MacDowell, summer 2014 by The MacDowell Colony

Vol. 43, No. 1, Summer 2014

IN THIS ISSUE

Opening the Door to Long-Form Journalism New Mobile Website Maps Fellow Art Around the World Betye Saar Picked to Become 55TH Edward MacDowell Medalist Garland Studio Dedicated After Renovation

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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Ways to Connect with Artists

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Artists

Everyone at MacDowell sees the day-to-day struggles of being an artist. The rewards are great, but no one ever said it would be easy. Which is why awarding the Edward MacDowell Medal is such a great joy. We pause to acknowledge those who make a significant difference in our society and make our world a better place. On August 10, we’ll be celebrating the brilliant and inspiring life’s work of visual artist Betye Saar. Join us in person for the ceremony, picnic, and annual open studios. Or join us virtually through our new Portable MacDowell website. The beta version of Portable, our first mobile website, is up and running, and growing in popularity day by day. We hope the site will connect art lovers to MacDowell Fellows with peeks into studios, profiles, work samples, videos, and events by visiting portablemacdowell.org. The site introduces the artists who make the work we enjoy and a way to find where to experience their work first-hand, anywhere in the world (click on “Find Art”). For example, under “Artists” you will find more about Michael Waugh whose wonderful work is shown on the cover of this issue. We hope you visit Portable often to stay abreast of new features as they are added, including the new section dedicated to Medal Day and the artists who will be opening up their studios. MacDowell welcomes to our Board of Directors two new members, playwright Rob Handel and author Adele Griffin. Rob, who has been in residence twice and first met his wife poet Joy Katz at MacDowell, leads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University and was a founder of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which has four Obies to its credit. Adele has written numerous books for young adults, including two that have been finalists for the National Book Award. Her latest, The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone will be released this summer. We also welcome four new volunteers on the Fellows Executive Committee: Vauhini Vara, Wendy Richmond, Yotam Haber, and Sam Nigro. Of course, this edition of the newsletter includes much more of our latest news, so please read on, and we would love to hear what you think of this edition and Portable. Write to me or our editor Jonathan Gourlay at news@macdowellcolony.org.

As a journalist, Petra Bartosiewicz had lived and breathed the domestic front in the war on terrorism when she came to The MacDowell Colony in 2012. Her stories about terrorism suspects working their way through the federal court system had appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, and on This American Life. She came to MacDowell to put it all together in a book, but she came away with a new sense of what her work was trying to accomplish. As she reported after her residency, “my interaction with other artists in residence enabled me to think of [my book] as more than a straight piece of reported journalism and something that reflects the bigger ideas related to a subject I’ve written about for close to five years.” This fall, MacDowell will launch a new Art of Journalism initiative to provide this multidisciplinary experience for other writers working on long-form journalism projects. With the help of media partners, led by the Virginia Quarterly Review, the project will raise awareness of residencies as a resource for the journalism community, while doubling MacDowell’s support for journalists with fellowships covering all residency costs. In addition, a project stipend will give participants the financial stability to break ground on innovative projects that are no longer fronted by the media establishment. “We believe that journalists are artists who can change the way we see the world,” says Executive Director Cheryl Young. “That’s a different reception than they may get in a newsroom. And for that reason, we see MacDowell as a place where long-form journalism can not only survive, but thrive.” As media resources continue to shift online, the need for the Art of Journalism initiative has become clear. Under pressure to compete with fast news and offer free access, the media establishment is investing less in longer pieces. And while technology makes it easier than ever to publish, the current model is unsustainable for reporters to engage in the intrepid reporting, deep research, and innovative writing that will keep long-form vibrant and relevant in the digital age.

Cheryl A. Young, Executive Director

FIND ART AND ARTISTS WITH THE PORTABLE MACDOWELL The Colony’s first mobile, interactive website, The Portable MacDowell, is up and running in Beta form. It’s been designed to connect smartphone and tablet computer owners with the art and artists of The MacDowell Colony. It puts a face on artwork by presenting behind-the-scenes insights from Fellows, peeks into Colony studios, and provides art lovers with a simple way to keep track of shows, openings, and other events where art can be experienced first-hand. Scan the code and add to your home screen or visit portablemacdowell.org. Artists can expect to receive an email explaining the easy steps to creating a page. Donor inquiries to fund further development of features are welcome.

Opening the Door to Long-Form Journalism

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ON AND OFF BROADWAY, FELLOW WORKS EARNING HARDWARE

Lisa Kron in Banks Studio

Fun Home, the musical written by Lisa Kron with music by Jeanine Tesori, has been collecting awards this past spring. Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and was extended multiple times. The musical has won the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, this year’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best

Until now, MacDowell has been something of a well-kept secret for journalists. Some of the field’s finest voices, including Neil MacFarquhar, Frances Fitzgerald, William Finnegan, and Max Frankel, worked at the Colony when they were still unknown writers. During recent residencies, Sheri Fink transformed her Pulitzerwinning reporting on the health care crisis during Hurricane Katrina into a good part of her book Five Days at Memorial, which was named to The New York Times’ list of “10 Best Books of 2013.” Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic magazine and a MacDowell Fellow, believes the Colony can make a significant contribution to the field. “Fellowships at MacDowell have always provided the gift not only of valuable time, but also of a setting and a community that encourages writers’ best work,” he says. “Now, more than ever, these residencies can play an important role in helping to sustain the kind of long-form journalism that engages readers and enriches society.”

Musical, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, and a 2014 Obie Award for Musical Theater. It was also a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The musical’s 10-year-old star, Sydney Lucas, became the youngest recipient in Obies history when she won an award for her performance. Bryan Cranston, who played Walter White on the long-running “Breaking Bad” television series on AMC, made his Broadway debut in the spring as Lyndon Baines Johnson in All the Way, the new play by Robert Schenkkan. The play centers on LBJ’s first year in office after taking over in the wake of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Since its opening, All the Way has won numerous awards: the 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding New Broadway Play and Outstanding Actor In A Play, the Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the 2014 Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play for Cranston, and most recently, Two Tony Awards—Best Play and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Bryan Cranston .

