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ANNUAL REPORT April, 2007 through March, 2008 THE The MacDowell Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring MISSION works of the imagination.

The Colony was founded in 1907 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, New Hampshire, the Colony offers 32 studios to artists in seven disciplines. MacDowell 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 the Colony 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 Fellows work at the Colony each year from all parts of the and abroad. Anyone may apply. The sole criterion for acceptance is talent as judged by a juried committee in the applicant’s discipline. A Fellowship 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 is no fee. The Colony encourages artists from all backgrounds to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, handicap, sex, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or national origin.

To continue to provide an ideal working environment for gifted artists, The MacDowell Colony depends on public interest and generosity and is grateful to the many who have given their support. Writer Joe Fox working in Sorosis Studio.

“MacDowell has always been a blessing to my work, but this time it actually saved the life of my book. I was lost when I got here, now I’m found. The amazing grace of MacDowell!”

– Michael Chabon, writer

Colony Fellow names throughout the report are listed in bold. Covers (front and back): Colony Fellow Centennial Reunion Picnic in New York’s Central Park. Photos by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey and Steve Tucker. MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

The past year has been glorious for MacDowell. The burst of national publicity attending our Centennial celebrations has already produced a 16 percent increase in applications for Fellowships. Competition for places may thus become a little fiercer, but the board and staff are determined that the unique MacDowell experience will not be diluted.

Colony Hall has been restructured, moving the offices upstairs to create more social space for Colonists, and a shining new kitchen has been installed. We continue to push ahead with our efforts to find the money to enlarge Savidge Library, to build a new studio for interdisciplinary arts, and to establish stipends that will permit artists in financial need to come here. All of these are fitting projects with which to crown our first century and launch us into the second.

And that century has begun with a ringing endorsement of the public importance of the arts. In March, the New Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed the Colony’s tax-exempt status, adding: “By fostering creation of the arts, MacDowell serves a charitable purpose for the benefit of the general public.”

In 2004, the Rand Corporation concluded after a major study: “As late as the 1960s and 1970s, the value of the arts was still a given for the American public. By the 1990s, however, the social and political pressures that culminated in what became known as the ‘culture wars’ put pressure on arts advocates to articulate the public value of the arts.”

Perhaps that tide, political and cultural, has begun to turn.

Robert MacNeil Chairman REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

It feels so good to be 101. As we turn the page on our Centennial celebration, MacDowell is as vibrant as the 240 creative artists whose latest work is described in this report. They came from all over the United States and abroad to make the best use of their talents in a place free of distractions. We offer them a rare opportunity: the complete freedom to actually accomplish what they set out to do.

In this annual report, we chart the Centennial year that took much of our attention. The entire staff and board of directors, multitudes of Colony Fellows, and countless volunteers enthusiastically devoted their energy to making 2007 an extraordinary success. We invite you to read the Centennial section in the following pages that shares some of the highlights.

Of course, art making and merrymaking were not the only activities. Leading up to 2007, three plant projects were successfully initiated and completed, coinciding symbolically with the Centennial: the restored Log Cabin, Edward’s original studio, built in 1898 for him by Mrs. MacDowell; Schelling Studio, the first official studio built in 1907, was entirely renovated, including replacement of its extraordinary bark siding; and finally, the largest project — a magnificent and thorough renovation of Colony Hall. In two phases this much-loved building used by all the artists-in-residence and housing the administrative offices in Peterborough was given a top-to-bottom overhaul. A new maintenance shop with three garage bays now provides better working space for the devoted crew that cares for the 40 buildings on the property. Bruss Construction and Tim Groesbeck Builders beautifully realized the designs by O’Neil Pennoyer Architects working under the careful management of Resident Director David Macy.

MacDowell engenders passion not only in its artists but also in its supporters, including an incredibly active board of directors. This fiscal year saw many committees working to make progress in several key institutional areas. Our annual financial planning meeting gave us a very clear understanding of our needs and the resources required to sustain the Colony. Our Campaign for the Second Century is taking off with outstandingly generous gifts, some of which have already been put to work with projects like Colony Hall and the establishment of the Leon Levy Grants, which allow us to expand financial aid to all artists in need. We have many exciting things we would like to do, and you will be hearing about them as we take the campaign into the public phase.

In 2004, we reported in these pages that as a result of the discipline-specific review we conduct each year to assess our program, the Admissions Committee set the goal of attracting more playwrights to the Colony. We established a separate panel process for theatre and began to build awareness of the opportunity within the theatre community. This year an all-time high of 26 playwrights were awarded Fellowships.

MacDowell’s admissions panels have the daunting task of identifying the most promising artists from a field of applicants that has steadily grown. As a country we should be proud that the number of practicing artists and the level of their training has reached unprecedented levels. Fortunately, to meet the demand, the

2 number of residency opportunities both here and abroad has grown from a couple dozen programs to literally hundreds. We are proud to be engaged in discussions with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alliance of Artists Communities about how best to fulfill the needs of those who are making such important contributions to culture. If we can help artists reach their potential, then everyone benefits. The New Hampshire Supreme Court case regarding our charitable status and property tax exemption, which began in 2005 and resulted this spring in that status being upheld, has given us greater visibility on the national stage, and the Colony will continue to work alone and with other organizations to advocate for artists as contributors to society.

This report comes with acknowledgement of the fine work by David Macy, who manages the day-to-day operations of the residency program, community outreach, and more; and Wendy Belser, director of development, who, with her team, ensures that we have the resources we rely upon. Earlier this year, Wendy developed a long-range strategy designed to broaden and deepen our support base. In a reorganization of the Development office, Elena Quevedo was promoted to director of special events and is working with two terrific volunteer committees on the national benefit in New York and the New Hampshire benefit. She has also been focusing on Medal Day underwriting as well as coordinating Colony Fellow events to introduce new supporters to the Colony.

Because the Centennial required additional efforts, all members of the staff — in Admissions, Housekeeping, Maintenance, Development, the Kitchen, Finance, Communications, and both New York and New Hampshire administrations — deserve recognition for the above-and-beyond work done this year. Their ongoing thoughtfulness and dedication help make MacDowell a seamless and effective organization.

This year marks a transition in leadership of the national benefit held in New York. The incomparable team of Helen Tucker and Ruth Feder handed the reins to Stephanie and Bob Olmsted after an extraordinary run of 18 years as cochairs of this annual event. All four are working with gusto on this year’s benefit, which will be held on December 2nd at 7 World Trade Center, building on the extraordinary success of last year’s gala at Roseland.

Giving generously does not only occur at our fundraising events; MacDowell artists also donate so that others may follow in their footsteps. Many remember the Colony through bequests that sustain and increase what we do. Ted Berkman, Jane Cooper, Vail P. and Gardner Read, and Susannah McCorkle all remembered MacDowell in their wills. Charlotte Loeb also left a legacy.

We note the passing of beloved board members Benny Andrews and Elizabeth Hardwick. We welcome new board members Pamela Joyner, Paul Moravec, and Andy Senchak; and thank composer David Del Tredici, who has generously served since 1979. Jane Alexander retired from the board after 10 years of extraordinary service. There are many ways in which Jane has helped MacDowell, not the least of which was encouraging the board to drop voluntary fees for artists. Not only did this relieve struggling artists who may have felt pressure to contribute, but it stimulated the board to raise more funds to remove financial barriers. We are so grateful to all these individuals for their help.

While the cast continues to evolve, the essentials remain unchanged. Today, as it was 101 years ago when the first picnic lunch was dropped on the stoop of Schelling (then Bark) Studio, the organization is infused with a culture of generosity and a deep respect for artists and their work.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to sharing the fruits of this year’s work.

Carter Wiseman Cheryl A. Young President Executive Director

3 THE MACDOWELL COLONY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

Last year, MacDowell began honoring its 100-year legacy with events held by Colony Fellows and cultural partners. MacDowell published a beautiful, commemorative book entitled A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony 1907–2007; joined the Library of Congress to launch an exhibit on the Colony, which opened the MacDowell archive for the first time; and shared the spotlight at the Kennedy Center’s Nancy Hanks Lecture in Washington, D.C., where Chairman Robert MacNeil addressed the issue of artistic freedom. Locally, MacDowell launched Peterborough Projects, a series of eight artistic commissions devoted to bringing art experiences into the Monadnock community; premiered a commissioned film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, along with a traveling series of films by MacDowell artists; presented a very special Medal Day weekend to more than 2,000 guests; and held a reunion of Colony Fellows in Central Park. What follows are these and the other Centennial events that rounded out what was a stellar year and a once- in-a-lifetime experience.

The Colony is grateful to the guiding vision of its Centennial Steering Committee, chaired by Tom Putnam, along with Julia Jacquette, Amy Baker Sandback, Jamie Trowbridge, and Cheryl Young. We are also grateful to Centennial Project Manager Anne Stark, who so ably oversaw this effort, and Lucy Sexton, who assisted with the Central Park Reunion and the Centennial gala. STEVE TUCKER STEVE

Top left: Centennial Project Manager Anne Stark and Centennial Steering Committee Chairman Tom Putnam. Below left: Former AAC Director Deborah Obalil, Cheryl Young, and the NEA’s Dana Gioia and Mario Garcia Durham at a National Press Club Forum in Washington, D.C. Above: Filmmakers David Petersen, Elisabeth Subrin, and George Griffin with MacDowell Chairman Robert MacNeil, MoMA film curator Jyette Jensen, and producers Mike Sullivan and David Sit at the premiere of Seasons of MacDowell.

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Left: Pat Oleszko with her sculpture Angel Fool Cake (Lighter than Air); Right: Colony Fellows Jeanine Herman, Paul LaFarge, and John Haskell at the Fellows Reunion Picnic in Central Park. | national centennial events THE STUDIO SYSTEM RECONSIDERED CELEBRATING 100 YEARS, 10,000 RESIDENCIES, A sold-out crowd was on hand at New York’s Museum 1,000,000 GREAT IDEAS of Modern Art for the debut of Seasons of MacDowell, Colony Fellows turned out with enthusiasm on Saturday, a quartet of films that peered behind the residency September 29th for the first ever Colony Fellows experience to understand the power of creativity. Reunion Picnic. The event, conceived and organized Chairman Robert MacNeil, along with MoMA film curator by Colony Fellows and staff, attracted more than 300 Jytte Jensen, hosted the evening, paying tribute to the artists to the Great Hill in New York’s Central Park, Colony filmmakers — Michael Almereyda, George Griffin, where everyone enjoyed open-air performances David Petersen, and Elisabeth Subrin — as well as and signed a special Centennial tombstone. Fellows producer Mike Sullivan of PBS’s Frontline. brought cupcakes, which were artfully assembled into the number 100 and then eaten. To commemorate the Seasons of MacDowell headlined the MacDowell-MoMA event, Colony Fellow Julia Jacquette designed an traveling series “Filmmakers at MacDowell: The Studio original Reunion Picnic bandanna, which was given System Reconsidered.” The series, made up of films by to each artist in attendance. more than 20 MacDowell filmmakers, screened around the country throughout 2007 at such venues as the A LEADERSHIP FORUM ON THE Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis; The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; The Wexner Center; and CROSS-SECTOR VALUE OF CREATIVITY around MacDowell’s home state of New Hampshire. MacDowell and the Alliance of Artists Communities joined with Americans for the Arts and the Sundance The filmmakers included in the series were: Preserve on Wednesday, November 7th, to host a Jane Aaron, Louise Bourque, Abigail Child, Maxi cross-disciplinary leadership discussion on arts policies Cohen, Joe Gibbons, Neil Goldberg, Meredith Holch, viewed as critical to the advancement of American Joel Katz, Aviva Kempner, Ken Kobland, Kakyoung society at large. The Forum, held at the National Lee, Jeanne Liotta, Anne Makepeace, Joshua Press Club in Washington, D.C., followed a luncheon, Marston, Mitch McCabe, Bill Morrison, Jacki Ochs, also planned by MacDowell and the Alliance, at which Benita Raphan, Chris Schiavo, Fern Seiden, Stacey Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for Steers, Cindy Stillwell, and Michael Wilson. the Arts, spoke of the impact of artist residencies on the nation’s cultural life and announced a program to increase the NEA’s support for creative communities.

1908: Edward MacDowell dies at 1916: Sprague-Smith Studio is the age of 46 on January 23rd, funded by 31 of Isabella D. surrounded by family at the Sprague-Smith’s pupils. Westminster Hotel in New York.

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Clockwise from top left: Isaiah Wilson, Angela Brown, and Helen Bing; Rachel Weisz reading Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones; The Roseland Ballroom; Ken Burns with Cheryl Young; Bob and Stephanie Olmsted; gala chairs Ruth Feder (left), Tom Putnam, and Helen Tucker.

WELCOMING THE SECOND CENTURY MacDowell’s yearlong celebration of creativity crossed MacNeil, Calvin Trillin, and Robert Klein. A toast was its finish line in style on December 3, 2007. Drawing a made to gala chairs Ruth Feder, Tom Putnam, and Helen record crowd and raising more than $875,000 for the Tucker. The formal program finished with an onstage Colony, the fête that sung in both a new year and a salute to those MacDowell Fellows in attendance, before new century had been many years in the making. In the hard work of a historic year could be danced away the cavernous darkness of New York’s famed to the sounds of Vincent Giordano and the Nighthawks. Roseland Ballroom, MacDowell’s vibrancy was fully displayed. In the spirit of the Colony, the work and The MacDowell Colony would like to thank honorary voices were diverse and yet united, capturing the chairmen Jane Alexander, Roger Berlind, Barbara Cook, legacy of a place that has supported, inspired, and Blythe Danner, David Heleniak, Kevin Kline, Robert McDuffie, energized more than 6,000 artists worldwide. The and Sherie Rene Scott; Centennial visionaries Helen and stage featured the contemporary and the timeless, Peter Bing, and Robert and Stephanie Olmsted; and and even the timeless in the contemporary: a reading Centennial stars Louise Eastman, Ruth and Arthur Feder, from Alice Sebold’s best-seller The Lovely Bones by Brandon Fradd, Drue Heinz, David and Kathryn Moore Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz, who will star in the film Heleniak, Thomas and Barbara Putnam, Rick and Terry adaptation; an introduction by Nobel laureate Toni Stone, and Helen Tucker; as well as all the generous Morrison before a riveting performance by soprano supporters of the 2007 Centennial gala. We greatly Angela Brown from the opera Margaret Garner, appreciate the participation of our corporate supporters Morrison’s musical collaboration with Colony Fellow Harcourt Trade Publishers and Random House, Inc. and composer Richard Danielpour; a monologue from Spalding Gray’s Monster in a Box by actress A very special thanks goes to the gala chairs Ruth Feder, Elaine Strich; a dance choreographed especially for Thomas Putnam, and Helen Tucker for making the Centennial the gala by Ballet Master-in-Chief gala a most successful event. MacDowell is also very Peter Martins and set to the music of Leonard grateful to Colony Fellows Chris Doyle, Robert Flynt, Bernstein’s West Side Story; a musical performance

| national centennial events Eric Novak, Laurie Olinder, Sarah Provost, and Karina by Robert McDuffie of ’s Hoedown; Skvirsky for working on the set and projection design and on and the Youth Chorus singing an excerpt installations placed throughout Roseland; and to Tom from ’s Mass; among other projects Nussbaum, Joanna Priestley, Stacey Steers, and Steve worked on at MacDowell. These were punctuated by Subotnick, who designed and created commemorative witty reminiscences from MacDowell Chairman Robert flip books for MacDowell guests.

1921: New Jersey Studio, a gift from the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs, is completed. Composer and playwright Suzan Lori-Parks are two of the many artists who will work in the studio.

6 JANUARY 21: Brickbottom Gallery M ACDOWELL SELECTED SHORTS Salutes MacDowell Artists ...... Boston, MA AT SYMPHONY SPACE MARCH 10: The Library of Congress Women Composers from the Colony . . . . Washington, D.C. On December 12th, Symphony Space, one of the most innovative cultural venues in New APRIL 14: Columbia’s Miller Theatre York, participated in the Colony’s celebration Pocket Concertos by of creativity by presenting a MacDowell MacDowell Composers ...... New York, NY Selected Shorts evening. Under the artistic MAY 16: Poetry Society of America direction of Symphony Space’s Isaiah Sheffer, A Tribute to MacDowell Poets ...... New York, NY the program featured well-known MacDowell writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Minot, MAY 28–30: Spoleto Festival and Monique Truong, each of whom selected Programs for the MacDowell Centennial . . . Charleston, SC an emerging MacDowell writer to read from JUNE 29–30: Mohawk Trails Concerts his or her work. These authors were David A MacDowell Colony Concert Tribute . . . . Charlemont, MA Bezmozgis, Julie Orringer, and Frances Hwang. As with other Selected Shorts events JULY 14: The Kennedy Center Sacred Ground: A Centennial Tribute at Symphony Space, this performance was to The MacDowell Colony ...... Washington, D.C. recorded by WNYC and broadcast over NPR stations across the country. AUGUST 24– Fort Point Art Gallery SEPTEMBER 28: Time and Space: Seven Fort Point Fellows on the 100th Anniversary of The MacDowell Colony ...... Boston, MA ADDITIONAL CENTENNIAL EVENTS OCTOBER Opera Boston 19–23: Premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar . . Boston, MA In addition to MacDowell events, the Colony also partnered with national cultural organizations NOVEMBER 9: Choral Arts Society throughout the year to celebrate the Centennial. Fall Concert by MacDowell Fellows . . . . . Washington, D.C. To the right is a selection: NOVEMBER 18: Musica Viva, All Souls Church Choral Works by Edward MacDowell . . . . New York, NY NOVEMBER 27: Los Angeles Public Library Readings by MacDowell Fellows ...... Los Angeles, CA

1924: An as-yet-unpublished experiences his first MacDowell residency at the age of 27. In subsequent visits he will work on three projects that will earn him Pulitzer Prizes in 1928, 1938, and 1943, respectively: The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, and The Skin of Our Teeth.

