ANNUAL REPORT – April 2006 through March 2007 CONTENTS 1 The Mission 3 Message from the Chairman 4 Report from the President and Executive Director 6 Centennial Celebration 8 Artists-in-Residence 20 MacDowell Artists in the Community 22 Fellows Executive Committee 23 The Edward MacDowell Medal and Medal Day 24 Events 26 Gifts for Residencies and Studios 31 Campaign, Centennial, and The MacDowell Circle Contributors 35 Message from the Treasurer 36 Board and Staff 37 A Gift to MacDowell

Cover: Filmmaker Ignacio Alcantara. Photo by Victoria Sambunaris. Above: Filmmaker Christine Schiavo. Right: Shop Studio artwork and photo by Cassie Jones. THE The MacDowell Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring MISSION works of imagination.

In 1907, the Colony was founded by American composer Edward MacDowell and Marian MacDowell, his wife. Since its inception, the Colony has supported the work of more than 6,000 women and men of exceptional ability. Situated on 450 acres of woodlands and fields in Peterborough, NH, the Colony has 32 studios. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.

Works of art conceived, developed, and completed during residencies at MacDowell have added immeasurably to our country’s cultural life. In 1997, The MacDowell Colony was awarded the National Medal of Arts for “nurturing and inspiring many of this century’s finest artists.”

More than 250 creative artists come to the Colony each year from all parts of the United States and abroad. Anyone may apply. The sole criterion for acceptance is talent as judged by a juried committee in the applicant’s discipline. A residency lasts from two weeks to two months. Accepted artists are given a private studio in which to work as well as room and all meals. There are no residency fees. The Colony encourages artists from all backgrounds to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, handicap, sex, religion, marital status, or national origin.

To continue to provide an ideal working place for gifted artists, The MacDowell Colony depends on public interest and generosity and is very grateful to the many who have given their support.

1 My five weeks at MacDowell have been perhaps the most extraordinary, exhilarating, and productive of my career, not solely for the obvious — the sheer beauty of the setting, the comfort of the studio, the removal of almost all worldly distraction, the great food, the solitude that invites complete focus and concentration — but also for the incredible sense of community created by staff, fellow Colonists, and place that states what our contemporary culture so rarely does: “Art matters. Your work matters.”

— Playwright Charles Morey

Above: Filmmaker Eric Saks; Interdisciplinary Artist Jenifer Wightman

2 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

This is a momentous year for MacDowell, our 100th birthday.

Amazingly, the Colony staff, always totally busy in making the place run, has brought an extraordinary burst of extra energy to planning and launching the Centennial celebrations that continue all year with concerts, exhibitions, and screenings all over the country. The Colony has published a handsome book of essays by Colonists and produced a film by four MacDowell filmmakers. Even the kitchen, the vital heart of the colony, is being rebuilt! Two special highlights of the year will be the totally original birthday celebration on Medal Day weekend in August and a monster gala in New York in December. And, backing the staff, members of our board of trustees have thrown themselves with notable excitement into all these efforts.

Of course we want to have fun and celebrate, but what’s the ultimate purpose in this year of calling attention to MacDowell? It is to guarantee that we are healthy and vital for another century and that everyone we can reach understands what the arts mean to America and what MacDowell, uniquely, contributes to both.

Robert MacNeil Chairman

3 REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

This year we see the fruition of many years of work not only in the 100-year life of the Colony but also in the planning of its Centennial celebration.

In the pages of this report you will find descriptions of the latest work of 254 talented creative artists coming from 35 states and 9 countries. These artists were selected from 1,700 applicants attracted by the reputation of MacDowell’s Fellowship experience. Artists who come for the valuable uninterrupted time comment on the benefit of meeting peers from disciplines different from their own, affirming Edward and Marian MacDowell’s belief in the affiliations among the arts.

This year saw the culmination of the work of many Board committees who had the foresight and energy to use the opportunity of the Centennial to take both a forward and a critical look at many aspects of the Colony: the artists experience, the physical plant, the financial position, and the “place” that MacDowell wants to hold as both an artists colony and in the arts in the next 100 years. It has been a lively, rewarding, and intense time for MacDowell and a wonderful parallel to all of the excitement that the Centennial celebration is providing. We learned a lot.

For example, in our annual financial powwow led by Board treasurer Gerry Gartner, we realized that our endowment — which many perceive as large — was, in fact, not going to sustain the Colony in perpetuity. Even with modest growth in programs, the gap between endowment income and operating expenses had been widening, and we determined that this needed to be addressed. Likewise, the Plant Planning Committee, led by Tom Putnam, undertook a deep scrutiny of our physical space and determined that the Savidge Library and Colony Hall were both “growing out” of themselves and no longer served their intended purposes well. A Library Committee was then formed, hiring the firm of Dean/Wolf Architects. Over the past year, they have worked diligently to envision a new home for the MacDowell collection — now more than 10,000 works by Fellows — that will provide the same ease of access to work samples in the visual, film, and musical arts as that now enjoyed by literature. And, of course, our much-loved library must continue in its dual role as a gathering place for artists’ presentations and a setting for reflection. In Colony Hall, the considerations were much more straightforward: the kitchen, administrative offices, and maintenance quarters needed to be updated for efficiency and safety; and the common spaces for artists could be expanded to better serve year-round needs. These simple decisions, however, warrant a significant renovation to the hub of the Colony. Finally, our long awaited Interdisciplinary Art Studio must be built. The requests for residencies like this are burgeoning, as few other art colonies can accommodate the kind of work that will be done in this space. Whew! A rather large but critical list, rationalized only by the fact that appropriate space is at the core of the artist experience.

4 We’ve done then what most prudent nonprofit organization would do. We’ve begun fundraising in earnest to address these critical needs. You will note later in these pages that the nucleus phase of a very early campaign proceeds with generosity and encouragement, and that support given is already hard at work.

In December of last year, the launch of the Centennial was kicked off at our New York gala, and in January, the publication of A Place for the Arts, a 240-page hardbound book with specially commissioned essays and photographs, was released. We invite you to read the Centennial section of this report that shares some of the highlights of the first half of the year and previews more exciting things to come. Anne Stark, our Centennial project manager, has devoted extraordinary energy to developing programs and materials to convey our message about the value of creativity. Brendan Tapley, our communications director, spent these past five years laying a solid foundation for public relations, and we have enjoyed great coverage of MacDowell in the media during this landmark year. Mrs. MacDowell would be proud.

We know that the reputation of the Colony is what it is because of hard work and planning but also, ultimately, because of the attention to detail and care in the program’s execution. David Macy, resident director, manages the day-to-day operations of the residency program and community outreach; he also oversees MacDowell’s capital projects with enthusiasm and expertise. Likewise, Wendy Belser, director of development, ensures that we have the resources we rely upon to keep going. Combine that dedication with the hundreds of volunteers who work on our board, for our admissions panels, on a dozen committees, and toward a range of projects — some of whom are listed in this report — and you have a remarkable recipe for helping artists reach their potential.

This year, we welcome new board members Susan Austin, Colony Fellow Fred Clarke, Vallejo Gantner, and Mira Nair. And we regret the loss of dear friends and board members Benny Andrews, who was also a Colony Fellow, and Peter Wensberg. Benny and Peter both devoted their lives to creative work and will be remembered for their talent, wit, and warmth.

As a final note, on the occasion of its Centennial, MacDowell was invited to make a presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Arts in Washington, D.C.. This honor was shared with the Alliance of Artists Communities representing the entire field. Subsequent talks are now taking place with the National Endowment for the Arts for ways to recognize the vital cultural contributions made by residency programs. Not since the MacArthur Foundation initiative in 1990 have residency programs received such positive reinforcement. Coinciding with this reinforcement was another: in March, MacDowell won its property tax-exemption case in Superior Court, and the language Judge Gillian Abramson used in her decision offered resounding validation for the MacDowell mission. The Peterborough Selectmen are exercising the right to appeal to the state Supreme Court and we should have a resolution by next spring. A final positive ruling will provide strong precedent not only for residency programs but also for the arts in the state and beyond.

This year marks my 10th as Executive Director. As I recall, 1997 was an eventful year: we won the National Medal of Arts; animator Chuck Jones was the Medalist; we dedicated the new Heinz sculpture studio; we expanded the New York office space and had two spectacular benefits, one marking Thornton Wilder’s 100th birthday. Ten years later it seems only right that things should be as exciting. MacDowell brings forth that kind of creative energy.

Thank you for your interest and help.

Carter Wiseman Cheryl A. Young President Executive Director

5 CENTENNIAL In 2007 The MacDowell Colony marks its Centennial with a yearlong celebration of events across the country. The year CELEBRATION got off to a rousing start with a number of special initiatives.

Two of MacDowell’s Centennial initiatives. Left: A Century of Creativity exhibition display at the Library of Congress. Right: Book cover of A Place for the Arts.

The Centennial celebration opened with a dinner in A large MacDowell contingent traveled to Washington, New York hosted by board members Bill Banks and D.C., in March to hear MacDowell Chairman Robert Alexander Cortesi. This followed a reception at Lori MacNeil deliver the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Art and Bookstein Fine Art where the work of Colony Fellow Public Policy. The prior evening, board member Wendy Mark was on view. Paul Muldoon gave a Evelyn Stefansson Nef hosted a dinner in MacNeil’s reading of poems he’d written inspired by her work. honor at her home. Following the lecture, board member Robert Olmsted and Stephanie Olmsted In February, board member Susan Sollins-Brown hosted hosted a festive dinner for MacDowell friends and a dinner in honor of Bright Sheng after his performance supporters at Marcel’s restaurant. MacDowell guests with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. also enjoyed tours, guided by curator Robin Rausch, of the Library of Congress’ exhibition on the Colony.

MACDOWELL THROUGH THE DECADES: highlights from the Colony’s first century

1896: Marian MacDowell purchases the 1899: Edward’s log cabin is completed. Built upon a wooded abandoned Austin Partridge farm in hillside, the simple one-room structure was begun by Peterborough for $1,500. The property, Marian, who wanted to give Edward a secluded place which Marian acquires so that Edward where he could compose his music away from the activity at the can spend his summers working in couple’s homestead, Hillcrest. Designed as a quiet retreat, the log peaceful surroundings, includes cabin becomes the inspiration and model for the 32 artists 6 75 acres of woodlands and fields. studios that will one day be built at the Colony. A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony “Out of the Disenlightenment”: 1907–2007 is published. Robert MacNeil addresses a capacity With original essays by 14 distinguished writers, audience at the Kennedy Center. MacDowell offers a thoughtful exploration of how the On March 12th, MacDowell Chairman Robert MacNeil arts and creativity are supported in America. The addressed the distinguished assembly of cultural leaders book features newly commissioned and vintage and public officials who gathered in Washington, D.C., photographs of the Colony. for the annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Art and Public Policy. His insightful remarks, which were covered in The Washington Post, can be heard and seen on Peterborough Projects begin. MacDowell’s Web site. Mr. MacNeil was introduced by Artists from all disciplines have been commissioned fellow board member Jane Alexander, and composer to create performances, happenings, conceptual Anthony Davis and poet Galway Kinnell presented works, and arts events in the town of Peterborough, selections of their work to an enthusiastic reception. bringing the excitement of the Colony’s Centennial to the local community throughout the year. Still to come in 2007: Seasons of MacDowell, a new film commissioned by The exhibition A Century of Creativity MacDowell and created by four Colony Fellows, will opens at the Library of Congress. kick off a two-week-long film series at MoMA of works The Colony’s archives were opened for the first time, by Colony Fellows. The series, MacDowell Filmmakers revealing a treasure trove of history in A Century of Create: The Studio System Reconsidered, will travel to Creativity: The MacDowell Colony 1907—2007. Among venues across the country... Landlines, Anna Schuleit’s the featured objects in the exhibition at the Library of interactive installation commemorating both MacDowell’s Congress and on its Web site are first editions, original history and its landscape, will be unveiled for a large music manuscripts, fine prints, historical documents public audience during a special Medal Day weekend... and photographs, and original correspondence A Colony Fellows Reunion Picnic will be held in Central between Marian MacDowell and Colony Fellows. Park... A MacDowell Selected Shorts evening at Symphony Space will feature Colony Fellows... And on December 3rd, the Centennial Gala will take place Colony Fellows listed in bold. at New York’s legendary Roseland Ballroom.

Left: Robert MacNeil, Jane Alexander, and President and CEO of American for the Arts, Robert Lynch. Above: Wendy Mark and Paul Muldoon with board member Julia Jacquette (center). Photo by Steve Tucker.

1907: Sculptor Helen Farnsworth Mears and writer Mary Mears, sisters, are the first Colonists, thus marking the founding of The MacDowell Colony. The Colony consists of the house at Hillcrest, Edward’s log cabin, a small farmhouse, a dilapidated barn, a tenement building, one studio in the process of construction, and about a half-mile of roadway that is “fairly passable in good weather.” 7 ARTISTS The Colony continues to attract the highest caliber of professional artists in the country and abroad. More than 1,700 artists applied to MacDowell –IN– during the period between April 2006 and March 2007; 254 received residencies, including 5 architects, 33 composers, 30 film and videomakers, RESIDENCE 19 interdisciplinary artists, 23 playwrights, 33 visual artists, and 111 writers. They came from 35 states and 9 countries. Their projects at MacDowell and recent accomplishments are described here.

ARCHITECTS COMPOSERS

Golnar Adili, Brooklyn, NY, worked on two Marco Alunno, Livorno, Italy, completed a Sebastian Currier, New York, NY, finished a projects: a series of collages of airplane win- piece for solo percussionist commissioned piano concerto commissioned by the Miller dows and soft-sculpture architecture. Before by Colin Tribby and supported by The Hanson Theatre to be premiered in the spring of 2007. coming to MacDowell, she was on a traveling Institute for American Music. The piece will He also worked on a piece for harp and fellowship in Tehran, studying the contrast premiere in North Carolina in 2007. string orchestra to be premiered in Berlin. between inside and outside spaces of the city. John Aylward, Cambridge, MA, completed a Corey Dargel, Brooklyn, NY, collaborated with Anthony Alofsin, Austin, TX, completed his setting of Louise Gluck poetry for mezzo- Yvan Greenberg and Honor Molloy on a new novel Halflife and made four sets of drawings soprano and chamber ensemble that will experimental, music-theatre piece, Murphy. for the series Places of Refuge. premiere at Brandeis University in 2007. He also composed a set of songs that he performed on tour in 2006 to promote his Cathleen Corlett, Eugene, OR, explored Jason Bahr, Starkville, MS, wrote the first two debut album Less Famous Than You. approaches to environmental design and movements of Mysteries of Light, a commis- design theory. Her installation Resonances: sion from the Fromm Foundation. He recently Anthony Davis, San Diego, CA continued Making Seen the Unseen is inspired by the won the Northridge Prize for Orchestral work on his music theatre work Shimmer. In organic growth, human ecology, and material Composition for his work Golgotha. 2007, his opera Wakonda’s Dream premiered culture of the Colony. at Opera Omaha, and his clarinet concerto Fernando Benadon, Washington, DC, com- You Have the Right to Remain Silent debuted Alexander Fernandez, Boston, MA, conducted posed Bügi Wügi for pianist Ivan Ilic, who with the Perspectives Ensemble in New an analysis of Thomas More’s Utopia will perform the work across Europe and York. A new CD of his opera Amistad will be through drawings and mappings. The study the United States in 2007. released on New World in 2007. focused on the translation of text into drawings of ritual and architecture as they Eric Chasalow, Newton, MA, finished com- Stacy Garrop, Evanston, IL, wrote Tango relate to communal and individual spaces. posing The Puzzle Master for five singers Gardél for piano. She also worked on a and computer-manipulated sound. The piece chamber work for mezzo-soprano, violin, Hilary Sample, New Haven, CT, focused on is a collaborative multimedia retelling of the cello, and piano, in which she is setting poems the draft of her forthcoming book, Sick Daedalus and Icarus myth and will premiere of Billy Collins. Her String Quartet No. 2: City, to be published by Episode Publishers at the Boston CyberArts Festival in 2007. Demons and Angels will be commercially in 2007. She also worked on an essay released by Cedille Records in 2007. about Margaret Staal-Kropholler, the first William Coble, Chicago, IL, completed a set- female Dutch architect, for which she was a ting of sacred music, John 17, for baritone, Lucio Gregoretti, Rome, Italy, realized a new finalist for the 2005 IAWA Blinnikov Prize. violin, cello, and piano. He also worked on version of P.A.C.E. for chamber orchestra, vocal chamber music for an upcoming festival which will be performed in 2007 by the in Austria and on Variations for the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti. He also composed Richmond Symphony. Mundus Novus for flute and piano. His fourth opera L’ ultimo Avventore, which he Nathan Currier, Lynchburg, VA, worked on worked on during his previous residency at a dramatic song cycle for soprano and piano MacDowell, premiered in 2007. to be premiered in Philadelphia in 2007. He recently completed Possum Wakes from Playing Dead, a piece for harp and cello to be premiered at the Philharmonie in Berlin, and War Music, a new musical theatre work.

1913: Monday Music, a little New England cottage, is built for composers. Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, who will come to enjoy a total of 24 residencies at MacDowell in his lifetime, writes on March 26th: “After a personal experience of two summers at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, I can only say that I have found the place in every way fitted for the fulfillment of the purpose for which it was founded… With a proper endowment, which will surely come somehow, 8 it will be, so far as I know, the most significant thing of its kind in existence.” Composer Caroline Mallonée; Architect Anthony Alofsin

Jorge Grossmann, Henderson, NV, completed Mikel Kuehn, Toledo, OH, completed a Lior Navok, Tel Aviv, Israel, worked on a three Diptychs for solo piano, which will commission for the Belgian trio Thelema new orchestral work that incorporated the be performed in the United States, South (alto sax, bass clarinet, and piano), which sounds of nature. America, and Australia in 2007. He was award- premiered during their North American ed a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in 2006. tour in the fall of 2006. He also began Paul Oehlers, Voorhees, NJ, completed Out work on a commission from the New York- of the Ashes for chamber ensemble and Joel Harrison, New York, NY, completed a based group Flexible Music (saxophone, electronic playback, a commission from piece for four percussionists and piano that guitar, piano, and percussion). The Nature Conservancy and Fulcrum Point. was begun two years ago at MacDowell. He He also completed two other electronic also wrote the final movement to a piece for Caroline Mallonée, Baltimore, MD, completed pieces. His film score for Most High is now string and jazz quartet and completed two a set of three piano pieces, a set of three out on DVD. pieces for his jazz quintet. prepared-piano pieces, music for amplified violin, two choral pieces, and five songs. She Tarik O’Regan, New York, NY completed Fred Hersch, New York, NY, worked on a also worked on her Simon string quartet two works: Israfel, commissioned by Yale composition for piano titled Variations on a cycle (based on the Milton Bradley electronic University, and Threshold of Night, commis- game) and on Dragon Music, an evening- Theme by Tchaikovsky, commissioned by the sioned by St. John’s College, Cambridge. His length work for voices and instruments. Gilmore Keyboard Festival. He was nominated debut album, VOICES (Collegium Records), for a 2006 Grammy for Best Instrumental Christopher McKenna, Red Bank, NJ, wrote and The Quiet Room (Sony Classical), a Composition for his piece Valentine. a song cycle set on the route of the Santa compilation disc which included his work, Fe Railroad during the Great Depression. were both released in 2006. Mike Holober, Nyack, NY, worked on He recently signed a publishing deal with arrangements for jazz piano trio with Cherry Lane music and a record deal with Bobby Previte, New York, NY, along with woodwind section. He completed five an Australian record company. collaborator Andrea Kleine, finished a work pieces for a future recording to be titled begun at the Colony in 2005 called The In the Wind. His new quintet recording David McMullin, Boston, MA, worked on two Separation. It premiered in February of 2007 Wish List was scheduled for a 2006 release. compositions: Too Loud a Solitude, an octet at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and for the Boston-based Firebird Ensemble, will then travel to Hallwalls Contemporary Art Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin, and Creatures of Mirrors, a work for string Center in Buffalo. Vienna, Austria, worked on her Violin quartet and interactive electronics to be Concerto, which will be premiered by the premiered by the Fama Quartet of Prague. David Rakowski, Maynard, MA, wrote his 72nd Bulgarian Virtuosy Orchestra at Carnegie He also completed his PhD dissertation on piano etude Dorian Blue (for Donald Berman) Hall in 2007. Her newly commissioned viola the music of Andrew Imbrie. and three movements of a piano concerto and piano work, Purple Membrane, had its for Marilyn Nonken and the Boston Modern premiere in 2006. Meredith Monk, New York, NY, completed a Orchestra Project. He is the recipient of the new work, Basket Rondo, for the Western 2004–05 Elise L. Stoeger Prize from the Jan Krzywicki, Philadelphia, PA, drafted In Wind Vocal Ensemble. She also began a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Evening’s Shadow, a chamber work which new piece for her vocal ensemble and the will premiere in 2007–08. Three of his works Kronos Quartet. She was recently inducted recently enjoyed premieres: Vogelfanger into the American Academy of Arts and for piano solo; Bear’s Dance, a commission Sciences and was also awarded a United from Network for New Music; and Stairway States Artist Fellowship. to California for two guitars.

1917: The annual report notes: “The farm, which it has taken 10 years to develop…has reached a stage of cultivation which will enable it to provide…vegetables, fruits, poultry, eggs, and dairy produce probably sufficient for the uses of the Colony during the coming year. Nearly all of the food consumed by the Colony during the last season was raised on the place, and the additional production of hay and grain for the use of the horses and cattle on the farm, made the farm this year, as the year before, virtually self-supporting.” The farm would be active throughout World War I but was forced to close in 1933 when it ceased to be economical. 9 Filmmakers Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty; Filmmaker Louise Bourque

Carl Schimmel, Durham, NC, began work FILMMAKERS on a baroque oboe and harpsichord piece L.M. Kit Carson, Venice, CA, continued for Duo d’Amore and continued work on writing, shooting, and editing his Natalia Almada, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a piano duet for students in the Duke personal death–defying documentary her new film, El General. University music department. film Remember Tomorrow. Anna Boden, Brooklyn, NY, worked with col- Laura Schwendinger, Madison, WI, composed Sandro Del Rosario, Brooklyn, NY, worked laborator Ryan Fleck on two screenplays. She a cello concerto Esprimere for Matt Haimovitz, on an animated film in progress, Lo and Fleck are also working on an adaptation which premiered in 2007. Her solo flute work Sguardo Italiano (The Italian Gaze). of Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story for Aerialist premiered at Symphony Space in Paramount Pictures. Their first feature film, New York in 2006, and her Pocket Concerto, Mike Dolan, Austin, TX, continued work on Half Nelson, opened theatrically in 2006. commissioned by New York’s Miller Theater, two feature-length screenplays and also will be premiered in 2008. began writing a novel. Louise Bourque, Malden, MA, worked on a series of short experimental films with the Dan Visconti, Arlington, VA, completed Rodney Evans, Brooklyn, NY, worked on the overarching title of Offerings, for which revisions on a commission from the Kronos writing and research for his second feature– she received partial funding from the Quartet and began work on additional length screenplay, Day Dream, a project Canada Council for the Arts. Her film Self projects for the Corigliano Quartet and the funded by the NY State Council on the Arts Portrait Post Mortem screened at MoMA as New York Youth Symphony. Upcoming pre- and the Independent Television Service. part of the MacDowell Colony Centennial mieres include performances by the Sybarite Film Series. Quintet and the Minnesota Orchestra. Paul Festa, San Francisco, CA, revised his movie Apparition of the Eternal Church for Alane Brodrick, Cambridge, MA, continued Aleksandra Vrebalov, New York, NY, com- its premiere in 2006. He also completed work on a short experimental film. pleted Stations, a work based on Barnett the second draft of his novel The Life of Newman’s paintings and Michael J. Garces’ Christopher Mirabilis, or, What I Did During Christian Bruno, San Francisco, CA, worked poetry. It premiered at the 50th Anniversary the Drug War, which he and fellow Colonists toward the completion of STRAND: A Natural concert of the RICCO ensemble in 2007. In read aloud in a marathon three-day reading. History of Cinema, a one-hour documentary 2007, Vrebalov was awarded the Charles on the rise and demise of moviegoing culture. Ives Fellowship from the American Ryan Fleck, Brooklyn, NY, worked with collab- His short film Pie Fight ‘69 (with Sam Green) Academy of Arts and Letters. orator Anna Boden on two screenplays. He won numerous festival awards in 2000–01. and Boden are also working on an adaptation Stewart Wallace, New York, NY, worked on of Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story for Marie-Helene Carleton, New York, NY, an opera based on Amy Tan’s novel The Bone- Paramount Pictures. Their first feature film, worked with her partner and collaborator setter’s Daughter. The 2008 premiere at the Half Nelson, opened theatrically in 2006. Micah Garen on editing the feature–length San Francisco Opera will be directed by Chen documentary film they directed and shot in Shi-Zheng and will feature percussionists Micah Garen, New York, NY, worked on Iraq about the looting of archaeological sites. and suona players from the Beijing Opera. editing a documentary film about the They plan on distributing the film, tentatively looting of archeological sites in southern titled The Road to Nasiriyah, in 2008. Iraq, shot in 2004. He also started work on a children’s book.

1919: The National Federation 1926: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Willa Cather stays at MacDowell of Music Clubs donates the for a residency. Sorosis Studio is completed with funds provided money to create the Colony’s by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. Upton Sinclair’s essay about outdoor amphitheatre, a half Edward MacDowell appears in The American Mercury. Sinclair writes that circle of eight rows of stone and MacDowell was “a friend of every freedom, and of every beautiful cement seats, with a seating and generous impulse. He hated pretense and formalism, and all things 10 capacity of 1,000. which repress the free creative spirit.” Michael Gitlin, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Lauren Petty, Brooklyn, NY, worked in Cindy Stillwell, Bozeman, MT, continued the early stages of a new project, a kind collaboration with Shaun Irons on Is Anyone work on Speed + Accuracy = Skill, a new of ethnographic film about young earth Not Ready?, an experimental documentary documentary film about farriers working in creationists, centered on philosophy of that focuses on the New York theater Montana. Her most recent film, High Plains science issues. His previous film, The Bird company The Wooster Group. She also spent Winter, screened at Sundance and People, premiered in 2005 at MoMA. He is time planning for a fellowship sponsored by Rotterdam in 2006. a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. The Asian Cultural Council, which will take her to Japan in 2007. Vanessa Woods, San Francisco, CA, generated Shaun Irons, Brooklyn, NY, worked on the material for three short experimental films: early stages of Is Anyone Not Ready?, an Lynne Sachs, Brooklyn, NY, edited the film Five Cents a Peek, Passing, and Mirror with experimental documentary that focuses on Invisible, an experimental film essay that a Memory (working title). Passing premiered the New York theater company The Wooster will be her fifth in the decade-long series at the Castro Theater in San Francisco in Group. He also spent time planning for a I Am Not a War Photographer. She also 2006; Five Cents a Peek and Mirror with fellowship sponsored by The Asian Cultural made collages and read a 1968 edition of the a Memory are currently being edited for Council, which will take him to Japan in 2007. Webster’s Dictionary for “Abecedarium: NYC” completion in 2007. a series of 26 video Flash pages created Laura Kissel, Columbia, SC, continued work for the New York Public Library. on Disability Is Us, a documentary about the INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS Disability Civil Rights Movement. The film uses Eric Saks, Culver City, CA, completed a new archival footage to excavate and comment draft of a feature-length screenplay, Joshua Jonathan Berger, New York, NY, worked on on hidden histories of disability. Her most Tree; and wrote several short film projects, the completion of Prologues, Epilogues, recent nonfiction film, Cabin Field, continues including one entitled Cupcake about an and Thresholds, to be presented at the to screen at festivals around the country. abducted child. A retrospective of his video Grimm-Rosenfeld Gallery in 2007. work was recently shown at the Redcat Eva Lee, Ridgefield, CT, began a 3D-animation Theatre Los Angeles and at the San Adam Chapman, Brooklyn, NY, completed project in collaboration with neuroscientist Francisco Cinematheque. two generative video installations: Legible Dr. James Coan, in which they modeled and Nature: Fate Is an Afterthought and animated data from his study on the brain Christine Schiavo, Douglaton, NY, worked on Diagram of the Dynamics of the Physical basis of emotions. The working concept is the third and fourth chapters of a “cinematic Embodiment of Desire. to create landscapes of consciousness. fable” entitled Rivetgirl. She built large-scale sets which incorporated projected film, Uday Dhar, New York, NY, embarked on a Irene Lusztig, Jackson Heights, NY, began drawings, photographic slide stills, props, series of large abstract paintings linked to work on a video with the Vision Machine and improvised live action. the idea of mourning. They will be exhibited Film Project in London. In addition, she in Mumbai, India, and New York. began shooting Class Notes, an interactive Amie Siegel, New York, NY, worked on a video piece. Her film Reconstruction (2001) new feature-length film about former Yehuda Duenyas, New York, NY, continued screened at MoMA and was awarded the East Germany. She was recently awarded work on 00:07 SEC., a new theatre piece Discovery award by the Boston Film a Guggenheim Fellowship and will be the based on Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink. Critics Society. Robert Fulton III Fellow in Nonfiction His work has been premiered in New York Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at and Europe, and his adaptations for theatre Meg McLagan, New York, NY, continued work Harvard University in 2007–08. and film include works by Samuel Beckett, with collaborator Daria Sommers on Team George Saunders, and Jonathan Lethem. Lioness, a documentary film about women in the military. Two of her nonfiction essays will be published next year by Zone Books. By creating an environment with no exterior demands, MacDowell allows you to be more demanding of yourself. Megan McLarney, Brooklyn, NY, filmed the shift in the landscape that occurred during her stay at MacDowell, which will be presented — Filmmaker Megan McLarney in a show in New York in 2008. Her past video work is permanently installed at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, the Sagamore Gretchen Somerfeld, Los Angeles, CA, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Bronx, NY, worked Hotel, the Haudenschild Collection, and the focused on a screen adaptation of the on a series of 32 letters, one per tooth, as Sundari Foundation Women’s Shelter. novel Miami Purity by Vicki Hendricks. Her a personal account of a fictitious S&M screenplay Face Value was the winner of relationship between himself and one of Laura Nix, Los Angeles, CA, began a feature– the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award his three dentists. The letters and a group length screenplay titled Back to One and and was optioned by Tribeca Films. of drawings will be part of a book to be wrote an essay for Los Angeles magazine. published in 2007 at the Center for Book Daria Sommers, New York, NY, continued Arts in New York. work with collaborator Meg McLagan on Team Lioness, a documentary about women in the military. She recently completed Sawadi American Girl, a screenplay about Americans living in Bangkok in the shadow of the Vietnam War.

1932: Two thousand clubs of the National Federation of Music Clubs take part in a nationwide festival to honor the Colony’s 25th anniversary. During the first two weeks of December, all the leading symphony orchestras of the country play Edward MacDowell’s music. In addition, 2,700 junior organizations hold fund drives in order to raise the Colony’s endowment. A MacDowell Festival Concert is given at Carnegie Hall to aid the Colony during its 11 25th anniversary celebration. Peter Garfield, Brooklyn, NY, completed works Keith Hennessy, San Francisco, CA, com- PLAYWRIGHTS on paper to be shown at Freight + Volume pleted writing performance texts for Sol niger, in New York. These are showing along with a hybrid circus/performance to premiere in David Adjmi, New York, NY, worked on his three-channel video installation Deep Lyon, France, in 2007. Choreographed by a first draft of a new piece entitled Space 1, which was recently nominated for Hennessy and created in collaboration with Bonifacius (or The Do-Gooders), a drama a Tiger Award in Short Film at the 2007 Circo Zero, Sol niger filters contemporary set in Puritan New England. He also worked Rotterdam Film Festival. political realities through the alchemical on a rewrite of his play The Evildoers, which metaphor of the black sun. will receive a world premiere at Yale Rep Christy Georg, East Boston, MA, constructed next season. His play Stunning will debut at Punctuation, a kinetic sound sculpture for an Megan Michalak, Brooklyn, NY, did research the Wooly Mammoth Theater in 2008. exhibition at Indiana University in 2006. She and drawings for a work in progress called also made 34 audio recordings for a future Uchronia. She anticipates showing this proj- Michael Dennis Browne, Minneapolis, MN, sound installation that will commemorate ect, which was partially funded by a Finishing worked on the libretto for the church opera the legacy of The MacDowell Colony. Fund grant from the Experimental Television The Shoemaker. He also worked on new Center, at the Bronx Museum in 2007. poems for a seventh collection and the Gene Gort, Collinsville, CT continued his beginning of a memoir, Build Me a Boat. His collaboration with composer Ken Steen on Sara Smith, Portland, ME, developed sound, most recent collaboration with Stephen a “parallel media” project, Reliquary of video, and movement material for a new Paulus, To Be Certain of the Dawn, was Labor, performed in 2006 at the New dance performance piece. nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in music. Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT. The project uses a construction Ken Steen, Glastonbury, CT, worked on Tom Cole, New York, NY, worked on site as the inspiration for revealing the Reliquary of Labor, a multimedia performance Pre-Paradise, a play to be performed at simplicity and beauty of the banal during work with collaborator Gene Gort. He also Participant Inc. in 2007. He is a recent recipi- the building process. completed three songs, each part of his ent of a LEF Foundation Grant, and his poetry song cycle Each to Each for soprano and was included in the anthology This New Yvan Greenberg, Brooklyn, NY, worked on mixed ensemble. Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2. new material in collaboration with Corey Dargel and Honor Molloy for Murphy, a new Basil Twist, New York, NY, did developmental Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, New York, NY, experimental music-theatre piece. His design drawings for Behind the Lid, a began work on a new play. Two of his plays Brooklyn theatre company, Laboratory play/installation with Lee Nogrin, and The will be presented in New York in 2007: Theater, will premiere his Magic Monkey Nutcracker, an abstract retelling of the ballet Blind Mouth Singing at The National Asian Dance Company, a piece about dancing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Behind American Theater Company and Bird in the orangutans in therapy, in 2006. the Lid will premiere at the Silver Whale Hand at INTAR. Gallery in New York in 2007. Andrew Gerle, New York, NY, worked on the score and libretto to Gloryana, a piece about This environment enabled me to concentrate with clear focus the legacy of conflict in the post-Civil War South. His musical adaptation of Frank Capra’s and take significant risks. Meet John Doe will premiere at the Ford’s Theatre in 2007. — Interdisciplinary artist Ken Steen Christina Ham, Minneapolis, MN, completed a draft of her full-length play A Wive’s Tale and developed a draft of a new play Enfants Sean Griffin, Torrance, CA, developed com- Jeni Wightman, Ithaca, NY, installed a Mauvais Souvenirs (The Children of Bad positional and interdisciplinary methodologies surveillance camera on the Colony Hall Memories). Her play County Line was positioned at the intersection of sound and fruit bowl as a trial in the technology for recently published by Playscripts. performance, creating large and small-scale her International SoapBox project. She also concert works, collaborative sound and started a series of landscape and portrait Andrea Hart, Berkeley, CA completed a video installations, and film scores. paintings of scientific discoveries and has working draft of a new play and wrote a been commissioned to install these at first draft of another play. She also made Lourdes Grobet, Mexico City, Mexico, worked Cornell University in 2007. three quilts. on a project entitled Equilibrium and Resistance, a contra–culture action that Sherri Wood, Durham, NC completed a Karen Hartman, Brooklyn, NY, completed a will involve physically crossing the Bering how–to video for Prayer Banner: REPENT, first draft of her play Goliath, commissioned Strait where she will get an art piece. a communal mourning project about the by McCarter Theater and the Foundation for war in Iraq. She also launched a Web site, Jewish Culture. Her other plays have been Gaelen Hanson, Seattle, WA, began work on a www.mantratrailer.com, and will be traveling performed regionally and in New York. new solo dance and an adaptation of a work the Mantra Trailer across the country, by post-modern dance pioneer Deborah Hay. recording and broadcasting mantras. John Jesurun, New York, NY, completed the She will perform Hay’s work at various second half of his play Septet and began West Coast performance venues in 2007. work on a new play, Liz 1. He was an artist- in-residence at the New School in New York in 2006. His play Philoketes was staged at the Kaaitheater in 2006.

1938: A hurricane hits the Colony on September 21st. Residents are at dinner when the hurricane strikes at 6 p.m. No one is hurt, but trees crush the roofs of the Wood and Monday Music Studios. Trees fall on 250 acres, approximately half of the Colony’s acreage. Nearly every road is blocked or ruined. The Colony is forced to close the following year, but after intense effort, it reopens in 1940. 12 Interdisciplinary Artist Peter Garfield; Playwright Sally Oswald

Callie Kimball, Washington, DC, wrote a full– Charles Morey, Salt Lake City, UT, completed Daniel Reitz, New York, NY, rewrote a play length play Dirty Heart; put the finishing a draft of the play The Ladies Man, an and worked on a feature film screenplay touches on her play Jupiter Zoom; and adaptation of Tailleur Pour Dames by for forthcoming production. wrote two short plays, Snort and Mandala Georges Feyeau to be produced by the Girl. She also began work on a play cycle Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. Mac Wellman, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a based on the lives of her ancestors who He also completed a draft of a new play play, Left Glove; a novel, Linda Perdido; a settled Maine in the 1600s. about Byron, Shelley, and Mary Shelley. ten-minute play, Before the Before and Before That; and a poem, Awe. His opera Andrea Kleine, New York, NY, completed Rich Orloff, New York, NY, explored a trio with David Lang was produced by The work on The Separation, a collaboration with of new play ideas and finished revisions on Ridge Theater at Montclair State in 2006. composer Bobby Previte that will premiere his comedies Skin Deep and Come Again. at the Walker Art Center in 2007. She His play Foreign Affairs was published by John Yearley, Brooklyn, NY, finished his recently completed her first novel, Calf. Playscripts in 2006. His play Off the Map adaptation of the Tennessee Williams poem was read as part of the 2006 MacDowell “Night Vision.” He also continued work on James Lapine, New York, NY, completed Downtown series. his screenplay Hacker. His play Tiberias both a long-form and short-form screen- was recently performed in New York, and a play and continued researching a future Sally Oswald, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a monologue from his play All in Little Pieces production of King Lear that he will direct. slide-show play, The Painful Adventures, was included in The Best Women’s Stage and began a new play, When You Are Monologues of 2006. Melanie Marnich, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Ready. She is currently working on text for her new play, A Sleeping Country, which Dan Hurlin’s new show. Her libretto for will receive a public reading at Primary Quotes for the London Symphony Chorus VISUAL ARTISTS Stages in New York in 2007. Her play Cradle will premiere in 2007–08. of Man premiered at Florida Stage in 2006; David Baskin, Brooklyn, NY worked on a her play Tallgrass Gothic was recently Julia Pearlstein, New York, NY, completed a sculptural series to be shown at Ingalls and recognized as an “Outstanding New Script draft of Half Past, a multimedia play with Associates in Miami in 2007 and at Black of 2006” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. songs, and began work on a new play, Every and White Gallery in New York in 2008. Rat Bastard (Tutti Stronzi), set in 1630 Venice. Honor Molloy, Brooklyn, NY, developed 25 A workshop of her comedy PLINKO, or, The Barbara Bernstein, Sarasota, FL, investigated minutes of a new music/performance work Goddess of Static Cling, was presented at and developed new plans for installation entitled Murphy with composer Corey Dargel Theater for the New City in 2007. projects and also initiated a series of and director Yvan Greenberg. She also drawings. She recently received a residency wrote a chapter for Oh Dark Hundred, a Brian Quirk, New York, NY, finished work on at the American Academy in Rome and has novel in progress. his play Marrow. He also researched and also been invited by the Cultural Magistrate wrote a first draft of a new play, Summerland, of Salzburg for a residency in 2008. based on the Fox sisters and spiritualism. In addition, he continued work on his play Henry Brown, New York, NY, painted a Jack, which combines Jack the Ripper, the group of mechanically drawn geometric work of Walter Sickert, and Punch and Judy. abstractions and completed works on paper. One of the paintings will be included in the group exhibition Continuum at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ, in 2007.

1952: On August 15th, it is declared “Marian MacDowell Day.” More than 500 people gather on the lawn of Hillcrest in celebration of Marian’s 95th birthday. Marian receives hundreds of cables, wires, and letters from friends of the arts all over the world expressing their loyalty to her and MacDowell’s mission. Regarding her extraordinary accomplishment of creating the Colony, she is quoted in the Peterborough Transcript as saying: “I am a very ordinary woman who had an opportunity – and I seized it.” She would continue fund-raising on behalf of the Colony right up until the very year she died, 1956. 13 Miggy Buck, New York, NY, modeled David, John Grade, Seattle, WA, cast porous panels Elliott Levine, New York, NY, continues a pair of giant feet in the contrapposto of ice and filmed ink running through them making ceramic sculptures. His work was stance, using concrete and steel. The while they deteriorated. The video and casts exhibited this year in two shows at Dinter Fine pieces are to be installed in a sculpture of the ice will be transferred to vacuum Art in New York. His sculptures were recently park in Summit, NJ, in 2007. She also formed sections in upcoming sculptural in a group show at Momenta in New York. continued working on other pieces in her installations at the Bellevue Art Museum series focused on modernizing classical and Suyama Space in Seattle, WA. Marykate Maher, Brooklyn, NY, started on a figurative sculptures. new body of work that included sculptures Rashawn Griffin, New York, NY, worked on a and drawings focused on the theme of Che Chen, New York, NY, continued working series of sculptures that dealt with the genetic mutations. on a series of large works on paper and notion of time and place. began a new experimental nature film shot Mary McDonnell, Eldred, NY, started work on the grounds and trails at MacDowell. He Denise Hawrysio, London, England, complet- on large-scale abstract oil paintings on had a solo show in 2004 at Donkey Gallery ed a group of etchings for a solo exhibition at wood as well as a series of ink drawings on in Albuquerque. Simon Fraser University Gallery in Vancouver. Japanese rice paper. The drawings and The series attempts to invigorate traditional paintings will be shown at The James Adriane Colburn, San Francisco, CA, began printmaking techniques by injecting them with Graham and Sons Gallery in New York, and a research project on predictive mapping conceptual energy and social consciousness. at the Miller Block Gallery in Boston. and global warming that will result in a large–scale light and paper installation to James Huang, Astoria, NY, worked on several Andy Ness, New York, NY, focused on a be exhibited in 2008. new sculptures. series of drawings as well as a sculpture.

Lisa Dahl, New York, NY, worked on painting Gisela Insuaste, Chicago, IL, worked on Tom Nussbaum, Montclair, NJ, worked on and video projects. Her work has recently sculptural installations and drawings based drawings, paper cutouts, and sculptures been exhibited in New York at the Bronx on her recent travels to Puerto Rico and that incorporate psychological themes in Museum of the Arts, PS122 Gallery, and the New Hampshire. In 2007, she will have solo preparation for a one-person show at The New York Design Center. shows at Bucket Rider Gallery and Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, New Jersey. Northeastern Illinois University. Ellen Driscoll, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Christa Parravani, Northampton, MA, Hunter-Gatherer, a solo exhibition for Long Bettina Johae, Brooklyn, NY, worked on an completed work on Whatever I Was in Life: Island University’s Brooklyn campus. This is online version of her project borough edges, Spoon River, which will be exhibited in a a 21-foot landscape made from reconfigured nyc commissioned by the New York Public solo show at 31 Grand Gallery in New York milk and water plastic cartons (from the Library. She also extended her project artists’ and at Art Basel in Miami. Peterborough Town Recycling Center and locations and started a new series of works the streets of Brooklyn). dealing with the absence of the urban. Lisa Robinson, Jackson Heights, NY, spent much of her time in the snow and ice, making Julie Evans, New York, NY, worked on a Cassie Jones, Princeton, NJ, continued a images for her photographic project new series of paintings to be shown in a body of work that was first exhibited in the Snowbound, which was exhibited at the solo exhibition at Julie Saul Gallery and at 2005 Portland Biennial and at Space Gallery Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. Irvine Contemporary in Washington, D.C., in Portland, ME. She plans to pursue her Snowbound will be published by Kehrer in 2007. She is the recent recipient of a painting further through her graduate studies Verlag in 2008. Fulbright Scholarship to India. at the Rhode Island School of Design. Nikki Smith, Sydney, Australia, completed Nancy Fleischman, Orland Park, IL, prepared Michelle Kloehn, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a series of oil paintings to be shown in an installation that includes sound and pieces inspired by Daguerre and his dioramas Sydney in 2006. She also worked on a ceramic objects for a show at the Bemis done in the 1830s, using the MacDowell series of pop-up books featuring fellow Center for Contemporary Art. landscape and studio as subject matter. Colonists. She had shows at Sydney’s MOP Projects Gallery in 2004 and 2005. Judy Fox, New York, NY, worked on two Julia Kunin, Brooklyn, NY, created ceramic pieces for her next installation, Snow White pieces related to scholar’s rocks and the Stefanie Victor, Brooklyn, NY, completed and the Seven Sins. surreal landscape. Work she developed at two drawings as experiments. They were an MacDowell was featured at the Greenberg extension of a series that was shown at the Linda Ganjian, Queens, NY, began a new Van Doren Gallery in New York. She will Drawing Center in New York in 2005. sculpture and a series of drawings inspired be working on slip-cast ceramics while in by decorative carpet patterning. She was residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts O. Zhang, New York, NY, finished editing selected for the Queens International 2006 Center in 2007. photos for an art catalogue for a solo show exhibition and showed at Miami’s Aqua Art at Pekin Fine Art Gallery in Beijing in 2007. Fair in 2006. Charles LaBelle, New York, NY, completed She also started writing a memoir in work for three separate exhibitions: Chinese for Shanghai Art and Literature Lilian Garcia-Roig, Tallahassee, FL, created BLDGS ENTERED 1997–2007 at Traywick Publishing House about her life as an artist 20 on-site landscape paintings that focused Contemporary in Berkeley, CA; Sugar Hill living in London and New York. on capturing the intense fall colors and Suite 2005–06 at Anna Kustera Gallery in ever-changing light found in the MacDowell New York; and The Uncertainty Principle at woods. In 2005, she was the recipient of a Northern Illinois University. Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in painting.

1960: The Edward MacDowell Medal is established on the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. 1977: Chef Julia Child creates the menu for the Thornton Wilder is the first recipient of the Medal. black-tie New York benefit celebrating the Edward Weeks, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 70th year of Colony operations. More than 300 guests gives the address, saying: “[T]he Colony will always attend. The Edward MacDowell Medal goes to Pulitzer feel that it has a vested interest in Our Town, for it’s Prize-winning composer Virgil Thomson. Thomson their town and their mountain which Thornton must spent the summers of 1963 and 1966 at the Colony. 14 have had in his inner gaze as he wrote it.” Sculptor John Grade; Writer Dorinda Clifton

WRITERS David Bond, Carbondale, IL, continued work Mark Conway, Avon, MN, continued work on on his third collection of poetry, tentatively Necrologio, a book-length sequence of poems. titled Now Accepting New Readers. Work from the sequence is forthcoming in Elmaz Abinader, Oakland, CA, completed the Alaska Quarterly Review and various When Silence Is Frightening, her second Betsy Bonner, New York, NY, continued other magazines. memoir about an Arab-American family and her work on a poetry manuscript and also their travels in hostile territory both at began writing a novel for young adults Eduardo Corral, Casa Grande, AZ, completed home and overseas. She also completed about two time-traveling sisters. She will his first full-length collection of poems, her second poetry manuscript The Torture teach poetry at Hellenic International in Asleep Inside an Old Guitar. Quartet and Other Acts of Poetry. Paros, Greece, in 2007. Caleb Crain, Brooklyn, NY, worked on the Jessica Anthony, Portland, ME, completed Marie Carter, Brooklyn, NY, worked on her first draft of a novel. His essays on mass her first novel, The Convalescent. She also book of creative nonfiction, The Trapeze observation and on Andrew Jackson worked on a collection of short stories, Diaries, to be published by Hanging Loose recently appeared in The New Yorker. two of which appeared recently in Best Press in 2008. American Nonrequired Reading and Best Lisa Selin Davis, Brooklyn, NY, is the New American Voices. Michael Chabon, Berkeley, CA, started work author of Belly (Little Brown, 2005), a on a new novel, Memoirs of a Secret Master novel about a 59-year-old man returning to Quan Barry, Madison, WI, worked on com- of Destruction. his small town in the age of Wal-Mart. She pleting her first short story collection, works as a freelance journalist covering Regions of Total Unlikeness. This past fall Bryan Charles, Kalamazoo, MI, continued environmental, urban planning, and real Quarterly West published “Daily at the Gate work on his second novel, Endless Nameless. estate issues for numerous publications. of the Temple Which Is Called Beautiful,” a His first novel, Grab on to Me Tightly as If I story from the collection. Knew the Way, was published in 2006 by Mónica de la Torre, Brooklyn, NY, worked Harper Perennial. on the final revisions of her poetry manu- Jen Bervin, Brooklyn, NY, embroidered two script Talk Shows, which will be published large works based on composites of the Heather Clay, New York, NY worked on by Switchback Books in 2007. She also punctuation in Emily Dickinson’s 34th and completing a final draft of a novel, tentatively completed a new manuscript titled Public 38th fascicles. The work will be shown at titled The Crowded Hour. Domain, which focuses on the interaction the group show Five Visual Poets at The between the public and private realms. Wright Exhibition Space in Seattle in 2006. Suzanne Cleary, Peekskill, NY, wrote a flurry of new poems for her next book. Carnegie Thomas Devaney, Philadelphia, PA, worked Paula Bohince, Astoria, NY, revised poems Mellon University Press recently published on a draft of his book Bears On and Off TV. from her first manuscript, Charity, and her second poetry book, Trick Pear. He also wrote several poems, including began a second manuscript. Her poems “A Series of Small Boxes,” which will be have appeared in Agni, Crazyhorse, Field, Dorinda Clifton, Brownsville, OR, worked published by The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, and others. on her second memoir, Dorinda Cat with and will also be the title of his forthcoming Nine Lives. It is a continuation of her first poetry collection published by Fish Drum Chris Bolin, Brooklyn, NY, worked on poems published book, Woman in the Water: Press in 2007. for a new manuscript. Growing Up in Hollywoodland.

1985: The Boston benefit presents a screening of the Steven Speilberg film The Color Purple, which is based on Fellow Alice Walker’s novel of the same name. Walker expressed pleasure upon hearing of the benefit, saying: “The seclusion of MacDowell was crucial to my writing.” Composer Stephen Albert and author Studs Terkel win Pulitzers – Albert for Symphony, River Run, and Terkel for his book The Good War: An Oral History of World War II. The Voice of America, the official international broadcasting service 15 of the United States government, broadcasts from the Colony. Polly Devlin, Somerset, England, worked on Sarah Gambito, New York, NY, worked on John Haskell, Brooklyn, NY, completed a her book about the O’Neills and Bagenals a new collection of poems. Her first book, version of his novel Out of My Skin to be in 15th- and 16th-century Ireland. She also Matadora (Alice James Books), was published published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux in 2008. finished her book A Year in the Life of An in 2004. He also wrote an essay for the catalogue to English Meadow, which will be published by All the More Real, an exhibit at the Parrish Frances Lincoln in 2007. Beatrix Gates, Accord, NY, worked on a new Art Museum that will open in 2007, and collection of poems titled Bonfire. She also finished an essay on Eadweard Muybridge. Robin Ekiss, San Francisco, CA, completed began a memoir titled School for Misfits her first book manuscript, The Mansion of and did reading and extensive research on Adam Haslett, Brooklyn, NY, continued Happiness. She also completed a collection Persian poetry. Her fourth collection of work on a novel. He was a Guggenheim of poems and started new essays. poetry, Ten Minutes, was released in 2006. Fellow in 2005–06 and recently won the PEN/Malamud Prize for accomplishment in Stephen Elliott, San Francisco, CA, completed Steve Gehrke, Columbia, MO, worked on com- short fiction. A story of his is forthcoming two essays and several poems. He also pleting his fourth collection of poems, tenta- in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology. finished edits on a collection of stories tively titled The Machine Gunner’s Letters. titled My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Jennifer Hayashida, Brooklyn, NY, completed Beats Me Up to be published by Cleis Press. Olivia Gentile, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a two translations of contemporary Swedish draft of her first book, a biography of a poetry: As soon as I go out by Kerstin housewife and naturalist from St. Louis. Norborg, and Clockwork of Flowers: The book will be published by Bloomsbury Explanations and Poems by Fredrik Nyberg. in 2008. A bilingual edition of his translation of Nyberg’s debut collection, A Different Practice, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling I thought I was going to spend months doing research, Press in 2007.

but being at MacDowell gave me the courage to break the ice Maria Dahvana Headley, Seattle, WA, and meet my new characters sooner rather than later. completed the first draft of her second book, a memoir about her family’s experiences raising sled dogs in the high — Writer Anne Landsman desert of southern Idaho. She also finished a draft of a screenplay, began work on a John Felstiner, Stanford, CA, wrote two stage play, and started a novel. essays on translating poetry and an essay- Andrew Sean Greer, San Francisco, CA, chapter on Derek Walcott for his book So completed a draft of his new novel to be Zoe Heller, New York, NY, worked on a novel Much Depends: Poetry and Environmental published by FSG in 2008. provisionally titled The Believers. The film Urgency. He gave talks on that topic at the adaptation of her last novel Notes on a Sun Valley Writers Conference and Jennifer Haigh, Hull, MA, continued work Scandal (published in the U.S. under the Stanford in 2006. on her third novel, The Condition. Her most title What Was She Thinking?) was released recent novel, Baker Towers, which was in 2006. Ellen Foos, Princeton, NJ, worked on new completed at MacDowell in 2003, won the poems. Her poetry collection Little Knitted PEN/Winship Award for outstanding book Sean Hill, Bemidji, MN, continued to revise his Sister was published in 2006 as part of the by a New England author. Her short story first poetry manuscript, Blood Ties & Brown Ragged Sky Poetry Series, a collective “Deadbeat” was published in Five Points. Liquor. He also wrote poems for a second effort of five New Jersey poets. manuscript tentatively titled The Distance Melissa Haley, Queens, NY, worked on drafts Between Desires. His poems have recently Serena Fox, Washington, DC, inspired by of two essays (one history, one memoir) appeared in Ploughshares and Indiana Review. the location of her studio, started a new and developed new project ideas. Her work series of poems about beauty and peace has appeared in Common-place, The John Hoppenthaler, Haverstraw, NY, wrote contrasted with the effects of the war in American Scholar, and Post Road. 13 new poems and significantly revised two Iraq. She also revised and wrote new others. Recent poems have appeared in poems for a manuscript in progress. She Mark Harman, Lancaster, PA, continued Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, and Virginia was nominated for a Rona Jaffe Writers’ work on translating Franz Kafka’s first Quarterly Review. Award in 2006. novel, The Missing Person (Amerika), and writing an introduction to the book, which Yvonne Jackson, Talladega, AL, completed Kenny Fries, Northampton, MA, worked on is forthcoming from Schocken Books. His a third of the first draft of Jesus Jones, a Genken: Entries into Japan, a new book of previous translation of Kafka’s novel The novel that re-imagines the gospels. creative nonfiction. He was a Fulbright scholar Castle won the MLA’s first Lois Roth Award. in Japan during 2005–06. His new book, Joy Jacobson, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a The History of My Shoes and the Evolution Ryan Harty, San Francisco, CA, continued book-length series of elegies tentatively of Darwin’s Theory, is forthcoming from working on his first novel, Searching for titled Always. Carroll and Graf. Gabriel. His story collection, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, won the John Simmons Mary Gaitskill, Rhinebeck, NY, worked on Award for Short Fiction in 2003. two stories for a collection to be published by Pantheon. Her fourth book Veronica was nominated for a National Book Award in 2005.

1993: Robert MacNeil, executive editor and co-anchor of PBS’ The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, is elected Chairman of MacDowell’s board of directors. The first new studio to be built in 56 years is completed in February. Nef Studio is funded with a gift from Evelyn Stefansson Nef, a writer and photographer. The post-and-beam structure, designed with cathedral ceilings to let in the maximum amount of light, has a two-story living room, a spacious darkroom, and a sleeping loft. 16 Writer Polly Devlin; Writer John Haskell

Elizabeth Kadetsky, New York, NY, began Maria Lauenstein, Beverly, MA, worked Bradford Matsen, Seattle, WA, completed work on a novel. She received a fellowship on the second draft of her memoir the first chapters of a biography, Sea King: to the Camargo Foundation in France in Sikkimese Lessons. Jacques Cousteau and the Ocean Century 2006 and has signed with Inkwell (Pantheon, 2008), and worked on The Management for her work on a novel-in- Charlene Logan, Davis, CA, completed Trees of Niue, a novel set in Polynesia. progress set in Tibet. Her work has been revisions to her novel The Wardrobe. She chosen for the Iowa Prize and nominated also completed a first draft of a new novel, Katherine Min, Plymouth, NH, wrote 90 pages for Best New American Voices 2008. The Pyre of Baby Jane Doe. of her second novel, The Suicide Sonata: A Comedy. Her first novel, Secondhand Suki Kim, New York, NY, worked on Paolo Manalo, Fife, Scotland, continued work World, was published by Knopf in 2006. completing her second novel. The author for a second poetry collection tentatively of The Interpreter (FSG, 2003), she was a called Bahala Na (Come What May). He was Michele Morano, Chicago, IL, completed an 2006 Guggenheim fellow in fiction. recently accepted as a fellow at the experimental essay that uses an unreliable University of the Philippines National narrator. She also outlined a new novel Grace Krilanovich, Los Angeles, CA, Summer Writers Workshop. entitled Fire in the Hold and began working completed a draft of her first novel, The on a conference paper about the place of Orange Eats Creeps. Shivani Manghnani, Brooklyn, NY, completed artist colonies in American literature. a novella and several short stories for her Nancy Kuhl, New Haven, CT, completed a first short story collection. Meera Nair, Queens, NY, continued work on first draft of a new collection of poems her novel tentatively entitled A Harvest of tentatively titled Mischief by Thunder and Sarah Manguso, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a Stones, which will be published by Pantheon Lightning. Her first full-length book of memoir. The book of stories she finished at in 2007–08. Her collection Video was poetry, The Wife of the Left Hand, will be MacDowell in 2005, Hard to Admit and released in paperback in 2003. published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. Harder to Escape, is forthcoming from McSweeney’s Books in 2007. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Dunkirk, NY, Kim Lambright, Minneapolis, MN, completed a completed a chapbook of poetry as well as book of poems titled The Good Drift and con- Wyatt Mason, New York, NY, a contributing three nature essays about India. Her second tinued work on a collection of short stories. editor at Harper’s Magazine, worked on a collection of poetry, At the Drive-In Volcano, book about 20th-century American writers. will be published by Tupelo in 2007. Anne Landsman, New York, NY, began work He received the 2005 National Book Critics on a new novel, her first work of fiction Circle citation for criticism and a 2006 Nuala O’Faolain, County Clare, Ireland, intended for children. She completed her National Magazine Award. completed the first draft of a comic novel second novel, A Monkey’s Wedding, earlier about middle age, which will be published in 2006. Her first novel, The Devil’s Chimney, Michael Massing, New York, NY, worked on in 2008. In 2006, her novel The Story of was nominated for four awards including a book about the rivalry between Erasmus Chicago May won the Prix Femina. Her the Pen/Hemingway Award for first fiction. and Luther and how it shaped Western memoir Are You Somebody is currently culture and society. It will be published being adapted as a one-woman show by Joan Larkin, Brooklyn, NY wrote and by HarperCollins. Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell. revised poems and completed a book-length manuscript entitled My Body: New and Selected Poems. This collection will be published in 2007 by Hanging Loose Press.

1996: The first statewide arts festival ever held in the United States takes place in honor of the 100th anniversary of Marian and Edward MacDowell’s purchase of land in Peterborough. The New Hampshire–MacDowell 1996 Celebration includes events held by more than 50 arts, humanities, and educational organizations across the state. As part of this celebration, the book Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name 17 at the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH. Poet Ravi Shankar; Fiction Writer Emily Raboteau

Karen Olsson, Austin, TX, worked on her Sharon Pywell, West Newton, MA used her Mary Ruefle, Bennington, VT, completed a second novel, All the Houses. Her first second stay at MacDowell — after a 17-year book-length manuscript of poems and two novel, Waterloo (FSG, 2005), is now out hiatus — to work on her third novel. Her erasure books, one of which is exhibited at in paperback. new work takes place in the American the Williams College Art Museum. Her latest Southwest and Long Island, where a middle- book is Indeed I Was Pleased With the World Julie Orringer, San Francisco, CA, worked aged Jewish veterinarian discovers that (Carnegie Mellon, 2007). on a draft of her first novel, which is set in she is in fact an Oglala Sioux. Budapest and Paris during the Second World Toni Schlesinger, New York, NY, continued War. Her short story collection How to Emily Raabe, New York, NY, finished a poetry work on her nonfiction book, The Mystery of Breathe Underwater (Knopf, 2003) was a New manuscript entitled Union, began a new Pearl Street. She also wrote and performed York Times Notable Book and the winner of book of poems called Fox, and started a a play at Colony Hall that was inspired by the Northern California Book Award. book of short stories tentatively titled the landscape at MacDowell. She is the Alaska Airlines. author of Five Flights Up (Princeton Rajesh Parameswaran, Missouri City, TX, Architectural Press, 2006). worked on various short stories about Emily Raboteau, New York, NY, began work immigrants and elephants, which he hopes on her second novel, tentatively titled Grace Schulman, New York, NY, finished a to publish as part of a collection. Echolalia. Her first novel, The Professor’s new section in her book of poems, The Daughter, was published by Henry Holt Broken String, scheduled for publication in Silvia Pareschi, Laveno, Italy, finished the in 2005. 2007 by Houghton Mifflin. Her books Italian translation of Rachel Cusk’s novel include Days of Wonder: New and Selected Arlington Park, which will be published by Katherine Russell Rich, New York, NY, Poems and The Paintings of Our Lives. Mondadori Publishing in 2007. She also finished the book she’d been working on started work on the Italian translation of for six years — Unspeakable: A story about Steven Schwartz, Fort Collins, CO, completed Nathan Englander’s novel The Ministry of India, and life in other words. a collection of stories titled The Last Special Cases. Communist. Stories from this collection are Robin Romm, Berkeley, CA, continued work forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Jayne Anne Phillips, Brookline, MA, contin- on her short story collection, currently North American Review, and Crazyhorse. ued work on her novel Termite, which is titled The Mother Garden. It is forthcoming forthcoming from Knopf. She is the author from Scribner in 2007. Brian Seibert, Brooklyn, NY, continued work of the story collections Black Tickets and on What the Eye Hears, What the Ear Sees, Fast Lanes, as well as the novels Machine Martha Ronk, Los Angeles, CA, worked on a history of tap dancing to be published by Dreams, Shelter, and MotherKind. a new manuscript of poems based on the Faber and Faber. His two children’s books landscape and in response to language in about dance were published by Rosen Tom Piazza, New Orleans, LA, continued Sir Thomas Browne’s 17th-century essay Books in 2005. work on his novel High Water Everywhere; “The Garden of Cyrus.” She also began about the experiences of two families, one work on a short fiction piece, “Déjà vu.” Ravi Shankar, Chester, CT, worked on com- black and one white, going through Hurricane pleting his second manuscript of poems, a Katrina. His books Understanding Jazz Julian Rubinstein, New York, NY, worked on collection that comprises a series of pastorals (Random House, 2005) and Why New his second book and a documentary film and ekphrastics. His poems have appeared Orleans Matters (ReganBooks, 2005) won about the last three years of his father’s life. in Brooklyn Rail, the Cimarron Review, and awards in 2006. Connecticut Review.

1997: The MacDowell Colony is awarded the National Medal of Arts on September 29th at a ceremony at the White House. President Clinton praises the Colony: “The MacDowell Colony is a gift to those who look at the world in a way different than the rest of us, but still have to deal with the day-to-day realities of money and studio space. We are honored to have that gift among us.” At the same ceremony, 18 Studs Terkel is honored with a National Medal of Humanities. Brenda Shaughnessy, Brooklyn, NY, com- Amanda Stern, Brooklyn, NY, worked on G.C. Waldrep, Mt. Vernon, OH, completed pleted her second book of poems, Human a draft of her second novel, The Guthrie his third full-length poetry collection, Dash with Sugar, for publication by Copper Test. She was recently featured in The New Archicembalo. His second collection, Canyon Press in 2008. She also completed York Times Magazine as a “New Bohemian” Disclamor, is forthcoming from BOA a new draft of her first novel, Vanisher. helping to keep downtown alive. She runs Editions in 2007. the popular Happy Ending Music and Hampton Sides, Santa Fe, NM, put the Reading Series in New York. Wendy S. Walters, Providence, RI, continued finishing touches on his narrative history, work on essays and poems. Golden Motors, Blood and Thunder (Doubleday, 2006), about Judith Stone, Brooklyn, NY, finished When a musical for which she wrote the book and Kit Carson and conquest of the West. It has I Was White (Miramax Books, 2007), a lyrics, will be produced by the Music Theatre since been optioned by Steven Spielberg nonfiction book about race classification Group during the 2007–08 season. for Dreamworks and was named one of the in South Africa. She is a contributing editor top ten books of the year by Time. for O, The Oprah Magazine. Rachel Wetzsteon, New York, NY, worked on poems for her fourth volume of poetry, Nina Siegal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Ginger Strand, New York, NY, worked on a Silver Roses. She is the author of three completed revisions of her first novel, A nonfiction book, Unnatural Niagara, to be poetry collections, most recently Sakura Little Trouble With the Facts, to be published published by Simon & Schuster. The book Park (Persea, 2006). by HarperCollins in 2008. She also began takes a look at some of the untold stories writing her second novel, provisionally of Niagara Falls as a way of examining Joan Wickersham, Cambridge, MA, worked entitled Anatomy: The Lost Rembrandt America’s odd relationship with nature. on a group of linked short stories. Her book Papers. She was recently awarded a The Suicide Index, most of which was written Fulbright Fellowship. Katherine Sturtevant, Berkeley, CA, finished during a previous MacDowell residency, will the first draft of a literary novel titled A be published by Harcourt. Barbara Sjoholm, Port Townsend, WA, did Gravitous Star. Her historical novel for some final polishing on her travel narrative, children, A True and Faithful Narrative, was The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Travels in Lapland, which will be published featured on the cover of Booklist. in 2007. She also continued work on her translation of painter Emilie Demant Hatt’s With the Lapps in the High Mountains. When I am here, I am able to think large; I am not only working on my book, but I am working on being a writer. Charlie Smith, New York, NY, worked toward completing a new poetry book. He recently — Writer Suzanne Snider completed a new novel titled Kixote. His latest book of poems, Women of America, August Tarrier, Philadelphia, PA, worked on was released by WW Norton in 2004. a novel entitled Va La and completed a story to be included in her collection Are You Anne Winters, Evanston, IL, continued work Suzanne Snider, Brooklyn, NY, continued Decent?. In 2005 she won the Zoetrope Prize on a book of poems, tentatively entitled The work on a nonfiction book that revolves for her short story “I Hold You Harmless.” Owl-Glass. Most of the poems she worked around a 100-year history of a communal on derived from a fascination that had begun society. Her essay “The Mammoths” will Craig Morgan Teicher, Brooklyn, NY, about two years earlier with Northern appear in artist Clare Rojas’ catalogue completed a new manuscript of poems European Renaissance prints and drawing. Hope Springs Eternal in 2007. and fables, as well as an autobiographical lyric essay. New poems are appearing in Kim Wood, Brooklyn, NY, began an experi- Joanna Solfrian, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Yale Review, Boston Review, Seneca mental biography of 1920s daredevil Lilly editing her first collection of poems, tenta- Review, and other publications. La France that weaves elements from La tively entitled Visible Heavens. Her work has France’s unpublished archive with Wood’s appeared in various journals and anthologies Kenneth Turan, Pacific Palisades, CA, accounts of her own haunting by this including The Southern Review and Shade completed work on an oral history entitled enigmatic figure. Wood’s film about La 2006 (edited by David Dodd Lee). Free-for-All: Tales From the New York France, Advice to Adventurous Girls, Shakespeare Festival. He also wrote an previously premiered at Sundance. Martha Southgate, Brooklyn NY, worked on introduction to a book of photographs by a draft of her as-yet-untitled fourth novel. Her Anthony Hernandez. His latest collection of Linda Yablonsky, New York, NY, worked on most recent novel, Third Girl from the Left, film criticism, Now in Theaters Everywhere, her second novel. She also wrote a story was published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin, was published in 2006 by PublicAffairs. for an anthology to be published next year and was short listed for the PEN/Beyond by Da Capo Press and completed an essay Margins Award and the Hurston/Wright Jennifer Vanderbes, New York, NY, completed on the work of artist Elena del Rivero to be Foundation award. work on a draft of her second novel tenta- published in IVAM’s museum catalogue. tively titled Desertion. She is the recipient Debra Spark, Yarmouth, ME, worked on a of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. Monica Youn, New York, NY, completed a draft of her third novel, Good for the Jews. draft of her poetry manuscript Ignatz, Her lectures on writing were recently pub- Ayelet Waldman, Berkeley, CA, began an which is based on George Herriman’s classic lished as Curious Attractions: Essays on as-yet-untitled novel to be published by comic strip Krazy Kat. Her first book of Fiction Writing (University of Michigan, 2005). Doubleday. Her previous novel, Love and poems Barter was published by Graywolf Other Impossible Pursuits, was written in Press in 2003. large part at MacDowell.

2000: The most generous gift in the Colony’s history comes to fruition when Calderwood Studio is dedicated on April 29th. The writer’s studio is named for former board member and Boston businessman Stanford Calderwood, who was inspired by his love of reading to endow the studio’s construction and future in perpetuity, including Fellowships for all those who work in it. Designed by architects Andy Burr and Ann McCallum, the handicapped-accessible cottage contains a loft, a fireplace with woodstove, and a screened-in porch. 19 MACDOWELL Through the Colony’s community engagement programs, notably MacDowell Downtown and MacDowell in the Schools, artists enjoy the opportunity to ARTISTS interact with people in the Monadnock region. In the past 12 months, 15 Colony Fellows volunteered to share their work and experiences in IN THE local schools, at the Town Library, and at the Peterborough Historical COMMUNITY Society. Over the course of the year, MacDowell artists met with more than 560 adults and children in groups large and small.

PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY: COMMUNITY EVENTS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH Poets Corazon Almerino, Patricia Carlin, In addition to the regular outreach programs, many artists get Mary Higgins, Rachel Levitsky, Llujeta involved with the community in other ways. Some of those activities Lleshanaku, Shin Yu Pai, and Harriet Zinnes are listed to the right. It should be noted that Colony Fellows offered an evening of poetry to celebrate sharing their work outside of the residency period are not listed. National Poetry Month Oftentimes, MacDowell artists return to New Hampshire and the SHARON ARTS CENTER Monadnock region for readings, concerts, and other events. Exhibition Ngamanya Banda, visual artist Special thanks to Colony Fellows Eduardo Corral and Sean Hill for judging a poetry contest for local first– through twelfth–grade TOADSTOOL BOOKSHOP students. Peterborough Library’s children’s librarian publishes all Reading poems in a booklet. Jane Brox, poet Daniel Felsenfeld, composer

M ACDOWELL IN THE SCHOOLS

Active since 1996, the MacDowell in the Schools program continues its special influence by introducing students of all ages to MacDowell Fellows — artists who are passionate about their work. Thanks to the teachers in the schools listed below for their participation in coordinating the opportunity for artists and students to learn from each other.

CONVAL HIGH SCHOOL PETERBOROUGH Richard House, visual artist ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (five classes) Steve Bognar, filmmaker Sabrina Gschwandtner, (two classes) visual artist (two classes) Cynthia Cruz, poet THE WALDEN SCHOOL Michael MacDonald, writer Laura Schwendinger, composer Martha Horst, composer INTERLOCHEN John Rogers, composer INTERNATIONAL CAMPERS Carol Pereira, visual artist

Composer Laura Schwendinger

2002: MacDowell initiates a program to provide work created and donated by Colony Fellows to the Peterborough Public Library. Artists who donate their work to MacDowell’s Savidge Library are encouraged to include a second copy to make available to the public through Peterborough’s wonderful library. Several hundred works have been added to the public library’s collection through the program. Each item is labeled to indicate it is a donation from a MacDowell Colony Fellow. The Peterborough Library Director Michael Price notes, “These are works you would not normally see at the library. 20 It’s a significantly different collection than normally purchased. It dovetails nicely with the existing collection.” Visual Artist Basil Twist at his MacDowell Downtown presentation

APRIL 2006 Poets Eduardo Corral and Serena Fox

MAY 2006 Playwrights Honor Molloy, Charles Morey, M ACDOWELL DOWNTOWN Rich Orloff, and Julia Pearlstein The Colony initiated the MacDowell Downtown program in 2002 to SEPTEMBER 2006 provide a glimpse of the work being done in the studios. On the first Eric Saks, film/video artist Friday evening of each month at the Peterborough Historical Society, Colony Fellows present artistic work in an “open studio” format — OCTOBER 2006 readings from work in progress, recitals, film screenings, etc. Sandro Del Rosario, filmmaker and Lucio Gregoretti, composer Hosted by the Peterborough Historical Society and occasionally the Sharon Arts Center, the program is open to the public and NOVEMBER 2006 is free of charge. A regular column published in the Monadnock Mary Gaitskill, writer Ledger-Transcript newspaper announces these events and introduces the presenting artist to the local community in print DECEMBER 2006 each month. This year’s participants are listed to the left. Elmaz Abinader, writer

JANUARY 2007 Lady in the Wings film screening

FEBRUARY 2007 Basil Twist, visual artist

MARCH 2007 Amie Siegel, filmmaker

2007: The Colony begins its Centennial year with numerous celebrations across the country. In the spring, the Library of Congress holds an exhibition in honor of The MacDowell Colony’s 100 years, and the Centennial film MacDowell Seasons premieres at MoMA. During the summer, the Colony and its supporters will prepare a Centennial Medal Day extravaganza that will include a special installation by MacArthur award winner Anna Schuleit, a Colony Fellows picnic in Central Park, and a number of other events for the rest of the year. 21 FELLOWS The Fellows Executive Committee (FEC), comprised of artists who have been in recent residence, serves as an advisory group to the Colony. Committee EXECUTIVE members serve for three years and are elected by their peers. With first- hand knowledge about a MacDowell residency experience, they provide COMMITTEE recommendations and feedback to the Colony’s staff and board of directors. The FEC aims to extend and broaden the community of Fellows across all disciplines and generations.

Martha Southgate, a fiction writer, is the current FEC President and, as such, a MacDowell board member. The FEC communicates with the extensive community of Fellows through a column in the biannual newsletter, as well as through a presence on the Colony Web site. Annual dues raise funds that are donated to MacDowell. In 2007 these funds have led to improvements such as new felt for the pool table and a small, portable fridge for medical needs. Some FEC gifts have later been adopted as regular fixtures in the budget — most famously, the maple syrup that greets breakfasters in Colony Hall. In addition to the annual physical gifts, a portion of dues collected is also given to the Colony to spend at its discretion.

In 2006–2007, the Fellows Executive Committee met four times with the executive director to discuss ways to engage the community of Colony Fellows. Agenda items brought to FEC meetings for discussion included planning the Centennial Fellows Picnic (to be held September 29, 2007), strategies for managing the Annual Fellows Party. Photo by Hayes Biggs. presence of the Internet in Colony Hall and its effect on social life, and strategies for increasing diversity among Colony Fellows. ANNUAL FELLOWS PARTY On November 4, 2006, MacDowell Colony Fellows gathered with executive director Cheryl Young, resident director David Macy, and staff members from the New York office at the Annual Fellows Party in New York. The party drew more than 150 Colony Fellows to the Delancey nightclub for an evening of music and festivities.

FELLOWS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS as of June 2007

Martha Southgate, writer Lorna Bieber, visual artist The FEC would like to thank the President Hayes Biggs, composer following members who retired from Stacey D’Erasmo, writer the committee during 2006–2007: Evan Hause, composer Joshua Fried, composer Alan Brown, filmmaker Vice President MeGo (Melissa Gould), visual artist David Leven, architect Tana Hargest, interdisciplinary artist David Petersen, filmmaker Betty Tompkins, visual artist Mike Holober, composer Secretary Samuael Topiary, interdisciplinary artist Kym Richardson, filmmaker Miouly Pongnon, writer Seth Riskin, interdisciplinary artist Treasurer Rachel Sussman, visual artist

22 THE EDWARD First awarded in 1960, the Edward MacDowell Medal is a national award presented annually to an artist for outstanding contribution to the arts. The MACDOWELL artistic discipline in which the award is given changes each year in order to celebrate all the creative fields practiced at MacDowell. The Medalist is MEDAL selected by an independent committee of peers. The ceremony brings together AND artists, MacDowell’s friends and neighbors, board members, and staff. Medal Day is also the Colony’s annual open house when artists-in-residence MEDAL DAY welcome visitors to their studios.

EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL WINNERS

2006 Alice Munro 2005 Steve Reich 2004 Nam June Paik 2003 Merce Cunningham 2002 Robert Frank 2001 Philip Roth 2000 Lou Harrison 1999 Ellsworth Kelly 1998 I. M. Pei 1997 Chuck Jones 1996 Joan Didion 1995 George Crumb 1994 Jasper Johns 1993 Harry Callahan 1992 Richard Wilbur 1991 David Diamond 1990 Louise Bourgeois 1989 Stan Brakhage 1988 William Styron 1987 Leonard Bernstein 1986 Lee Friedlander 1985 Robert Motherwell 1984 Mary McCarthy 1983 Elliott Carter 1982 Isamu Noguchi Medalist Alice Munro 1981 John Updike 1980 Samuel Barber 1979 John Cheever Writer Alice Munro was awarded the 47th Edward MacDowell 1978 Richard Diebenkorn Medal on August 13, 2006, in front of an audience of over 1,500. 1977 Virgil Thomson Selection committee members included Colony Fellows Joan Acocella, 1976 Lillian Hellman chairwoman of the Medal Selection Committee; Nicholas Dawidoff, 1975 Willem de Kooning who is also a board member; and writers Jeffrey Eugenides and 1974 Walter Piston Vivian Gornick. Virginia Barber, Alice Munro’s longtime friend and 1973 Norman Mailer 1972 Georgia O’Keeffe literary agent, served as the presentation speaker. 1971 William Schuman 1970 Eudora Welty 1969 Louise Nevelson 1968 Roger Sessions “Some say her stories bring characters in a region as powerfully 1967 Marianne Moore alive as James Joyce’s Dublin or William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha 1966 Edward Hopper 1965 Edgard Varese County, and her women stand equal to John Updike’s men. She’s 1964 Edmund Wilson our Chekhov, she’s our Flaubert. Yes, she’s all of this but, most 1963 Alexander Calder 1962 Robert Frost and best of all, she’s our Alice Munro.” 1961 Aaron Copland 1960 Thornton Wilder — Virginia Barber

23 EVENTS

New York Benefit: Chairman of the Board Robert MacNeil and Honorary Benefit Chairman Tom Putnam toast MacDowell’s Centennial. Photo by Steve Tucker.

NEW YORK BENEFIT MacDowell Celebrates! 100 Years of Giving Artists was a special tribute to Wendy Wasserstein, directed Freedom to Create took place on December 4, 2006, by Steve Lawson, with Paul Rudnick reminiscing and at the University Club, New York. The annual benefit Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker reading from launched a yearlong series of events celebrating The Wasserstein’s final play, Third. Visual artists Tomie Arai, MacDowell Colony’s Centennial. Rosamond, Tom, and Stan Brodsky, Heide Fasnacht, Janet Fish, Faith Babs Putnam were the honorary chairmen, while Ringgold, and John Willenbecher transformed Michael Chabon, Osvaldo Golijov, and Ayelet Waldman MacDowell picnic baskets into works of art, which were were the honorary artist chairmen. More than 300 sold at a silent auction. Board member David Baum MacDowell friends and supporters attended this festive auctioned a first edition of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, occasion. MacDowell Board Chairman Robert MacNeil donated by Bob and Stephanie Olmsted. We wish to offer served as master of ceremonies, with Tom Putnam, our special thanks to our benefit cochairmen of 16 chairman of the Centennial Steering Committee, offering years, Ruth M. Feder and Helen S. Tucker, for helping remarks about MacDowell’s vibrant history. to make this event a great success; to our honorary chairmen and honorary artist chairmen; to the Artists The evening’s program featured a broad array of Committee, chaired by Katie Firth and Steve Lawson; performances that included a selection from Grey Gardens, and to all the Colony Fellows and artists who contributed written, arranged, and composed by Scott Frankel, their work and performances to this special evening. Michael Korie, and Doug Wright; a dance interpretation We greatly appreciate the generosity of our Corporate of Aaron Copland’s music by members of the Martha Supporters HarperCollins Publishers, Random House, Graham Dance Company while Eli Wallach and Anne Inc., and Harcourt Trade Publishers. The benefit raised Jackson read from correspondence between Martha nearly $350,000 to help support Fellowships for more Graham and Aaron Copland; and a parody of the than 250 creative artists at the Colony during its MacDowell residency experience presented by Lisa Kron Centennial year. and Michael Friedman, directed by Dan Hurlin. There

New York Benefit (L to R): Jane Alexander, Evelyn Stefansson Nef, and Susan Sollins-Brown; Ruth M. Feder, Anne Jackson, Helen S. Tucker, and Eli Wallach; Leslie Garfield and Joan Hardy Clark. Photos by Steve Tucker.

24 NEW HAMPSHIRE BENEFIT Heard Fresh: Words and Music, the fourth annual New Hampshire Benefit for The MacDowell Colony, was held on January 27th at Hidden Hills in Rindge, NH. Its program featured Grammy-nominated composer and jazz pianist Fred Hersch and renowned poet and author Mary Jo Salter, as well as vocalists Sally Wilfert and Michael Winther. Hersch and Salter met at the Colony in 2002 and began to collaborate, most recently creating a staged song cycle in 2006, which premiered in part at Jazz at Lincoln Center in January 2007. The benefit was well attended by 200 guests, who enjoyed a cocktail reception, dinner, silent auction, and book sale. The evening raised nearly $50,000 to support the Colony’s artist residency program. Special thanks to our benefit cochairs Sarah Garland-Hoch and Monica Lehner, and committee members Nina Anderson, Ricardo Barreto, Claire Bean, Eleanor Briggs, William J.H. Chapman, Ellen Draper, Karen Fitzgerald, Frank Guerra, Kit Henry, Teresa Imhoff, Scott Manning, Mollie Miller, Lisa Neville, Tina O’Rourke, Ted Pearre, Wendy Pearre, Kin Schilling, Jamie Trowbridge, and Rosemary James Wolpe. We would also like to gratefully acknowledge Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA, our Lead Business Sponsor.

ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY More than 100 MacDowell board members, volunteers, friends, and staff gathered at Colony Hall for the Annual Holiday Party on December 8, 2006. Guests brought donations of nonperishable foods for distribution through the Monadnock Area Food Bank. In lieu of a gift exchange, the staff chose to make a cash gift to New York Benefit: Faith Ringgold with a picnic basket she decorated the Secret Santa Fund operated by the local Rotary for the silent auction. Photo by Steve Tucker. Club to buy and distribute gifts to needy families.

Colony Fellows listed in bold.

New Hampshire Benefit (L to R): Mary Jo Salter and Fred Hersch during their performance; Olivia Parker and John Parker, Bob and Stephanie Olmsted; Peggo Horstmann Hodes, Congressman Paul Hodes, Pat and John Colony.

25 GIFTS FOR Gifts to underwrite Fellowships for artists and to maintain the Colony’s studios and residency buildings are essential in helping MacDowell continue its RESIDENCIES mission of the past century. Major gifts designated for Fellowships perpetuate the Colony’s tradition of accepting artists solely on the basis of talent. AND Fifty-three annual and endowed Fellowships and 11 annual and endowed STUDIOS studio maintenance grants were given during 2006–2007, thanks to the generosity of many friends of the Colony.

ANNUAL FELLOWSHIPS Henry L. Easterwood Fellowship Ellen Driscoll Annual Fellowships are contributions designated In memory of Henry L. Easterwood (1934–2002), gifted by the donor to help offset the cost of one or more weaver, fiber artist, interior designer, and beloved residencies in the year the gift is made. teacher of generations of students at the Memphis College of Art, this Fellowship will support the residency of a visual artist in 2007. Easterwood’s work ranged Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Fellowship from tapestries to exploratory multimedia constructions. Caroline Mallonée He was a recipient of the Gold Medal of the American Continuing a practice begun in 1961 to honor the memory Institute of Architects in 1969 and was a collector of of Faye Barnaby Kent, the national collegiate sorority African, Oceanic, Peruvian, and Indian art. This Alpha Chi Omega contributed a Fellowship for the residency Fellowship was given by Anthony Alofsin, a Colony of a composer. Fellow architect and student of Henry L. Easterwood.

Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship Gramercy Park Foundation Fellowship William Coble Polly Devlin In recognition of board member Anne Cox Chambers’ This Fellowship to support the residency of one creative generous gift to support The MacDowell Colony’s New artist honors board member Helen Tucker in recognition York Benefit, a Fellowship to support the residency of of her generous gift to support The MacDowell Colony’s one creative artist in 2007 was named in her honor. 2006 New York Benefit.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has partnered A creativity/multidisciplinary grant from the National with the Colony to support the residency of a Northern Endowment for the Arts was awarded to MacDowell to Irish artist at MacDowell in the coming year. help support the first-time residencies of ten creative artists at the Colony in 2007 to be named later this year.

MacDowell was a “perfect storm” for me — everything was just as it needed to be to allow me to take my work to the next level.

— Painter Lilian Garcia-Roig

Bogardus Fellowship Linda Ganjian Netherland-America Foundation Fellowship This Fellowship to support the residency of a visual The Netherland-America Foundation will support artist in 2007 was a gift from Catherine Bogardus in the residency of a writer or artist who is from the memory of her mother Kate Noble Bogardus (with Netherlands or working on Dutch-related subject matter whom she first visited the Colony in 1927) and her in the coming year. cousin Margaret MacDowell Lomerson. Tom and Babs Putnam Fellowship Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship Denise Hawrysio Christopher McKenna In recognition of board member Tom Putnam and Babs The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has been partnering Putnam’s generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s 2006 with the Colony since 2000 to encourage applications New York Benefit, a Fellowship to support the residency from creative artists from the state of New Jersey. One of a printmaker in 2007 has been named in their honor. creative artist received a Fellowship in 2006.

26 Printmaker Denise Hawrysio; Composer Anthony Davis

ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS Chubb LifeAmerica Fellowship, est. 1990 Endowed Fellowships, based on investment income Jessica Anthony from gifts held in the Colony’s endowment fund, Chubb LifeAmerica made a grant to establish a provide support in perpetuity for one or more Fellowship to support artists from New Hampshire or residencies each year. northern New England. Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship, est. 1985 Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship, est. 1999 Paul Oehlers Betsy Bonner The Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship for composers was Friends and family of Nadya Aisenberg, a poet, author, established by the board of directors in recognition of scholar, and Colony Fellow, established this Fellowship in Mrs. Crofts’ very generous support of the Colony, her her memory to support the residency of a female poet. devotion to music, and her commitment to helping provide creative opportunities for modern composers. Milton and Sally Avery Fellowships, est. 1983 Lillian Garcia-Roig and Mary McDonnell Ewing Fellowship, est. 2003 The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, in tribute to Anthony Davis the memory of Milton Avery, a Colony Fellow, endowed A Fellowship for a creative artist at MacDowell was a Fellowship for a painter of outstanding ability. In endowed by Ruth Ewing, a longtime friend of the 1990, Mrs. Avery, also a Colony Fellow and a board Colony and board member from 1975–2000, and her member from 1989–2003, expanded the fund to provide husband, Jim Ewing, a member of the board of directors for two Fellowships. from 1961–1975 and its vice president from 1966–1974.

Cathrine Boettcher Fellowship, est. 1991 Gerald Freund Fellowship, est. 1996 David Adjmi Julie Orringer Cathrine Boettcher Felding, a longtime supporter and Friends of Gerald Freund, an advisor to and longtime friend of the Colony, established through her will a fund friend of the Colony, established a Fellowship for emerging to support residencies at MacDowell. writers in honor of his 40-year career in philanthropy and his commitment to funding exceptionally creative Stanford Calderwood Fellowships, est. 1998 individuals in the arts and sciences. Jen Bervin, Christopher Bolin, Eduardo Corral, and Jayne Anne Phillips Isabella Gardner Fellowship, est. 1982 To repay writers for the joys of a lifetime of pleasurable Wendy S. Walters reading, Stanford Calderwood, a member of the board The family and friends of Isabella Gardner, as a tribute of directors from 1968–1978 and its treasurer from and a memorial, established this Fellowship for a young 1971–1977, established a fund to support the residencies female poet. of all writers who work in Calderwood Studio.

27 Writer Wyatt Mason; Architect Golnar Adili

Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship, est. 1989 Robert Maxwell Fellowship, est. 1989 Tom Nussbaum Alexander Fernandez The Heathcote Art Foundation, in tribute to its founder In recognition of Robert Maxwell’s generous legacy to and benefactor, Josephine Mercy Heathcote, an 18th- the Colony, the board of directors established this century decorative arts scholar and collector, endowed Fellowship for an artist of any discipline. a Fellowship for an artist of exceptional ability. Philip Morris Company Fellowship, est. 1991 Ernest and Red Heller Fellowship, est. 2004 Amanda Stern Sandro Del Rosario and Sally Oswald The Philip Morris Company, in recognition of Rose “Red” Heller, a longtime friend of the Colony, MacDowell’s contribution to the arts, established this board member from 1980–2002, and director emerita Fellowship in literature. from 2002–2003, established through her will a fund to support Fellowships for two creative artists each year. Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship, est. 1990 Lisa Robinson Kate and George Kendall Fellowships, est. 1990 This Fellowship to support the residency of a photographer Wyatt Mason and Basil Twist was given by Colony Fellow Evelyn Stefansson Nef, who Friends of the Kendalls established this Fellowship as a has been a member of the board of directors since 1991 tribute to George Kendall, general director of the and also serves as a vice chairman. Colony from 1951–1971. In 1999, the fund’s endowment received a generous bequest from George Kendall.

My residency at The MacDowell Colony was like being befriended by a very confident, wise, and empowered person.

— Architect Alexander Fernandez

New Hampshire Committee Fellowship, est. 1991 MacDowell Poetry Fellowship, est. 1990 Katherine Min G.C. Waldrep The New Hampshire Committee raised funds from Edwin C. Cohen, member of the board of directors from 1987–1991 to establish an endowed Fellowship for an 1984–1999, established this fund to support the residency artist from New Hampshire. of a poet of exceptional ability. Elodie Osborn Fellowship, est. 1984 Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship, est. 2002 Lynne Sachs Grace Schulman In honor of Elodie Osborn’s efforts to establish film as a A bequest from Colony Fellow Patricia Mangione discipline at the Colony, her friends created a film established a Fellowship to support the residencies of Fellowship. Ms. Osborn was a member of the board of senior writers and artists who have worked at their directors from 1969–1986 and president of the Colony crafts for at least 30 years. from 1975–1977.

28 Bernardine Kielty Scherman Fellowship, est. 1975 Heinz Studio Nuala O’Faolain In 1996, Drue Heinz, a vice chairman of the Colony, In recognition of Bernardine Scherman’s long association donated funds to re-create the old icehouse as a sculpture with the Colony and her love of good writing, the studio and to establish a studio maintenance fund. Scherman Foundation established a Fellowship in her name for a writer. Evelyn Stefansson Nef Studio In 1992, Vice Chairman Evelyn Stefansson Nef funded Frances and William Schuman Fellowship, est. 1990 the construction of a new photography studio and Meredith Monk established an endowed fund to cover the annual costs The Schuman Fellowship was established as a loving of maintaining the studio. It was the first new studio tribute to the composer William Schuman, MacDowell built on Colony grounds since 1936. Medalist in 1971, board member from 1972–1979, chairman from 1980–1983, and honorary chairman New Hampshire Studio from 1984–1990; and Frances Schuman, board member In 1990, the Gilbert Verney Foundation established an from 1977–1994. endowed fund to maintain and improve New Hampshire Studio. In 1992, through a generous bequest given in Norton Stevens Fellowships, est. 1975 memory of Colonist Victor Candell, the studio was John Aylward, Jorge Grossman, Joel Harrison, renovated, enlarging and improving the space available and Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin for use by visual artists. In honor of Colony Fellow Aaron Copland’s 75th birthday, the Norlin Foundation established an endowment to New Jersey Studio provide Fellowships for composers. The New Jersey Studio (1920–1921) was funded by the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowships, est. 1978 which has continued as a longtime contributor to Olivia Gentile, Meera Nair, Silvia Pareschi, its maintenance. In 2006, Federation contributions and Kenneth Turan helped meet studio expenses. DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest established an endowment to provide Fellowships for writers. Omicron Studio Members of Delta Omicron, an international music club, Thornton Wilder Fellowship, est. 1990 funded the building of Omicron Studio in 1927. In 1996, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas the Delta Omicron Foundation made a gift to refurbish In recognition of Thornton Wilder’s generous legacy to a Mason & Hamlin grand piano, dedicated in memory the Colony, the board of directors established a of Roxine Beard Petzold and Adelaide Louise Collyer, Fellowship in his name for an artist of any discipline. two past presidents of the fraternity. Delta Omicron Wilder was a nine-time Colony Fellow, as well as the made a contribution in 2006 to help meet annual costs first recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1960. for the studio.

Wilder Green Fellowship in Architecture, est. 2006 Pan’s Cottage Golnar Adili Built as a men’s residence in 1919, Pan’s Cottage was In tribute to Wilder Green, an architect and a member of given by Sigma Alpha Iota, an international fraternity the board of directors from 1980–2005, a Fellowship for for women in music. A Sigma Alpha Iota contribution in an architect was endowed by The Wilder Green Art Fund. 2006 helped meet expenses for utilities and upkeep.

Phi Beta Studio STUDIO AND FACILITY GRANTS Phi Beta Fraternity, a national organization for profes- sionals in music and speech, provided for the construction Studio and facility grants, whether endowed or of Phi Beta Studio (1929–1931) and continued to help annual gifts, help provide for the upkeep of individual support its upkeep with a grant in 2006. studios and residence buildings. Star Studio Since 1971, Alpha Chi Omega, the first organization to Stanford Calderwood Studio contribute a studio to the Colony, has extended its In 1999, Stanford Calderwood funded the construction Fellowship support to help maintain Star Studio, which of a new studio for writers and established an endowed was built in 1911–1912. In 2006, the organization made a fund to cover the annual costs of maintaining the studio. contribution to help meet the studio’s expenses.

Valli Dreyfus Firth Studio Sorosis Studio In 1993, Barn Studio was dedicated to Valli Dreyfus Sorosis Studio was built in 1924–1926 with funds provided Firth, who supported the Colony generously for many by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis, which contributed years. In her memory, the Jean and Louis Dreyfus in 2006 toward the studio’s maintenance. Foundation funded extensive renovations to the visual artists’ studio and established an endowed maintenance fund for its upkeep.

29 Composer William Coble; Playwright Melanie Marnich

TRAVEL AND FINANCIAL AWARDS Two major gifts make travel grants possible for THE ALPERT AWARDS IN THE ARTS artists to help pay domestic and international Administered by the California Institute of the Arts and funded transportation costs, respectively. Financial aid by the Alpert Foundation, this award seeks to identify for writers, based on need, is provided through those artists who contribute “something significant—even visionary—to contemporary life.” In our hope of spreading a grant from an anonymous foundation. the word about MacDowell to non-New York artists in the interdisciplinary, film/video, and playwriting fields, The MacArthur Transportation Fund MacDowell Colony and The Alpert Awards in the Arts have In 1990, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur collaborated to bring a number of outstanding artists to Foundation awarded the Colony a $200,000 grant MacDowell. During the past three years, the following artists that has been set aside to establish an endowed were recommended by The Alpert Awards panels and selected transportation fund for artists who cannot afford by MacDowell admissions panels for a residency: domestic travel to and from the Colony. During 2006–2007, 52 grants totaling $18,550 were awarded 2007: 2006: 2005: to enable artists to come to MacDowell from 16 states. Jason Samuels Smith Gaelen Hanson Keith Hennessy The David and Rosamond Putnam interdisciplinary interdisciplinary interdisciplinary (dance) (dance) (dance) Transportation Fund This endowed fund was established in 1989 by Mr. and Sam Green Vicky Funari Eddo Stern film/video film/video interdisciplinary Mrs. David F. Putnam, longtime friends and generous (computer animation) benefactors of the Colony, to provide financial assistance Lauren Weedman Melanie Marnich for international travel to and from the Colony for theatre theatre David Ryan film/video artists who could not come at their own expense. During 2006–2007, seven grants totaling $4,647 were awarded to enable artists from seven countries to come to MacDowell.

Writers Aid Fund Through a gift from an anonymous foundation, the Colony awards grants of up to $1,000 each to writers needing financial assistance in order to attend The MacDowell Colony. This program, made possible by the foundation’s generous support since 1998, provides a significant benefit to writers at MacDowell and serves as a model for stipend programs in other disciplines for which funding is being sought. During 2006–2007, $27,000 was awarded to 30 writers.

30 The MacDowell Colony is in the first phase of a wonderful effort to ensure the CAMPAIGN FOR continued excellence of the residency experience and the financial resources needed THE SECOND to sustain and advance the Colony in its second century. The vision for MacDowell’s future emphasizes investing in artists through Fellowships and stipend support, and CENTURY also includes several capital projects at the Colony. Primarily through generous gifts from board members and several organizations, $8,000,000 has been raised to DONORS date, including four leadership gifts of $1,000,000. MacDowell is extremely grateful for this commitment and support from the Colony’s close friends.

Susan and Kenneth Austin Ruth and Arthur Feder Dr. Tom Lesher Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. William N. Banks David V. Foster Louise Eastman Loening Susan Sollins-Brown David Baum Mary Teal Garland Robert and Donna MacNeil Martha Southgate and Jeffrey Phillips Wendy Belser Gerry and Teresa Gartner Scott Manning Stanford Calderwood Foundation Varujan Boghosian John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Evelyn Stefansson Nef Anne Stark Eleanor Briggs The Hurlin Foundation George M. Nicholson Rick and Terry Stone Peter Cameron Julia Jacquette and Dan Carlson Stephanie and Robert Olmsted Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Mary and Robert Carswell Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation Olivia and John Parker The Wilder Green Art Fund Alexander Cortesi Galway Kinnell and Bobbie Bristol Mrs. David F. Putnam Francis H. Williams Nicholas Dawidoff Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Tom and Babs Putnam Carter and Eileen Wiseman The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Monica and Michael Lehner Peter and Suzanne Read Cheryl Young and Bob Carswell Memorial Fund Tania León Leslie E. Robertson and SawTeen See as of July 2007

The Colony’s Centennial anniversary presents a singular opportunity to increase CENTENNIAL understanding of the invaluable role that artist residency programs play in the creation DONORS of new work. Thanks to the generous support of a very special group of donors who funded special Centennial initiatives, we are able to further the mission for which the Colony was founded: “to promote the arts, develop a sympathetic understanding of their correlation and appreciation of their value, and to broaden their influence.”

Anonymous Deutsche Bank Lehman Brothers The Rodel Charitable Foundation A. Erland and Hazel N. Goyette Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Lori Bookstein Fine Art of Key West Memorial Fund Harcourt, Inc. National Endowment for the Arts Ilse Traulsen The Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation HarperCollins Publishers New Hampshire Humanities Council Verizon Boston Private Bank & Trust Company LBC Foundation Panjandrum Foundation William H. Kearns Foundation Citizens Bank Foundation The LEF Foundation Random House, Inc. as of July 2007

The MacDowell Circle recognizes the total annual giving of all contributors who THE have made gifts to The MacDowell Colony for general and Centennial support in MACDOWELL FY07. The generous support of these donors is much appreciated. The categories of giving are in honor of distinguished artists who have been Colony Fellows. CIRCLE

THORNTON WILDER AARON COPLAND John and Olivia Parker Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS Peter and Suzanne Read James Lapine Leslie E. Robertson and SawTeen See Carol Sutton Lewis $10,000 and over $7,500 and over Elizabeth and Geoffrey Verney Jack and Mary Liz Lewis Anonymous Anonymous Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon MARKEM Corporation William N. Banks Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard M. Meistrell Catherine Bogardus Academy Foundation of the Academy MILTON AVERY CONTRIBUTORS Richard and Duffy Monahon Eleanor Briggs of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences $1,500 and over Mr. and Mrs. I.M. Pei Mary and Robert Carswell Betty and Russell Gaudreau Sylvia T. Pope The Honorable Anne Cox Chambers HarperCollins Publishers Jane Alexander Martin and Anna Rabinowitz Mr. and Mrs. Abram Collier David W. and Kathryn Moore Heleniak David Baum and Terry Reeves RiverStone Resources, LLC The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Robert and Donna MacNeil Peter Cameron Robert Rodat and Mollie Miller Memorial Fund Random House, Inc. Cincinnati MacDowell Society Martha Ronk Brandon Fradd Theodore C. Rogers Rick and Jan Cohen Mrs. Janos Scholz / John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Charles and Szilvia Tanenbaum Alexander Cortesi Scholz Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Drue Heinz and Wendy Mackenzie Alice Sebold Tom and Ellen Draper Sidney R. Knafel and Londa Weisman WILLA CATHER CONTRIBUTORS Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Seifer Leon Levy Foundation in honor Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. D. Firth Andrew Senchak $3,000 and over of Helen Tucker and Ruth Feder Johanna and Leslie Garfield Alan B. Slifka and Riva Golan Ritvo The Linnaeus Thomson Fund / Anonymous Mary T. Garland Susan Sollins-Brown Peninsula Community Foundation Sarah Fay Baird Gerry and Teresa Gartner Patricia and David Kenneth Specter Louise Eastman Loening Ruth D. Ewing Mrs. S. William Green Katherine Wenning Nadelson/Crist Charitable Foundation Ruth and Arthur Feder / Larry Harris Janet and Alan Yuspeh Evelyn Stefansson Nef Feder Family Charitable Kitty S. Hawks Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Olmsted Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Forbes Peter† and Mary Heller Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Franz W. Sichel Foundation Robert P. Hubbard Tom and Babs Putnam Roland Hoch and Sarah Garland-Hoch Michael I. Jacobs, MD Bill and Maria Spears Monica and Michael Lehner Joan L. and Dr. Julius H. Jacobson II The John O. and Olivia H. Parker Fund Rick and Terry Stone Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Colony Fellows listed in bold Pamela Johnson Ilse Traulsen David Meyer * matching gift Jane and Gerald Katcher Helen S. Tucker / Paul Newman † deceased The Gramercy Park Foundation Mary Ellen and Richard Oldenburg Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen 31 HELEN FARNSWORTH MEARS David P. McMullin Marilyn Arsem Hannah R. Clay CONTRIBUTORS Melanson Heath & Company, P.C. Arthur and Dolores Daniels Foundation Clements Family Charitable Trust Richard and Ronay Menschel Ann D. Arthur Hal and Margot P. Close $500 and over Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Louis S. Asekoff Eleanor Cogswell Anonymous Evelyn B. Metzger Cristina M. Ashjian Gerald Cohen Anonymous in honor Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. Michael and Joyce Askenaizer Carole Cole of Helen S. Tucker and Ruth M. Feder Meredith Monk Tom and Banu Atkinson Vivien Abrams Collens A.W. Peters, Inc. Charles Morey Lisa Dickler Awano Charles W. Collier Alchemy Foundation Renate Ponsold Motherwell Helène Aylon Zena Collier Blake and Nina Anderson Ken and Moira Mumma Thomas W. Bakewell Martha Collins Sallie and Rob Bass Dennison Nash Dr. and Mrs. Wilmot C. Ball, Jr. Nell Conkright Cecily Bastedo Nina Nyhart Mirra Bank Christopher Conway Chris and Claire Bean O Live Fund Joseph Barbieri Forrest and June Cook Karen and Michael Bell Nuala Aine O’Faolain Helen Barolini Chris Cooke Carolyn and Randy Benthien Whitney W. Oppersdorff Lynn Bassler Jane M. Cooper Roger and Brook Berlind Tarik O’Regan Margaret C. Bean Lisa and Wayne Cooper Helen and Peter Bing P.J. and Tina O’Rourke Richard Beaudoin Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas Louise Bourgeois Mary Buckley Parriott Myron Beldock and Karen Dippold Eleanor Cory and Joel Gressel Mary Griggs Burke The Peter and Karen Klacsmann Bellows-Nichols Agency Alexander D. Crary Ken and Julie Burns Charitable Fund Wendy Belser Crotched Mountain Foundation Jay E. Cantor Robert S Pirie Larry Benesh and Rebecca Hoogs Ms. Anna E. Crouse Katrina Carye Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Platt Ms. Margaret R. Bennett Gail Curtin Charles F. Christ Mr. and Mrs. Mark K. Posnick in honor Edward S. Bent Curtis M. and Eleanor A. Humphrey Citizens Bank of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Olmsted Marina Berio Liv Trust Arthur Clarke and Susan Sloan Emily Rauh Pulitzer Vivian Berman Madeline M. Dale Ann and George Colony Rosamond P. Putnam The Bernard Family Jack Damer Mary S. Cronson David Rakowski Leigh Buchanan Bienen Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Damour Catherine G. Curran George and Vickey Ranney in honor Sophie Black Blythe Danner Charlotte G. Currier of Alexander Cortesi Kate Blackwell Thomas A. Dart Sebastian K. Currier Betty P. and Michael H. Rauch David Blair Suellen Davidson Scott Donaldson RBS Greenwich Capital Foundation Amy Bloom Lisa Selin Davis Ellen Driscoll Hamilton and Roxana Robinson Steven Bognar Stephen G. Davis The E.H. Close Fund Mr. and Mrs. John Roche Jocelyn and James Bolle Lyell C. Dawes Gay and Hugh Eaton Jeff and Kellye Rosenheim Michael Thomas Bongiovi and Jessie Pollock Dawes Margot Feely Marjorie Rosenthal James Boorstein Nicholas Dawidoff Alexander Fernández Joel A. Rothfus* Audrey A. Boughton in honor Deborah de Moulpied Franklin Pierce University Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Rothfusz of Mary Carswell Elisa Decker Jonathan Franzen Ira Sachs Luette Bourne David Del Tredici Kristin Gamble and Charles Flood James L. Sacksteder, MD Hayg Boyadjian Robin Delia Mary Laura Gibbs Louise and Arnold Sagalyn Robert and Patricia Boyd Edward T. Dell, Jr. The Gilbert Verney Foundation The Sandback Family Michele Brannan Mr. Stephen Dembski Robert and Sheri Gold Joel Sanders Architect PLLC Holly Peterson Breeden Jamie Diamond Gerald Goldsmith Janet U. Schaefer Helena Brett-Smith Kerry Dolan Gene Gort and Bill Gerber Laura Schwendinger and Jan Cunningham Doug Dorst Vartan Gregorian The Segal Company Regina Bringolf Mrs. Myron H. Downs Polly Guth David L. and Jane B. Shapiro David Bristol Eileen R. Driscoll Judson D. Hale, Sr. Rosalind Solomon Jane E. Brockman Elizabeth Duffy Eva and Yoel Haller in honor Ronald Steel Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bromberg Mrs. Charlotte Duval of Terry Reeves and David Baum Louisa Thoron, MD Ellen Brooks Rick and Susan Dyer Harcourt, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Townsend Margaret Brouwer Deborah and Hylton Early in honor Joel McCormick Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Archbold D. van Beuren Mr. and Mrs. Duncan W. Brown of Martha and Craig Fraser Richard William Hayes Barbara Vogelstein in honor Emily Brown John David Earnest Fred Hersch of Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Rosellen Brown and Marv Hoffman W. Dean Eastman John and Jean Hoffman Ms. Susan R. von Stade Susan Brynteson Cathy Egan Karen and Jeff Hughes Beatrice Taylor Vorm Victor Bumbalo Robert and Martha Eichler Dan Hurlin and Kazu Nakamura Mrs. Joan M. Warburg Donald Bump Eleanor Elliott Peter and Teresa Imhoff George and Mildred Weissman Alan Burdick Mr. and Mrs. Jeb N. Embree Elizabeth and Woody Ives Joan Wickersham Carol Burdick Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Englund Jack Daniels Motor Inn Francis H. Williams Barbara and Walter Burgin Julie Evans Mrs. Paula K. Jeffries Mark Winges Ben Butler Gwen Fabricant Johnson & Johnson Family Jacqueline Woodson Paul Byard Geraldine Fabrikant of Companies* Dana D. Woody Pauline Ho Bynum Geoffrey C. and Evelyn Farnum Susan Henshaw Jones in honor Yankee Publishing, Inc. Joseph Caldwell Charles and Charlotte Faulkner of Helen S. Tucker Cheryl A. Young James Cañón Cecelia Feld David Kamp Rachel Cantor Lewis Feldstein Linda Kastan FRIENDS OF MACDOWELL Mr. and Mrs. James S. Carroll John Felstiner Mr. and Mrs. John D. Carroll, MD Jerome and Marian Feniger Leslie F. Kefauver Up to $500 Suki Kim Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Carroll Jesseca Ferguson Ms. Evelyn Kossak Anonymous (15) Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Carroll Monica Ferrell Tom Kundig Joan Acocella Mrs. March A. Cavanaugh Michael Fiday Anne L. Landsman Kathleen M. Adams CGI Employee Benefits Group Ruth P. Fields The Lauder Foundation, Leonard Pat Adams Sidney Chafetz Diane Fine and Evelyn Lauder Fund William D. Adams Lenora L. Champagne Emily Fine Jim Lehrer Samuel Adler Walter and Jacqueline Chaskel Katie Firth and Jonathan Bank Honorable Samuel K. Lessey Jr. Aesop’s Tables and Events in honor of Paul Brantley Barbara G. Fleischman John and Mary Lord Nancy G. Allen Jonathan and Jeanmarie Chenette Stephanie Fleischmann Ruth Lord Peter S. and Susan H. Allen Kenneth A. Christian Hilda W. Fleisher The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts Alina Alvarado Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Christiansen Liza Folman of Los Angeles Suzanne Ambrose, NCTM Edward Chudacoff Ellen Foos The MacDowell Colony Fellows Ms. Anne Anable Allen and Nancy Clapp H. A. Crosby Forbes Norman and Judy Makechnie Brooke Anderson and Jay Potter Joan Hardy Clark Richard E. Ford Scott Manning and Frank Guerra Earl K. Anderson and Gareth R. Williams Lewis and Barbara Clark Kathleen and Daniel Fortin Bradford Matsen Peggy Anderson Fred Clarke Judith C. Fox Alice Mattison Ms. Edith Antunes John and Ann Clarkeson Susan Frantz and Wes DeVries Nancy and Richmond Mayo-Smith Charles R. Appler Jean D. Clark-Graney Linda Frawley

32 Elenore Freedman Samuel and Elizabeth Hynes The Lin and Joe Hart Family Fund Elizabeth C. Parker Anne Hobson Freeman Catherine Ingraham Yih-Min and Yu-Lan Lin Tom and Suzi Parks Angela Fremont Cynthia Ona Innis Arlene Hutton Jane Champe Payne Dr. and Mrs. William F. Fritz InteQ Corporation Professor Anna Lincoln Ted and Wendy Pearre Dr. and Mrs. M. Gerard Fromm Janice Ittner Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel Anne S. Pelletier Lise Funderburg Carl and Ann Jacobs and William Kimbrel The Penny Fund Ms. Alice M. Gabriel Michelle Jaffé Lois London Ronald C. Perera Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gabriel James Thomas Salon Susan and David Lord Vivian Perlis Mary L. Gaitskill Phyllis Janowitz Elaine Lorenz Mrs. Virginia S. Perrette Nora Gallagher Alison Jarvis Dr. Margery M. Lowens Peterborough Woman’s Club Carlton Gamer John Jay and Lea Iselin Paul and Colette Lucas Heather Peterson Linda Ganjian Scott Jaynes and Annika Brown The Lukas Community Walter and Dorothy Peterson The Gannes Family Penelope Jencks Ray E. Luke Joseph and Augusta Petrone Betsy Gardella and David White Chris Jerome Erik Lundborg Anna Mae Petrusha D. Baldwin Gardner Bruce J. Johnson Joanne Lyman M. Nourbese Philip Peter Garfield Georgia Johnson in honor The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts Anthony Phillips Leslie Garis of John Dalton of Oklahoma City Barbara A. Pike Stacy Garrop James A. Johnson, Jr., Esq. The MacDowell Club of Chattanooga Paul A. Pines Carol Gebhardt Susan Johnston The MacDowell Club of Green Bay Mary and Bruce Plummer Lynn Geesaman Jones County History & Heritage, Inc. The MacDowell Club of Providence James and Ellyn Polshek Edward and Sara Germain in honor of William N. Banks Eila and Rod Mackenzie Vincent Pomilio Panos and Patience Haley Ghikas J. Richard and Carolyn F. Judson Alison Maclean Miouly E. Pongnon Raymond Ghirardo and Megan Roberts Gus Kaikkonen Charlton MacVeagh, Jr. Nancy Potter Mr. Hugh Gibson Morton Kaish David Macy Ed Praczukowski Thomas Gilroy Louise Kalin Nancy Green Madia Joanna Priestley and Paul Harrod Michael Gitlin Jessica Francis Kane James Magruder Adolfo Profumo Patricia Goedicke† Mrs. Mickey Karlins† Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Malt Public Service of New Hampshire Maraya and Robert Goff Peter and Marty Karoff Joel Mandelbaum Joyce Purnick and Max Frankel Barbara Goldberg Jonathon Keats Dr. Bunita Marcus Alexander Purves Robert Golden The Keene Sentinel Sara B. Martin in honor Sharon Pywell Elliott Goldkind Brian Kellman of Francis H. Williams Queens College Art Department Faculty Florence K. Goldman Tatana Kellner Maryann Thompson Architects Elena Quevedo Michael Eliot Goriansky John and Patricia Kenny Jon and Rosemary Masters Jeanne Quinn Janet and Stetson Grant Kentler International Drawing Space Steve Maughan Richard and Janet Quinn Stephanie J. Grant Bruce and Jane Keough Esther E.M. Mauran Lawrence Raab Harvey Green Elizabeth A. Kerwin Douglas and Sally Maynard Julia Reichert Gael Greene David M. Kezur Richard and Mary McAdoo Nelly Reifler Joyce Gregg Constance C. Kieley Craig and Sylvia McBeth Alan Reische Lucio Gregoretti Mark Kilstofte Sarah Fay McCarthy Mabel C. Richardson Eamon Grennan Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. King III Jo McDougall Ms. Harvena Richter Esther I. Gross John King Gardner McFall RiverMead May Gruber Kingsbury Corporation Mike McFerron Sally Heath Rives Alfred and Virginia Guidotti H. Thayer Kingsbury Doreen M. McGuire Carol and John Rodat Paul Gunther in honor Galway Kinnell Frances Thompson McKay James H. Rogers of Helen S. Tucker Laura Kissel McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton Jay Rogoff Nancy J. Hagin Mason J. O. Klinck, Sr. Jane McNichol Rebecca W. Rose Jennifer Haigh Edward Knight Harold and Hilary Meltzer Mel Rosenthal David Hall Lindsay Knowlton Amy and Stephen Meyers Kathleen M. Ross Sydney K. Hamburger Rosemarie Koczy and Louis Pelosi Microsoft Corporation* Philip Ross Mary Stewart Hammond Peter Laszlo Koenig Susan Minot Julian E. Rubinstein Rick and Patti Hance Sally Koenig Bea Mitchell Andrew Rudin and Tom Queenan Lecia Harbison and Aubrey Peterson Phyllis Koestenbaum Mr. Luis Molina Marieve Rugo in honor of John Hargraves Edith Konecky Honor Moore Mr. and Mrs. L. Phillips Runyon III Meg Harders Andrew P. Kordalewski Davidson Morris Peter and Jinnie Russell Elizabeth Harington Zane Kotker Jesse Moss Robert John Russett Donna Harkavy William Kraft Thelma S. Nason Carolyn Saari Patricia M. Harper Susan Krane in honor Jean Nathan Sarah and Peter Sandback Paul Harris of Nene Humphrey Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Eleonor Sandresky Adam Haslett Darlene Rae Krato Joanne E. Nerenberg Ann Sargent Ethan Hauser Jan L. Krzywicki Lisa and Jeffrey Neville Richard Sargent Mary D. Hazzard Mikel Kuehn The New Hampshire Philharmonic Catherine Sasanov Maria Headley Madeleine Kunin and John Hennesey New Mexico Community Foundation/ Yoelene and Robert Schaefer Sarah Heller Lake Sunapee Bank fsb The Carol Modaw Fund Gary Schiro Zoë Heller Samuel W. Lambert III The New York Community Trust, Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider David Hellerstein and Karen C. Hegener Catherine and Robert Brawer Fund Henry Schour Kit Henry and Henry Sanders Eve Andrée Laramée in honor of Helen Tucker Anna Schuleit William Henze Joan Larkin Bonnie Newman Anthony Schuman Carol Hepper and Laury Sejen Roland and Barbara LaRoche James Niblock Steven R. Schwartz Peter M. and Mary S. Hewitt Jules N. LaRocque Irving and Margaret Nichols Martha M. Scott Joan Hierholzer Bennett Bruce W. and Sarah H. Larsen Judith Nies Daniel V. Scully Kathleen Hill Steve Lawson Jo-Ann Nold Matthew Seeger Jane Hirschfield Joan and Henry Lee Paul Oehlers Marlene Sellers Rolaine Hochstein Kakyoung Lee Hugh S. Ogden Myra Shapiro Dr. Burton and Lynn Hoffman Peter D. Leischman Alix Ohlin Jessica Sharzer Deborah and David Hoffman Michael and Marjorie Lennon Laurie Olinder Karen and Ronald Shaw Mrs. Patricia G. Hoffman Tania León Mr. and Mrs. Austin Olney Lisa Shea Don and Ronna Honigman Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Deane Leonard Karen Olsson Mrs. William L. Shearer III Mr. and Mrs. David E. Howe Vivien Leone Opera Boston Emily Shelton Gladys and Peter Howell Arthur Levering Raquel Ortiz Sarah E. Shively James Huang Maria Levitsky Lothar Osterburg Barbara Shoenberger Anne and Joel Huberman Ann D. Levy Alicia Ostriker Stephen Shore Jim Humes James E. Lewis Sally M. Oswald Leonard V. Short, Jr. Durant A. Hunter Alice Lichtenstein James Packard Larry Siegel in honor Valerie Hurley Siobhan Liddell Mr. and Mrs. Frederic S. Papert of Rosamond Putnam Priscilla Hurlin Glenn Lieberman Gail Merrifield Papp Colony Fellows listed in bold * matching gift † deceased 33 Herbert B. Simon Rachel Wetzsteon Ted and Wendy Pearre PUBLIC FUNDING Sim’s Press, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Lennard Wharton Sheldon Pennoyer Alvin Singleton Sarah White Nanette Perrotte We are grateful Charlotte Rogers Smith† Thomas Whitman Peterborough Players for funding from: Michael T. Smith Susan Wicks Mary Jo Salter The National Endowment Rheta Smith Leslie Wilcott-Henrie Kin Schilling for the Arts Professor Maya Sonenberg and E. Hunterson Henrie II Steelcase and John C. Robinson The Wilder Family Charitable Fund Sterling Business Print & Mail Peter Sourian Hugh O. Williams Techsoup MEDAL DAY CORPORATE PARTNER Martha Southgate Jane M. Williams Gordon Weber Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Southgate Robert Williams Peter White Debra Spark Suzanne Williamson Rosemary and David Wolpe Louisa C. Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Reid Wilson Workman Publishing James and Martha Spencer William and Alice Wimer Kathleen Spivack Ms. Betty J. Winberg IN MEMORIAM NEW HAMPSHIRE BENEFIT Lewis and Melinda Spratlan Charles and Ellen Winchester Gift in memory of Nadya Aisenberg LEAD SPONSOR Dr. David G. Stahl Tracy Winn Elizabeth Crane Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA Beryl E. Steadman Katherine B. Winter Christopher Steadman Joanne H. Wise Gifts in memory of Benny Andrews RESTRICTED GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. David Steadman Carter and Eileen Wiseman Brooke Anderson and Jay Potter Donors who have designated funds Donald Steele Mary T. Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. James S. Carroll for a specific purpose. Carol Steen Tim and Cindy Wollaeger Mr. and Mrs. John D. Carroll, MD Stacey Steers Rosemary and David Wolpe Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Carroll Julia M. Kunin Sterling Design and Communications Mr. David F. Wood Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Carroll Laura Schwendinger Robert Stern Sherri Wood Carole Cole Helen S. Tucker / The Gramercy Park James W. Stevens David Wristen Curtis M. and Eleanor A. Humphrey Foundation Matthew Stevenson Robert Wykes Liv Trust Craig Stockwell and Sarah Mustin Mr. and Mrs. Clinton B. Yeomans Ellen Driscoll NADYA AISENBERG ENDOWED Hugh F. Stoddart Christopher C. York The Gannes Family FELLOWSHIP Carolyn Stoloff Joanne Gover Yoshida Donna Harkavy Elizabeth Crane Barry Strauss Alan and Lois Young David W. and Kathryn Moore Heleniak Anna Strickland Jane S. Young Carol Hepper and Laury Sejen ALPHA CHI OMEGA FELLOWSHIP Susan Strickler Anne and Kimon Zachos Kentler International Drawing Space Alpha Chi Omega Foundation William Stroup and Ann McIntyre Toby Zallman and Lanny Silverman Susan Krane Katherine Sturtevant Sabrina Zanella-Roesi Robert and Donna MacNeil HENRY L. EASTERWOOD FELLOWSHIP Janet Sullivan Elissa Zengel and Charles Post John and Olivia Parker Anthony Alofsin Nancy Sullivan Marilyn J. Ziffrin The Peter and Karen Klacsmann Andrew R. Supplee Mrs. Anna Zindars Charitable Fund THE GERALDINE R. DODGE Rachel Sussman Joan Zinkawich Queens College Art Department Faculty FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP Glen and Annagreta Swanson David L. and Jane B. Shapiro The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Joan and Bob Sweeney BEQUESTS Karen and Ronald Shaw Robert Taft Edward O. Berkman Marjorie and Russell Ward STUDIO MAINTENANCE Kimi Takesue Rose F. Heller Christopher C. York Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Gamma Jean Tatge and Phil Collis in honor Wilder Green Alpha Chapter for Star Studio of Helen Tucker Gift in memory of Ted Berkman Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Kim and Maria Temple IN KIND DONATIONS Esther I. Gross for Star Studio Lenore Tenenblatt In addition to the donors listed Delta Omicron Foundation for The Toadstool Bookshops below, the Colony is grateful for Gift in memory of Kate Noble Omicron Studio and the Petzold- Anne Thompson contributions of books, recordings, Bogardus and Margaret Collyer Memorial Piano Maryann Thompson Architects films, slides, and other works of art MacDowell Lomerson Mrs. Waldemar Kirschbaum Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Thorne by Colonists, which are placed in Catherine Bogardus for Star Studio Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tibbetts MacDowell’s archive and made New Jersey State Federation Marc and Judy Tieger available to artists-in-residence. Gift in memory of Henry Easterwood of Women’s Glubs of GFWC Jeffry and Sara Timmons Anthony Alofsin for New Jersey Studio Timothy Groesbeck Builder Adobe Phi Beta Fraternity: National Madeline M. Tole Alfred A. Knopf Publishers Gift in memory of Howard Fussiner Professional Association for the Gail G. Tolley and Vintage Books John Felstiner Creative and Performing Arts Edward J. Tomey and Maich Gardner Andy’s Summer Playhouse for Phi Beta Studio Barbara Trachtenberg Lisa Dickler Awano Gift in memory of Bettye Harmon Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Marion Tratnyek Debra and Dan Blore and Mrs. Paula P. Hoyt for Pan’s Cottage Guy Trebay Bose Corporation The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts Sorosis, Inc. for Sorosis Studio Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Eleanor Briggs of Oklahoma City Nan Tull Bubby’s Pie Company WRITERS’ AID Dr. Robert Turner, C.M. David Chicane Gift in memory of Andrew Nadelson Anonymous Anne D. Twitchell Martin Connolly Nadelson/Crist Charitable Foundation Matthew Crews / Ride 365 Roslye and Lloyd Ultan† in honor RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES of T.J. and Lois Anderson Crotched Mountain Golf Club Gift in memory of David Putnam Amy Beach Elsie P. van Buren Tom and Ellen Draper Larry Siegel Cathrine Boettcher Felding Ms. Susan M. Veron Jeanne Duval Louise Talma Carolyn R. Vogel Eastern Mountain Sports Gifts in memory of Jody Riehl Charles Cadman Wakefield Patricia Volk Lucio Gregoretti B. DuLong Lou Winans Mineral Rights Elizabeth Wakeman in honor Kit Henry Pi Alpha Theta Chapter, Phi Beta of David Wristen Holly Macy of Boughs of Holly Fraternity: National Professional Judith W. Walcott Teresa Imhoff Association for the Creative and Stewart Wallace and Dianne Festa James Lapine Performing Arts We have made every effort to assure Lindsay Walt Andrea Larson that this list is accurate and complete. Marjorie and Russell Ward Monica Lehner Gifts in memory of Arlene Zallman We apologize for any errors. Please Mr. Robert Ward Polly Mellin Kathleen M. Adams let us know of any oversight. Marian J. Ware Microsoft Don and Ronna Honigman Peggy Waterhouse Mollie Miller Judith W. Walcott Barbara H. Watson Joanna Eldredge Morrissey Toby Zallman and Lanny Silverman Dan Welcher New Hampshire Benefit Committee Mac Wellman Stephanie Olmsted Gift in memory of Earl Zindars Peter† and Andrea Wensberg Opera Boston Mrs. Anna Zindars Colony Fellows listed in bold Anne G. Wesson P.J. O’Rourke * matching gift † deceased

34 The financial picture for MacDowell continues to be very sound as the Colony MESSAGE enters its Centennial year.

FROM THE Net assets reached $36.9 million, a record high. Development efforts generated $1.3 million. Campaign and Centennial fundraising raised another $1.8 million, TREASURER bringing the total support and revenue to $3.1 million for the year. Operating Expenses were $2.9 million, with 83% going to Program Services and Administration.

MacDowell’s Endowment was $29.7 million at year end. Investment return was $6.4 million for the year.

During Fiscal Year 2007, the Colony served the artists’ community by providing residencies to 254 individuals for a total of 8,230 days.

A copy of the audited financial statements, which include the unqualified opinion of Melanson Heath and Company, PC, may be obtained by writing to: The MacDowell Colony, 163 East 81st Street, New York, NY 10028.

SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR FISCAL YEARS ENDING MARCH 31, 2007 & 2006 Gerald J. Gartner 2007 2006 Treasurer Number of artists-in-residence 254 238 Total number of artists days 8,230 8,031

Investments at Fair Value $ 29,657,876 $ 24,240,827 Total Assets 35,981,660 30,071,485 Total Liabilities 89,214 65,898 Total Net Assets 35,892,446 30,005,587 Total Support & Revenue 3,126,064 4,645,394 FY07 SOURCES OF SUPPORT & REVENUE Total Expenses 3,636,200 2,907,164 Change Before Investment Return (510,136) 1,738,230 CONTRIBUTIONS Net Investment Return 6,396,995 2,964,489 Individuals $ 248,349 9% Increase in Net Assets $ 5,886,859 $ 4,702,719 Corporations 0 0% Government 35,000 1% Foundations 236,548 8% Bequests 348,389 12% Events 407,490 14% Subtotal 1,275,776 44% FY07 EXPENSES Administration ADMISSIONS, ROYALTIES & OTHER26% 70,262 3% PROGRAM $ 1,645,114 57% Program ADMINISTRATION 754,510 26% TRANSFER FROM57% UNRESTRICTEDDevelopment FUNDS DEVELOPMENT 478,127 17% TO FUND OPERATING DEFICIT17% 1,531,713 53% OPERATING EXPENSES subtotal 2,877,751 100% OPERATING INCOME subtotal 2,877,751 100%

CENTENNIAL 542,892 CENTENNIAL 272,479 CAMPAIGN 215,557 CAMPAIGN 1,507,547

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 3,636,200 TOTAL SUPPORT & REVENUE $ 3,126,064

Administration Operating 26% OPERATING Revenue OPERATING Program Endowment 47% 57% Development EXPENSES Transfer INCOME 17% 53%

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E BOARD OF DIRECTORS as of June 2007 Jane Alexander Elizabeth Hardwick Amy Baker Sandback Robert MacNeil Susan Davenport Austin John A. Hargraves Alvin Singleton Chairman David Baum Lawrence Harris Susan Sollins-Brown Robert Beaser David W. Heleniak Martha Southgate Carter Wiseman Varujan Boghosian Dan Hurlin Charles F. Stone III President Eleanor Briggs Julia Jacquette Robert Storr Barbara K. Bristol Jytte Jensen Martha Southgate William N. Banks Ken Burns Verlyn Klinkenborg Ilse Traulsen Drue Heinz Peter Cameron Carol Krinsky Jamie Trowbridge Evelyn Stefansson Nef Mary Carswell Monica Lehner Mac Wellman Vice Chairmen Anne Cox Chambers Tania León Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Fred Clarke Louise Eastman Loening Gerald J. Gartner Alexander Cortesi Scott Manning Mrs. David F. Putnam Treasurer Nicholas Dawidoff Mira Nair Director Emerita David Del Tredici George M. Nicholson Helen S. Tucker Ruth M. Feder Richard Oldenburg The MacDowell Colony thanks the Secretary Mrs. Nicholas L.D. Firth Robert M. Olmsted following director who retired from Mrs. Robert Forbes Olivia Parker our board during 2006–2007: Cheryl A. Young David V. Foster Thomas P. Putnam Dan Froot Assistant Secretary Vallejo Ganter Peter C. Read Mary Garland Leslie E. Robertson and sadly notes the passing of Vartan Gregorian Jeff L. Rosenheim Benny Andrews and Peter Wensberg

STAFF as of June 2007 CENTENNIAL (NY) VOLUNTEERS Sue Kretchman Cheryl A. Young Anne Stark Library Interns (NH) Tammy Lenski Executive Director Centennial Project Manager Michael Cahoon Paul Lucas Tabitha Luca Melanie MacDonald David Macy Sara MacDonald HOUSEKEEPING Interns (NY) Resident Director Deborah Marsh Tim McMahon Kavie Barnes House Manager Anne Pelletier Aleza Zimmerman ADMINISTRATION Cheryl Carlson Terry Reeves Michelle Aldredge Housekeeper Special thanks to: Carolyn Saari Office & Fellows’ Services Assistant Julie McAdoo Ricardo Baretto Maude Salinger Courtney Bethel Housekeeper Alex Belser Erin Sweeney Admissions Director Winnie McCormack Claudia Bissett Paul Tuller Jody Garnick Housekeeper Jack Burnett The MacDowell Colony thanks Information Systems Coordinator Mary Cramb Michael Cahoon these departing staff members Barbara Harlow Seasonal Housekeeper Lynne Campbell for their work: Resident Director’s Assistant Blake Tewksbury Peter Carlson Rachael Garceau Brooke Hubner Fellows’ Services Coordinator Jeannie Connolly Paul Hertneky Office Assistant Bea Corriveau Nancy Nelson Alex Inglis KITCHEN Chris Cooke Jason Ng Human Resources & Finance Assistant Scott Tyle Lynn Compton Rob Panish Karen Keenan Chef Swift Corwin Ian Wolfson Admissions Assistant Maryel Chabot Jennifer Dark Tammy Lester Cook Tim Donovan Assistant Financial Administrator Andrea Larson Lauren Faria Colette Lucas Cook & Kitchen Assistant Charles Farinella EDITOR Librarian & Admissions Assistant Susan Moody Kathy Farinella Jason Ng Kyle Oliver Cook Betsy Gordon Senior Program Administrator DESIGNER Samantha Rule Mike Gordon Lisa Dahl Judy Jones Parker, CPA Cook Lori Groleau Financial Administrator Ashley Silverman Dennis Hahn PRINTER Teresa Steer Cook & Kitchen Assistant Gisele Hebert Puritan Press Photo Archive Assistant Devon Hubner Amy McLaughlin Kitchen Assistants: Koren Jones PHOTOGRAPHER Unless otherwise noted, Executive Assistant (NY) Emily Callahan Carter Judkins all photography by Justin Sowa Anastasia Dubrovina Andrea Kierstead Office Assistant (NY) Liam Holding Joanna Eldredge Morrissey Sam Thompson Lila Trowbridge COMMUNICATIONS GENERAL INFORMATION Brendan Tapley Galen Kerrick Communications Director Seasonal Kitchen Assistant Detailed information about admissions or any other aspect of the Colony’s work Karen Sampson may be obtained by addressing inquiries to: Communications Associate MAINTENANCE John Sieswerda The MacDowell Colony The MacDowell Colony is a member of DEVELOPMENT (NY) Maintenance Foreman the Alliance of Artists Communities, a Wendy Belser 100 High Street Jamie Sargent nationwide consortium and professional Director of Development Peterborough, NH 03458 Assistant to the Foreman organization for the field, and Res Artis, a Emily Katzif 603-924-3886 tel Terry LaRock 603-924-9142 fax worldwide network of artist residencies. Development Associate Maintenance Staff Maureen McMahon Emily Drury 163 East 81st Street Development Assistant Gardener New York, NY 10028 Elena Quevedo James Dunholter 212-535-9690 tel www.artistcommunities.org Development Associate Seasonal Maintenance Staff 212-737-3803 fax Adria Santo Assistant Director of Development [email protected] [email protected] www.macdowellcolony.org www.resartis.org

36 Playwright Brighde Mullins in Monday Music Studio. Photo by Victoria Sambunaris.

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The MacDowell Colony relies on gifts to operate and gratefully accepts contributions, including donations of cash, property (such as securities and real estate), and gifts-in-kind from individuals, foundations, and corporations. Gifts may be unrestricted for the general operating support of the Colony or designated by the donor for a specific purpose, such as a studio endowment or a fellowship. TAX STATUS Unique naming opportunities are available for studios, rooms, special equipment, The MacDowell Colony is a landscaping elements, and endowment funds. 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation founded in 1907 under the laws of Throughout its history, the Colony has benefited from legacies of assets, including the State of New York “to promote cash bequests, stocks, real estate, the rights to and royalties from works of art, the arts.” and useful items such as books, equipment, and furnishings. The Marian MacDowell The Internal Revenue Service has Society has been established to honor the many Colony Fellows, friends, and certified that The MacDowell supporters who have chosen to remember MacDowell in their wills. Your bequest Colony is not a private foundation, to The MacDowell Colony will help to guarantee that future generations of artists as defined in Section 509(a) of the can continue to make lasting works of the imagination in an ideal place. Internal Revenue Code as revised in 1969, and the Colony is an Please consider expressing your commitment to MacDowell through an annual gift, organization described in Code Section 509(a)(2). Consequently, bequest, or planned gift. To discuss the ways in which your gift will help creative all gifts and bequests to the artists and to learn about possible significant tax savings of planned giving, please Colony are fully deductible to call Director of Development Wendy Belser at 212-535-9690. We would be pleased the extent provided by law for to assist you and your legal or tax advisors. income and estate tax purposes. The MacDowell Colony NON-PROFIT ORG. 100 High Street Peterborough, NH 03458-2485 U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 PETERBOROUGH, NH