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MacDowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the creative imagination.
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More than 9,500 artists have been awarded Fellowships to MacDowell, and more than 300 arrive each year. Get to know them.
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MacDowell’s staff and board acknowledge that our residency program takes place in Wabanaki, the Dawnland, on the traditional homelands of the Western Abenaki people ...
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MacDowell Fellows, working across seven artistic disciplines, have been recognized with many of the world’s most prestigious arts awards...
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