SEE CHAIRMAN AND NOVELIST MICHAEL CHABON’S INTERVIEW ON PBS FROM LAST SUMMER Scan this code or go to: http://bit.ly/1n43M6J

BETYE SAAR NAMED 2014 EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL WINNER PUBLIC INVITED TO TAKE PART IN AWARD CEREMONY AT MACDOWELL ON AUGUST 10

Betye Saar with The Destiny of Latitude & Longitude, 2010; Photograph by Jacob Wheeler; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York.

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WHEN ASSEMBLAGE and installation artist Betye Saar accepts the 55th Edward MacDowell Medal on Sunday, August 10, she will join impressive company. The Edward MacDowell Medal has been given since 1960 to an individual artist who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her field, and Saar’s contribution to the visual arts world has had a resounding impact for decades.

“Betye Saar has been a key influence in the dialogues around race and gender in the art world since the 1960s,” said Museum of Arts and Design Curator Lowery Stokes Sims, who chaired the Edward MacDowell Medal Selection Panel and will introduce Saar at the public ceremony during the annual Medal Day celebration. “Her exquisite collages have posed questions, challenged presumptions, and have never failed to demonstrate her unique aesthetic sensibility.” Joining Sims on the selection panel were visual artists and MacDowell Fellows Nene Humphrey and Richard Haas, Leslie King-Hammond, art historian and founder of the Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Susan Sollins-Brown, executive producer and curator of PBS’s “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”

STARTED AS A PRINTMAKER Saar, who started as a printmaker, is perhaps best known for her intimate assemblages and collages, which not only challenge the myths and negative stereotypes ascribed to the African-American community but also demonstrate a connection with a myriad of mythic and spiritual concepts from Africa and the Caribbean. “Betye Saar uses shards of myth and narrative, and found bits of history – with all its pain and magnificence – to build scale models of a world that is intensely personal and yet instantly, inescapably recognizable as our own broken world,” said MacDowell Colony Chairman and author Michael Chabon. “These scale models of brokenness help us to interpret and find meaning in that world, mapping it with fierceness, a sense of play, and the wild accuracy you find among the great cartographers and world-builders, also known as artists,

whose explorations the MacDowell Colony has for so long striven to foster and sustain.” Born in 1926 in California, Saar grew up in Pasadena during the Great Depression and often visited her grandmother in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles during the 1930s. As a result, she was able to watch Simon Rodia sort through piles of debris, pick out discarded objects, and cement them to his famous towers. “I think that was the beginning of me becoming an assemblagist or recycler,” Saar has said. Saar emerged as a leader in the redefinition of African American art in the 1960s and has continued to explore her cultural history in complex works inspired by a curiosity about the mystical. The breadth of her works over the last four decades reflects her interests in politics, race, religion, and gender as she has worked to “reach across the barriers of art and life, to bridge cultural diversities, and forge new understandings.”

“I couldn’t march during the Civil Rights era as a mom, so I started collecting derogatory images and items and used them to express my anger and disappointment, and that’s how I got started.”

INCOMPLETE WITHOUT SAAR According to visual artist Renee Stout, no history of American Art can be complete without including a discussion of artists like Betye Saar, who, says Stout, has been in the forefront of putting African American history and culture into art. “When I found out she was being awarded the MacDowell Medal it all made sense to me,” said Stout. “I’m not surprised she’s getting it.” Stout said Saar stands out and has been productive for so long because she’s an artist that keeps on producing exciting work “when no one seems to be paying attention.” “The way she takes a personal narrative and transforms it to a national narrative is very captivating,” said Filmmaker Yemane Demissie, who is inspired by Saar’s art. “What speaks to me is that her work is extremely personal and yet when I look at it I can connect with it. It’s at once both personal and universal.”

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972; mixed media assemblage; 11 3/4” x 8” x 2 3/4”, signed; collection of University of California, Berkeley Art Museum; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (selected by The Committee for the Acquisition of Afro-American Art). Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Photograph by Joshua Nefsky.

And now that’s she’s going to be presented the Edward MacDowell Medal, Saar said it’s given her the confidence that she is on the right path. She added that the award is “maybe telling me I have a karmic obligation to express how I feel about these [political, women’s rights, and spiritual] issues. It gives me a new push to explore how the ordinary can be transformed into the extraordinary.”

Migration: South to North, 2006; mixed media assemblage with vintage suitcase; 16 1/2” x 13” x 6 1/2”, signed and dated; Private Collection; courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York.

The 2014 MacDowell Medalist has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974 and 1984, and the Getty Foundation in 1990. In 1994, she and John Outterbridge represented the United States at the 22nd São Paulo Biennial. Her work is represented in numerous museum collections. As an indication of her stature in the art world she was featured in no less than 13 of the exhibitions that formed part of the 2012 Pacific Standard Time festival. “I’m not really well known, at least at the level of other MacDowell medalists,” Saar said. “And once I got over the shock [of being named medalist], I was thrilled and of course honored…. I’m still a bit gaga over it.”

PUBLIC INVITED TO MEDAL PRESENTATION The public ceremony during the annual free Medal Day celebration on Sunday, August 10, 2014, begins at 12:15 p.m. at the MacDowell Colony grounds in Peterborough, NH. MacDowell artists-in-residence will open their studios from 2 to 5 p.m. For more information and to order picnic lunches, visit macdowellcolony.org.

Louis C. Adelman_Playwright Louis C. Adelman died January 10, 2014

at the age of 94. Adelman, who was in residence in 1958, was a script writer for CBS and NBC television, a play doctor on the Off Broadway musical Riverwind, a New Dramatists Committee member, and attended The Actor’s Studio under Clifford Odets. Some of his plays include Corner of God, Dressed in Clean Clothes, the adaptation for The Man with the Golden Arm, Locking Piece, and Body Language. He taught playwriting at Marymount Manhattan College. He was a recipient of a Grant-in-aid from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN grant.

