The MacDowell Colony

ANNUAL REPORT 2003 – 2004 CONTENTS

1 The Mission

3 Message from the Chairman

4 Report from the President and Executive Director

6 Artists-in-Residence

17 Colony Fellows Executive Committee

18 MacDowell in the Community

20 Events

22 The Edward MacDowell Medal and Medal Day

23 Gifts for Residencies and Studios

27 The MacDowell Circle Contributors

31 Message from the Treasurer

32 Board and Staff

33 A Gift to MacDowell

(clockwise from top left) Composer Andrew Lee, Interdisciplinary artist Denise Marika, and Architects Lorella Di Cinto and Jonsara Ruth

front cover (clockwise from top right) Fiction writer John Dalton, Composer Amelia Kaplan, Filmmaker Kevin Everson, and Painter Katharine Kuharic THE MISSION

The MacDowell Colony nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of imagination.

More than 240 creative artists come to In 1907, the Colony was founded the Colony each year from all parts of by American composer Edward the United States and abroad. Anyone MacDowell and Marian MacDowell, may apply. The sole criterion for his wife. Since its inception, more than acceptance is talent as judged by a 5,500 women and men of exceptional juried committee in the applicant’s ability have come to the Colony in discipline. A residency lasts from two Peterborough, New Hampshire. weeks to two months. Accepted artists Situated on 450 acres of woodlands are given a private studio in which to and fields, the Colony has 32 studios. work, as well as room and all meals. It is listed in the National Register of There are no residency fees. The Historic Places and is a National Colony encourages artists from all Historic Landmark. backgrounds to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, Works of art conceived, developed, handicap, sex, religion, marital status, and completed during residencies at or national origin. MacDowell have added immeasurably to our country’s cultural life. In 1997, To continue to provide an ideal working The MacDowell Colony was awarded place for gifted artists, The MacDowell the National Medal of Arts for “nurtur- Colony depends upon public interest ing and inspiring many of this century’s and generosity and is very grateful to finest artists.” the many friends who have given their support. (clockwise from top left) Fiction writer Frances Hwang, Composer Yaron Gottfried, Visual artist Georgia Metz, and Interdisciplinary artist Adam Frelin MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

As someone who toiled in the vineyards of television for many years, I find myself increasingly dismayed by the tabloidizing of our principal national medium. What are the marks of the tabloid? They are: ridiculous magnification of the trite, sensationalism, mawkish sentimentality, and competitive patriotism—all for marketing purposes, of course, but some with an undergarment of political intent.

This summer more than ever I feel the need for a corrective to weigh our values in more accurate scales; to uncheapen the currency of national feelings; to throw out the counterfeit currency of false emotion and distorted emphasis. More than ever we need minds uninfected by the marketplace, to put ideas back into some sane hierarchies of importance. More than ever we need our artists for minds free of cant, free of slogans. So, more than ever, we need places that nurture artists and such a place — pre-eminently, we think—is MacDowell.

Robert MacNeil Chairman

3 REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

After working together through many seasons, the MacDowell staff and board have found a rhythm and momentum that propels us smoothly through the crests of activity and the calm of windless days. The many activities that filled the past twelve months are described in the following pages. The lulls, mis- leadingly named, may not be visible in these pages but deserve mention, as the thinking done during them drives the activities we undertake.

While conducting our business as usual — providing residencies to more than 250 artists, managing budgets, processing applications, convening panels, con- ducting outreach, communicating with our supporters, refurbishing the plant, and raising funds—this year we engaged in a series of planning sessions in preparation for exciting things to come. Small groups met throughout the year to discuss long-range plans for the residency program, and to forecast the funding needed to carry out our vision. After myriad discussions with artists, consultants, and supporters, we landed on our feet with a single overriding goal: quality. This is nothing new in the context of a program that has been driven by that goal since its inception. However, it was refreshing to focus once again on why we value it and how we achieve it.

We begin by sharing two insights gleaned from dialogue with MacDowell artists that provide context for MacDowell and its role. Early in the year we welcomed a journalist from The Christian Science Monitor who wanted to talk with artists-in-residence about why they come to MacDowell and whether they felt things were better or worse for artists in 2004 than they had been in the past. We quickly realized that times were never easy for artists; MacDowell’s very existence was born out of need and the growth in the field of residency programs ever since the Colony’s inception underscores this perennial truth. One might think it would dampen the motivations of even the most committed artists, but during a roundtable discussion, poet Gail Taylor suggested that the inability of artists to survive on the profit of their work is not a total loss because they will bring their creative way of thinking to the general workplace; they will infiltrate society from within. MacDowell provides the window of time to be an artist. As our year ended, we gained insight from another discussion. Playwright Mac Wellman, participating in a MacDowell Salon event, lamented the fact that dialogue about art is isolated to places like MacDowell. Aside from occasions in academia, and those are often restricted to a single department, there is little opportunity in the arts community for cross-disciplinary dialogue, the value of which was Edward MacDowell’s most firmly held belief. The Colony provides a chance for these cultural conversations to take place.

Often the site of such dialogue, MacDowell’s Eugene Coleman Savidge Library has been undergoing a transformation. Over the past several years, we have catalogued the collection of works by Colony Fellows totaling 9,020 items and growing. Martha Moore began her tenure as our first permanent part-time librarian. Her main task is to continue to improve the library and to catalog new work as it is donated. As a result of this attention, we are creating a system for accessing visual artists’ slides for resident artists to browse, and an Internet workstation is now in place for research purposes. Owing to the productivity and generosity of Colony Fellows, who are increasingly donating examples of their work, we now know that the shelf space will be entirely filled in a year and a half. Our library expansion plans are underway.

The centennial steering committee headed by Tom Putnam has recruited a virtual army of leaders who met throughout the year to propose celebratory activities in 2007 and discuss the broader value of such a celebration. With a national centennial celebration, we seek to raise awareness of the value of creative artists and the arts nationally through our events and communications. To that end, we welcomed Anne Stark this April as our centennial coordinator. 4 Mary Carswell led an invigorating meeting with new board members in November to explore long-range planning. Gerry Gartner gathered together the financial team for its second annual retreat to analyze and forecast our financial position. We welcomed development consultant, Victoria Jones Neill, to the conversation and began the first phase of planning for a campaign that will address capital and endowment needs.

With quality ever in mind, we expanded our formal assessment of the residency program. Are we reaching the most talented artists from around the country? Are we keeping up with and anticipating the changing needs of artists? In the fall, Dan Hurlin, chairman of the Admissions Committee convened a joint meeting of advisors in all disciplines to consider how MacDowell is perceived and what its challenges are for the future. Later in the year, we held the first in an on-going series of discipline-specific meetings. Amid statistics and anecdotes, the conclusion emerged that, while the peer- panel system is functioning well, there are opportunities for improvement. We would like to attract more applicants in playwriting and architecture, reach a broader geographic base, and encourage more applications from interdisciplinary artists and those taking risks with new forms.

Finally, we gratefully acknowledge resident director David Macy for his careful attention to the day-to-day operation of MacDowell and we commend all the MacDowell staff for their dedication. Our communication and fundraising offices have performed outstandingly well this year. In April, Brendan Tapley was promoted to communications director and began the challenging task of connecting the thousands of Fellows to create an ener- gized community in support of our common goals. In addition to including more artists’ voices in the newsletter, the web site has been upgraded to include a calendar, links to Colony Fellow home pages, and a Colony Fellows Executive Committee section. A new listserv and e-news service has been launched. The development team led by Wendy Belser has done an outstanding job of expanding and energizing our support base. In addition to organizing the annual New York benefit, which honored Wynn Kramarsky and yielded unprecedented revenue to support artists’ fellowships, development staff collaborated with a newly formed committee in New Hampshire to produce a wonderfully successful benefit last September featuring board member Ken Burns. Bequests, which have been a crucial source of funds throughout MacDowell’s history, were received from board member Patricia Hartung and two artists, Colony Fellow Kent Kennan and poet James Merrill. These thought- ful gifts allow MacDowell to do more than just business as usual; they reinforce both our resolve and ability to move MacDowell and the arts forward.

To our outgoing board members—Paul Byard, Randall Kenan, and Libby Larsen—we extend our warmest thanks for your time, advice, and gifts. We welcome new board members Dan Froot, Jytte Jensen, and Jeff Rosenheim and note the passing of beloved board member Mrs. Ernest S. “Red” Heller. Thank you to all who have helped to make this year such a good one.

Carter Wiseman Cheryl A. Young President Executive Director

5 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

The Colony continues to attract the highest caliber of professional artists in the country and abroad. More than 1500 artists applied to MacDowell, from all over the country and abroad, during the period between April 2003 and March 2004. Six panels met three times during the year to select 253 artists to receive residencies: 5 architects, 32 composers, 23 film and videomakers, 21 interdisciplinary artists, 45 visual artists, and 127 writers.They came from 30 states and 11 countries.Their projects at MacDowell and recent accomplishments are described here.

Kevin Beavers, Athens, WV, completed work on Acrobat, a commissioned com- position for vocal soloist, chorus, and orchestra, to be premiered by the California Symphony in 2004.

Elizabeth Brown, Brooklyn, NY, completed Detour for flute, violin, cello, and dan bau (Vietnamese monochord). Newband will premiere the piece in 2004 in NYC. Her CD Blue Minor: Chamber Music by Elizabeth Brown was recently released on Albany Records.

Dorothy Chang, Vancouver, BC, completed Embers, a work commissioned by Chamber Music America for Ensemble Music from China. She also worked on a chamber concerto for percussionist Steve Houghton, that premiered in 2003.

William Coble, Chicago, IL, worked on a concertino for piano, strings, and com- puter. In the past year he has had pre- mieres by the Richmond Symphony, the Architect Brenda Brown Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Eighth Blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, and the New York New Music Ensemble. He won a 2003 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. ARCHITECTS Mark Robbins, Washington, DC, contin- Sebastian Currier, New York, NY, ued working on Households, which com- worked on a chamber piece commissioned Brenda Brown, Gainsville, FL, worked on bines images of the body, the domestic by Meet the Composer for the Copland a book, Time and Gardens. A 2003 Rome interior, and the neighborhood. Through House Chamber Players. It will be pre- Prize Finalist in landscape architecture, multi-paneled photographic collages and miered at the Princeton Institute for she was chair of the committee that orga- the exploration of over forty homes and Advanced Studies in 2004. He also wrote nized the traveling exhibit Eco-recovery several summer communities, he explores a piece, R.E.M., for the Elements Quartet. Design: Nature Constricted/Nature Revealed the ideas of public space and American and edited its catalog. social life. Richard Danielpour, New York, NY, was completing Act I of Margaret Garner, Lorella Di Cinto, Toronto, Ontario, com- Jonsara Ruth, Brooklyn, NY, in conjunc- which has been commissioned by the pleted two critical essays exploring the tion with Lorella Di Cinto, worked on opera companies of Detroit, Cincinnati, urban condition of East Detroit. She also compiling a collection of memoirs and and Philadelphia. The libretto is by Toni completed the final version of her artist images from their experience working in Morrison, and the opera will be directed statement for the Drawing Center, NYC. a vacant house in Detroit. by Tazwell Thompson. It will receive its Her drawing installation entitled Surface world premiere in 2005. Pull was exhibited at the Drawing Center in 2003. COMPOSERS Paul Elwood, Brevard, NC, completed the piano reduction of his concerto for piano John Keenen, New York, NY, was com- and concert band in three movements. His pleting work on Skyway, a short film about Bret Battey, Seattle, WA, completed composition Circo de Maontes, Teatro de las the Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey. He development on the Pitch Curve Analysis Nubes was released in 2003 by Ensemble recently completed a residency at the and Composition system, a computer Signos of Mexico City. Wexner Center for Art and Technology in tool for composing and rendering pitch Columbus, OH. He is a practicing architect curves and ornaments. and partner in the NYC firm Keenen/Riley.

6 Danny Felsenfeld, New York, NY, con- Andrew McKenna Lee, Astoria, NY, com- tinued work on his opera, The Last of pleted two new chamber works, that pre- Manhattan, which was workshopped at miered in 2003 at the Norfolk Chamber The Kitchen, NYC this spring. His cantata, Music Festival and Aspen Music Festival. Summer and All it Brings, will be featured on NYC Opera’s 2004 American Paul Yeon Lee, Bayside, NY, worked on Composers Showcase. Ballade No. 1 for Orchestra, which was commissioned and will be premiered by Stacy Garrop, Chicago, IL, worked on, the American Composers Orchestra at Double Trouble for two violins and piano, Carnegie Hall in the 2004-2005 season. which the Callisto Ensemble will pre- He has also begun drafting a percussion miere in Chicago in 2004. In 2004 she quartet piece Echoes of the Night. will serve as composer-in-residence in the Left Chamber Music Series, Chicago. Paul Moravec, New York, NY, completed, Chamber Symphony, commissioned and Yaron Gottfried, Kfar-Saba, Israel, con- premiered in 2003 by the Bridgehampton tinued working on a composition com- Music Festival, as well as several songs Composer Sebastian Currier missioned by the Jerusalem Music Center and Concerto for Oboe & Strings, premier- entitled, Concerto for Percussion duo- ing in the 2003-04 season by Bert Percaduo. This piece premiered with the Lucaerlli and SONYC. Israel Kibbutz Orchestra in 2004 as part Jonathan Pieslak, New York, NY, began of a multi-media concert series. Richard Nelson, Brunswick, ME, worked work on a commission for the Plainfield on a piece for a large mixed ensemble Symphony Orchestra. The work was Robin Heifetz, Van Nuys, CA, recently commissioned by the Univ. of Maine at commissioned through the Jerome completed a commissioned work Caught Augusta, which will draw heavily on Foundation and the American Composers in the Glare for alto saxophone and prere- both jazz and traditional music traditions. Forum, and will be premiered during the corded electronics. The piece received its 2004-2005 season. premiere during the World Saxophone Tarik O’Regan, Oxford, UK, began work Congress XIII in Minneapolis in 2003, on his chamber opera, Heart of Darkness, Bobby Previte, New York, NY, worked and will appear on Electroshock Records while concurrently completing a choral on his new composition, Requiem for a in 2004. work commission from the BBC. He took Fallen Country. up a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Mike Holober, Nyack, NY, composed two Fellowship at Columbia Univ. in 2004. David Rakowski, Maynard, MA, worked works for jazz orchestra, Roc (sic) and a Soft on Dream Symphony for premiere by the Place and Twist and Turn for performances Seung-ah Oh, Den Haag, The New England String Ensemble. His surrounding the 2004 release of the Netherlands, completed a piece for the Etudes Vol. 1 was recently released on Gotham Jazz Orchestra’s first recording, flute, bass-clarinet, and piano, which will Bridge Records, and Vol. 2 was recorded Thought Trains. His jazz quintet recording be premiered by the KAIDA Trio in the for future release on Bridge. He recently Canyon was released in 2003. Netherlands in 2004. She also started a received his second Fromm Foundation research project and developed a concept commission to write Etudes, Book V. Edward Knight, Oklahoma City, OK, for an opera based on a 16th century wrote and orchestrated three songs. One Korean Geisha, Hwang Jin-I. Lucia Ronchetti, Rome, Italy, worked on is part of an animation project based on a chamber opera for voices, instruments, creation myths. The other two are for Robert Paterson, New York, NY, worked and live electronics, which will be created Israeli singer Ariela Kalif-Carmi. He also on Wind Quintet that was premiered by in Berlin, and produced by the started work on a clarinet and marimba Ariel Winds during the 2003-04 season. Elektronisches Studio der Technishen piece commissioned by Chad Burrow He also wrote a new orchestral piece, Universitat. Her last composition, and David Steffens. Electric Lines. Hombre de Mucha Gravedad, was commis- sioned by Neue Vocalsolisten and Arditti Quartet and performed at the 2003 Festival Musica in Strasbourg.

Alex Shapiro, Malibu, CA, worked on a MacDowell provided an environment flute quartet commissioned by the California Association of Professional that nurtured my creative process Music Teachers; it was premiered by the with essentials that I didn’t even LA Flute Quartet in 2004. Her three- movement work inspired by the events know were necessary. of 9/11, will appear on pianist Teresa [ ] McCollough’s upcoming CD Music for - Architect Jonsara Ruth Hammers and Sticks.

Alvin Singleton, Atlanta, GA, completed Ishirini for two violins that premiered in Jan Krzywicki, Philadelphia, PA, com- 2003 at Music from Angel Fire Festival in posed Alchemy for solo piano, a commis- NM. He also worked on When Given a sion for James Cook for premiere in 2004 Richard Peaslee, New York, NY, worked Choice, an orchestral piece that premiered at Illinois Wesleyan Univ. He edited Star on the completion of the piano/vocal in 2004 at Carnegie Hall by the American Songs for publication by Theodore score of a musical theatre work Moby Composers Orchestra. Presser Co., which was composed during Dick. Recent works include the score for a residency at the Colony in 2002, and Vienna Lusthaus Revisited and the music Lawrence Leighton Smith, Colorado completed a piano reduction of his for a dance piece, The Four Temperaments Springs, CO, wrote a sonata for flute Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra for Tuba- commissioned by Pilobolus. and piano. Euphonium Press. 7 Tom Gilroy, Brooklyn, NY, completed the first draft of his screenplay, It’s a Beautiful Day. His new book of haiku, Benita Raphan, New York, NY, worked Volunteer Geraniums, was published by on grant proposals to continue her series Soft Skull Press in 2003. of experimental short documentaries called They Were the Future, which are Meredith Holch, East Hardwick, VT, currently airing on the Sundance began work on No Place like Home, an Channel and Showtime. animated video about asylum seekers in the U.S., which will premiere at the Luis Recoder, New York, NY, worked on a International Toy Theater Festival, NYC, series of digital pieces entitled Light in 2005. Her past work has been broad- Adaptations. A screening of his 16mm films cast on WNET-13’s Reel New York Series. and film performances, Available Light, was part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Simeon Hutner, Los Angeles, CA, com- the 2003 Rotterdam Film Festival. pleted his film, My Brother, Nathaniel, about his brother’s experience with severe Marie Regan, New York, NY, began work mental illness. Life with Sam, a book of on a new feature screenplay and spent photographs and poems that he collabo- time editing two experimental video Filmmaker Marie Regan rated on with his late sister, Liz, was works: Jet Propulsion/Recirculation and A published in 2003 by Cauankerry Press. Western. Her short film Traveler is currently showing on the Sundance Channel. Soonjung Suh, Los Angeles, CA, com- Mike Jones, New York, NY, finished a pleted his Piano Concerto, which was pre- feature-length screenplay entitled, Gallo’s Marcia Rudin, New York, NY, finished miered by the Manhattan Composers Last Days. His fourth screenplay, Even her screenplay, Promised Land and wrote Orchestra in 2003. His orchestra piece, Hard, had its theatrical debut in 2004. It the first draft of a new screenplay, Yu-Hyum, received the IK-Tae Ahm was directed by Joseph Pierson, who will Closings. One of her new plays, Award from the Korea Times in 2002. also direct his script Miller in 2004. Unaccompanied Minor, was a finalist in the Florida Playwrights Process 2003 Aleksandra Vrebalov, New York, NY, Marc Kristal, New York, NY, finished the contest and received honorable mention worked on a piece for Kronos Quartet second draft of his novel Permission and in the Writer’s Digest Competition. and completed a song for mezzo soprano revised his screenplay, The Miracles. and two violins based on Hemingway’s Elisabeth Subrin, Brooklyn, NY, com- poem “Along with Youth.” Several of her Kakyoung Lee, Brooklyn, NY, completed pleted Up, a feature-length screenplay, songs were premiered at Symphony a new animation entitled Sprinkling the written with support from the Sundance Space, NYC in 2004. Cactus, to be shown in her solo show at Institute Screenwriter and Filmmaker’s Shinsegae Gallery, Korea, in 2004. Labs, as well as The Guggenheim Foundation and Creative Capital. Lynn Loo, Singapore, made Taunt and FILM AND VIDEOMAKERS History, experimental shorts to be shown Kimi Takesue, New York, NY, worked on a in galleries in Washington and Singapore. feature-length screenplay with support David Barker, Austin, TX, worked on the She also completed Floating a short from the Rockefeller Foundation and the first draft of his feature length screenplay, experimental essay film. New York State Council on the Arts. Her The Devils. His first feature film, Afraid of new film, Summer of the Serpent, premiered Everything, premiered at the Sundance Mitch McCabe, Brooklyn, NY, wrote a at the 2004 Rotterdam Film Festival. and Rotterdam film festivals. new feature film, Frosted Blonde with Dark Roots, the story of a woman trying to Christopher Wilcha, Brooklyn, NY began Jem Cohen, Brooklyn, NY, worked escape from a marriage to the leader of a work on Garden State, an experimental towards completion of a feature film, religious cult. She also worked on a new documentary about toxic landscapes in Chain. A version of the project, Chain documentary, which will be a follow-up to New Jersey. PBS has acquired ten episodes Times Three, was recently exhibited by her 1995 Sundance Film Playing the Part. of Second Hand Stories, his documentary the MOMA, NYC. Cohen’s films collaboration with fellow Colonist John Benjamin Smoke, Little Flags, and Lost Book Jonathan Glatzer, Los Angeles, CA, pre- Freyer. It is scheduled to air in 2005. Found, recently screened on the pared his feature screenplay, Safety Glass, Sundance Channel. for a production he will be directing in and around NH. He has written screen- Talaya Delaney, Cambridge, MA, devel- plays for Good Machine, Industry oped a screenplay for Lowndes County, a Entertainment, and Warner Brothers. film that she is working on in collaboration with Kevin Everson. It chronicles the Megan McLarney, Brooklyn, NY, worked experience of African-American teenage on a series of multi-monitor, composite school-bus drivers in the late 1950s. video landscapes, which she shot at the Colony. She also began a new project of Doug Dubois, Syracuse, NY, worked on video portraits of fellow Colonists. She The Vigil, a video installation that will be had her first NYC solo show at Florence shown at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in 2004. Lynch Gallery in 2002.

Kevin Everson, Charlottesville, VA, David Petersen, New York, NY, presented developed a screenplay for Lowndes his documentary Let The Church Say Amen County, a film that he is working on in at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. His collaboration with Tanya Delany. It screenplay Billy and Ray was optioned by chronicles the experience of African- Hobby Films and is planned for produc- American teenage school-bus drivers in tion in 2005. Filmmaker Christopher Wilcha the late 1950s. 8 INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTISTS

Shimon Attie, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a commission for the Jewish Museum, NYC to create a media art installation to commemorate its Centennial in 2004. He worked on a permanent art installation for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in DC, and on a mono- graph of his work, The History of Another, to be released by Twin Palms Press in 2004.

Jonathan Berger, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Souvenir, a Prologue, an installation of 23 small-scale roller coaster sculptures, which documents and explores effects of disappearing architecture, stemming from the demolition of the Thunderbolt roller coaster and Kensington Hotel in Coney Island. He also worked on Souvenir, a new large visual theatre work.

Jiyoung Chae, Binghamton, NY, completed one of her site-specific installations at a chicken coop on Colony property. She has been traveling with her works from Interdisciplinary artists Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht other residencies that explore the con- nections to those communities. Franziska Lamprecht, Brooklyn, NY, and Samuel Nigro, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a Adam Frelin, St Louis, MO, worked on Weimar, Germany, worked on 1.1 Acre new series of essays, one of which is enti- the first of a series of models for public Flatscreen, an installation that was shown tled Dilemma of Gender-Dilemma of Strain. parks. At MacDowell, he created Model at Eyebeam, NYC, in 2003. The piece He also worked on a series of videos to for Recede Park, a site-specific model/ evolves around 1.1 acres of Utah desert, accompany the 7-ton block of granite sculpture, which fit within the trap door which was bought on eBay in 2001. She used in Legs locked in Granite, shown at in the floor of his studio. was a resident at Eyebeam and of the Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, in 2002. World Views Studio Program. Ayelet Hadar, Kefar Haroe, Israel, complet- Serkan Ozkaya, Istanbul, Turkey, com- ed two storyboards and painted props for Eve Andrée Laramée , New York, NY, pleted a chapter on Paul Feyerabend in several upcoming video art projects: Soldier whose work was recently shown at his book, Avant-garde in the Arts. This ret- and a Laughing Girl and Woman and Two Mass MoCA, worked on Sugar Mud, an rospective show opened at the Galenist Men by Vermeer. Her previous work, installation commissioned by Wave Hill, in Istanbul in 2003, and he exhibited a new Vermeer 2003, was featured in a recent NYC. She also worked on the fourth project at the Trnava Biennale in 2003. exhibit at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. installment of her Secret History project, entitled Netherzone. Tana Hargest, New York, NY, continued work on a project entitled New Negrotopia, an interactive new media project that examines the themes of utopian space The experience works in mysterious ways; and the hegemony of race. It will be pre- even if the work comes slowly, sented as a post-race island resort and amusement park in which the participant there are aspects to these woods is invited to become a tourist through and under the shelter of the Colony that their own racial construction and history. are deeply restorative and inspiring. Dan Hurlin, New York, NY, developed [ ] the text for Hiroshima Maiden, his current – Filmmaker Jem Cohen puppet project that premiered in 2004 and is currently touring internationally. Denise Marika, Brookline, MA, completed video shoot for Ash, a series of video sculp- Karen Sherman, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Sabrina Jones, Brooklyn, NY, inked a ture pieces to be exhibited at the Harvard Cold Comfort, a dance performance piece six-page comic strip, Chronicles of the New Yezerski Gallery. Recent retrospective and in Antarctica that will premiered at P.S. Crusade, and Life During Wartime. She catalogue, Body Projections, at Pomona 122 in 2004. The piece explores how also worked on text and drawings from a College Museum of Art (2002), included desire and sensuality emerge from loss