7 Colony Fellow Martha Southgate’s Landlines presentation.

MEDAL DAY & LANDLINES This year, Medal Day was more than a day; it was, And, of course, no one forgot the cake! Or, rather, cakes. thanks to the occasion of the Colony’s Centennial, One hundred individual cakes were quilted together to a weekend of unforgettable moments. form a confection of Centennial proportions. For all who had worked up an appetite from chatting on the phones, Beginning on Friday, August 11th, the Colony kicked off the MacDowell gateaux awaited in the amphitheatre. the weekend underneath bright stars and inside a warmly With the storied view of Mount Monadnock as its illuminated and oversized tent (capacity 2,000 people). backdrop, the night became even sweeter.

| new hampshire centennial events The dinner, toasts, and reunion of many who had come to partake in the festivities were followed by Sunday — Medal Day proper — the phones rang again, Saturday’s twilight performance, the first stage of but not before more than 2,000 visitors enjoyed a Landlines, an installation created by Anna Schuleit moving tribute to documentary filmmaker and and a group of more than 200 volunteers. Landlines, Medalist Les Blank. a year in the making, had been designed to “violate MacDowell’s trademark privacy in order to bridge the inside to the outside, to lift the boundaries between the Colony’s walls and those beyond.” On a stage set before darkening pines and lit by spotlights and two screens casting imagery, Landlines began first with a performance by 10 teams of artists and students who had worked to capture each decade of MacDowell’s 100 years. Each discipline was represented through the work of past Colony Fellows and those of potential new ones. The students sang, performed puppetry, created a suspense film, danced, and improvised on saxophone. All of this was capped off by an excursion into the MacDowell woodland, where 100 telephones hooked up by thousands of feet of cable rang, linking the vast MacDowell network around the world with the place it all began.

Centennial cakes at the MacDowell amphitheatre.

1927: Effort is centered on completing the Eugene Coleman Savidge Memorial Library, a stone structure with shelf space for 5,000 volumes. The structure features a pillared portico, a broad terrace, and a walled garden plot.

8 THE EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL First given in 1960, the Edward MacDowell Medal is a national award presented annually to an artist for outstanding contribution to the arts. The artistic discipline in which the award is given rotates in order to celebrate all the creative fields practiced at the Colony. The Centennial year honored filmmaking. Chosen by a distinguished panel — including directors Ken Burns, Taylor Hackford, Spike Jonze, Mira Nair, and Steven Soderbergh, along with artist Anna Deavere Smith and Telluride Film Festival Co-Director Tom Luddy — Les Blank was introduced with warm remarks by equally famed filmmaker Fred Wiseman. Both their speeches took on an even greater significance this Centennial year, and afterward, the Colony’s yearlong theme of giving artists “freedom to create” could be seen in every studio opened to the public.

Medalist Les Blank with visitors after the 2007 Medal Day ceremony. | new hampshire centennial events “Les is a skilled, adventurous, MEDAL WINNERS compassionate independent filmmaker. I admire his talent 2007 Les Blank 1983 2006 Alice Munro 1982 and his perseverance. It is not easy 2005 1981 to reach his level of achievement 2004 1980 and accomplishment.” 2003 1979 2002 1978 – filmmaker and Medalist presentation speaker 2001 1977 Virgil Thomson Fred Wiseman 2000 Lou Harrison 1976 1999 1975 1998 I. M. Pei 1974 1997 1973 1996 1972 Georgia O’Keeffe 1995 George Crumb 1971 1994 1970 1993 Harry Callahan 1969 1992 1968 Roger Sessions 1991 1967 Marianne Moore 1990 1966 Edward Hopper 1989 Stan Brakhage 1965 Edgard Varese 1988 1964 Edmund Wilson 1987 Leonard Bernstein 1963 Alexander Calder 1986 1962 Robert Frost 1985 1961 Aaron Copland 1984 Mary McCarthy 1960 Thornton Wilder Presentation speaker and filmmaker Fred Wiseman with Colony Fellow filmmakers Julia Reichert (center) and Anne Makepeace.

1940: The 5-cent Edward 1950: Composer Louise MacDowell stamp is issued Talma spends her fifth on May 13th as part of the residency working Famous Americans stamp series. in MacDowell’s The Post Office receives orders Phi Beta studio. for 70,000 stamps. 9 PETERBOROUGH PROJECTS As part of its yearlong Centennial celebration, In JUNE, painter Peter Edlund installed his MacDowell unveiled a series of artistic commissions Butternut-Tree-In-Little-Summer-Place beneath involving its hometown. The aim of Peterborough the portico of the Peterborough Town Library. The Projects was to bring contemporary art experiences mural depicts the confluence of the Contoocook and into the community where the Colony was founded, Nubanusit Rivers in a stunning visual translation of engaging an array of local citizens in the artistic the native Algonquin names of these bodies of water. process. The following projects took shape and debuted during 2007: In JULY, photographer Bobby Neel Adams produced Family Tree, a photographic project that reinvents MARCH found Irish composer Elaine Agnew — in the conventional family portrait by focusing on the collaboration with students from local schools and intersections of rural families both genetically and residents of local retirement homes — premiering spiritually using imagery. It later opened at Sharon Seats of Stone, a 20-minute performance developed Arts Center Gallery. over a period of eight weeks of improvisation and workshops and inspired by Edward MacDowell’s In SEPTEMBER, Australian muralist Rodney Monk Woodland Sketches. created a vibrant new mural for the exterior of Peterborough’s Toadstool Bookshop. In APRIL, writer Christian McEwen presented It’s About Time, which involved local schoolchildren and In OCTOBER, interdisciplinary artist Nicolás Dumit their parents and grandparents. The participants in It’s Estévez arrived at the Colony with the express goal About Time researched local history and interviewed of meeting every resident of Peterborough as part of those who preceded them in the area to find out his conceptual art project titled Pleased to Meet You. about memory and times past. These stories and fantasies served as the catalyst for poems, essays, Also in OCTOBER, filmmaker Karen Aqua and composer invented maps, and oral histories. Ken Field offered a filmmaking workshop to students of Mountain Shadows school, out of which emerged At MAY’s MacDowell Downtown, filmmaker Sandro an animated film about place. del Rosario and composer Caroline Mallonée debuted the short film they created with three groups of local In DECEMBER, interdisciplinary artist Amy Jenkins students. A Peterborough Portrait enlisted the medium transformed the windows at the Peterborough of film and incorporated animation and recorded sound Historical Society into a parade of color and scene

| new hampshire centennial events in order to chronicle young people’s impressions of with her magical Water Windows installation. place and identity. Rodney Monk in front of his mural at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.

1954: Writer James Baldwin enjoys his first residency at MacDowell (he will return in 1957, 1958, and 1960). Baldwin worked on Giovanni’s Room and Notes of a Native Son during his residencies at the Colony. He once commented: “I would be very glad to be working at the Colony, which for many years now has lived in my mind as a refuge and a workshop and the place in which I most wanted to be when the time comes, as it perpetually does, to crouch in order to spring.” 10 COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Left to Right: Lewis Hyde at the Monadnock Summer Lyceum; Tricinium Poetry Contest and Concert at Peterborough Players; Peter Edlund and David Macy at the Peterborough Town Library installation of Edlund’s painting Butternut-Tree-In-Little-Summer-Place; Christian McEwen and local schoolchildren working on It’s About Time. | new hampshire centennial events In addition to all of the Centennial happenings sponsored by MacDowell locally, the statewide community also got into the act. Below is a list of events that were planned and supported by our New Hampshire partners during the Centennial year.

MAY 3: Seasons of MacDowell screening ...... The Howe Library, Hanover MAY 5: Spring Masterworks Concert: New Hampshire Philharmonic at From Beethoven to Bernstein ...... The Palace Theater, Manchester JUNE 8: Seasons of MacDowell screening ...... New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord JUNE 14: Seasons of MacDowell screening ...... Manchester City Library, Manchester JULY 10: A commission by Colony Fellow Lawrence Siegel . . Apple Hill Chamber Players, Sullivan JULY 21: Colony Fellow Elizabeth Brown composing for and playing the theremin ...... Monadnock Music, Peterborough AUGUST 5: Lecture on art and civility by Monadnock Summer Lyceum at the Colony Fellow Lewis Hyde ...... Unitarian Universalist Church, Peterborough AUGUST – Three plays by Colony Fellows: SEPTEMBER: The Long Christmas Dinner, by Thornton Wilder; A Doll House, adapted by Gus Kaikkonen; I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright ...... Peterborough Players, Peterborough SEPTEMBER 4 – Visual arts exhibition, In Residence: Artists and OCTOBER 14: The MacDowell Colony Experience; Seasons of MacDowell screening ...... Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene SEPTEMBER 10–21: MacDowell/MoMA Centennial film series ...... Franklin Pierce College, Rindge OCTOBER 4–6: Holiday Open House at Hillcrest to benefit the Peterborough Historical Society ...... The MacDowell Colony OCTOBER 14: Tricinium Poetry Contest and Concert featuring Colony Fellows Lawrence Siegel and Edie Clark, board member Tom Putnam, and Congressman Tricinium Poetry at the Peterborough Players, Paul Hodes’s wife, Peggo ...... Peterborough

OCTOBER 30 – Visual arts exhibition, In Residence: Artists and DECEMBER 17: The MacDowell Colony Experience; Seasons The Art Gallery at the University of of MacDowell screening ...... New Hampshire, Durham

1956: Marian MacDowell dies at the age of 98. During her last year, she composed more than 1,000 letters in the Colony’s interest. Marian is buried beside Edward in a simple ceremony. His music is played at her memorial service and readings of work done at the Colony are given. At the time of Marian’s death, the Colony holds an endowment of nearly $1 million. To accommodate a growing number of painters and sculptors, the remodeling of the barn and shop on the Hillcrest property begins. 11 THE FIFTH ANNUAL NEW HAMPSHIRE BENEFIT

On March 8, 2008, MacDowell’s New Hampshire supporters gathered at the Shattuck Golf Club in Jaffrey for the fifth annual New Hampshire benefit. Enthralled guests listened to Chris Wilcha’s experiences as the filmmaker for the acclaimed television series This American Life. The New Hampshire Benefit Committee, chaired by Sarah Garland-Hoch and Monica Lehner, organized the evening, which also included silent and live auctions.

Above: Guests of the New Hampshire benefit, held at the Shattuck Golf Club. Bottom left to right: Chris Wilcha; Jamie Trowbridge, Congressman Paul Hodes, and Sarah Garland-Hoch; Ira Glass (in video) and Chris Wilcha.

1961: Composer Aaron Copland is the second recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal. In his speech he says: “It is terribly important for a country like ours to prove to the world that it can create works of art. If we cannot create great works of music in this country, if we cannot set down in permanent form the inner core of our civilization, there is something wrong with America. We must convince the public that the creation of works of beauty 12 is one of the most important tasks of man.” ARTISTS The Colony continues to attract the highest caliber of professional artists in the country and abroad. More than 1,800 artists applied to MacDowell –IN– from April of 2007 to March of 2008; 240 received residencies, including four architects, 31 composers, 20 film and videomakers, 22 interdisciplinary RESIDENCE artists, 26 theatre artists, 45 visual artists, and 92 writers. They came from 31 states and 11 countries. The projects they worked on at MacDowell and their recent accomplishments are described here.

ARCHITECTS

Yanel de Angel Salas, Boston, MA, designed Ephemeral Architecture in Movement: Triumphal Carts for the Palio Race in Siena. She created carts using contemporary materials and tectonic resolutions. Her ongoing investigation will become an article for an architecture publication, and possibly an exhibition.

Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles, CA, completed his first two books: Sundown Salon 2001–2006, and Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, which will be released by Metropolis Books and DAP. Recent exhibitions include the Tate Modern in London and MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Collaborators James Lapine, theatre; Duncan Sheik, composer; and Steven Sater, librettist. Catherine Ingraham, Brooklyn, NY, worked on her third architecture book. She also Sidney Boquiren, New York, NY, finished Anthony Davis, San Diego, CA, worked on a revised several essays. She is the recent O-we yowa, a piano/voice piece; Winter, a music theatre piece, Shimmer, in collaboration recipient of a New York State Council on new solo piano work in three movements; with Michael Korie and Sarah Schulman. the Arts grant, and has recently published and Out of the Depths, a choral work for essays in the academic journal Futureanterior the Scandinavian group Voces Nordicae. David Dzubay, Bloomington, IN, composed and in Perspecta, a Yale School of He also recorded various artists reciting, a draft of his String Quartet No. 1 (Astral), Architecture publication. singing, and performing prayers, which he a work dedicated to the Orion quartet that will use as the foundation for the electronics will premiere in 2008–2009. He is a 2007 Joel Sanders, New York, NY, wrote an essay component of one of his projects. He Guggenheim fellow. titled “Making Sense: Space, Technology and recently received a faculty development the Body,” to be published in AD Interiors grant from Adelphi University. Ken Field, Cambridge, MA, collaborated Atmospheres. The article also formed the with animator Karen Aqua on a Peterborough basis for a keynote address for a conference Elizabeth Brown, Brooklyn, NY, began Project with the seventh-grade students at at Kingston University, London. Two projects working on a piece for baritone, theremin, Mountain Shadows School in Dublin. He also exploring related themes were exhibited at viola, and recorded sound. She also continued composed and arranged new music for the the Art Institute of Chicago and SFMoMA. work on a concerto. In December of 2008, modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the she will begin a residency in Japan funded Mesozoic, to be released on Cuneiform by the U.S./Japan Friendship Commission. Records in 2009. His commissioned score COMPOSERS for Bridgman/Packer Dance was released Sebastian Currier, New York, NY, worked on Innova Recordings in 2006. Clarice Assad, New York, NY, worked on a on a violin concerto for violinist Anne-Sophie commission for a piano piece to be performed Mutter called Time Machines. His piano Jennifer Griffith, New York, NY, wrote a at Town Hall in New York. She also researched concerto was premiered in 2007 at Miller song for baritone, Two-Part Invention, which sound/timbre and score study for a band Theatre in New York, and he was the 2007 is slated for performance at Weill Hall in New piece about the causes and effects of recipient of the Grawemeyer Award. York. She also worked on Who Is Miranda, global warming. an electro-acoustic piece to be released on a CD titled The Tempest Project in 2009.

1963: The United States Department of the Interior designates the Colony a Registered National Historic Landmark.

13 Robin Heifetz, Van Nuys, CA, completed Caroline Mallonée, Baltimore, MD, Bobby Previte, New York, NY, recorded five compositions, including Lullaby for collaborated with Sandro del Rosario on The a three-CD set of solo worked called Bad; MacDowell for piano. In 2008, his Duck Way Home, a film and soundscape created as put tracks down on a CD version of for Cover for bass clarinet is scheduled part of a Peterborough Project in celebration The Separation, his collaboration with for a premiere in Barcelona, Spain, and of MacDowell’s Centennial. In addition, Andrea Kleine; and continued work his CD Out of Kilter will be released by she also completed a set of art songs for with Kleine on Karaoke Remix, a duo Electroshock Records. American Opera Projects, and wrote most performance art project. of Nora the Nonapus, a children’s opera. Martha Horst, Bloomington, IL, completed David Rakowski, Maynard, MA, worked a song cycle for soprano and string trio, to Paul McKibbins, New York, NY, completed on a large piece for wind ensemble be premiered by Earplay in San Francisco. the revision of A Small Symphony, a commissioned by the Barlow Foundation. She recently won the Alea III International four-movement work commissioned by The piano concerto he worked on during Composition Competition. the Sound Shore Orchestra. Additionally, his last residency, commissioned by the he completed the orchestrations for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, premiered Mark Kilstofte, Greenville, SC, wrote the Maltby-Shire musical Take Flight. in 2007 with Boston Modern Orchestra short score of the orchestral opener 0 to 60, Project and soloist Marilyn Nonken. and completed Inner Voices, a work for Harold Meltzer, New York, NY, continued oboe commissioned for premiere at the work on Privacy, a piano concerto Andrew Rudin, Allentown, NJ, finished a International Double Reed Society Conference. commissioned by the Los Angeles piano concerto for performance at He was recently awarded commissions from Philharmonic New Music Group and pianist Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery. In 2009, the Fromm Foundation and the Prix Henri Ursula Oppens for premiere at Walt Disney his viola concerto will premiere with Orchestra Selmer-Paris. Concert Hall. He also revised Brion, a sextet 2001 at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. for the Cygnus Ensemble commissioned by Jerome Kitzke, New York, NY, composed the Barlow Endowment. Bert Seager, Boston, MA, wrote five new the first third of Winter Count for actor songs for jazz piano trio, all of which he will Jennifer Kathryn Marshall and the KRONOS Paul Moravec, New York, NY, worked on perform, record, and release on a new trio Quartet. Upcoming commissions include The Letter, an opera commissioned by Santa CD in 2008. His arrangement for five-piece works for Sarah Cahill, Anthony de Mare, Fe Opera; and a concerto commissioned by jazz ensemble, Requited — a cycle of 10 songs and Buffalo Nation for Present Music. In Orpheus Orchestra. His CDs include The written in collaboration with lyricist Anita 2008, Anthony de Mare and Gregory Oh Time Gallery and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Diamant — will also be released in 2008. will record his Sunflower Sutra, and Tempest Fantasy, both on Naxos American Zeitgeist will record In Bone-Colored Light. Classics. In 2007, he began an appointment Yevgeniy Sharlat, Austin, TX, began as the artist-in-residence at the Institute for and completed work on Piano Quartet, Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. commissioned by Astral Artistic Services. Andrius Zlabys, Wendy Warner, Pavel Koji Nakano, Boston, MA, finished rough Ilyashov, and Anton Jivaev premiered it drafts of three compositions for the Haru in 2008 in Philadelphia. His Pavane was Matsuri (Spring Festival) at the United recently played by the Seattle and Nations International School Theater in New Hartford Symphony Orchestras. York, where he is the composer-in-residence for 2008. Duncan Sheik, New York, NY, worked with James Lapine and Steven Sater on a new Lior Navok, Tel Aviv, Israel, worked on a production of a musical, The Nightingale, new work for guitar and electronics. He based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. also composed a new work for Cantata Singers in Boston. Alvin Singleton, Atlanta, GA, worked on Through It All, a composition for wind quintet Billy Newman, Brooklyn, NY, completed a to be premiered by Imani Winds at Spivey Alvin Singleton, composer set of choros, sambas, and baiaos for a tour Hall in Morrow, Georgia, in 2008. in the south of Brazil. He also completed a number of original jazz compositions for Matthew Van Brink, New York, NY, began a Barbara Kolb, Providence, RI, completed his quintet. new composition for orchestra, completed Chance Chants for saxophone quartet two sets of songs for children, and completed (written for the New Century Saxophone Tarik O’Regan, New York, NY, continued to two arrangements of Ravel’s Le Tombeau Quartet), as well as a new work for string work on his opera based on Joseph Conrad’s de Couperin, to be published by Schott. His quartet for the Flea Ensemble. Heart of Darkness, currently in development Shabu Shabu, a duet for flute and clarinet, with the Royal Opera House “Opera Genesis” will be published by Tenuto Publications. Hyekyung Lee, Columbus, OH, completed a program and American Opera Projects. He trio for violin, clarinet, and piano, to be also completed two compositions for a new Stewart Wallace, New York, NY, worked on premiered as part of Denison University’s CD, Scattered Rhymes, which is directed The Bonesetter’s Daughter, his opera with faculty recital series. She also started a by 2007 GRAMMY winner Paul Hillier. It Amy Tan based on her novel. The opera will piece for piano and electronics. In 2007, her will be released in 2008 on the Harmonia premiere at the San Francisco Opera in 2008. full orchestra piece Awakening was premiered Mundi label. by Denison University Orchestra.