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Remembering

Nancy Holt_Sculptor Nancy Holt, one of the pioneers of the land-art movement in the 1960s and 1970s, died on February 8, 2014 at the age of 75. Holt, who was in residence in 1989, produced site-specific environmental works including Sun Tunnels, a large-scale sculptural work in Great Basin Desert, Utah; Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings in Bellingham, Washington; and Astral Grating at the Fulton Street subway station in New York. She also completed large-scale land reclamation projects, including Sky Mound (1988) in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and Up and Under (1998), in Nokia, Finland. She received five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two New York Creative Artist Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Florida, Tampa. Lee Hyla_Composer Lee Hyla, long admired by other composers of many

genres and styles, died June 6, 2014 at the age of 61. Hyla, who was in residence 16 times, most recently in 2012, wrote several works for larger ensembles as well as solo instrumental pieces, but the vast majority of his output was chamber music. According to The Boston Globe, that includes “a trenchant yet affecting set” of Polish Folk Songs; a piece for amplified cello, piano, and percussion called The Dream of Innocent III; a setting of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” recorded by the Kronos Quartet and the poet himself; and four string quartets. Hyla taught composition for 25 years at New England Conservatory and his music won numerous awards. At the time of his death, he was the Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt professor of theory and composition at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.

Arlene Swift Jones_Poet Arlene Swift Jones died on December 31, 2013 at the age of 85. Jones, who was in residence in 1992, published three books of poems: The Insisting Thistle, Deenewood; A Sequence; and Pomegranate Wine. Her memoir, God, Put Out One of My Eyes: A Cyprus Diary 1962-1965, was awarded honorable mention by The Eric Hoffer Award for Books. Her work appeared in Prairie Schooner, Wind, Green Mountains Review, Kansas Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Cimarron Review, Kestrel, Kalliope, and The Hartford Courant, and appears in two anthologies by Calyx: Women and Aging and A Wider Giving. She received an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Denny Prize.

Kathleen Lombardo_Poet, playwright, and librettist Kathleen

Lombardo died on August 18, 2013 at the age of 80. She was in residence in 1971. One of her scripts, Palle D’oro, produced at the Chicago Historical Society, was made into a film by Fred Stassen, and awarded a Hugo at the International Film Festival in Chicago. She collaborated with several composers including her husband, Robert Lombardo, and MacDowell Fellows John Austin, Bo Lawergren, and Edward Miller. Most recently, her text Against Forgetting, written in memory of the children of the Holocaust, was set by her husband to mezzo soprano, percussion, string orchestra, and children’s chorus and had its premiere at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago on September 11, 2013.

THIRTEEN MACDOWELL FELLOWS AMONG WRITERS OF NEW YORK TIMES’ 100 NOTABLE BOOKS In its annual Holiday Books issue, The New York Times Book Review publishes a list of the 100 Notable Books of 2013. Among the fiction, poetry and nonfiction selections, the editors named a baker’s dozen penned by MacDowell Colony Fellows. ❱❱ NONFICTION To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle ❱❱ FICTION AND POETRY We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Schroder by Amity Gaige Elizabeth Graver’s The End of the Point Andrew Sean Greer’s The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt Fiona Maazel’s Woke Up Lonely The Son by Phillip Meyer Jamie Quatro’s I Want To Show You More Brenda Shaughnessy’s poetry collection Our Andromeda The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Fellows Well Represented Among Pulitzers and Guggenheims Annie Baker Annie Baker, who was in residence in 2009, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play The Flick. (She also was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in April.) The Pulitzer board called the play “a thoughtful drama with wellcrafted characters that focuses on three employees of a Massachusetts art-house movie theater, rendering lives rarely seen on the stage.” The two finalists in the category are also fellows: Madeline George – who was at MacDowell in 2004 – for The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence, and Lisa Kron – in residence in 1995 and 2014 – for Fun Home (see page 2). Poet Vijay Seshadri, who was in residence in 1998 and 2004, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection 3 Sections, which was begun at MacDowell and includes four poems written here. Philipp Meyer’s novel The Son, which he worked on while in residence in 2010, was listed as a finalist for the top prize in fiction, which went to Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Finally, The Washington Post and Guardian U.S. were named Pulitzer winners for their reporting based on classified documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden that revealed “widespread” surveillance by the National Security Agency. The New York Times reported that MacDowell Fellow and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras put Snowden in touch with the journalists who broke the story. In addition, 23 MacDowell Fellows won 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships. They are among 178 artists and scholars chosen from among almost 3,000 applicants for the awards. CHLOE ARIDJIS, writer, 2010 ANNIE BAKER, playwright, 2009 SUSAN BEE, painter, 2012 RACHEL COHEN, writer, 2000, 2002 NANCY DAVIDSON, interdisciplinary artist, 2003 CHRIS DOYLE, interdisciplinary artist, 2005 DENISE DUHAMEL, poet, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2004 SHARON HAYES, interdisciplinary artist, 1999 MIKEL KUEHN, composer, 1995, 2006 WILLIAM LAMSON, interdisciplinary artist, 2009 JOSHUA MARSTON, filmmaker, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2012 SUSAN ORLEAN, writer, 2010 MEGHAN O’ROURKE, poet, 2009, 2011 JULIE ORRINGER, writer, 2005, 2006, 2008 LYNNE SACHS, filmmaker, 2006, 2012 JUDITH SIMONIAN, painter, 2009 JEFFREY THOMAS SKINNER, poet, 2009 PATRICIA SMITH, poet, 2012 STACEY STEERS, filmmaker, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2013 RACHEL SUSSMAN, photographer, 2005, 2013 MARY SZYBIST, poet, 2007 DEKE WEAVER, performance artist, 2007 MARJORIE WELISH, poet, 1978, 1987

