannah Fitch, Blake Tewksbury, Robin Cherof, Amy McLaughlin, Taylor Adolphson, Jeromy Brett, Davis Macy, Jamie Sargent. (Third row) Jody Garnick, Courtney Bethel, Dan Millibauer, Jackie Brunk, Jenni Wu, John Martin. (Back row) Tejas Moses, Tammy Lester, Mitch Reynolds, Karin Kraft, Shaun Newport, Jonathan Gourlay, Scott Tyle, Dean Klingler, Jessica Viada, Jim Morse.

The MacDowell Colony is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation founded in 1907 under the laws of the state of New York “to promote the arts.” The Internal Revenue Service has certified that The MacDowell Colony is not a private foundation, as defined in section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as revised in 1969. MacDowell is an organization described in Code Section 509(a)(2), therefore, all gifts and bequests to the Colony are fully deductible to the extent provided by law for income and estate tax purposes.

Your bequest to The MacDowell Colony will help to guarantee that future generations of artists continue to have an ideal place in which they can create enduring works of the imagination.

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The MacDowell Colony 100 High Street Peterborough, NH 03458 Telephone: 603-924-3886 Fax: 603-924-9142 The MacDowell Colony 163 East 81st Street New York, NY 10028 Telephone: 212-535-9690 Fax: 212-737-3803 54 MACDOWELL 2015