The MacDowell artist residency program in Peterborough will welcome 64 fellows working in multiple disciplines through September.
The incoming group includes 13 international artists from Spain, the United Kingdom, Dubai, Brazil, Norway, Canada, Philippines and Australia, as well as artists from around the United States. Almost 60% are doing their first MacDowell residencies, and are the last of MacDowell’s rescheduling efforts after postponments due to COVID-19.
Artists-in-residence include architect Robert Hutchison, composers Carolyn Yarnell, VadimNeselovskyi and Yun Du, filmmakers Lana Lin, RhianaYazzie, Orlando Tirado Amador and Gina Kamentsky, visual artists Tonita Cervantes, Laura Newman and Mark Tribe, interdisciplinary artists Buzz Slutzky, Shaun Irons, Lauren Petty and Taro Hattori, poets Safiya Sinclair and Monica Youn, nonfiction writers Carole Cadwalladr and Sheri Fink and fiction writers Ken Kalfus, BeenaKamlani, Mimi Lok, and Beth Underdown.
Once at MacDowell, fellows are provided a private studio, three meals a day and accommodations for up to six weeks. Incoming fellows are Robert Hutchison (architecture), Yun Du, Christopher Hopkins, VadimNeselovskyi, David Werfelmann and Carolyn Yarnell (composition), Orlando Tirado Amador, Florrie James, Gina Kamentsky, Lana Lin, AmirahTajdin, Gustavo Vinagre, RhianaYazzie and Peng Zuqiang (film/video arts), Taro Hattori, Shaun Irons, Lauren Petty, Jefferson Pinder, Malinda Seu and Morgan Thorson (interdisciplinary arts), John Jahnke, Min Kahng, Jay Muskett, Buzz Slutzky and Ken Urban (theater arts), Tonita Cervantes, Sara Eliassen, JagdeepRaina, Claire Lieberman, Colin Lyons, Gabriel Martinez, Claire McConaughy, AsifMian, Laura Newman, Elle Perez, Terri Rolland, and Mark Tribe (visual arts), DewaineFarria, Ken Kalfus, BeenaKamlani, Mimi Lok, Moira McCavana, Adam Price, Danton Remoto, Paul Dalla Rosa, Erin Kate Ryan, TimeaSipos, MahreenSohail, Beth Underdown, and David HeskaWanbliWeiden (fiction), Carole Cadwalladr, Susana Ferreira, Sheri Fink, María Elena Gaitán, Fiona Murphy, Mary Annette Pember and Guinevere Turner (nonfiction), Michael Tod Edgerton, Niki Herd, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Cheryl Savageau, Safiya Sinclair, KhatyXiong and Monica You0 (poetry).
MacDowell awards more than 300 fellowships per year. For the next residency period, from fall 2022 through winter 2023, MacDowell received 2,967 applications, which exceeded all previous annual totals. The next application period opens on July 15.