Trend in International Diversity Continues In the six months from November 2013 through April 2014, the Colony welcomed artists from 12 countries who arrived on a variety of fellowships, including our new Voices of Change initiative, a collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), promoting residency opportunities to artists from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. In its first year, seven artists from the Middle Zeynep Kayhan East came to MacDowell. Now, in its second year, more have been in residence, including visual artist Mona Aghababaee from Iran, writer Yasmine El Rashidi from Egypt, and writer Zeynep Kayhan from Turkey. Other international artists at the Colony in that same period came from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

More Awards, Grants and Fellowships KEVIN YOUNG, Poet, Pen Open Book Award for The Gray Album. MARILYN HACKER, Poet, Pen/Heim Translation Grant for The Bridges of Budapest. JENNIFER HAYASHIDA, Poet, Pen/ Heim Translation Grant for Vitsvit. HANNAH SANGHEE PARK, Poet, 2013 Ruth Lily Prize for Poetry. JESSE MOSS, Filmmaker, Sundance special jury for The Overnighters. JOHN POCH, Poet, New Criterion Prize for Poetry. CAROL HEBALD, Poet, “The Isolation Room” nominated for the 2014 Pushcart Prize. LISA KRON, Playwright, Dramatists Guild Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award. MARCIA NEBLETT, Visual Artist, Fulbright Specialist Grant in Woodblock Printmaking. KATI AGÓCS, Composer, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Music.

MORE NEW AND NOTABLE PROJECTS:

NEW AND NOTABLE PROJECTS

JESSICA LAMB-SHAPIRO, Writer, memoir Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture

Kevin Young’s Book of Hours Lauded in the Press

NANCY KATES, Filmmaker, documentary Regarding Susan Sontag ALENA GRAEDON, Writer, first novel, The Word Exchange

Poet Kevin Young’s latest book of verse, Book of Hours, released this past March, was named one of the 10 essential poetry titles for the winter of Kevin Young 2014 by Library Journal and was called a “heartfelt, beautifully crafted new collection” by the Chicago Tribune. The poems deal with life-changing events such as the sudden death of the poet’s father 10 years ago and the birth of his son a couple of years later, moving from deep grief to great joy, and reflecting the new-found clarity of everything in between. Young, an author of several books of poetry and teacher of creative writing at Emory University, appeared on “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross this spring and was interviewed by Robin Young on NPR about the legacy of Maya Angelou. He read from Book of Hours during a live broadcast of the public radio-syndicated “Thacker Mountain Radio” in Oxford, MS during the 2014 Friends of MacDowell trip in March. The program also featured an interview with composer Yotam Haber about A More Convenient Season, his orchestral commemoration of Birmingham, Alabama’s chapter in the Civil Rights Movement.

GOLNAR ADILI, Visual Artist, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles exhibit MICHAEL HAVERTY, Playwright, adaptation of Red Badge of Courage TOM GILROY, Filmmaker, The Cold Lands

JOSH ZEMAN, Filmmaker, documentary Killer Legends MICHAEL SCOGGINS, Visual Artist, visiting artist exhibit at Cress Gallery UTC. JOHN BISBEE, Visual Artist, exhibition “New Blooms” ZAC CULLER, Visual Artist, solo show at Hedreen Gallery

Collaborators turning Stephen King’s The Shining into an Opera

CANAN TOLON, Visual Artist, exhibition “Sidesteps”

The Shining, the classic Stephen King horror story, is being turned into an opera, and the Minnesota Opera Company is betting that two MacDowell Fellows, Mark Campbell and Paul Moravec, are the perfect pair of collaborators to turn it into a hit. Both Campbell, the librettist, and Moravec, the opera’s composer, are quick to point out that the opera will work because King’s novel is the source material, not Stanley Kubrick’s film version. “There’s a vast difference between the novel and the film,” says Campbell. “In the book, Jack Torrance is a very good man who has these demons that keep coming at him and he really wants to protect his family. The novel has much more drama in it and an opera can’t survive without a strong story beating at its center.” Moravec agrees. “The book is more interesting and more complex,” he says. “It’s quite a moving story.” The Minnesota Opera will premiere the opera in May of 2016 at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul.

JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY, Playwright, We Are Proud To Present…

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NEW FEC MEMBERS ELECTED

Love & Treasure an Inventive Tale Told Across Generations

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Characterized as an ambitious take on the atrocities of the Holocaust, Ayelet Waldman’s 12th book, Love & Treasure has been lauded in reviews from media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. The tale is weaved across generations around the true story of the Hungarian Gold Train captured by American soldiers during World War II. Publisher’s Weekly called the epic sweep of complex issues related to identity, home, dislocation, and feminism, “inventively told from multiple perspectives.”

Michael Scoggins exhibit The Fellows Executive Committee elected four new members in April: Writer Vauhini Vara, Multi-media Artist Wendy Richmond, Composer Yotam Haber, and Sculptor Sam Nigro.

MARY SZYBIST’S SECOND COLLECTION WINS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Poet Mary Szybist was named the 2013 winner of the National Book Award for poetry for her second collection, Incarnadine (Graywolf). Judges said she blends traditional and experimental aesthetics to recast the myth of the Biblical Mary for this era. “In vulnerable lyrics, surprising concrete poems, and other forms, and with extraordinary sympathy and a light touch of humor, Szybist probes the nuances of love, loss, and the struggle for religious faith in a world that seems to argue against it. This is a religious book for nonbelievers, or a book of necessary doubts for the faithful.”

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE HONORS THREE FELLOWS

Blane De St. Croix’s Latest Installation Dead Ice Blane De St. Croix’s first solo gallery exhibition in New York, Dead Ice, ran at Fredericks & Freiser this past spring and consisted of massive sculpture that filled the entire gallery space. Also on view were several other works, including sculpture and drawings as well as collages. De St. Croix investigates the human relationship to the contemporary landscape and its conflicts with ecology and geopolitics. He said he used his latest residency to prepare for the project, which is based on extensive field research in the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic Circle. Most of the large-scale pieces are of mixed media, aqua resin, eco epoxy, and recycled materials.

OMISSION: In the Winter 2013 issue we left Composer Kati Agócs off our list of winners of 2013 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. She was one of 21 MacDowell Fellows among 175 artists and scholars.

Three MacDowell Fellows were honored by the National Book Critics Circle this year. Sheri Fink won in the general nonfiction category for Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a StormRavaged Hospital, her in-depth accounting of the health-care crises during Hurricane Katrina. The book was also named to The New York Times’ list of “10 Best Books of 2013.” Denise Duhamel was named a Poetry Finalist for Blowout, and Jonathan Franzen was named a Criticism Finalist for his study The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus.

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SAM GREEN AND YOUNG JEAN LEE, Filmmakers, screened new works at Sundance

Artists

MATT WOLF, Filmmaker, documentary Teenage

JONATHAN GOURLAY

Mary and Peter Garland Studio Dedicated

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Mary Garland has been involved with The MacDowell Colony since 1956 when she, her husband Peter, and their five children moved to Hancock, NH. Soon after, Mary and Peter began hosting Fellows for events at their home, from simple cocktail parties to an annual dance just before Medal Day. The tradition continued for years, as did the family association with The MacDowell Colony. Today, Mary and her daughter, Sarah GarlandHoch, both serve on the Colony’s board of directors. Sarah and her siblings approached MacDowell to ask how they might honor their parents’ enduring love of MacDowell. At the time, fundraising was underway to revamp the Anna Baetz Memorial Studio, which was built in 1926 in memory of Edward MacDowell’s nurse, and was in need of complete renovation. Originally built for summeronly use, the studio occupied by James Baldwin, Spalding Gray, Doris Grumbach, Peter Cameron, and Alice Sebold was too dark and drafty. The Garland family gift has funded the renovation and established a small endowed fund to underwrite annual maintenance. Tim Groesbeck and his team expertly renovated the structure following a design by Sheldon Pennoyer Architects. The studio’s stucco exterior looks much the same, thanks to Deb Shelley Masonry’s craftsmanship and the decision to replace the diamond pane French casement windows in kind. Within, the new cathedral ceiling admits welcome daylight from gable end windows and creates a perfect loft space for reading.

❱❱ NEA ARTWORKS GRANT

NEA Art Works Grant to Support First-Time Residencies for Artists The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recommended MacDowell for a $30,000 grant to support first-time residencies for 10 artists in 2014. It was one of 895 grants to nonprofit organizations through the NEA Art Works program. The Colony will provide first-time residencies to artists from many different backgrounds. The NEA’s support of residencies continues to help MacDowell diversify its artist community, with more than two-thirds of accepted artists coming to the Colony for the first time. In 2013, MacDowell Fellows came from 32 states and 15 countries, with more than 28% representing cultural and ethnic diversity.

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Last year’s Art Works grant also supported first-time residencies at The MacDowell Colony, resulting in the creation of at least 14 new works of art.

WINTER TREE HARVEST REVITALIZING A DEPLETED WOODLAND

“I loved meeting and socializing with artists of other varied disciplines and discussing their process, work, and sharing my experiences. It was actually helpful to my creative process to hear the struggles of other artists in other disciplines,” said Asha Srinivasan, a composer and one of last year’s NEA fellowship recipients. While in residency, Srinivasan began two compositions, one for flute ensemble and one for flute and wind ensemble concerto.

In February and early March, foresters culled a sprawling stand of conifers in the northwest corner of The MacDowell Colony property. The harvest, guided by Calhoun and Corwin Forestry of Peterborough, is already improving the ecological health of a 50-acre parcel. Unhealthy trees that have essentially stopped growing and prevented sunlight from reaching the forest floor have already given way to new growth. With a majority of the canopy removed, newly created forest edges have begun to spring to life, improving the buffer at the edge of the property and leading to a healthier forest for generations to come.

Fellows featured in Whitney Biennial

In April, more than 100 MacDowell supporters enjoyed a special evening including a cocktail reception, presentation from Rachel Perry Welty’s Karaoke, Wrong Number, dinner in Colony Hall, and a reading by MacDowell Chairman Michael Chabon from his latest work-in-progress. It was an opportunity for guests to join artists-in-residence, the board of directors, and a select group of friends from around New Hampshire for an evening inside the storied doors of the Colony.

NEW FACES

Robin Cherof, COOK

Jessica Viada, DEVELOPMENT

Kelly Wright,

HOUSEKEEPER

MELISSA HIGGINS

PLAYWRIGHT

DAN MILLBAUER

Rob Handel,

DAN MILLBAUER

BUCK LEWIS

MARION ETTLINGER

WRITER

The 2014 Whitney Biennial, included work by Lisa Anne Auerbach, Rochelle Feinstein, Louise Fishman, Zoe Leonard, Pam Lins, and Amy Sillman. Leonard took a group of Friends of MacDowell on a private tour of the exhibition and led a salon in April.

JENNI WU

NEW HAMPSHIRE BENEFIT FEATURES READING OF NEW WORK BY MICHAEL CHABON IN APRIL

Adele Griffin,

This spring, a three-man camera crew from RTHK, a public television and radio company in Hong Kong, visited the U.S. to collect footage for a one-hour documentary the station is producing on Chinese writer Eileen Chang, author of Lust Caution. Chang, who was in residence in 1956 and 1957, was considered one of the most influential modern Chinese writers and continues to enjoy enormous popularity in China. She met screenwriter and playwright Ferdinand Reyher while in residence, and the two married after her first residency. The RTHK crew spent three hours on The MacDowell Colony grounds, filming a segment interviewing Resident Director David Macy in the original Eugene Coleman Savidge Library, and then shot additional footage in Bond Hall and Mansfield Studio. The film is expected to be broadcast in the September-October timeframe.

Mary Garland displays a poem by Sharon Mesmer that was found hidden in the wall of the studio during the renovation. It was presented to Garland on December 13, 2013.

NEW BOARD MEMBERS

Eileen Chang Subject of New Chinese Public TV Documentary

Jenni Wu,

OFFICE MANAGER

About 275 MacDowell Colony supporters and their friends helped raise almost $400,000 during an evening of entertainment and good conversation at The Times Center on May 19. Hosted by MacDowell Chairman Michael Chabon, the gala annual National Benefit in New York City featured the work of many distinguished Fellows. Among the excitement was a rousing performance from Lisa Kron’s smash hit musical Fun Home, a memorial tribute to Pulitzer Prizewinning author and MacDowell Fellow Oscar Hijuelos in the form of a reading by Daphne Rubin-Vega, a clip from Ira Sachs’ film Love is Strange that stars John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, and Marisa Tomei, and a powerful scene from Robert Schenkkan’s current play All the Way recreated by J. Bernard Calloway and Brandon Dirden in the roles of Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Medal Day Honoring Betye Saar Sunday, August 10 Order your basket by visiting macdowellcolony.org.

SAVE THE DATES

Annual Fellows Party in NYC Friday, September 26, 2014

AMANDA BASTONI

Outreach

Michael Chabon to Speak at New Hampshire Humanities Council Dinner Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Chairman of the MacDowell Colony Board of Directors Michael Chabon will deliver the keynote address at The New Hampshire Humanities Council’s 25th Annual Dinner on Tuesday, September 30. Visit nhhc.org for tickets.

Oscar, Pulitzer, and Tony Award-Winning composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim told nearly a hundred Friends of MacDowell on Tuesday, December 3, that he admired Paul Simon’s capacity to encapsulate rich stories into compelling pop songs as short as three minutes. The 2013 Edward MacDowell Medalist also said he was unavoidably drawn to musical theatre by the prospect of telling stories and inventing characters for the Broadway stage. In The New Museum’s intimate auditorium, Sondheim shared the stage with Multiple Grammy Award Winner Paul Simon and Novelist Michael Chabon during the first annual MacDowell Colony Chairman’s Evening. When Chabon asked the two what started their interested in music, Simon said he remembered waiting for the Yankees radio broadcasts to begin as a teenager. To make sure he didn’t miss a pitch, he listened to the end of a popular music program, most of it leaving him cold. One day he heard the R&B hit, “Gee” by the Crows. That song, he said, captivated his youthful imagination and he began what would be a life-long love of music. The hour-long conversation was part of an evening for MacDowell supporters and guests such as Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Nico Muhly, and Bebe Neuwirth. Afterward, Friends of MacDowell and invited guests enjoyed conversation, cocktails and hors d’ouevres in the Sky Room of the New Museum overlooking the skyline of lower Manhattan.

THE NATIONAL TRIP RETURNS TO MISSISSIPPI DELTA A small group of Friends of MacDowell traveled to the birthplace of the Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll in March. It was the second consecutive year the National Trip went down to the Mississippi Delta at the crossroads of American history and culture. Beginning in Memphis and ending in Oxford, the group learned the inside story of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, sampled some live Blues at one of the South’s last surviving juke joints, visited Civil Rights landmarks, ate Southern cuisine, and joined a live MacDowell-themed broadcast of the NPR-syndicated “Thacker Mountain Radio.” Along the journey, Friends met new artists and got to know their work.

If you are intersted in joining the Friends of MacDowell, contact John Martin at jmartin@macdowellcolony.org.

BRIAN SARGENT - FIVE BOROUGH FILMS

MacDowell in the Schools

MacDowell Downtown

In November, painter Aleah Chapin opened Shop Studio to 10 ConVal High School art students, most of whom are enrolled in the high school’s Advanced Placement Senior Studio course, and discussed her process and technique of figurative painting. Later that month, fiction writer Kendra Langford Shaw met with the creative writing students at ConVal and conducted Michael a workshop. Visual artists John Sutton, Ben Beres, Waugh and Zac Culler visited with about 55 students enrolled in studio art as well as an aesthetics course to describe and show examples of their installations.

In March, Visual artist Anna Schuleit Haber, a three-time MacDowell Colony Fellow, returned to Peterborough to kick off the 2014 season of MacDowell Downtown at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture. Through video, discussion and question-and-answer, Haber shared her recent projects, including the NEA-commissioned Beverly Oracle, a permanent structure to be built on the common in the town of Beverly, MA. April’s edition featured experimental filmmaker and threetime MacDowell Fellow Eva Lee who showed some short films inspired by her interest in Tibetan Buddhism and discussed a recent Fulbright Fellowship trip to India to research mandalas.

In December, nonfiction writer Meehan Crist met with 50 students, and talked about neuroscience, philosophy, and the book she is currently writing about traumatic brain injury. Artist Brent Watanabe welcomed a group of ConVal students into Adams Studio to show his work using custom computer applications, motors, sensors, and video in his sculptural installations. MacDowell Resident Director David Macy hosted English theatre director Paul Caister and his daughter Anya for a tour of the Colony and discussion of nine-time MacDowell Colony Fellow Thornton Wilder.

Samin Nosrat

In January, food writer Samin Nosrat met with The Well School’s 5th grade cooking club and had students help prepare a meal of Persian food. Assistant to the Resident Director Ann Hayashi met with two of ConVal’s social studies classes in March and described her father’s experience in an internment camp for JapaneseAmericans during WWII. Visual artist Michael Waugh opened Graphics Putnam Studio to a dozen ConVal art students and showed his large-scale textual drawings and explained his progression as an artist. Later in the month, poet Collier Nogues met with advanced writing students in a workshop on erasure poetry.