graphic history of the Industrial Workers Bisected I, II, and III and Hangin’, both shot and longing. of the World, on Verso Press, 2005. at MacDowell during a 2001 residence. Christopher Steadman, London, England, George Kimmerling, Brooklyn, NY, Hajoe Moderegger, New York, NY and worked on his series of video installations worked on Migration Atlas, an interactive Maneheim, Germany, worked on 1.1 Acre about the solitary individual in a domestic CD-ROM of his photographic survey along Flatscreen, an installation that was shown space, in a social setting and in a relation- the Arizona-Mexico border. He had solo at Eyebeam, NYC, in 2003. The piece ship. He completed a 4-channel projection shows at Momenta Art and Bellwether evolves around 1.1 acres of Utah desert, about isolation in an urban setting, and Gallery, and has exhibited work at P.S.1, which was bought on eBay in 2001. He started a new piece inspired by the woods The New Museum for Contemporary Art, was a resident at Eyebeam and the World surrounding the New Jersey Studio. and other venues in the US and abroad. Views Studio Program. 9 John Bisbee, Brunswick, ME, completed a one-ton abstract sculpture made from welded 12-inch spikes, entitled Grist. This piece, along with two others, was shown at the Plane Space Gallery, NYC, in 2004.

Marco Breuer, Hudson, NY, continued work on his 2004 exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery, NYC titled (Outward Manifestations of) Something Else. His work is part of numerous collections, including MOMA, NYC, SFMOMA, and the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA.

Scott Brodie, Albany, NY, worked on a series of paintings and drawings, the subject of which were some scruffy shrubs on Albany’s city streets. In 2003, he had a solo show at Bill Maynes Gallery, NYC and participated in the gallery group show.

Emily Brown, Philadelphia, PA, worked on two large triptychs in ink wash on 3-D artist Elizabeth Burger paper, which were exhibited at Gallery Joe in 2003-4. In addition, she completed four mixed-media collages.

Fiona Templeton, New York, NY, com- Ken Buhler, Brooklyn, NY, worked on pleted L’Lile (The Island), a site-specific VISUAL ARTISTS drawings and paintings to be exhibited play constructed as a live hypertext. in 2004 at Axel Raben Gallery, NYC. His Based on dreams told to her by the Bobby Adams, Brooklyn, NY, worked on, work has recently been seen in Thinking inhabitants of L’Lile, France, it was Re-Skinning Nature. Using photographic In Line, a survey of contemporary drawing commissioned for the opening of Lille images, he attempted to alter the land- at University Gallery, Gainesville, FL, European Cultural Capital 2004. scape by putting new skins on trees, rocks, and in To Die For, a group show at Heidi etc. The images, or skins, were printed to Cho Gallery, NYC. Diane Torr, Glasgow, Scotland, devel- exact scale, placed into a new environ- oped a performance that addresses the ment, and then photographed. Elizabeth Burger, Westminster, MD, issues of homophobia and teenage worked on both a new body of work to suicide in Scotland. Michael Beatty, Boston, MA, worked on be presented in Millersville, PA, in 2004, a series of new sculptural pieces. He had along with an experimental focus in 3-D Deke Weaver, Brooklyn, NY, focused on a solo show at the Barbara Kraken Gallery, cast paper that was expanded during a the first draft of a cameo interdisciplinary Boston, in 2003. residency at the Women’s Studio monologue, The Land of Enchantment. He Workshop in 2004. also completed three shorter pieces, Nelleke Beltjens, Hertogenbosch, The which will be presented in The Dixon Netherlands, worked on a new body of Ben Butler, Winnetka, IL, worked on a Place Veterans Series, NYC in 2004. work called Rain Works. Her most recent large-scale sculpture and related drawings. solo show was at the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco. Megan Cump, Brooklyn, NY, created a series of photographs that explores the ecstatic and paranormal. She has recently The most important thing is the participated in a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s residency and exhibited uninterrupted time to work, and the ease her work at the Bronx Museum of Art. of daily life without an agenda. Ann A. D’Angelo, Brookline, MA, devel- I threw my watch away and tried to oped and integrated images and words into her new Hard Business Dress Pattern, pay attention in a different kind of way. as a follow up to her 1st to Last Homemade [ ] Housedress Pattern. It was shown at Brick – Visual artist Mary Lum Bottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, in 2003.

Nancy Davidson, New York, NY, worked Allison Wiese, Houston, TX, worked on on drawings for a large-scale sculpture site-specific projects to be shown at Suzanne Bibeau, Somerville, MA, commissioned for the Corcoran Biennial Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen worked on a series of figure paintings in 2003. Her work combines humor, sen- House and Diverseworks, Houston in exhibited in the Somerville Open Studios suality, and the absurd. She will be having 2004. She has a solo show scheduled for in 2003. Her Farm Series of landscape a solo exhibition in NYC in 2004. 2004 at WttW Gallery in Austin, TX, and paintings was exhibited in the 2003 an audio installation at the Museum of Jaffrey Art Auction, NH. Contemporary Art, San Diego.

10 Elizabeth Duffy, Brooklyn, NY, worked Charles Gute, Brooklyn, NY, worked on on a new group of sculptures and works a large scale conceptual work that was on paper using everyday materials. Her shown at Catherine Clark Gallery, San work was recently exhibited at White Francisco, in 2004. He also created a Columns, NYC ,and Gallery 312, Chicago. temporary site-specific work for Adams studio – a wall mural that incorporated Elise Engler, New York, NY, made draw- motifs from the pre-existing painting on ings continuing her content series – cata- the buildings exterior. loging contents of other Colonist’s cars, handbags, backpacks, and studios. She Gwen Hardie, New York, NY, worked on added Colonists’ images to her drawings, a series of paintings called Verge, to be Everybody Gets One. She continued shown at the Stephen Lacey Gallery in researching taxpayer expenditures to London and the Caelum Gallery, NYC. add to her series, Your Tax Dollars From She was in the show Abstraction and Where List. Innocence at the Hunter College Times Square Gallery and in Five at the Lennon Barbara Ess, New York, NY, had the first Weinberg Gallery in 2001-02, NYC. monograph of her work published by Aperture. During her stay at MacDowell, Pang-Chieh Hsu, Savannah, GA, worked she prepared photographs and a series of on paintings and drawings that focus on Photographer Laura Larson short videos for shows in Paris and NYC. how natural light illuminates space. Using both charcoal and oil paintings, Rosemarie Fiore, Queens, NY, continued she explored natural illumination on Robert Marshall, New York, NY, worked working on table-size ceramic pieces interior spaces and objects. on a series of drawings on Mylar. He inspired by the Roadrunner/Coyote also continued working on an untitled Cartoons. She recently had exhibits at Carol Irving, New York, NY, continued novel-in-progress. Socrates Sculpture Park, the Queens working on her Truth series, which uses Museum, and the Roswell Museum, NM. polygraph technology as a means of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, She is a recipient of the Marie Walsh exploring the pursuit of divining and Providence, RI, started a new project focus- Sharpe Space Program grant in NYC. deciphering truths. ing on her experience as an immigrant. Her recent exhibitions include the Decordova Judy Fox, New York, NY, who recently James Kennedy, Somerville, MA, worked Museum and a solo exhibition at Sepia had shows at Kohler Center, WI, and in on a series of sketches and drawings. International, NYC. Oslo, Norway, worked on pieces for an installation at the P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC, Cheonae Kim, Murphysboro, IL, com- Georgia Metz, Brooklyn, NY, continued in 2004. pleted work for an upcoming show at work on her project Falling Down and Bentley Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. Getting Up, which was shown at Pzizz, