Value proposition

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

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

Its groundbreaking mission has nurtured more than 9,000 architects, composers, filmmakers, interdisciplinary artists, theatre artists, visual artists, and writers from across the United States and around the globe. MacDowell Fellows have won 101 Pulitzer Prizes, almost a thousand Guggenheims, 122 Rome Prizes, 34 MacArthur Fellowships, nine Academy Awards, 31 Tonys, Grammys, and more. Recipients of MacDowell residencies have included Ayad Akhtar, James Baldwin, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Louise Erdrich, Osvaldo Golijov, Cathy Park Hong, Glenn Ligon, Dee Rees, Vijay Seshadri, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and Julia Wolfe. Best-selling author and visual artist Nell Painter is the chairman of MacDowell’s Board of Directors.

Architecture, Filmmaking, Visual Art, Music Composition, Theater Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Literature, Poetry, and Journalism