In April, documentary filmmaker Tom Weidlinger met with film studies students and screened the documentary Original Minds and fielded questions. Poet André Naffis-Sahely shared work completed at MacDowell and led advanced writing students through an exercise in writing fables. Painter and installation artist Julie Alpert hosted ConVal High school art students at Firth Studio, where she had created a temporary site-specific installation developed over her six-week residency using materials gathered from the Peterborough Recycling Center and local hardware stores. Alpert also showed animations she created with her husband, artist Andy Arkley.

Eva Lee

SUMMER 2014 • THE MACDOWELL COLONY

NATIONAL BENEFIT IN NEW YORK CITY RAISES ALMOST $400K

STEPHEN SONDHEIM, PAUL SIMON, AND MICHAEL CHABON DISCUSS CREATIVITY FOR FRIENDS OF MACDOWELL

Events

STEVEN TUCKER

National Benefit Program Participants (from left) Christian Coulson, Ira Sachs, Brandon Dirden, Michael Chabon, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Robert Schenkkan, Anna Holber, Ellen Bar, J. Bernard Calloway, and Arturo O’Farrill.

❱❱ FELLOWSHIPS

From November 2013 through April 2014, The MacDowell Colony welcomed a total of 139 artists from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and from 12 countries. This group includes 56 writers, 26 visual artists, 16 film/video artists, 13 interdisciplinary artists, 12 theatre artists, 11 composers, and 5 architects.

SUMMER 2014 • THE MACDOWELL COLONY

DAVID ADJMI, Theatre Artist Los Angeles, CA

JAQUIRA DIAZ, Writer Coralville, IA

RICARDO LORENZ, Composer East Lansing, MI

MARJORIE SA’ADAH, Writer Oak Hill, NY

NATALIA AFENTOULIDOU, Visual Artist, Boston, MA

STEVEN DRUKMAN, Theatre Artist New York, NY

ANDREW LOVETT, Composer Princeton, NJ

MELISSA SANDOR, Writer Brooklyn, NY

MONA AGHABABAEE, Visual Artist Esfahan, Iran

TOM DRURY, Writer Brooklyn, NY

KIRA MADDEN, Writer New York, NY

RICHARD SARRACH, Architect New York, NY

JULIE ALPERT, Visual Artist Seattle, WA

YASMINE EL RASHIDI, Writer Cairo, Egypt

JAMES MAGRUDER, Writer Baltimore, MD

DAN SCHREIER, Composer Brooklyn, NY

JOHN ALSOP, Film/Video Artist Erskineville, Australia

ELISABETH FROST, Writer New York, NY

MELANIE MANOS, Interdisciplinary Artist, Brighton, MI

RONNIE SCOTT, Writer Brunswick, Australia

IDRIS ANDERSON, Writer San Carlos, CA

AMINA GAUTIER, Writer Chicago, IL

CHRISTINE SHANK, Visual Artist Rochester, NY

ALICE ATTIE, Visual Artist New York, NY

TOM GILROY, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY

JONATHON MCCURLEY, Interdisciplinary Artist Toronto, Ontario, Canada

KATHERINE BALL, Interdisciplinary Artist, El Paso, TX

DAVID GOMPPER, Composer Iowa City, IA

BRIAN BAUMAN, Theatre Artist San Diego, CA

DAVID GORIN, Writer New Haven, CT

JEFFREY BECKER, Theatre Artist New Orleans, LA

CHARLES HALKA, Composer Houston, TX

ROGER BEEBE, Film/Video Artist Columbus, OH

MARY HANLON, Writer Brooklyn, NY

DIANNE BELLINO, Film/Video Artist Astoria, NY

JOEL HARRISON, Composer Brooklyn, NY

NELLEKE BELTJENS, Visual Artist Roermond, Netherlands

KEITH HENNESSY, Interdisciplinary Artist, San Francisco, CA

BEN BERES, Visual Artist Seattle, WA

LAUREN HILGER, Writer New York, NY

LINDA BESNER, Writer Toronto, Ontario, Canada

SARAH HOLLAND-BATT, Writer St Lucia, Australia

CHELSEA BIEKER, Writer Portland, OR

VERA IVANOVA, Composer Santa Ana, CA

LOUISE BLUM, Writer Corning, NY

SUSAN JACOBS, Visual Artist Melbourne, Australia

MARK BOWDEN, Composer London, United Kingdom

HANNAH JICKLING, Interdisciplinary Artist, Vancouver, BC, Canada

SASCHA BRAUNIG, Visual Artist Portland, ME

LINE KALLMAYER, Interdisciplinary Artist, Copenhagen, Denmark

LEE BREUER, Theatre Artist Brooklyn, NY

ELLEN KAUFMAN, Writer New York, NY

JANE BROX, Writer Brunswick, ME

ZEYNEP KAYHAN, Writer Istanbul, Turkey

KRISTIN CAMMERMEYER, Visual Artist, Oakland, CA

MICHELLE MEMRAN, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY CHINA MIEVILLE, Writer London, United Kingdom HELEN MIRRA, Visual Artist Cambridge, MA MAUDE MITCHELL, Theatre Artist Brooklyn, NY HONOR MOORE, Writer New York, NY CARRIE MOYER, Visual Artist Brooklyn, NY ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY, Writer London, United Kingdom SANDRA NEWMAN, Writer New York, NY COLLIER NOGUES, Writer Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong SAMIN NOSRAT, Writer Berkeley, CA ERIC NULMAN, Architect Los Angeles, CA

NEIL SHEPARD, Writer New York, NY SOO SHIN, Visual Artist Chicago, IL ROBIN SHORES, Visual Artist Boston, MA KARL STAVEN, Film/Video Artist Philadelphia, PA DEBORAH STRATMAN, Interdisciplinary Artist, Chicago, IL ELISABETH SUBRIN, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY

TERESE SVOBODA, Writer New York, NY SUMRU TEKIN, Visual Artist Charlotte, VT LAURIE THOMAS, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY DAVID THOMSON, Interdisciplinary Artist Brooklyn, NY

KENNEDY ODEDE, Writer Brooklyn, NY

HARVEY TULCENSKY, Visual Artist New York, NY

OKWIRI ODUOR, Writer Nairobi, Kenya

STEVEN UJIFUSA, Writer Philadelphia, PA

DAVID KEBERLE, Composer Branford, CT

PAT OLESZKO, Interdisciplinary Artist New York, NY

BARRY UNDERWOOD, Visual Artist Cleveland Heights, OH

BRIAN M. CASSIDY, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY

TARAN KHAN, Writer Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

TOMMY ORANGE, Writer Oakland, CA

MICHAEL CHABON, Writer Berkeley, CA

JAMES KIENITZ WILKINS, Film/Video Artist, Brooklyn, NY

SHELLY ORIA, Writer Brooklyn, NY

ALEAH CHAPIN, Visual Artist Brooklyn, NY

BORA KIM, Film/Video Artist Seoul, Republic of Korea

JULIAN PALACIO, Architect Washington, DC

ZINZI CLEMMONS, Writer Philadelphia, PA

ROGER KING, Writer Leverett, MA

JANE PARK, Writer Brooklyn, NY

CA CONRAD, Writer Philadelphia, PA

NEERJA KOTHARI, Visual Artist Jersey City, NJ

JIEHAE PARK, Theatre Artist Sunnyside, NY

CAROLYN COOKE, Writer San Francisco, CA

LISA KRON, Theatre Artist Brooklyn, NY

JAMES CORY, Writer Philadelphia, PA

VIOLET KUPERSMITH, Writer Doylestown, PA

JANOSCH PARKER, Interdisciplinary Artist New York, NY

KRISTEN COSBY, Writer Somerville, MA

AMY LAM, Interdisciplinary Artist Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ERIN COURTNEY, Theatre Artist Brooklyn, NY

LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT, Writer Seattle, WA

MEEHAN CRIST, Writer Brooklyn, NY

KENDRA LANGFORD SHAW, Writer, Billings, MT

ZAC CULLER, Visual Artist Seattle, WA

LEI LEI, Film/Video Artist Chaoyang Beijing, China

CHRISTINA DAVIS, Writer Cambridge, MA

ALMA LEIVA, Visual Artist Miami, FL

CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE, Writer, Cambridge, MA

WEI-CHIEH LIN, Composer New York, NY

JOHANNA DERY, Film/Video Artist Chicago, IL

LIANA LIU, Writer New York, NY

The MacDowell Colony is located at 100 High Street Peterborough, NH 03458 Telephone: 603-924-3886 Fax: 603-924-9142 Administrative office: 163 East 81st Street New York, NY 10028

Telephone: 212-535-9690 Fax: 212-737-3803 Web site: www.macdowellcolony.org E-mail: newsletter@macdowellcolony.org

GEORG RAFAILIDIS, Architect Buffalo, NY KELLY RAMSEY, Writer Fishers Island, NY KATHY RANDELS, Theatre Artist New Orleans, LA HELEN REED, Interdisciplinary Artist Vancouver, BC, Canada DEE REES, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY

Applications are available on our Web site at Chairman: Michael Chabon President: Susan Davenport Austin Executive Director: Cheryl A. Young Resident Director: David Macy

MacDowell is published twice a year, in summer and winter. Past Fellows may send newsworthy activities to the editor in Peterborough. Deadlines for inclusion are April 1st and October 1st.

RACHEL WALKER, Writer Boulder, CO

Editor: Jonathan Gourlay

AMANDA WARD, Writer Austin, TX

Design and Production: Melanie deForest Design, LLC

ANNE WASHBURN, Theatre Artist Brooklyn, NY

All photographs not otherwise credited: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

BRENT WATANABE, Interdisciplinary Artist, Seattle, WA

Printer: Print Resource, Westborough, MA

MICHAEL WAUGH, Visual Artist Brooklyn, NY

Mailing House: Sterling Business Print & Mail, Peterborough, NH

TEDDY WAYNE, Writer New York, NY

No part of MacDowell may be reused in any way without written permission.

TOM WEIDLINGER, Film/Video Artist Berkeley, CA

TRACY WINN, Writer Concord, MA

The names of MacDowell Fellows are noted in bold throughout this newsletter.

GARY WINTER, Theatre Artist Brooklyn, NY JIYOUNG YOON, Visual Artist Chicago, IL KEVIN YOUNG, Writer Decatur, GA PETER ZUSPAN, Architect Brooklyn, NY

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JAVIER ROMERO, Visual Artist New York, NY

The MacDowell Colony awards Fellowships to artists of exceptional talent, providing time, space, and an inspiring environment in which to do creative work. The Colony was founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and pianist Marian Nevins MacDowell, his wife. Fellows receive room, board, and exclusive use of a studio. The sole criterion for acceptance is talent, as determined by a panel representing the discipline of the applicant. The MacDowell Colony was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1997 for “nurturing and inspiring many of this century’s finest artists.” www.macdowellcolony.org.

The Banality of Evil ( introduction, part 1), pigment print on paper, 8” x 10”, unique hand-tinted edition of 5 + 1 AP and 1 PP, 2014, by Michael Waugh. Waugh’s meticulously crafted drawings use written text for the lines and shading, bringing images out of words drawn in longhand. The text in this piece is taken from Amos Elon’s introduction to Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

JOHN SUTTON, Visual Artist Seattle, WA

CAROLYN O’BRIEN, Composer Evanston, IL

JESSICA POSNER ODEDE, Writer Brooklyn, NY

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MELANIE SHATZKY, Film/Video Artist Brooklyn, NY

The Colony is grateful for the generous support of the following organizations: