This month, Experiential Orchestra & Videmus are presenting a centenary festival for composer and MacDowell Fellow Julia Perry (8x 54-68). On March 14, MacDowell Executive Director CK will introduce a festival performance at The New School! Tix: experientialorchestra.com/calendar/the-c…

Posting here so rarely to say that Lily Gladstone was robbed and #poorthings is stupid and dumb and utterly insulting OMG

Last night at the Julia Perry Festival's chamber music performance, MacDowell ED CK expounded on the composer's prolific work at MacDowell, & met Perry's niece Christiane Berry (right) & grand nephew and niece, Brendan McDonald & Joanna McDonald! experientialorchestra.com/calendar/the-c…

I'll take this one. The idea that affirmative action or diversity, equity & inclusion policies equal lower standards is something that a lot of people believe. Instead of citing what "I believe" like Elon did, let's use facts & a something I like to called "math" A thread.

As one of the Black equestrians this beautiful soul has photographed… As someone who was born into a beautiful Black culture of horse folk… My only opinion about this whole thing has been this: Y’all wasting your time arguing when the kids are outside. When the Black horse

Our new banner image, marking the beginning of spring, features the forest- or western-side of MacDowell's James Baldwin Library in a springtime photo by Ngoc Minh Ngo.

.Mellon Foundation has awarded MacDowell a $600,000 grant that will ensure our residency continues to benefit the widest range of artists possible. It is MacDowell's first ever grant from Mellon, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. macdowell.org/news/mellon-fo…

"They called me a witch, but in truth, I was simply a woman who knew her worth." from 'I Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem' The legendary MARYSE CONDÉ, writer of dozens of novels, plays and non-fiction has left us at the age of 87. Rest in peace and power 🖤🥀

.@YokoOno is the 2024 recipient of the #MacDowellMedal! macdowell.org/news/arts-icon…

Meeting @dlseuss was one of the great privileges of MacDowell. Her writing profoundly shaped my own and I don’t thank her enough for teaching me implicitly how to not just look at my wounds but to tickle and distort them before they start to scar.

Author Alice Munro, a winner of both the Edward MacDowell Medal and Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. Watch her acceptance speech for the #MacDowellMedal, given on Medal Day at MacDowell in August 2006. youtube.com/watch?v=mfYX-U…

The first US news program I have seen broadcasting images from Omdurman. Worth watching. pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Tonight at #MacDowellNYC: The Fuller Project cofounder Xanthe Scharff, Zahra Nader of Zan Times, & Jane Ferguson of @PBSNewsHour tackled challenges facing women reporters in conflict zones in a moving conversation opened by MacDowell ED CK. macdowell.org/events/2024-06…

MacDowell was delighted to host and discuss all-things-residency last week with Civitella Ranieri's coordinator of programs & operations Michaela Olson and residency director Diego Mencaroni (right), who are pictured with our executive director, CK. instagram.com/p/C8X3gYlAqbF/

MacDowell's next application period opens August 15! Join our executive director, CK, and admissions director, Courtney Bethel, for an Instagram Live discussion on MacDowell and the residency experience. 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭:𝟯𝟬𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗧! instagram.com/MacDowell1907

Get Caught Reading with CK, executive director of @macdowell1907 and a champion of readers and writers everywhere. #GetCaughtReading is brought to you by Every Child a Reader, a 501(c)(3) providing free and fun materials to teachers and librarians. lnk.bio/s/CBCBook/b87ac

Congratulations to all of the #NBAwards finalists this year, but especially MacDowell Fellows @PemiAguda (22), Deborah Jackson Taffa (21), and @dlseuss (15)!

A tale of two movies: Similar deal structures. Similar budgets. One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend. The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second. And yet this is the coverage.

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