1966: The seventh Edward MacDowell Medal is awarded in absentia to Edward Hopper, the renowned painter from the American Realism movement known for cityscapes such as Nighthawks.

14 “I’m crying as I leave because I don’t want to say good-bye. MacDowell, this experience here, is the ‘payment’ (and a wonderful one) for all the work I’ve dedicated myself to for many years. It feels like the most generous and personal gift I’ve ever received professionally.”

– Jennifer Reeves, filmmaker

Vicky Funari, Vallejo, CA, researched a Martin Moran, New York, NY, continued work documentary about the Youghiogheny and on a screenplay based upon his Obie Award- Ohio Rivers. The film will be an environmental winning play and memoir, The Tricky Part and folk history of the rivers, seen through (Beacon Press, 2005). He also began work on her own family’s history of westward a collection of essays titled After They Left. migration. Her film Maquilapolis, which aired on PBS in 2006, is currently in Kazuo Ohno, Brooklyn, NY, continued work distribution by California Newsreel. on two feature-length screenplays. He also storyboarded and prepped one feature-length Jennifer Reeves, filmmaker Sam Green, San Francisco, CA, worked on his movie that is scheduled to shoot in 2008. feature-length documentary, The Universal FILMMAKERS Language: Four Short Films About Utopia. David Petersen, Brooklyn, NY, completed a final draft of his screenplay Billy and Ignacio Alcantara, Santo Domingo, Laura Heit, Los Angeles, CA, began working Ray for production in 2008. He also Dominican Republic, started the storyboard on a new film that incorporates both live and worked on his forthcoming documentary, for a new animation structured as a portrait animated puppetry. Her last film, Look for Me, Play. His documentary Let the Church of his father, made mostly from pen drawings was commissioned by Channel 4 TV, London, Say Amen premiered at Sundance in based on family photographs. and has screened at festivals internationally. 2004 and was honored as one of the best documentaries of 2004 by the Academy Karen Aqua, Cambridge, MA, in collaboration Robin Hessman, Boston, MA, worked on Award nominating committee. with composer Ken Field and seventh-grade her documentary about the last generation students at Mountain Shadows School in of Soviet children to grow up behind the Iron Jennifer Reeves, New York, NY, completed Dublin, worked on a Peterborough Project, Curtain. The film, which is being supported a rough cut of her 16mm double-projection the short animated film In the Shadows of by the Ford Foundation and the ITVS film, When It Was Blue. She also conformed Monadnock. She also continued production International Fund, will premiere on PBS the negative of her film/music performance on her experimental film-in-progress, Twist in 2009 on Independent Lens. Light Work Mood Disorder for upcoming of Fate. Her most recent film, Sensorium, a exhibitions at The Wexner Center, the collaboration with Ken Field, had its New So Yong Kim, Brooklyn, NY, worked on editing Rooftop Films series, and a tour in Europe. England premiere at ICA Boston in 2007. her feature-length film, Treeless Mountain. In addition, she spent hours recording sounds on Colony property for use in her Sandro Del Rosario, Los Angeles, CA, was Luke Lamborn, New York, NY, continued current and future film soundtracks. engaged in a Peterborough Project related work on his video series Square Millimeter to the Centennial celebration of MacDowell, of Opportunity. He recently completed a Fern Seiden, Stockholm, Sweden, worked on which involved three groups of students from residency at Eyebeam in New York, and collage images, sketches, and composites for local schools and his collaborator, composer participated in the Artist in the Marketplace photographic collage prints, drawings, and Caroline Mallonée. Working with the concept program at the Bronx Museum. animation fused with documentary elements. of home and identity, they made a 20-minute Her work was featured in MacDowell’s animated video, The Way Home. Eva Lee, Ridgefield, CT, began a new digital Centennial traveling film series in 2007. animation that visualizes data by affective Corrie Francis, Lake Tahoe, CA, worked on neuroscientist Dr. James Coan, University Shelly Silver, New York, NY, completed a a series of animated visual poems working of Virginia. Their first collaboration, Discrete rough cut of her new film, Satisfaction, a primarily en plein air in the MacDowell Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions, a multi- feature-length documentary shot on the environment. Her most recent animated channel digital video installation also begun streets of New York due to be completed in documentary, Conversing with Aotearoa, at the Colony, premiered at Wadsworth 2008. She had retrospective screenings of premiered in 2006 at the Banff Mountain Atheneum Museum in 2007, and will be on her work in 2007 at the Biennial of the Film Festival, and is on tour in various exhibit at the DeCordova Museum in 2008. Moving Image in Geneva, Switzerland, and environmental and animation film festivals at Mar del Plata International Independent around the world. Film Festival in Argentina.

1967: Writer Alice Walker is in residence working on her first book, The Third Life of Grange Copeland. She returns to the Colony for another residency in 1974 to work on Meridian.

15 “Writing is a way to honor the world, and at the Colony you can get a little closer to the world.”

– Sarah Hammond, theatre

Wes Heiss, Allentown, PA, continued work on a computer animation project and experimented with a series of 2-D works on panel. His sculptural installation Husk was shown at the Sarah Lawrence Heimbold Visual Arts Center in 2007.

Cynthia Hopkins, Brooklyn, NY, continued Sarah Hammond, theatre work on the script and music for a new performance piece titled The Success of Failure (or The Failure of Success), scheduled Scott Stark, Austin, TX, completed a rough Nicolás Dumit Estévez, South Bronx, to premiere at the Walker Art Center in 2009. cut of his film Spatial Symmetry. He also NY, worked on his Peterborough Project Her previous work Must Don’t Whip ’Um, the began work on his Guggenheim-funded Pleased to Meet You, which involved him album for which will be released in 2008, 35mm film project, The Realist. He has meeting every person living in the town of toured the United States. She is the recipient recently shown work at the New York Film Peterborough by initiating a series of social of a 2007 Alpert Award in Theatre. Festival, as well as other national and exchanges. The documentation of this art-life international festivals. project consists of photographs that will be Misako Inaoka, San Francisco, CA, worked assembled on a Web site, a souvenir that on a series of small kinetic sculptures to Stacey Steers, Boulder, CO, continued work will be presented to the town by the artist. be shown at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San on handmade collages for her new animated Francisco. She also developed a site-specific film project, Bird at Home. Her last animation, Mary Flanagan, New York, NY, began installation that suggests the idea of artificial- Phantom Canyon (2006), screened at more development on three new series of natural hybrids and mutating nature. than 50 festivals worldwide, including interactive and game-related works. Sundance and New Directors/New Films in Her interactive sculpture [giant Joystick] Andrea Kleine, New York, NY, worked New York, and garnered both national and recently toured Spain, the United Kingdom, on her second novel, Throttle, and international awards. and the United States. collaborated with composer Bobby Previte on a performance project. Elisabeth Subrin, Brooklyn, NY, completed Tim Gaudreau, Portsmouth, NH, continued principal 16mm photography on Sweet Ruin, working on his long-term project, Don’t Brian Knep, Boston, MA, worked on Healing a film and video installation inspired by an Miss the Forest for the Trees, an interactive Pool, his largest installation to date, to be unmade Michelangelo Antonioni script. Her eco installation/game. He also wrote his shown at the Milwaukee Museum of Art in feature film Up, which she wrote during past Eco-Art Manifesto. In 2007, his installation 2008. His ongoing series Aging recently residencies at MacDowell, is in development Self-Portrait as Revealed by Trash: 365 won an AICA/New England Award and with Forensic Films and is set to star Rachel Days of Photographing Everything I Threw received funding from the LEF Foundation. Griffiths and Kal Penn. Out, was exhibited in San Francisco. He was recently filmed for a profile on HGTV. Beth Krebs, Brooklyn, NY, built an outdoor installation on the grounds of MacDowell. She INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS Leah Gauthier, Chestnut Hill, MA, worked on also completed a video that will be shown Melon, a sculptural installation to be shown at at the Aljira Center in Newark, New Jersey. the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Catherine Borg, Las Vegas, NV, created Lincoln, MA, in 2008. She also worked on Franziska Lamprecht, Queens, NY, in two video pieces, including I Only Have Sharecropper, a community microfarming collaboration with Hajoe Moderegger, Stars for You; You Only Hold Stars for Me. installation happening in New York in 2009. worked on a video that documents and She also worked on cast materials to be fictionalizes what happened at International used in another sculpture/video project, Sabrina Gschwandtner, New York, NY, Airport Montello, an airport eteam created as well as several drawings. She is working completed a slide installation to be shown at in collaboration with the people of Montello, on two public art commissions for the the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. She also a small and isolated town in Nevada. In Regional Transportation Commission of worked on a video project, A Brief History of addition, she and Moderegger prepared for Southern Nevada and the City of Las String, to be shown at the Brooklyn Academy a visit to their new property, an allotment Vegas. She is a Nevada Arts Council 2006 of Music. Her work has recently been shown garden two hours North of Berlin where Artist Fellowship recipient. at the Museum of Arts and Design in New eight hobby farmers grow vegetables and York, and at the Fleming Museum in Vermont. flowers on little parcels of land.

1970: Aaron Copland is honored for his 70th birthday at the sixth annual benefit dinner in New York.

16 Cat Mazza, Troy, NY, continued to work Anna Schuleit, Hancock, NH, completed Cory Hinkle, Minneapolis, MN, began work on Knitoscope Sampler, an experimental Landlines, a public art project for on the first draft of a new play inspired by animation combining traditional craft with MacDowell’s Centennial celebration that surveillance and visual art. His play Cipher digital technology. She also worked on the Web premiered over Medal Day weekend. Her was recently produced at the Summer Play development of Stitch for Senate, a wartime work-in-progress Intertidal was on view at Festival in New York; other works are knitting project to be exhibited at the Museum the ICA/Art on the Harbor Islands in upcoming at Salvage Vanguard in Austin, of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden. Boston throughout the summer of 2007. Texas; and the Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hajoe Moderegger, Queens, NY, in Deke Weaver, Champaign, IL, continued collaboration with Franziska Lamprecht, work on The Palimpsest Project, an John Jahnke, New York, NY, finished the worked on a video that documents and interactive video installation. He also stage adaptation of a new translation of fictionalizes what happened at International began writing a new performance piece Antonin Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty play, The Airport Montello, an airport eteam created and collected video footage for a theatrical Cenci, to premiere in 2008 in New York. His in collaboration with the people of Montello, projection design for a production of Mary serialized play, The Archery Contest, began a small and isolated town in Nevada. In Timmerman’s Metamorphoses. development through WPS1.org in 2007. addition, he and Lamprecht prepared for a visit to their new property, an allotment Michael Korie, New York, NY, completed garden two hours North of Berlin where THEATRE lyrics for a new musical, Shimmer, in eight hobby farmers grow vegetables and collaboration with writer Sarah Schulman flowers on little parcels of land. and composer Anthony Davis. Janet Allard, New York, NY, completed a short play, Speed Date, to be published by Jason Mortara, Boston, MA, began editing James Lapine, New York, NY, worked with Playscripts, Inc. and produced on theatre footage that was shot in San Diego to be Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik on a new row in 2008. She also started work on a used in a planned multichannel video production of a musical, The Nightingale, new play with music. installation piece. His most recent solo based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. exhibition and installation was at Sarah Brian Bauman, Boulder, CO, rewrote a Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. draft of Atta Boy, a new play investigating similarities in high school bullying tactics Pat Oleszko, New York, NY, conceived and global terrorism/anti-terrorism efforts. a series of projects that included Patty’s He also began work on F*G**T (Vanish), a play Inferno, a conflagration of old works; inspired by the artwork of Felix Gonzalez- X-Mess Ball, a wintry rollick on the wild side; Torres. Atta Boy was recently presented at Encore!; and New Year’s Weave. Her show the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. The Deportment of Corrections continues to tour and will be on display at Dixon Emily Conbere, Brooklyn, NY, wrote a Place in the fall of 2008. full-length play about reflection. John Osorio-Buck, Boston, MA, completed Mike Daisey, New York, NY, worked on a a collapsible sustainable survival structure biographical memoir adaptation of his called U7H21: Drop and Deploy for an monologue series Great Men of Genius, exhibition at Art Omi International Fields which examines genius and megalomania Sculpture Park. He recently received the in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Traveling Scholars Grant from the MFA John Jahnke, theatre Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard. Boston to travel to Antarctica. Sarah Hammond, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Christopher Robbins, New York, NY, began Kenan Minkoff, Astoria, NY, completed a the first draft of a new play, Columbus in work on Dirt for Nauru, in which he drags substantive rewrite of 25 lbs., a romantic Traffic, which was read at New Dramatists a barge of dirt by tugboat across the comedy, for the AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship. immediately following her residency. She also Pacific Ocean. He recently exhibited at He also worked on two screenplays: The began work on a commissioned children’s the Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Silent Sister, a psychological thriller; and play for City Theatre in Miami. and is planning his next installation in a The Taming of Sue, a romantic comedy. field in southern Serbia. Trish Harnetiaux, Brooklyn, NY, completed Dominic Orlando, New York, NY, worked on a draft of her new play, Welcome to the White Jason Samuels Smith, New York, NY, a new play and finished commissions from Room, as well as numerous short essays. developed the concept and choreography Nautilus Music Theater, Teatro Del Pueblo, Her work is featured in Best Stage Scenes for his Tribute to Charlie Parker: Charlie’s and The Playwrights Center. 2007 and Best Monologues for Men 2007. Angels, a one-hour show that is scheduled for a New York run in 2008. Excerpts from Brian Quirk, New York, NY, worked on his Steve Harper, New York, NY, completed a the show debuted at the Chicago Human play Summerland. He also finished Strangers, draft of his new play Urban Rabbit Chronicles. Rhythm Project Gala in Chicago in 2007, to be performed at Dixon Place in 2008; His play The Escape Artist’s Children was and has also been performed at the New and completed an act of the musical Black read as part of New York Stage and Film’s York City Tap Festival, the Los Angeles Tap Mirror, a collaboration with Donald Byrd. In summer season in 2007. Festival, and The Black Choreographers addition, he performed research for a new Festival in San Francisco. play inspired by the works of Inge Morath and Arthur Miller.

1974: The Colony completes the renovation of a former pump house and utility shed (built in 1911) and inaugurates its new Graphics Workshop Studio, providing individual working areas for lithography, intaglio, serigraphy, and photography. The finished structure provides a total of 5,000 square feet of floor space. 17 Amber Reed, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a new Kathleen Tolan, New York, NY, wrote the Edward del Rosario, Brooklyn, NY, completed play, Mr. Apocope, which she will continue first draft of a play called Captivity Narrative a series of drawings to be exhibited at to develop as part of the 2007-2008 Soho for a public reading at the Hedgebrook Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, Rep Writer/Director Lab. Her play The Grand Women’s Playwrights Festival at the Seattle Massachusetts; and at Richard Heller Kindness was published in Joyce Cho Plays Repertory Theatre. She also revised her play Gallery in Santa Monica, California. by 53rd State Press in 2007. What to Listen For for a public reading at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. Her play Jane Dickson, New York, NY, worked on J.T. Rogers, Brooklyn, NY, began work on Memory House has had multiple productions “highwayscape” paintings on Astroturf for an his play In the House of War. In 2006, his and was staged at Trinity Repertory Theatre exhibition at New York’s Marlborough Gallery play The Overwhelming debuted at the in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2007. in 2009, as well as works for a traveling show National Theatre in London and then called Traffic. She is completing a series of toured the United Kingdom. In 2007, it Joy Tomasko, Brooklyn, NY, completed a new 70 life-size mosaic figures for permanent was performed on BBC Radio and the draft and lyrics on Underbelly, Underheart. installation in the Times Square subway Roundabout Theatre in New York. She also researched and worked on Arden. station in 2008. Her collaboration The Closest Farthest Steven Sater, Los Angeles, CA, worked Away/Entrañable Lejanía was recently Peter Edlund, Brooklyn, NY, produced a with James Lapine and Duncan Sheik on workshopped in California, and her plays ceiling mural for the Peterborough Town a new musical, The Nightingale. His 2007 My End and Rub were workshopped in Library as part of MacDowell’s Centennial musical, Spring Awakening, written with New York. She was awarded a Jerome program, Peterborough Projects. He Duncan Sheik, won eight Tony Awards, Fellowship through the Playwrights Center received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation including Best Musical. in Minnesota for 2008-2009. Grant in 2006.

Sarah Schulman, New York, NY, collaborated Anne Washburn, Brooklyn, NY, worked Mark Epstein, Rockville, MD, worked on with Michael Korie and Anthony Davis on on The Octavia, a play commissioned by two large-scale architectural paintings. His the musical stage adaptation of her novel Yale Repertory Theater. Her play The work was included in Drawing the Line at Shimmer. She also worked on The Internationalist will be produced by the the Boston Center for the Arts and Eye Gentrification of the Mind, a collection Gate Theatre in London and The Studio Tricks at Seton Hall University’s Walsh of essays about the consequences of AIDS Theatre in Washington, D.C., in 2008. Gallery in 2007. on art making and collective values. Lauren Weedman, Santa Monica, CA, started Laura Fayer, New York, NY, worked on a Brian Silberman, Marietta, PA, completed the creating her next solo piece tentatively series of paintings based on landscape- first draft of a play entitled Capgras Delusion titled Creature. She also started writing inspired ink drawings. In 2007, she had solo in preparation for a workshop production new short stories for another collection. shows at Thomas Robertello Gallery in at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Chicago and Rule Gallery in Denver.

VISUAL ARTISTS Travis Frazelle, Brooklyn, NY, worked on three oil paintings and many studies that accompanied them. The paintings will serve Bobby Neel Adams, Queens, NY, worked as templates for his show in October of on his Peterborough Project Family Tree, 2008 at The Allen Gallery in New York. a series of composite portraits. Barbara Gallucci, Brooklyn NY, developed Olive Ayhens, Brooklyn, NY, completed a and built a dozen prototypes for a new major painting as part of a series to be shown design project that incorporates sculptural at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York. forms into functional furniture. Recent Her work was shown at the Mid-Manhattan exhibitions include Exit Art in in 2007. A reproduction of and Green Street Gallery in Boston. She her painting Bristlecones on the Balcony has received the Gottlieb Fellowship and was featured in the April, 2007 issue of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Harper’s Magazine. Andrew Ginzel, New York, NY, created a Mark Epstein, visual artist John Bisbee, Brunswick, ME, worked on series of drawings/collages investigating the new sculptures. interstices between the observer, chaos, Octavio Solis, San Francisco, CA, completed and language. He also finalized details for Angela Cappetta, New York, NY, printed and revised the first draft of his adaptation a large commission and worked on a new work for a whole show. of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote video exploring the relationship between de la Mancha for the Oregon Shakespeare time and delay. In addition, he completed a Morgan Craig, Philadelphia, PA, continued Festival. His new play Lydia opened at the Landlines collaboration for MacDowell’s creating large, detailed paintings of a myriad Denver Center for Theatre in 2008. Centennial Medal Day weekend. of abandoned structures, including a power plant, a colliery, and a granary. A recipient Peggy Stafford, New York, NY, completed a of the 2006 Pennsylvania Council on the draft of Wapato for a reading at Women’s Arts Individual Grant, his work was shown Project. Her latest screenplay, This Won’t in 2007 at the University of Wyoming, and Hurt, was included in a series at the at SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. Seattle International Film Festival in 2007.

1987: A crowd of 1,500 attends the presentation of the 29th MacDowell Medal to composer Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein has this to say about his three residencies, which all occurred in the winter: “All of those times I was writing works which had, at least in intent, a vastness; which were dealing with subjects of astronomical, if not mystical and astrological, dimension. The first time was Kaddish. The second time was Mass. The last time was to write the six lectures that I later gave at Harvard, known as the ‘Norton Lectures.’ This vastness is inherent somehow 18 in this place. The air smells higher here, and sweeter, and closer to the vastness.” “Absolute freedom to create! My experience at MacDowell has allowed me a no-pressure, no-expectations opportunity to experiment with my work and to move my work into new directions otherwise not possible.”

– Stephen Nguyen, visual artist

Jessica Halonen, Austin, TX, began a series of drawings titled Rx Garden that explores pharmaceutical composition and biological reactions to plant-based prescription Stephen Nguyen, visual artist drugs. A drawing from this series became part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2007. Lucy Kim, Brooklyn, NY, completed sculpture Lesley McTague, Seattle, WA, continued for a group show at RISD. She also began work on a new installation comprised of Daniel Heyman, Philadelphia, PA, worked on work on an animation using the same hand-cut paper stencils. a new Arabic language edition of his Amman process as her sculptures, which involves Series portfolio of drypoint prints and molding everyday spaces and objects with Frank Meuschke, Brooklyn, NY, completed completed two books of watercolor portraits. aluminum foil. paintings depicting New York harbor. In The portfolio is the result of interviews 2007, he had a solo show at the Samuel with former detainees of Abu Ghraib Prison Margaret Lanzetta, New York, NY, focused Morse Historic Site in Poughkeepsie, New in Baghdad. English versions of these on a new series of paintings entitled Echo York, and his work was exhibited in the prints have recently been acquired by the Location. The series is concerned with cultural Portland Museum of Art biennial in Maine. Library of Congress, the Baltimore Museum overlap and dislocation as manifested in of Art, and the Art Gallery. physical and historical patterns. She is the Rodney Monk, Sydney, Australia, completed recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research his Peterborough Project, a mural titled Marietta Hoferer, New York, NY, completed Fellowship in India and Syria for 2007-2008. Portals on the eastern wall of the Toadstool a series of drawings with tape to be shown Culture Swirl, her permanent art commission Bookshop in Depot Square in downtown at Dust Gallery in 2008. Her work was for the New York City subway, was installed Peterborough. He also completed 14 paintings included in the show Pattern vs. Decoration in the summer of 2007. on canvas, and the first draft of a book titled at the Hosfelt Gallery in New York and San Catratbatmat of the Mythmen (a.k.a. Chequer). Francisco in 2007. Mary Lum, Bennington, VT, worked on Upcoming projects include a mural at the Some Parts of Various Neighborhoods in Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney, and Nene Humphrey, Brooklyn, NY, completed the City, an ongoing series of paintings, a show titled Hardware in Enmore, Australia. a series of drawings and photographs based drawings, collages, and photographs. This on her work as a 2007 fellow at the Museum work will be exhibited at the Bernard Toale Dorota Mytych, Elblag, Poland, explored of American History at the Smithsonian Gallery in Boston and at Galerie Birthe and created new work by incorporating Institute in Washington, D.C., and as an Laursen in Paris. large crowd drawings as a continuation of artist-in-residence at the Le Doux Laboratory an already-begun body of work. at New York University’s Center for Neural Vanessa Marsh, San Francisco, CA, began Science. This body of work will be exhibited work on a new series of paintings and Stephen B. Nguyen, Brooklyn, NY, initiated as part of a solo exhibition at the Lesley drawings entitled Always Close but Never a new body of work that marked a return Heller Gallery in New York in 2009. Touching. Using models, oil paint, and natural to painting after two years of large-scale elements, the work focuses on themes of collaborative installation works with sculptor Jennifer Karady, Brooklyn, NY, created flooding, abandonment, and isolation. She Wade Kavanaugh. He is a recipient of a 2006 two photographs with veterans in New will have a solo show at Ampersand Urban Artist Initiative grant, and is a 2007 Hampshire as part of her ongoing series, International Arts in San Francisco in 2009. New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: Bringing Home the Psychological Impact of Christian Maychack, San Francisco, CA, Tom Nussbaum, Montclair, NJ, completed a War. This project has been awarded fiscal completed a site-specific sculpture in proposal for an illustrated book, and worked sponsorship from the New York Foundation Alexander Studio. His recent solo shows on a series of drawings and sculpture. for the Arts and the New York City include Gregory Lind Gallery in San Department of Cultural Affairs through Francisco and Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York. the Brooklyn Arts Council.

1992: William Banks, chairman of the Campaign for MacDowell, announces the end of the three-year fund drive, with the final donation coming from The New Yorker’s Brendan Gill. Contributions include funds from individuals, foundations, and corporations, as well as a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 19 Suzanne Opton, New York, NY, edited Citizen, Bradley Wester, Brooklyn, NY, began new WRITERS a book of photographs and interviews with work for a solo show at Mack B Gallery in Iraqis displaced to Jordan since the invasion. Sarasota, Florida; as well as several group Robert Anasi, Brooklyn, NY, worked on his She also made portraits of Peterborough high shows including Dartmouth University, second nonfiction book, The Golden Man, to school seniors. Her previous project Soldier University of Southeastern Louisiana, and a be published by Globe Pequot/Lyons Press had solo shows in New York; Portland, Oregon; faculty exhibition at Miami’s Ringling College in 2009. He also finished an article about and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, France. of Art and Design, where he recently began a drug dealers for Harper’s Magazine. three-year visiting artist appointment. David Packer, New York, NY, completed Betsy Andrews, Brooklyn, NY, began work sculptures for a one-person show called Natalie Wetzel, Greenville, OH, completed on her second book, Shelled. Her first Trainspotting at Chicago’s Lyons Wier Ortt Escaping the Bog, a mixed-media sculpture book, New Jersey, was the winner of the Contemporary Art. He also had a 2007 dealing with themes of endurance and 2007 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. show called Hearts and Minds at Chicago’s journeying. She also created an animation Navta Schulz Gallery. in collaboration with fellow artist and Katherine Ashenburg, Toronto, Canada, writer Catherine Chung. finished her social history of washing our Mel Rosenthal, New York, NY, worked on new bodies, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized photographs of the Coptic communities in Jeff Wetzig, Minneapolis, MN, completed a History, to be published by Farrar, Straus Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. body of color woodblock prints to be shown & Giroux. She also worked on a memoir, at Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis. My Vogue Years, for publication in Alessandra Sanguinetti, Brooklyn, NY, The prints focused on fence imagery and Descant magazine. worked on post-production of videos and us/them relationships. Work he created at photographs for her project The Adventures MacDowell will be shown at the Flaten Art Joshuah Bearman, Los Angeles, CA, of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Museum in 2008. completed work for an hour-long radio Meaning of Their Dreams. She will have a program for This American Life. He also solo show in 2008 at Yossi Milo Gallery in Karla Wozniak, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a made progress on a proposal for a memoir. New York. series of drawings and oil paintings based on the Meadowlands region of New Jersey. D.Y. Bechard, Cambridge, MA, worked Claire Sherman, Galesburg, IL, began five Her work has been shown in group shows on the first draft of his new novel, The large paintings, several small paintings, and at New York’s Brooklyn Fire Proof, 33 Bond Infidels. His first novel, Vandal Love, drawings. Her work has recently been shown Gallery, and Artists Space. won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. in solo shows at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Houldsworth Gallery in London, as well Matt Wycoff, New York, NY, worked on two David Bezmozgis, Toronto, Canada, continued as in group shows at Galleria Glance in large-scale painting projects, the last of a work on his novel about the emigration of Turin, Italy; and Gregory Lind Gallery in series covering the last decade. He also a family of Soviet Jews in the 1970s, to be San Francisco. She is currently a visiting worked on biographical essays for a book published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2008. artist at Northwestern University. project titled There’s No Place Like You. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2004. Kiriko Shirobayashi, New York, NY, Janet Zweig, Brooklyn, NY, worked on concentrated on editing her photographic public art commissions, all in various Marianne Boruch, Lafayette, IN, finished a works and exploring other mediums. She stages of development. book-length sequence of poems. She also also started a new drawing project. She is started work on a memoir about a hitchhiking currently preparing for two upcoming solo trip she took in 1970. Her sixth collection of shows, including one in Japan. poems, Grace, Fallen From, which contains poems written at MacDowell in 2005, will Neil Taylor, Bloomington, IN, continued work be published by Press on woodcut-print imagery, experimented in 2008. with color, and carved new wood blocks. Paul Brownfield, Los Angeles, CA, worked Kim Uchiyama, New York, NY, worked on on his satirical novel-in-progress. a series of paintings contemplating the structure of color relationships to be shown at Gabriel Brownstein, Brooklyn, NY, continued John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York. Her work on his novel-in-progress, I Was Here 2006 solo show at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski But I Disappeared. He is the author of the was reviewed by Jennifer Riley in the New novel The Man from Beyond (Norton, 2005) York Sun and by artcritical.com. and a collection of stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3W (Norton, 2002), David Webb, London, England, made a series which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. of paintings and drawings based primarily on views from Cheney Studio as well as the Jane Brox, Brunswick, ME, continued work on surrounding landscape and Peterborough. her nonfiction book Human Light, a history He also worked on paintings for the 2007 of, and meditation on, controlled light that exhibition Bounty: A Case of Preposterous will be published by Houghton-Mifflin in Optimism, which ran at APT Gallery in London. 2010. She is a 2007 Guggenheim fellow.

Neil Taylor, printmaker

1994: Lena Horne is honored at the annual benefit in New York. She donates her Volvo station wagon – nicknamed “Miss Blue” – for use at the Colony.

20 “How to sum up the MacDowell effect? The immeasurable benefits of total immersion — living uninterruptedly with a work-in-progress; keeping the sense of it from one day to the next — allowed me to get to know this world more intimately.”

– Claire Collison, writer

Christina Burroughs, Pittsburgh, PA, continued work on Imagined Alteration of Hemline, a book-length manuscript of poems. Claire Collison, writer Dear Incubator, the poem around which the manuscript breathes, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Claire Collison, London, England, worked Wendy Flanagan, New York, NY, focused on on a draft of her second novel, Refinery. a draft of her first novel. James Cañón, Long Island City, NY, worked Her first novel, Treading Water (Polygon), on the draft of his second novel, tentatively was a finalist for the Dundee Book Prize in Joe Fox, Cambridge, MA, completed a entitled The Book of Luz. His first novel, Tales 2005. She is the recipient of an Arts proposal and two chapters for his first From the Town of Widows & Chronicles From Council England award. book, The Drink Talking: A Memoir of Two the Land of Men (HarperCollins, 2007), has Manhattans. The memoir chronicles his been translated into six languages and Richard Connerney, New York, NY, worked relationship with his father and the bar he released in 12 countries. on his nonfiction book The Upside-Down Tree: tended for more than three decades at India’s Changing Culture (Algoral, 2009). He New York’s legendary Algonquin Hotel. Kurt Caswell, Lubbock, TX, continued work previously served as a Phillips Talbot fellow on the first draft of A Shepherd’s Life, a at the Institute of Current World Affairs, Jan Freeman, Ashfield, MA, completed poems memoir and travelogue chronicling the and spent three years as an international for a new manuscript, Blue Structure. Several lives of Peruvian sheepherders in Idaho. correspondent in South Asia. poems from the collection will be published in Women’s Review of Books, Southern Review, Michael Chabon, Berkeley, CA, worked Katie Crouch, San Francisco, CA, made and Prairie. Her collection of poetry, Simon on a new novel with the working title final edits to her first novel Girls in Trucks, Says, was nominated for a National Book Telegraph Avenue. to be released by Little, Brown in 2008. Critics Circle Award in 2000. She also continued work on her next book. David Marshall Chan, New York, NY, did Amity Gaige, Amherst, MA, began a third research for a new book project. His first Jonathan Dee, New York, NY, worked on novel set during the fall of the Soviet book, Goblin Fruit: Stories, was a Los his fifth novel, This World Is Not My Home, Union. Her second novel, The Folded World, Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. which he began at MacDowell in 2004. He was published in 2007 and is forthcoming is a frequent contributor to The New York in paperback from Random House in 2009. Alexander Chee, Amherst, MA, completed Times Magazine, and he recently received a 50 pages of his forthcoming novel The fellowship in fiction writing from the Sarah Gambito, New York, NY, completed a Queen of the Night, which is scheduled to National Endowment for the Arts. second poetry collection. Poems from this be released by Houghton Mifflin in 2008. collection have appeared in Field, The Peter Filkins, Cheshire, MA, generated 30 Indiana Review, and Denver Quarterly. Catherine Chung, Rockville, MD, worked on new poems that will formulate the foundation her first novel. of a fourth book of poems, tentatively titled Ramon Garcia, Los Angeles, CA, worked on Willow Cove. In 2007, he received the Stover a poetry manuscript entitled The Chronicles. Jennifer Clement, Mexico City, Mexico, Poetry Prize from Southwest Review. He has completed the first draft of a book. Her new work forthcoming in Sewanee Review. Jeremy Gavron, London, England, worked New and Selected Poems (Shearsman Books) on his fourth novel, provisionally titled and her novel The Poison That Fascinates William Finnegan, New York, NY, wrote Felix Culpa. His previous novel, The Book of (Canongate Books) will be published in 2008. several chapters of a surfing-themed Israel, was recently the featured book at a memoir to be published by Penguin Press. literary festival in Estonia. Henri Cole, Boston, MA, worked on new He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, poems. His sixth book, Blackbird and Wolf, was where his most recent piece was about Stephanie Grant, Durham, NC, began a new published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Somali refugees living in Lewiston, Maine. work, Obscene Extravagance. Her second novel, Map of Ireland, is due out from Scribner in 2008.

1997: Cheryl Young becomes MacDowell’s 2000: Writer Alice Sebold executive director in March, replacing the spends four weeks at retiring Mary Carswell. Young became the MacDowell, drafting Colony’s deputy executive director in 1993 three chapters of and had previously served for eight years The Lovely Bones. as the director of development. 21 “When I signed my tombstone, I was immediately impressed by my place in a great history of writers. While I had experienced the bounty of MacDowell for four weeks — the incredibly beautiful terrain, the complex and beautiful people, the revealing and challenging work, and the companionship in an arts community the likes of which I had never known — I pictured myself ever the outsider in the tale. What was most positive for me was feeling respected as an artist and being part of such a grand tradition.”

– Raina Leon, poet

Raina Leon, poet

Jeffrey Gray, South Orange, NJ, completed Mary Johnson, Nashua, NH, worked on a Stellar Kim, Westbury, NY, worked on a a book-length sequence of poems. His memoir about her 20 years as a nun in the collection of short stories. Her short stories poems have been widely published, and group founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. have won awards from The Atlantic, The he is the author of Mastery’s End: Travel Titled An Unquenchable Thirst: One Woman’s Iowa Review, and the Ontario Review, and and Postwar American Poetry, 2006. Extraordinary Journey of Faith, Hope, and were published in The Best American Short Clarity, the book will be released by Spiegel Stories, 2007. Alex Halberstadt, Brooklyn, NY, continued & Grau in 2009. work on a family memoir, Young Heroes of Starlee Kine, Brooklyn, NY, worked on her the Soviet Union, to be published by Random Louis Jones, Nevada City, CA, finished his first book, It Is Your Fault, a collection of House in 2009. His first book, Lonely Avenue: novel, Everlasting Day. nonfiction stories to be published by The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus, Riverhead Books. is out in paperback. Tayari Jones, Jersey City, NJ, focused on a draft of her third novel, Sightseeing. Brad Land, Conway, SC, worked on a draft of Judy Halebsky, Tokyo, Japan, worked on She also wrote a children’s story, “Monica a screenplay called The Candidate, and on a her manuscript, sky=empty, which was a and the Dirty Girl,” commissioned by novel titled The Settlement. His first novel, finalist for both the APR/Honickman First McSweeney’s for publication in 2008. Pilgrims Upon the Earth, was published in Book Prize and the Beatrice Hawley Award 2007 by Random House. His memoir, Goat from Alice James Books in 2007. Her work Kathryn Joyce, Queens, NY, worked on (Random House, 2004), is in development will be featured in the upcoming anthology, a book about fundamentalist Christian at Killer Films. Six Sierra Poets, from Hip Pocket Press. women’s movements, to be published by Beacon Press in 2008. Her recent articles Nam Le, Melbourne, Australia, worked on Brian Hart, Austin, TX, continued work on and essays have appeared in The Nation, revisions of his short story collection The his novel, A Dog That Fetches Rocks. Mother Jones, and other publications. Boat, to be published by Knopf in 2008. His stories have recently been selected for Lisa Howorth, Oxford, MS, continued work Etgar Keret, Tel-Aviv, Israel, began writing inclusion in the Pushcart Prize and Best on a novel tentatively titled Flying Shoes. a novella titled A Piece of the Piece. His American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. previous books have been translated into 25 Tung-Hui Hu, San Francisco, CA, worked on languages. Jellyfish, a film he co-directed, Katherine Lederer, Brooklyn, NY, completed poems exploring the idea of images and won the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Camera her forthcoming poetry collection, The water. His second collection of poetry, Mine, d’Or for best first feature film. Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008). She was published by Ausable Press in 2007. also wrote an essay about editing Fence Kay Chang Kim, New York, NY, completed magazine (forthcoming in Fence in 2008) Lewis Hyde, Cambridge, MA, wrote a draft her first novel, Beautiful Daughters. She and a chapter of her novel-in-progress, of a chapter of his book in defense of our also began work on a second novel. Murder by Sheila. cultural commons. A 25th-anniversary edition of his 1983 book The Gift was recently released by Vintage Books.

2001: Breaking tradition for the first time in close to 100 years, Colonists are contacted at their studios to be informed about the tragedy of 9.11. They gather together on Colony grounds and form a peace circle with stones, which are replaced with flower bulbs in a special anniversary ceremony the following year. 22 Eric Gabriel Lehman, New York, NY, Malena Morling, Santa Fe, NM, continued Iraj Isaac Rahmim, Houston, TX, completed worked on his novel German Fall. His work work on her third book of poems. Her second the first draft of a novella set in Dubai and has appeared recently in Raritan, Turnow, book of poems was published in 2006 by the United States. His recent works have and Michigan Quarterly Review. University of Pittsburgh Press. She is the been published in Reason, Commonweal, recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. Antioch Review, and Gulf Coast, and have Raina Leon, Chapel Hill, NC, completed a won prizes from Fugue magazine and the manuscript of poetry entitled Piece of Clay. Nami Mun, Ann Arbor, MI, completed a Texas Commission of the Arts. Her first book, Canticle of Idols, will be draft of her first story collection, tentatively released in 2008. titled Miles from Nowhere. She is the recipient Tom Raworth, Cambridge, England, completed of a 2007 Pushcart Prize for Fiction. Her a video DVD titled Hands, proofread Spanish Michael Leslie, Essex, NY, worked on a stories have been published in Tin House, The translations, and wrote the first 10 poems memoir about his family and the political Iowa Review, Witness, and other journals. of a book to be titled Let Baby Fall. environment of the United States. Jenny Nichols, Los Angeles, CA, continued Ruth Reichl, New York, NY, began work on Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, Londrino, Brazil, to work on her first collection of short stories. a novel. She also started a small nonfiction worked on a book of poetry titled Reality book that takes off from the themes she Studio. He also worked on the transcriptions Kathy Nilsson, Cambridge, MA, wrote 50 has used in her monthly Letter from the of his book of interviews with American pages of her second manuscript of poetry. Editor column in Gourmet magazine. poets, artists, and writers. D. Nurkse, Brooklyn, NY, worked on new Jeff Sharlet, Brooklyn, NY, worked on an Michael Lowenthal, Boston, MA, worked on poems for his next collection, The Border account of the Peekskill Riot of 1949 for a his fourth novel. The paperback version of Kingdom, which will be published by Knopf nonfiction book about music and politics, his third novel, Charity Girl, was released in 2008. The Hammer Song, to be published by by Houghton Mifflin in 2007. Basic Books in 2009. He also worked on Eugene Ostashevsky, Brooklyn, NY, final revisions of The Family: The Secret Shanna Mahin, Los Angeles, CA, worked on worked on translating the contemporary Fundamentalism at the Heart of American the first draft of her memoir The Borders Russian poet Dmitry Golynko for publication Power, to be published by HarperCollins. of My Country. by Ugly Duckling Presse, and edited his translations of the 1930s Russian absurdist Jessica Shattuck, Cambridge, MA, continued Sarah Manguso, Brooklyn NY, completed Alexander Vvedensky for publication by work on her second novel. She recently her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay, to be Green Integer. He also started a new series finished the screenplay adaptation of her published in 2008 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. of poems, The Pirate Who Does Not Know first novel, The Hazards of Good Breeding She is a 2007-2008 Rome Prize Fellow. The Value of Pi. His The Life and Opinions (W.W. Norton, 2003), which has been of DJ Spinoza will be released in 2008 by optioned by Beacon Pictures. Daniel Mason, Berkeley, CA, continued Ugly Duckling Presse. work on A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, a collection of short stories. He also Cecily Parks, New York, NY, completed an began his third novel, as yet untitled. His essay about her great-great-grandmother. second novel, A Far Country, was published She also worked on new poems. Her first by Knopf in 2007. The Piano Tuner, his first book of poems, Field Folly Snow, will be novel, is currently in production as a film. published by the University of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series in 2008. Patricia McCormick, New York, NY, continued work on her fourth novel, Purple Heart, to Tom Piazza, New Orleans, LA, worked on be published by Hyperion in 2008. She is his novel City of Refuge, to be published by the author of SOLD, a 2006 National Book HarperCollins in 2008. He also wrote a new Award finalist. afterword for the paperback edition of his nonfiction book Why New Orleans Matters, Christian McEwen, Northampton, MA, to be published by HarperPerennial in 2008. worked on her nonfiction book World Enough & Time. She also worked with third-graders Judith Podell, Washington, D.C., completed at Peterborough Elementary School on her the first draft of The Last of the Khazars, a Centennial Peterborough Project It’s About comic novel about Jewish identity. She is the Time, which involved poetry, maps, and oral recipient of a grant from the Washington history interviews. Commission for the Arts and Humanities for 2007-2008. Rosemary McGuire, Cordova, AK, completed a first draft of her second novel, The Littoral Daniel Raeburn, Chicago, IL, worked on his Zones. She also made final revisions to her book The Imp of the Perverse, forthcoming first novel, and worked on a short story from W.W. Norton. He also completed an collection. Her work has appeared in Quarterly essay for a collection that will include two

West, ZYZZYVA, and other literary journals. of his essays previously published in The SAMBUNARIS VICTORIA New Yorker. Artist-signed tombstones in Cheney Studio.

2007: The Colony caps off a year of Centennial events with a gala benefit at New York’s famed Roseland Ballroom. The evening’s offerings include a performance from Margaret Garner, an opera by MacDowell composer Richard Danielpour created in collaboration with writer (pictured here with MacDowell Chairman Robert MacNeil). 23 STEVE TUCKER STEVE “This was my first residency ever and I feel fortunate that I was accepted at The MacDowell Colony. I arrived with a suitcase of disjointed notes and a half-written novella and am leaving with the first draft of a book.” – Iraj Isaach Rahmim, writer

Iraj Isaach Rahmim, writer

Andrew Solomon, New York, NY, wrote two Deb Olin Unferth, Lawrence, KS, finished her Richard Won, Brooklyn, NY, continued work chapters of his Ph.D. dissertation about the first novel, Why I Left. Her first collection of on a collection of short stories tentatively formation of mother-side attachment during stories, Minor Robberies, was released in 2007 titled A Hundred Korean Tigers, which will the early years of infancy and childhood. He as one of three volumes from McSweeney’s. also be his thesis project as he completes a also worked on a book, A Dozen Kinds of master in fine arts in writing from the Love, which is due to be released in 2009. Jean Valentine, New York, NY, worked on School of the Arts at . poems for her next collection. Her most Anna Solomon, Brooklyn, NY, worked on recent book, Little Boat, was released by Matthew Yeager, New York, NY, worked on her first novel. Her stories have recently Wesleyan in 2007. poems for a manuscript tentatively titled been published or are forthcoming in Bright Sized Life. He also outlined and broke Harvard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Katrina Vandenberg, St. Paul, MN, continued ground on a film script based on his poem and the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2008. work on a new poetry manuscript. Her first A Big Ball of Foil in Small Apartment, which book of poems, Atlas (Milkweed Editions) appeared in Best American Poetry 2005. Susan Steinberg, San Francisco, CA, worked was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. on her third book of fiction, a novel. Her Bill Zavatsky, New York, NY, worked on his second collection of short fiction, Hydroplane, Susan Wicks, Kent, England, worked on next book of poems, Songs I Didn’t Know was published in 2006. Her stories have poems for a new collection, as well as a fiction I Knew. His work recently appeared in recently been published in Conjunctions, project. Her volume of short stories, Roll Hanging Loose, Columbia magazine, and McSweeney’s, and American Short Fiction. Up for the Arabian Derby, is forthcoming upstreet. His translations of Robert Desnos from Bluechrome in 2008. appear in Essential Poems and Writings of Mary Szybist, Portland, OR, continued Robert Desnos (Black Widow Books, 2007); work on her second collection of poems Mary-Sherman Willis, Woodville, VA, worked and a revised edition of his cotranslation, tentatively titled Conversion Figures. Her on a book-length sequence of poems entitled The Poems of A.O. Barnabooth, will be first book, Granted, was a finalist for the Graffiti Calculus. The sequence examines the republished by Black Widow Books in 2008. National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. parent-son relationship in the contexts of graffiti tagging, mark making, and art. In John Thorndike, Athens, OH, worked on a 2007, her work appeared in the Hudson novel about his mother’s (fictitious) affair with and Iowa Reviews, Shenandoah, and in two the Cuban revolutionary, Camilo Cienfuegos. anthologies of prose and poetry about family. He also started a rewrite of a memoir of his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s, Life Terri Witek, Deland, FL, completed a series in the Ruins. Selections from this work won of poems about Venezuelan artist Armando an Individual Excellence Award from the Reveron for a new collection. Her third Ohio Arts Council in 2007. book of poems, The Shipwreckdress, will be published in 2008 by Orchises Press.

2008: A comprehensive, yearlong renovation of Colony Hall is completed in April. Updates include a state-of-the-art kitchen, a new maintenance facility, and improved office space for the Colony’s administrative staff.

24 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 have three-year terms and are selected by their peers. With firsthand knowledge about the MacDowell experience, they provide recommendations COMMITTEE and feedback to the Colony’s staff and board of directors. The FEC also aims to broaden enlistment of Fellows across all disciplines and generations.

Class photo of artists-in-residence at the Centennial Medal Day celebration in August.

Martha Southgate, a fiction writer, is the current FEC In 2007–2008, the FEC met four times with the executive president, and, as such, a board member. The FEC director to discuss ways to engage the community of communicates with MacDowell artists through a column Colony Fellows. Agenda items brought to FEC meetings in the newsletter as well as through a presence on the for discussion included planning for the Central Park Web site. Annual dues raise funds that are donated to Picnic (see the Centennial section in this report) and MacDowell. In 2008, these funds were directed toward strategies for increasing diversity among artists. the purchase of studio refrigerators and the cost of pool table maintenance and the Colony’s annual maple To learn more about the Fellows Executive Committee, syrup supply. log on to www.macdowellcolony.org/fec.html. You can also e-mail the committee by writing to: [email protected].

A list of current members appears below.

FELLOWS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS as of June, 2008

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 2007–2008: Joshua Fried, composer Daniel Felsenfeld, composer Evan Hause, composer Secretary MeGo (Melissa Gould), visual artist David Petersen, filmmaker Tana Hargest, interdisciplinary artist Rachel Sussman, visual artist Miouly Pongnon, writer Jonathan Pieslak, composer Treasurer Mike Holober, composer Benita Raphan, filmmaker Kym Richardson, filmmaker Seth Riskin, interdisciplinary artist Anthony Schneider, composer

25 MACDOWELL The Colony makes ongoing efforts to bring together the local community with the art and artists at MacDowell. MacDowell in the Schools, begun in IN THE 1996, seeks to bridge the gap in school arts funding by offering a variety of programming to classrooms in the Monadnock region. MacDowell Downtown, COMMUNITY launched in 2002, is a monthly series of presentations from September to May by MacDowell Fellows in the center of Peterborough. Both programs have enlisted all seven of the Colony’s artistic disciplines, providing filmmaking workshops and screenings, readings and writing seminars, concerts, visual arts shows, dramatic performances, talks, and much more. In addition to these formal programs, many artists return to Peterborough for community work outside their Fellowships. While unlisted here, those collaborations represent the connection many Fellows develop with the area and people of New Hampshire. In the past year, 19 Colony Fellows volunteered to share their work in the schools, at the Town Library, or at MacDowell Downtown. These experiences involved more than 500 adults and children in groups large and small.

M ACDOWELL IN THE SCHOOLS VISITING ORGANIZATIONS MARCH, 2007 Throughout the year, the Colony also hosts various Writers and journalists Marie-Hélène Carleton and groups and events from the community. Micah Garen presented a work-in-progress documentary about the looting of antiquities from southern Iraq at MAY, 2007 ConVal High School. They also discussed their joint The 2007 class of Leadership New Hampshire, a memoir about Garen’s abduction in Iraq in the summer business group, held their meeting at Savidge Library. of 2004, American Hostage. Resident Director David Macy and eco-artist Tim Gaudreau presented. APRIL, 2007 Composer Koji Nakano made a series of three visits to JULY, 2007 the Well School in Peterborough to present his ideas The board of trustees of Sigma Alpha Iota, an about music composition and its relation to poetry. international music fraternity, visited Hillcrest and enjoyed a special tour of the Colony. For National Poetry Month, two poets, Judy Halebsky and Raina Leon, judged the Peterborough Town Library’s SEPTEMBER, 2007 annual Young Poets’ Writing Challenge, which encourages Resident Director David Macy hosted the Peterborough local students in grades K-12 to write and submit original Women’s Club at Savidge Library. Visual artist Tom poems. These poets, along with Katrina Vandenberg, gave Nussbaum invited the women to a studio visit at readings at the Peterborough and Harrisville libraries. Alexander Studio.

JULY, 2007 Composers Martha Horst and Yevgeniy Sharlat met with students and faculty from The Walden School, a LIBRARY DONATIONS school for young composers in Dublin, New Hampshire. In 2002, MacDowell initiated a program to provide work created and donated by Colony Fellows to the Peterborough Town 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 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. Peterborough Library Director Michael Price notes, “These are works you would not normally see at the library. It’s a significantly different collection than normally purchased. It dovetails nicely with the existing collection.”

Sandro Del Rosario working with students at the Well School.

26 Installation view of Water Windows by Amy Jenkins at the Peterborough Historical Society.

M ACDOWELL DOWNTOWN APRIL, 2007 DECEMBER, 2007 Interdisciplinary artist Anna Schuleit shared details Visual artist Amy Jenkins presented Water Windows, a about Landlines, a site-specific installation involving dramatic video installation made for the Peterborough more than 200 community volunteers commissioned by Historical Society. the Colony for a special Centennial Medal Day. JANUARY, 2008 MAY, 2007 An annual event, the Colony presented the 1954 Hallmark Filmmaker Sandro Del Rosario and composer Caroline Hall of Fame film, Lady in the Wings, a television special Mallonée presented the short film that was created in that traces MacDowell’s genesis. collaboration with three groups of local students. FEBRUARY, 2008 SEPTEMBER , 2007 Composer/percussionist/rocker Bobby Previte gave a Visual artist Peter Edlund unveiled and discussed his concert of his work and discussed the artistic process. permanent installation beneath the Peterborough Town Library’s portico ceiling. MARCH, 2008 Former nun and trusted colleague of Mother Teresa, OCTOBER, 2007 writer Mary Johnson read from a portion of her Composer Stewart Wallace discussed and presented forthcoming book on her spiritual experiences. excerpts from his project, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, an opera based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan.

NOVEMBER, 2007 Interdisciplinary artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez discussed his conceptual art project, Pleased to Meet You, which had as it aim the meeting of every single citizen of Peterborough.

Resident Director David Macy (left) and Peterborough resident Glenn Swanson (right) install a historic marker by the MacDowell graves. The marker informs visitors, who often travel far and wide to pay homage to Edward and Marian MacDowell, about the founders and their 100-year legacy.

27 GIFTS FOR Gifts to underwrite Fellowships for artists and to maintain the Colony’s studios and residency buildings are essential in helping MacDowell continue RESIDENCIES its mission. Major gifts designated for Fellowships perpetuate the Colony’s tradition of accepting artists solely on the basis of talent. Sixty-two annual AND and endowed Fellowships and 11 annual and endowed studio maintenance STUDIOS grants were given during 2007-2008, thanks to the generosity of many friends of the Colony.

ANNUAL FELLOWSHIPS Annual Fellowships are contributions designated by the donor to help offset the cost of one or more residencies in the year the gift is made.

Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Fellowship Billy Newman Continuing a practice begun in 1961 to honor the memory of Faye Barnaby Kent, the national collegiate sorority Alpha Chi Omega contributed a Fellowship for the residency of a composer.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has partnered with the Colony to support the residency of a Northern Irish artist at Marietta Hoferer, visual artist MacDowell in the coming year.

Helen and Peter Bing Fellowship Heleniak Family Fellowship Fritz Haeg David Rakowski This Fellowship to support the residency of one creative This Fellowship to support the residency of one creative artist artist honors Helen and Peter Bing for their generous gift honors board member David W. Heleniak and Kathryn Moore to The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala. Heleniak in recognition of their generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala. Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship Alvin Singleton National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships In recognition of board member Anne Cox Chambers’ generous Sidney Boquiren, Catherine Chung, Jane Dickson, gift to support The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala, Leah Gauthier, Jenny Nichols, Kazuo Ohno, Judith Podell, a Fellowship to support the residency of one creative artist and John Thorndike was named in her honor. An Access to Artistic Excellence Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts was awarded to MacDowell to help Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship support the first-time residencies of creative artists at the Jeffrey Gray Colony in 2008. The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has been partnering with the Colony since 2000 to encourage applications from creative Netherlands-America Foundation Fellowship artists from the state of New Jersey. One creative artist The Netherlands-America Foundation will support the residency received a Fellowship in 2007. of a writer or artist who is from the Netherlands or working on Dutch-related subject matter in the coming year. Brandon Fradd Fellowship Sarah Schulman Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship In recognition of Brandon Fradd’s generous gift to The MacDowell Jennifer Clement Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala, a Fellowship to support the This Fellowship supporting the residency of one creative artist residency of one creative artist was named in his honor. honors board member Robert Olmsted and Stephanie Olmsted in recognition of their generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s Gramercy Park Foundation Fellowship 2007 Centennial gala. Martin Moran This Fellowship to support the residency of one creative artist Thomas and Barbara Putnam Fellowship honors board member Helen Tucker in recognition of her Daniel Heyman generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala. In recognition of board member Thomas Putnam and Barbara Putnam’s generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Drue Heinz Fellowship Centennial gala, a Fellowship to support the residency of a Michael Korie printmaker has been named in their honor. In recognition of board member Drue Heinz’s generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala, a Fellowship to support Charles F. and Theresa M. Stone Fellowship the residency of one creative artist was named in her honor. Stewart Wallace This Fellowship to support the residency of one creative artist honors board member Charles F. Stone, III and Theresa M. Stone for their generous gift to The MacDowell Colony’s 2007 Centennial gala.

28 ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship, est. 1985 Andrew Rudin Endowed Fellowships, based on investment income from The Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship for composers was gifts held in the Colony’s endowment fund, provide support established by the board of directors in recognition of in perpetuity for one or more residencies each year. Mrs. Crofts’ very generous support of the Colony, her devotion to music, and her commitment to helping provide creative opportunities for modern composers. Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship, est. 1999 Ewing Fellowship, est. 2003 Judy Halebsky Nam Le Friends and family of Nadya Aisenberg, a poet, author, scholar, A Fellowship for a creative artist at MacDowell was endowed by and Colony Fellow, established this Fellowship in her memory Ruth Ewing, a longtime friend of the Colony and board member to support the residency of a female poet. from 1975-2000, and her husband, Jim Ewing, a member of the board of directors from 1961-1975 and its vice president Milton and Sally Avery Fellowships, est. 1983 from 1966-1974. Olive Ayhens and Margaret Lanzetta The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, in tribute to the memory Gerald Freund Fellowship, est. 1996 of Milton Avery, a Colony Fellow, endowed a Fellowship for a David Bezmozgis painter of outstanding ability. In 1990, Mrs. Avery, also a Friends of Gerald Freund, an advisor to and longtime friend of the Colony Fellow and a board member from 1989-2003, expanded Colony, established a Fellowship for emerging writers in honor of the fund to provide for two Fellowships. his 40-year career in philanthropy and his commitment to funding exceptionally creative individuals in the arts and sciences. Cathrine Boettcher Fellowship, est. 1991 Daniel Raeburn Isabella Gardner Fellowship, est. 1982 Cathrine Boettcher Felding, a longtime supporter and friend Sarah Manguso of the Colony, established through her will a fund to support The family and friends of Isabella Gardner, as a tribute and a residencies at MacDowell. memorial, established this Fellowship for a young female poet. Stanford Calderwood Fellowships, est. 1998 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship, est. 1989 Christina Burroughs, James Cañón, William Finnegan, John Bisbee Lewis Hyde, Tom Raworth, Ruth Reichl, Jeffrey Sharlet, The Heathcote Art Foundation, in tribute to its founder and Lauren Weedman, and Richard Won benefactor, Josephine Mercy Heathcote, an 18th-century To repay writers for the joys of a lifetime of pleasurable reading, decorative arts scholar and collector, endowed a Fellowship Stanford Calderwood, a member of the board of directors for an artist of exceptional ability. from 1968-1978 and its treasurer from 1971-1977, established a fund to support the residencies of all writers who work Ernest and Red Heller Fellowship, est. 2004 in Calderwood Studio. Sam Green and Dorota Mytych Rose “Red” Heller, a longtime friend of the Colony, board Chubb LifeAmerica Fellowship, est. 1990 member from 1980-2002, and director emerita from 2002-2003, Mary Lum established through her will a fund to support Fellowships for Chubb LifeAmerica made a grant to establish a Fellowship to two creative artists each year. support artists from New Hampshire or northern New England.

“My early residencies at MacDowell shaped my working life. I came to MacDowell in my 20s and it not only reinforced the rhythms of my workday but also gave me a sense of community that I had never had. MacDowell was my graduate school. It is hard to imagine what kind of composer I would have become without these essential times in the magical woods and pristine privacy of the Colony.” – Stewart Wallace, composer

Stewart Wallace, composer

29 Kate and George Kendall Fellowships, est. 1990 Gardner Read Fellowship, est. 2007 Jeremy Gavron and Marietta Hoferer Mark Kilstofte Friends of the Kendalls established this Fellowship as a tribute to In memory of Gardner Read, a composer and Colony Fellow, George Kendall, general director of the Colony from 1951-1971. and Vail P. Read, his wife, a Fellowship for a composer was In 1999, the fund’s endowment received a generous bequest established in his name by their daughter, Cynthia Read. from George Kendall. Bernardine Kielty Scherman Fellowship, est. 1975 MacDowell Poetry Fellowship, est. 1990 Dan Mason Bill Zavatsky In recognition of Bernardine Scherman’s long association Edwin C. Cohen, member of the board of directors from with the Colony and her love of good writing, the Scherman 1984-1999, established this fund to support the residency Foundation established a Fellowship in her name for a writer. of a poet of exceptional ability. Frances and William Schuman Fellowship, est. 1990 Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship, est. 2002 Matthew Van Brink Nene Humphrey The Schuman Fellowship was established as a loving tribute to the A bequest from Colony Fellow Patricia Mangione established composer William Schuman, MacDowell Medalist in 1971, board a Fellowship to support the residencies of senior writers and member 1972-1979, chairman 1980-1983, and honorary chairman artists who have worked at their crafts for at least 30 years. 1984-1990; and Frances Schuman, board member 1977-1994.

Robert Maxwell Fellowship, est. 1989 Norton Stevens Fellowships, est. 1975 Rosemary McGuire Elizabeth Brown, Hyekyung Lee, Bert Seager, and Duncan Sheik In recognition of Robert Maxwell’s generous legacy to the In honor of Colony Fellow Aaron Copland’s 75th birthday, the Colony, the board of directors established this Fellowship for Norlin Foundation established an endowment to provide an artist of any discipline. Fellowships for composers.

Philip Morris Company Fellowship, est. 1991 DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowships, est. 1978 Mike Daisey Henri Cole, Jonathan Dee, Mary Johnson, and Andrew Solomon The Philip Morris Company, in recognition of MacDowell’s DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund established an endowment contribution to the arts, established this Fellowship in literature. to provide Fellowships for writers.

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship, est. 1990 Thornton Wilder Fellowship, est. 1990 Vanessa Marsh Octavio Solis This Fellowship to support the residency of a photographer was In recognition of Thornton Wilder’s generous legacy to the given by Evelyn Stefansson Nef, who has been a member of the Colony, the board of directors established a Fellowship in his board of directors since 1991 and also serves as a vice chairman. name for an artist of any discipline. Wilder was a nine-time Colony Fellow, as well as the first recipient of the Edward New Hampshire Committee Fellowship, est. 1991 MacDowell Medal in 1960. Tim Gaudreau The New Hampshire Committee raised funds from 1987-1991 to Wilder Green Fellowship in Architecture, est. 2006 establish an endowed Fellowship for an artist from New Hampshire. Yanel de Angel Salas In tribute to Wilder Green, an architect and a member of the Elodie Osborn Fellowship, est. 1984 board of directors from 1980-2005, a Fellowship for an architect Stacey Steers was endowed by The Wilder Green Art Fund. In honor of Elodie Osborn’s efforts to establish film as a discipline at the Colony, her friends created a film Fellowship. Ms. Osborn was a member of the board of directors from 1969-1986 and president of the Colony from 1975-1977.

“The most positive aspect of my residency was the elasticity of time. Without interruptions and daily chores, time expanded into a continuous and productive zone. The ‘white canvas’ fear is gone! This experience has been empowering.”

– Yanel de Angel Salas, architect

Yanel de Angel Salas, architect 30 Schelling Studio was the first studio to break ground at the Colony in 1907. Originally named Bark Studio for its rustic architecture and bark siding, it was renamed in 1933 in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer and pianist who was president of the Colony from 1928-1933. In its history, it has given shelter to such artists as Peter Cameron, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Gaitskill, DuBose Heyward, Arthur Kopit, Audre Lorde, and Tillie Olsen.

STUDIO AND FACILITY GRANTS Studio and facility grants, whether endowed or annual gifts, help provide for the upkeep of individual studios and residence buildings.

Stanford Calderwood Studio Delta Omicron Studio In 1999, Stanford Calderwood funded the construction of a Members of Delta Omicron, an international music club, funded new studio for writers and established an endowed fund to the building of Delta Omicron Studio in 1927. In 1996, the Delta cover the annual costs of maintaining the studio. Omicron Foundation made a gift to refurbish a Mason & Hamlin grand piano, dedicated in memory of Roxine Beard Petzold and Valli Dreyfus Firth Studio Adelaide Louise Collyer, two past presidents of the fraternity. In 1993, Barn Studio was dedicated to Valli Dreyfus Firth, who Delta Omicron made a contribution in 2007 to help meet supported the Colony generously for many years. In her memory, annual costs for the studio. the Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation funded extensive renovations to the visual artists’ studio and established an Pan’s Cottage endowed maintenance fund for its upkeep. Built as a men’s residence in 1919, Pan’s Cottage was given by Sigma Alpha Iota, an international fraternity for women in Heinz Studio music. A Sigma Alpha Iota contribution in 2007 helped meet In 1996, Drue Heinz, a vice chairman of the Colony, donated expenses for utilities and upkeep. funds to re-create the old icehouse as a sculpture studio and established a studio maintenance fund. Phi Beta Studio Phi Beta Fraternity, a national organization for professionals in Evelyn Stefansson Nef Studio music and speech, provided for the construction of Phi Beta In 1992, Vice Chairman Evelyn Stefansson Nef funded the Studio (1929-1931) and continued to help support its upkeep construction of a new photography studio and established an with a grant in 2007. endowed fund to cover the annual costs of maintaining the studio. It was the first new studio built on Colony grounds Star Studio since 1936. Since 1971, Alpha Chi Omega, the first organization to contribute a studio to the Colony, has extended its Fellowship support New Hampshire Studio to help maintain Star Studio, which was built in 1911-1912. In In 1990, the Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed 2007-2008, the organization made a contribution to help fund to maintain and improve New Hampshire Studio. In 1992, meet the studio’s expenses. through a generous bequest given in memory of Colonist Victor Candell, the studio was renovated, enlarging and Sorosis Studio improving the space available for use by visual artists. Sorosis Studio was built in 1924-1926 with funds provided by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis, which contributed in New Jersey Studio 2007-2008 toward the studio’s maintenance. The New Jersey Studio (1920-1921) was funded by the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, which has continued as a longtime contributor to its maintenance. In 2007, Federation contributions helped meet studio expenses.

31 TRAVEL AND FINANCIAL AWARDS Two major gifts make travel grants possible for artists to help pay domestic and international transportation costs, respectively. Financial aid for writers, based on need, is provided through a grant from an anonymous foundation. Annual stipends for composers are supported by a recent endowed gift. A new three-year grant allows MacDowell to offer financial assistance to artists of all disciplines.

MacArthur Transportation Fund In 1990, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded the Colony a $200,000 grant that has been set aside to establish an endowed transportation fund for artists who cannot afford domestic travel to and from the Colony. During 2007-2008, 48 grants totaling $20,460 were awarded to enable artists to come to MacDowell from 15 states.

The David and Rosamond Putnam Transportation Fund This endowed fund was established in 1989 by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Boquiren, composer David F. Putnam, longtime friends and generous benefactors of the Colony, to provide financial assistance for international travel to and from the Colony for artists who could not come at their own expense. During 2007-2008, 10 grants totaling $10,350 were awarded to enable artists from eight countries to come to MacDowell. THE ALPERT AWARDS IN THE ARTS The Lesher Fund for Composers The Alpert Awards in the Arts, administered by the California The Lesher Fund for Composers, created in 2007 with an Institute of the Arts and funded by the Alpert Foundation, seeks endowed gift from Dr. Tom Lesher, provides annual stipends to cover living and travel expenses for two composers. This to identify those artists who contribute “something significant— financial assistance began with composers admitted in the even visionary— to contemporary life.” In our hope of Winter-Spring, 2008 period. spreading the word about MacDowell to non-New York artists in the interdisciplinary, film/video, and playwriting fields, The The Leon Levy Grants The Leon Levy Foundation has generously provided a three-year MacDowell Colony and The Alpert Awards in the Arts have grant to support financial aid for artists of every discipline. collaborated to bring a number of outstanding artists to In addition to covering living expenses that continue during MacDowell. During the past four years, the following Fellowship a residency, these funds may be used for equipment and recipients were recommended by the Alpert Awards panels supplies for artistic projects. This support began with Fellows admitted in the Winter-Spring, 2008 period. and selected by MacDowell admissions panels for residencies: Writers’ Aid Fund 2008: 2006: Through a gift from an anonymous foundation, the Colony Donald Byrd, Vicky Funari, filmmaker awards grants of up to $1,000 each to writers needing financial interdisciplinary artist Gaelen Hanson, assistance in order to attend The MacDowell Colony. This Peter Hutton, filmmaker interdisciplinary artist program, made possible by the foundation’s generous support Charlotte Meehan, theatre Melanie Marnich, theatre 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 2007: 2005: 2006-2007, $34,172 was awarded to 37 writers. Sam Green, filmmaker Keith Hennessy, Jason Samuels Smith, interdisciplinary artist interdisciplinary artist David Ryan, filmmaker Lauren Weedman, theatre Eddo Stern, interdisciplinary artist

32 The MacDowell Colony has embarked on The Campaign for the Second Century to CAMPAIGN FOR sustain and enhance its mission of giving artists freedom to create. The largest campaign THE SECOND in MacDowell’s history, it will ensure the excellence of the residency experience for generations of artists to come. This vision for MacDowell’s future aims to invest in artists CENTURY through Fellowships and stipends and to improve the renowned facilities that welcome them, including a library expansion and a new interdisciplinary art studio. Meeting DONORS these goals will enable the Colony to respond to the evolving needs of 21st-century artists. Primarily through generous gifts from board members and several organizations, $9 million has been raised to date. MacDowell is extremely grateful for these early commitments and strong support from the Colony’s close friends.

The A and J Fund Ruth and Arthur Feder Robert and Donna MacNeil Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Jane Alexander and Ed Sherin Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L.D. Firth Scott Manning Alvin Singleton Susan and Kenneth Austin David V. Foster The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Susan Sollins-Brown William N. Banks Vallejo Gantner Foundation, Inc. Martha Southgate and Jeffrey Phillips David Baum Mary Teal Garland Paul Moravec Stanford Calderwood Foundation Wendy Belser Gerry and Teresa Gartner National Philanthropic Trust / Anne Stark Varujan Boghosian John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Robert Beaser and Catherine Banat Rick and Terry Stone Eleanor Briggs Lawrence G. Harris Evelyn Stefansson Nef Robert Storr Barbara K. Bristol and Galway Kinnell David W. and Kathryn Moore Heleniak George M. Nicholson Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Ken and Julie Burns The Hurlin Foundation Richard E. Oldenburg Ilse Traulsen Peter Cameron Julia Jacquette and Dan Carlson Stephanie and Robert Olmsted Helen S. Tucker / Mary and Robert Carswell Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation Olivia and John Parker The Gramercy Park Foundation Fred W. Clarke Jytte Jensen Mrs. David F. Putnam Mac Wellman Alexander Cortesi Verlyn Klinkenborg Thomas and Barbara Putnam The Wilder Green Art Fund Nicholas Dawidoff Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Peter and Suzanne Read Francis H. Williams DIRECTV * Monica and Michael Lehner Leslie E. Robertson and SawTeen See Carter and Eileen Wiseman The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Tania León Jeff L. Rosenheim Cheryl Young and Bob Carswell Memorial Fund Leon Levy Foundation Amy Baker Sandback Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Louise Eastman Dr. Tom Lesher Arnold T. Schwab as of May, 2008

The Colony’s Centennial anniversary presented a singular opportunity to increase CENTENNIAL understanding of the invaluable role that artist residency programs play in the creation of DONORS new work. Thanks to the generous support of a very special group of donors who funded Centennial initiatives, we were 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 Random House, Inc. A. Erland and Hazel N. Goyette Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Lori Bookstein Fine Art The Rodel Charitable Foundation Memorial Fund Harcourt, Inc. National Endowment for the Arts of Key West Americans for the Arts HarperCollins Publishers New Hampshire Humanities Council Ilse Traulsen The Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation The Howe Library Panjandrum Foundation Verizon Boston Private Bank & Trust Company LBC Foundation Public Service of New Hampshire William H. Kearns Foundation Citizens Bank Foundation The LEF Foundation Putnam Foundation as of May, 2008

THE The MacDowell Circle recognizes the annual giving of all contributors who have made gifts to The MacDowell Colony for general support in fiscal year 2008. The generous MACDOWELL support of these donors is much appreciated. The categories of giving are in honor of CIRCLE distinguished artists who have been Colony Fellows.

THORNTON WILDER Leon Levy Foundation AARON COPLAND Gerry and Teresa Gartner CONTRIBUTORS The Linneaus Thomson Fund / CONTRIBUTORS Roland Hoch and Sarah Garland-Hoch Silicon Valley Community Foundation Monica and Michael Lehner $10,000 and over $7,500 and over Robert and Donna MacNeil Honorable Samuel Kenric Lessey, Jr. William N. Banks Alan Miller / Innisfree M & A Inc. The Aaron Copland Fund for Music James C. Marlas Roger and Brook Berlind Evelyn Stefansson Nef The Fred Sandback Archive The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Helen and Peter Bing Nancy Brown Negley Foundation, Inc. Eleanor Briggs New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The New York Community Trust Barbara K. Bristol Stephanie and Robert Olmsted WILLA CATHER CONTRIBUTORS The O'Grady Foundation Thomas and Barbara Putnam Richard E. Oldenburg Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cafritz $3,000 and over Mary and Bob Carswell Random House, Inc. Sylvia Pope The Honorable Anne Cox Chambers Theodore C. Rogers Anonymous Peter and Suzanne Read The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward in honor of Robert MacNeil Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Ruth Reichl Memorial Fund Andrew Senchak Sarah F. Baird Sandback Family Louise Eastman Bill and Maria Spears Karen H. Bechtel Nancy Englander and Harold Williams Rick and Terry Stone / The Charles F. Ken and Julie Burns Brandon Fradd and Theresa M. Stone Charitable Fund Condé Nast Publications Freedom Forum Charles and Szilvia Tanenbaum Ruth Ewing Betty and Russell Gaudreau Helen S. Tucker / The Gramercy Ruth and Arthur Feder John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Park Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L.D. Firth Drue Heinz Francis H. Williams Wendy R. Flanagan Colony Fellows listed in bold David W. and Kathryn Moore Heleniak Forbes Foundation * matching gift

33 MILTON AVERY CONTRIBUTORS Rick and Jan Cohen Whitney W. Oppersdorff Dr. and Mrs. Wilmont C. Ball, Jr. Concord Street Health Institute, LLC Orr & Reno, P.A. James Baratz and Donna Zaremba $1,500 and over Alexander D. Crary Elizabeth C. Parker Joseph Barbieri Jane Alexander Sebastian Currier in honor of Helen S. Tucker David Baum Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Bastedo Barbara and Richard Debs Olivia and John Parker Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Bean Peter Cameron Rebecca DeFusco and Jeff Grosner I.M. Pei Mr. and Mrs. Beck Charles F. Christ Polly Devlin The Petersons, Inc. Robin Becker Cincinnati MacDowell Society Scott Donaldson Vivian W. Piasecki Belletetes, Inc. True Value Alexander Cortesi Mrs. Myron H. Downs The Honorable and Mrs. Nicholas Platt Wendy Belser and Wendy Mackenzie in honor of the Centennial Adolfo Profumo Larry Benesh and Rebecca Hoogs Mary Sharp Cronson Katama and Jay Eastman The Putney School Ted Bent Tom and Ellen Draper Gay and Hugh Eaton The Quinlan-Finlayson Family Fund Carolyn Benthien Brad and Barbara Evans Cynthia Epstein Cathryn J. Ramin Niki Berg Geraldine Fabrikant / Jeffrey Eugenides RiverMead Suzanne E. Berger Irving X. Fabrikant Foundation Ruth and Arthur Feder Phyllis and Jim Rogers Vivian Berman Katie Firth and Jonathan Bank Margot H. Feely Marjorie P. Rosenthal Raoul Bhavnani Mary Teal Garland Barbara G. Fleischman Ralph and Jody Rothfusz Lorna Bieber Kitty Hawks and Larry Lederman Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Forbes James L. Sacksteder, MD Leigh Buchanan Bienen Mary W. Heller David V. Foster Sagalyn Family Fund Thomas and Claudia Bissett The Janey Fund Charitable Trust Franklin Pierce University / George Sampas Sarah Blodgett Pamela J. Johnson Michael and Karen Bell Janet U. Schaefer Amy Bloom Susan Henshaw Jones and Richard K. Stanley and Cheryl Fry Christopher Scholz and Ines Elskop Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Eaton / Ferris Foundation, Inc. Joan and Bob Galliven Sarah Schulman Betsy Bonner David Kamp and Michael Rubin Lilian Garcia-Roig Bert Seager Carol Bonow Jane Katcher in honor of the Centennial The Segal Company James Boorstein Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen Robert Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Seifer Deborah Borek and David Jenkins Kingsbury Corporation Richard Gelfond Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, PA Donald L. Borod Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Miss Mary Laura Gibbs Mr. and Mrs. G. Smallwood Marianne Boruch James Lapine Marguerite and Richard Giordano Ronald L. Steel Luette Bourne Susan and David Lord Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Stacey Steers Robert and Patricia Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Gerard M. Meistrell Gerald Goldsmith James M. and Isabelle B. Storey Sam and Lucy Bradley Fran and Mark Posnick in honor Winifred Perkin Gray Nancy Sullivan Michele M. Brannan of Stephanie and Bob Olmsted Patricia Green Sarina Tang Henry Braun Anna and Martin Rabinowitz Frank Guerra and Scott Manning Ilse Traulsen Holly Peterson Breeden RiverStone Resources, LLC Alfred and Virginia Guidotti Jamie and Laura Trowbridge Lynne Brookshire Leslie E. Robertson and SawTeen See Judson D. Hale, Sr. Jean Valentine Dr. and Mrs. David Brown Roxana Robinson Harcourt, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Archbold D. van Beuren Mr. and Mrs. Duncan W. Brown Mr. and Mrs. John Roche Richard A. Harriman Mr. and Mrs. Massimo Vignelli Elizabeth C. Brown Robert Rodat and Mollie Miller Harry and Ann Santen Fund of Carolyn R. Vogel Rosellen Brown Jayson Rodovsky and David Winkworth The Greater Cincinnati Foundation B.T. Vorm Michael Dennis Browne in thanks and appreciation Richard William Hayes Stewart Wallace and Dianne Festa Paul Brownfield to Helen S. Tucker, Ruth M. Feder, John and Jean Hoffman Mrs. James P. Warburg Susan Brynteson and Thomas P. Putnam Lisa Howorth / Square Books Willard and Anne Webb Victor Bumbalo Susan and Elihu Rose Lewis Hyde Sue Ann Weinberg Donald Bump in honor of Helen S. Tucker Elizabeth and Woody Ives The Weissman Family Foundation Carol Burdick Elaine Sargent Michael I. Jacobs, MD Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Wesner Brio Burgess Steven Sater Paula K. Jeffries Leslie Wilcott-Henrie Walter and Barbara Burgin Linda and Donald Schapiro Joel Sanders Architect, PLLC Dana Woody Paul S. Byard Riva and Alan B. Slifka John and Evelyn Kossak Pamela Worden and Charles Faucher Ann Callaway Susan Sollins-Brown Foundation, Inc. Yankee Publishing, Inc. Rachel Cantor Rosalind Solomon Johnson & Johnson Family Junko Yutaka Carnegie Corporation of New York * in honor of the Centennial of Companies * Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Carter Patricia and David Kenneth Specter Marica Kayser Mr. Philip G. Cavanaugh and Cynthia Strauss and Harry Sherr Kate Koning FRIENDS OF MACDOWELL Mrs. March A. Cavanaugh Michael Sam Korie Sidney Chafetz Jacqueline and Julian Taub Up to $500 Carolyn Tock Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Carole Charnow and Clive Grainger Elsie P. van Buren Alan P. Levenstein Anonymous (10) Eric D. Chasalow Ivy Vann John and Mary Lord Janet Abrams Karen Chase John and Barbara Vogelstein in honor Louise Bourgeois Trust Joan Acocella Mike and Betty Christiansen of Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Joanne Lyman William D. Adams Edward Chudacoff Katherine Wenning and Michael Dennis The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts Mr. Rick Agran Jane Ciabattari Tappan and Robin Wilder of Los Angeles Dr. Alan C. Aisenberg Allen and Nancy Clapp Jacqueline Woodson Eila and Rod Mackenzie Paul and Gail Allen Jean D. Clark-Graney Caroline and Michel Zaleski Norman and Judy Makechnie Peter S. and Susan Allen Fred W. Clarke Ellen and James S. Marcus Alpha Chi Omega, Eta Phi Eta Chapter Mr. and Mrs. John S. Clarkeson in honor of Helen S. Tucker Suzanne Ambrose Jim Coates and Michele Gagnon HELEN FARNSWORTH MEARS MARKEM Corporation Carolyn Anderson Eleanor Cogswell CONTRIBUTORS Jon and Rosemary Masters Earl K. Anderson and Gareth R. Williams Gerald Cohen Nancy and Richmond Mayo-Smith Sally and Charlie Collier $500 and over Maggie Anderson Melanson Heath & Company, PC Peggy Anderson Martha Collins Anonymous (5) Harold Meltzer Noreen Andreoli Marjorie Colony Anonymous in honor of Margaret Creal Richard and Ronay Menschel Mr. Thomas Angeloro and Chris and Ann Conway A. W. Peters, Inc. Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. Ms. Jean Benson Chris Cooke Aesop’s Tables & Events Honor Moore Edith V. Antunes Douglas and Susan Copley Alchemy Foundation Ronald and Marianne Mortara Laurie and Ken Appel Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas Robert P. Bass, Jr. and Sallie Bass in the name of Jason Mortara Charles R. Appler Eleanor Cory Cecily Bastedo Sarah Nash and Michael Sylvester Ann and Bill Arthur Gheorghe Costinescu Bellows-Nichols Agency, Inc. Diana Nelson and John Atwater James Arzente Peter R. Crosby Richard P. Brown, Jr. Jeffrey and Lisa Neville L.S. Asekoff Crotched Mountain Foundation Jane M. Brox New Jersey State Federation Katherine Ashenburg Ms. Anna E. Crouse Mary Griggs Burke of Women’s Clubs of GFWC Cristina M. Ashjian Madeline M. Dale Jay E. Cantor Kathleen O’Grady Daniel and Carolee Asia Jack F. Damer Arthur D. Clarke and Susan P. Sloan O’Neil Pennoyer Architects Olive Ayhens Marjorie Damon Clements Family Charitable Trust Tarik O’Regan Helène Aylon Thomas A. Dart Hal and Margot Close P.J. and Tina O’Rourke Deborah Baker Suellen and Stuart Davidson

34 Christina and Beverly Davis Laura Gourlay Stellar Kim Rebecca Moore Dorothy Davis Gael Grant W.W. Kimbrel and E.D. Lloyd-Kimbrel Ms. Lise G. Moran Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Davis Stephanie J. Grant Gerri and Ron King Charles Morey Nicholas Dawidoff Harvey Green John King Jeanne Morrison Dr. and Mrs. Francis de Marneffe Reverend Thayer A. Greene and H. Thayer Kingsbury Ken and Moira Mumma Robin Delia Anita U. Greene, Ph.D. Susan Kingsbury Louise Myers Mr. Edward Dell Joyce B. Gregg Florence O. Kirschbaum Jean Nathan Karleen Dellova John W. Greiner and Carolyn R. Greiner Dennis Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. David Nelson Stephen Dembski Eamon Grennan Peter Laszlo Koenig The New Hampshire Philharmonic Alice Denham Mary Carol Grip Phyllis Koestenbaum New Mexico Community Foundation Stacey D’Erasmo Sabrina Gschwandtner Edith Konecky Bonnie J. Newman Thomas Devaney Paul Gunther Catherine J. Koontz Mr. and Mrs. Irving Nichols Charles Devinne H.M. Wetherbee Real Estate Zane H. Kotker George M. Nicholson Jamie Diamond Jill Hacking Darlene Rae Krato Kathy Nilsson Julia M. Distefano Rachel Hadas Julia Kunin JoAnn Nold Kathryn Dodge Shelagh Hadley John Kunowski Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Norton Nancy Dougherty Nancy Hagin Lake Sunapee Bank fsb Stanley T. Noyes Eileen R. Driscoll Barbara F. Hall The Lakes Gallery at Chi-Lin Tom Nussbaum Emily, Mark, and Eleanor Drury Janis Hallowell and Howie Movshovitz Sam and Casey Lambert Suzanne and David Oliver Richard and Nancy Dutton Mary Stewart Hammond Jules N. LaRocque Katharine Olmsted and Charlotte Duval Nora E. Hanke LaValley Building Supply, Inc. John A. Grossman Richard and Susan Dyer Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hardy Penelope Lawrence Elizabeth O’Neil Peter Edlund Donna Harkavy Le FP Green Body Care Suzanne Opton Charles A. Edwards Pagan Harleman Eva Lee Raquel Ortiz Robert and Martha Eichler Patricia Harper Joan and Henry Lee Alicia Ostriker Dianne Embree Steve Harper Nancy Lee and Marie Wilson James R. Packard Sandra Englert Lawrence G. Harris in honor of Londa Weisman David Packer and Margaret Lanzetta Peter Falion and Elizabeth Tannenbaum Joseph and Linda Hart Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman Leigh Palmer Geoffrey and Evelyn Farnum Franz Harter Jim Lehrer Peter Pap Charles and Charlotte Faulkner A. Haslett Susan Leidy Frederic S. Papert Robert Sargent Fay Ethan Hauser Harry Leigh Gail Papp Elen A. Feinberg Sherry L. Hayne Marty Leighton and Beau Trudel Theresa Pappas Mr. Lewis M. Feldstein Mary D. Hazzard Peter R. Leishman Suzan-Lori Parks Ruth P. Fields Maria Dahvana Headley Michael C. Lennon Joanne Pasila Peter J. Filkins Sarah Heller The Lenski Family in honor Ross Patterson Emily Fine and Steve Stein Mr. David Hellerstein of Willy Lenski Ted and Wendy Pearre Mindy Fitterman Kit Henry and Henry Sanders Tania León Bill and Stella Pence Erin Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Hewitt Mr. and Mrs. Deane Leonard Penguin Group (USA), Inc. * Hilda W. Fleisher Ellen M. Hill David Leven and Stella Betts Peggy Penn Flint MacDowell Club Kathleen Hill Ann Levy Ronald C. Perera Robert Flynt Cory C. Hinkle Jack and Mary Liz Lewis Vivian Perlis Lisa and George Foote Jane Hirshfield Professor Anna Lincoln Mrs. Virginia S. Perrette H.A. Crosby Forbes Rolaine Hochstein Margot Livesey Peterborough Woman’s Club Kristin Forselius Marietta Hoferer Ruth Lomon Sammy Peters Kathleen and Daniel Fortin Dr. Burton P. Hoffman Margery Morgan Lowens Walter and Dorothy Peterson Joe and Val Fox David Hoffman and Deborah Friedman The Lukas Community Joseph and Augusta Petrone Serena J. Fox Mrs. Patricia G. Hoffman Dr. Ray E. Luke Anna Mae Petrusha Joslin Kimball Frank Harley Holden Mary Lum Jayne Anne Phillips Ms. Susan Frantz and Mr. Wes DeVries Madeleine Holzer Erik Lundborg Ann Pibal Jonathan Franzen G. Duane Howard Christopher Lyndon-Gee Ray E. and Helen M. Pierce Linda Frawley David E. Howe Dorothy M. Macalaster Barbara A. Pike Elenore Freedman Peter and Gladys Howell Lisa and David MacBride Robert S Pirie Susan K. Freedman and Rabbi Anne and Joel Huberman The MacDowell Club of Providence Vincent Pomilio Richard Jacobs Family Fund Tom Huhn Mr. and Mrs. Charlton MacVeagh, Jr. Miouly Pongnon of the Jewish Communal Fund Valerie Hurley Caroline Mallonée Marie Ponsot in honor of Helen S. Tucker Dan Hurlin and Kazu Nakamura Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Malt Nancy Potter Anne Hobson Freeman Priscilla Hurlin Sarah Manguso Ed Praczukowski Barrett B. Frelinghuysen Simeon Hutner Wendy Mark Joanna Priestley and Paul Harrod Dr. and Mrs. William Fritz Samuel Hynes Amanda Marsh Public Service of New Hampshire Maryjane and Jerry Fromm Peter and Teresa Imhoff Caroline Marshall Emily Rauh Pulitzer Lise Funderburg Catherine Ingraham Solomon Martin Alec and Drika Purves Erica Funkhouser Iota Upsilon Iota Alumnae Chapter Maryann Thompson Architects Rosamond P. Putnam Alice Gabriel of Alpha Chi Omega Michael Massing Sharon L. Pywell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gabriel, Jr. Jack Daniels Motor Inn Eric A. and Tricia Burt Masterson Richard and Janet Quinn Mary Gaitskill Carl and Ann Jacobs Alice Mattison Lawrence Raab Carlton Gamer James Thomas Salon Mrs. Frank Mauran Margo Rabb Vallejo Gantner Irene F. Jankowski Richard Mayhew Anna and Martin Rabinowitz D. Baldwin Gardner Alison Jarvis Doug and Sally Maynard Robert Raley Peter Garfield and O Zhang Teresa Jaynes Richard and Mary McAdoo Robin Rausch Jeremy Gavron James A. Johnson, Jr. Deirdra McAfee Amber Reed Lynn B. Geesaman Tayari Jones Gardner McFall Jennifer Reeves Sara and Ed Germain Carter Judkins Mike McFerron Claudia J. Rein Panos and Patience Haley Ghikas Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Judson Doreen McGuire Erica Rex Hugh Gibson Sheila J. Kabat Frances McKay Kathy Rich Jane Gilman Gus Kaikkonen Jane McNichol Kym Blaise Richardson Thomas Gilroy Sandhya Kale and John Davy Charles Merrill Mabel C. Richardson Paul Glass Bruce Karlin and Evelyn S. Love Polly and Newt Merrill Sally Heath Rives Sheryl Glubok Wendy and Matt Karlyn David Meyer Christopher W. Robbins Maraya and Robert H. Goff, Jr. Jonathon Keats Tanya E. Miller Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo Sheri and Robert Gold The Keene Sentinel Adrienne C. Mim Ann Robinson Neil Goldberg Brian Kellman Kenan Minkoff Lisa M. Robinson Florence K. Goldman James and Gail Kennedy Dr. and Mrs. John F. Minteer Tatiana Golovnya Pat and John Kenny Honor Molloy Pauline Gottschalk Elizabeth Kerwin Sy Montgomery and Howard Mansfield Robert F. Gould Mark Kilstofte Blanche Moore Colony Fellows listed in bold * matching gift

35 Carol and John Rodat Joan and Bob Sweeney IN-KIND DONATIONS PUBLIC FUNDING J.T. Rogers Robert Taft In addition to gifts given to the We are grateful for funding from: Jay Rogoff Kimi Takesue Colony by the donors listed below, the Anne and John Rollins Jean Tatge and Phil Collis Colony is grateful for contributions of Jerry and Dorothy Rosenberg Judith Taylor works of art by Colonists, which are Jeff L. Rosenheim Maria and Kim Temple placed in MacDowell’s archive. Kellye M. Rosenheim Lenore Tenenblatt Mel Rosenthal Mark A. Thompson Borders Books Kathy and Jon Ross Fiona M. Tibbetts Eleanor Briggs Roy’s Market Nancy Ticktin Will Chapman Andrew Rudin and Tom Queenan TIMKEN Colleen Clark Mr. and Mrs. L. Phillips Runyon, III Jeffry and Sara Timmons Eastern Mountain Sports Rosamond Bernier Russell Gioia Timpanelli Carolyn Edwards Lynne Sachs Sally Tittman Harold B. Ehrlich Barbara Sahlman Ed Tomey and Maich Gardner Elegant Settings Sarah and Peter Sandback Preston Trombly Bob Geisel Jack and Arria Sands Nan Tull Kit Henry Ms. Ann Sargent Mr. Kenneth Turan Jim Howard The Howe Library Yoelene and Robert Schaefer Dr. Robert Comrie Turner MEDAL DAY CORPORATE PARTNER Gary Schiro Jo Turville Lindsay Johnson Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider Anne D. Twitchell Marcia Kayser Pearl and Henry Schour Dr. Nancy Van de Vate Terry and Abby LaRock Ben Schrank Patricia Volk Monica Lehner Anna Schuleit and Wyatt Mason Jacek von Henneberg Colette Lucas in honor Mr. Tony Schuman Mr. and Mrs. Carl Von Mertens of the Centennial Laura Elise Schwendinger Wachovia Foundation Matching Lilla Lyon Holly Macy of Boughs of Holly Scully - Architects Gifts Program * RESTRICTED GIFTS Stephanie Seacord Mary M. Walker P.J. and Tina O'Rourke Ted and Wendy Pearre Donors who have designated funds Marlene Sellers Lindsay Walt for a specific purpose. Ravi Shankar Lucy Wang and Tom Halpern Nanette Perrotte Myra Shapiro Anne Wardwell Ruth Reichl Kin Schilling ALPHA CHI OMEGA FELLOWSHIP Yevgeniy Sharlat Mrs. Marian J. Ware Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Jeffrey Sharlet Robert B. Washburn Paul Schleiben Sunflowers Café and Catering Jessica Sharzer Peggy Watershouse GARDNER READ FELLOWSHIP Mrs. William L. Shearer, III Barbara H. Watson Three Maples Bed and Breakfast Wal-Mart Cynthia Read through the Estates Rachel Sheinkin Elaine F. Weiss of Gardner Read and Vail P. Read Emily Shelton Mac Wellman Mike Webb Sarah E. Shively Anne Wesson Rosemary and David Wolpe Yankee Publishing, Inc. THE GERALDINE R. DODGE Sally and Len Short Bradley S. Wester FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP John Sieswerda Dr. and Mrs. Lennard Wharton Mr. Herbert B. Simon Susan McDonald White Jane E. Simpson Thomas Whitman IN MEMORIAM Sim’s Press, Inc. Edward F. Whitney Gifts in Memory of Benny Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Singleton Joan Wickersham Brooke Davis Anderson Barbara Sjoholm Ms. Mary C. Wiellette Ken Buhler and Mary Hambleton H. R. Slack John Willenbecher Elisa D’Arrigo Alison Smith Jane Williams Gifts in Memory of Sheila Ballantyne Michael Smith Pat Williams NADYA AISENBERG ENDOWED Jo Chun-Wood and Matt Wood Patrick D. Smith Robert La Williams FELLOWSHIP Fay Clayton and Lowell Sachnoff Rheta Smith Suzanne Williamson and John Capouya Elizabeth Crane Robert H. Smith Jr. Mary Willis Laura Jason Susan and Dick Kaplan Sharon Smith Babette and William Wilson STUDIO MAINTENANCE Daniel J. and Jo Ellen Levy Octavio Solis Charles and Ellen Winchester Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Sylvia and Joel Saldinger Anna Solomon Katherine B. Winter for Star Studio Stefan Spielman Professor Maya Sonenberg and Joanne H. Wise Delta Omicron Foundation Neil and Ann Wolff Mr. John C. Robinson Carter and Eileen Wiseman for Delta Omicron Studio and the Sophelle Ms. Susan N. Wittmer Petzold-Collyer Memorial Piano Gifts In Memory of Mamoo Corrigan Peter Sourian Meg Wolitzer New Jersey State Federation Rich Geisel Martha Southgate and Jeffrey Phillips David and Carolyn Wood of Women’s Clubs of GFWC Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Southgate Mr. and Mrs. Richard Worthing for New Jersey Studio Gifts In Memory of Elliott Goldberg Lewis Spratlan David Wristen Phi Beta Fraternity: National Neil Goldberg Dr. David G. Stahl Matthew R. Yeager Professional Association for Scott Stark John Yearley the Creative and Performing Arts Gifts in Memory of Eleanor Hazelton Christopher Steadman Clinton B. Yeomens for Phi Beta Studio George M. Clark Mr. and Mrs. David Steadman Christopher C. York Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Donald Steele Ward Yoshimoto for Pan’s Cottage Gifts in Memory of Edward MacDowell Susan M. Steinberg Alan and Lois Young Sorosis, Inc. for Sorosis Studio Sterling Design & Communications Cheryl A. Young The Musical Club of Hartford, Inc. Robert Stern Sherry Young and David Boughton WRITERS’ AID FUND Gifts in Memory of Gardner Read Mr. and Mrs. James W. Stevens Kimon Zachos Anonymous Margaret L. Stevens Marilyn J. Ziffrin Estate of Vail P. Read Matthew Stevenson Joan P. Zinkawich Craig Stockwell and Sarah Mustin Janet Zweig Gifts in Memory of Philip Spielman RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES Hugh F. Stoddart Stefan Spielman Amy Beach Judith Stout Ruth M. Bourne Ginger Strand BEQUESTS Gifts in Memory of Thornton Wilder Charles Wakefield Cadman Susan Strickler The Wilder Family Edward O. Berkman Cathrine Boettcher Felding Katherine Sturtevant Jane M. Cooper Louise Talma Steven Subotnick Gifts in Memory of Earl Zindars Charlotte I. Loeb Lou Winans Mineral Rights Elisabeth Anne Subrin Susannah McCorkle Helen Zindars Joan and Steve Subrin Vail P. Read Dr. Winifred and Paul Sullivan Andrew R. Supplee Rachel Sussman We have made every effort to assure that this list is accurate and complete. Colony Fellows listed in bold Glen and Annagreta Swanson We apologize for any errors. Please let us know of any oversight. * matching gift

36 The hundredth year of the Colony was probably its busiest, with the continuation of MESSAGE The Campaign for the Second Century, a yearlong Centennial celebration, which included, among many other initiatives, an original book (A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell FROM THE Colony 1907–2007), an original film (Seasons of MacDowell), and more than 70 events around the country, including an expanded Medal Day and the largest New York gala TREASURER ever. We also had major construction underway with the complete renovation of Colony Hall and a new maintenance facility. In March, a major property tax case was finally settled with a favorable ruling at the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

As Treasurer, I am happy to report that amidst all that activity, management and staff stayed focused and were able to exceed aggressive fundraising goals while keeping expenses under a tight budget. Truly a remarkable performance! Net assets were $35.4 million. Development efforts generated $1.7 million. Campaign and Centennial fundraising raised another $2.0 million, bringing the total support and revenue to $3.7 million for the year. Operating expenses were $3.4 million, with 79% going to Program Services and Administration. MacDowell’s endowment was $27.8 million at year’s end. Investment return was negative $41 thousand for the year.

During Fiscal Year 2008, the Colony served the artist community by providing Fellowships to 240 individuals for a total of 7,741 days. This is down somewhat from last year because kitchen capacity was reduced during Colony Hall renovations.

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, 2008 & 2007 2008 2007 Gerald J. Gartner Number of artists-in-residence 240 254 Treasurer Total number of artists days 7,741 8,230

Investments at Fair Value $ 27,799,179 $ 29,657,876 FY08 SOURCES OF SUPPORT & REVENUE Total Assets 35,655,343 35,981,660 Operating Support Total Liabilities 255,710 89,214 CONTRIBUTIONS Total Net Assets 35,399,633 35,892,446 Individuals $ 224,746 8% Total Support & Revenue 3,701,288 3,126,064 Corporations 2,350 0% Total Expenses 4,153,249 3,636,200 Government 30,000 1% Change Before Investment Return (451,961) (510,136) Foundations 256,882 7% Net Investment Return (40,852) 6,396,995 Bequests 221,734 6% Change in Net Assets $ (492,813) $ 5,886,859 Events 902,954 26% Subtotal 1,638,666 48%

ADMISSIONS, ROYALTIES & OTHER 81,212 2% FY08 EXPENSES SUBTOTAL 1,719,878 50% Operating Expenses PROGRAM $ 1,954,766 57% TRANSFER FROM UNRESTRICTED FUNDS ADMINISTRATION 765,495 22% (To cover difference between DEVELOPMENT 711,725 21% Operating Support and Expenses) 1,712,108 50% OPERATING EXPENSES subtotal 3,431,986 100% OPERATING SUPPORT subtotal 3,431,986 100%

Non-Recurring Special Expenses Non-Recurring Special Support CENTENNIAL 390,142 CENTENNIAL 316,023 CAMPAIGN 331,121 CAMPAIGN 1,665,387

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 4,153,249 TOTAL SUPPORT & REVENUE $ 3,701,288

Administration 22% OPERATING Contributions OPERATING 48% Program EXPENSES Endowment SUPPORT 57% Development Transfer $3,431,987 21% $3,431,986 50%

Admissions, Royalties & Other 2%

37 BOARD OF DIRECTORS as of June, 2008

Robert MacNeil Susan Davenport Austin Vallejo Gantner Richard Oldenburg Mrs. David F. Putnam Chairman Deborah Baker Mary Garland Robert M. Olmsted Director Emerita David Baum Vartan Gregorian Olivia Parker Carter Wiseman Robert Beaser John A. Hargraves Thomas P. Putnam The MacDowell Colony President Varujan Boghosian Larry Harris Peter C. Read thanks the following Eleanor Briggs David W. Heleniak Leslie E. Robertson directors who retired William N. Banks Barbara K. Bristol Dan Hurlin Jeff L. Rosenheim from our board during Drue Heinz Ken Burns Julia Jacquette Amy Baker Sandback 2007–2008: Evelyn Stefansson Nef Peter Cameron Jytte Jensen Andrew M. Senchak Jane Alexander Vice Chairmen Mary Carswell Pamela J. Joyner Alvin Singleton David Del Tredici Anne Cox Chambers Verlyn Klinkenborg Susan Sollins-Brown Gerald J. Gartner Fred Clarke Carol Krinsky Martha Southgate And sadly notes Treasurer Alexander Cortesi Monica Lehner Charles F. Stone III the passing of: Nicholas Dawidoff Tania León Robert Storr Elizabeth Hardwick Helen S. Tucker Louise Eastman Scott Manning Ilse Traulsen Secretary Ruth M. Feder Carman Moore James Trowbridge Edmée de M. Firth Paul Moravec Mac Wellman Cheryl A. Young Mrs. Robert Forbes Mira Nair Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Assistant Secretary David V. Foster George M. Nicholson

STAFF as of June, 2008

Cheryl A. Young DEVELOPMENT MAINTENANCE Michael Cahoon Tammy Lenski Executive Director Wendy Belser John Sieswerda Lynne Campbell Paul Lucas Director of Development Maintenance Foreman Peter Carlson Melanie MacDonald David Macy Tim Anderson Jeromy Brett Jeannie Connolly Sara MacDonald Resident Director Campaign Coordinator Maintenance Assistant Bea Corriveau Tim McMahon Katya Luchanskya Emily Drury Chris Cooke Ryan Mitchell ADMINISTRATION Development Assistant Gardener Lynn Compton Martha Moore Michelle Aldredge John Martin Jamie Sargent Swift Corwin Dan Ownbey Office and Fellow Services Development Associate Assistant to the Foreman Jennifer Dark Anne Pelletier Assistant Pauli Ochi Joanne Donoghue DeCenzo Terry Reeves Jody Garnick Events Assistant Seasonal Maintenance Staff: Tim Donovan Joseph Rosbury Information Services Coordinator Elena Quevedo Alex Bixby Lauren Faria Carolyn Saari Barbara Harlow Director of Special Events Cody Carlson Charles Farinella Maude Salinger Assistant to the Resident Director James Dunholter Kathy Farinella Chris Sheldon Alex Inglis HOUSEKEEPING Liam Holding Rachel Garceau Ken Sheldon Human Resources and Finance Deborah Marsh Betsy Gordon Meghan Simon Assistant House Manager VOLUNTEERS Mike Gordon Rory Steer Tammy Lester Cheryl Carlson Library Interns: Lori Groleau Winnifred Sullivan Assistant Financial Administrator Housekeeper Michael Cahoon Dennis Hahn Erin Sweeney Colette Lucas Winnie McCormack Tabitha Luca Tracey Hanson Paul Tuller Librarian Housekeeper Gisele Hebert Jennie Wood Kyle Oliver Mary Cramb New York Interns: Jessica Hill Senior Program Administrator Seasonal Housekeeper Kavie Barnes Devon Hubner The MacDowell Colony Judy Jones Parker, CPA Blake Tewksbury Danielle Parillo John Irving thanks these departing Financial Administrator Fellow Services Coordinator Chris Jean staff members: Amy McLaughlin Special thanks to: Koren Jones Brooke Hubner Executive Assistant, NY KITCHEN Caitlin Allard Susan Jones Emily Katzif Justin Sowa Scott Tyle Ricardo Barretto Carter Judkins Julie McAdoo Office Assistant, NY Chef Alex Belser Matt Keenan Maureen McMahon Teresa Steer Maryel Chabot Claudia Bissett Staci Keenan Nancy Nelson Office Assistant and Cook Tom Bissett Andrea Keirstead Adria Santo Photo Archivist, NH Andrea Larson Jack Burnett Sue Kretchman Cook and Kitchen Assistant Alex Cahoon Sean Lamoureaux ADMISSIONS Susan Moody Courtney Bethel Cook Admissions Director Samantha Rule Karen Keenan Cook Admissions Assistant Ashley Silverman Colette Lucas Cook and Kitchen Assistant Admissions Assistant Kitchen Assistants: CENTENNIAL Emily Callahan Anne Stark Anastasia Dubrovina Centennial Project Manager Drew Lucas Dan Thayer COMMUNICATIONS Sam Thompson Brendan Tapley Annie Trowbridge Communications Director Karen Sampson Seasonal Kitchen Assistants: Communications Associate Mary Cramb Galen Kerrick

The MacDowell Colony staff.

38 “I don’t know how you do it, but you make it seem as if the Colony runs on its own. All of this contributed to my taking new risks in my work — ones I would not likely have taken in my regular life and practice. It’s hard to overstate what a relief it is to be in place for a while that truly values the work that artists do.”

– Beth Krebs, interdisciplinary artist

EDITOR: Detailed information about the ADDRESSES: The MacDowell Colony is a Brendan Tapley Colony’s work, including how to The MacDowell Colony member of the Alliance of Artists apply, may be obtained using the 100 High Street Communities, a nationwide ASSOCIATE EDITOR: following resources: Peterborough, New Hampshire consortium and professional Karen Sampson 03458 organization for the field; and DESIGNER: Lisa Dahl WEB SITE: 603-924-3886 phone Res Artis, a worldwide network PHOTOGRAPHER: www.macdowellcolony.org 603-924-9142 fax of artist residency programs. Joanna Eldredge Morrissey (unless otherwise credited) E-MAIL: The MacDowell Colony [email protected] 163 East 81st Street Timeline images, unless otherwise or New York, New York credited, are courtesy of the [email protected] 10028 Colony’s archives. 212-535-9690 phone PRINTER: Puritan Press 212-737-3803 fax

39 Lesley McTague, visual artist

A GIFT TO The MacDowell Colony relies on gifts to operate and gratefully M ACDOWELL 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 TAX STATUS Fellowship. Unique naming opportunities are available for studios, rooms, special equipment, landscaping elements, Fellowships, The MacDowell Colony is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation stipends, and endowment funds. founded in 1907 under the laws of the state of New York “to Throughout its history, the Colony has benefited from legacies of promote the arts.” The Internal assets, including cash bequests, stocks, real estate, the rights to Revenue Service has certified and royalties from works of art, and useful items such as books, that The MacDowell Colony is not a private foundation, equipment, and furnishings. The Marian MacDowell Society has as defined in section 509(a) been established to honor the many Colony Fellows, friends, and of the Internal Revenue Code supporters who have chosen to remember MacDowell in their wills. as revised in 1969, and Your bequest to The MacDowell Colony will help to guarantee that the Colony is an organization future generations of artists continue to have an ideal place in described in Code Section which to create enduring works of the imagination. 509(a)(2). Therefore, all gifts and bequests to the Colony are fully deductible to the extent Please consider expressing your commitment to MacDowell provided by law for income through an annual gift, bequest, or planned gift. To discuss the and estate tax purposes. ways in which your gift will help creative artists and to learn about possible significant tax savings with planned giving, please call Director of Development Wendy Belser at 212-535-9690. We would be pleased to assist you and your legal or tax advisors.

40 “Twenty years have gone by since the first time I came here in July of 1987. Looking back, I see how indebted I am to MacDowell for the time and space to risk, to search, and to continue trying again. The environment created at MacDowell provides an atmosphere of appreciation and respect for the process of making something, and the belief that art nourishes and heals society. The world desperately needs more enlightened communities like MacDowell.”

– , composer The MacDowell Colony NON-PROFIT ORG. 100 High Street Peterborough, NH 03458-2485 U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 PETERBOROUGH, NH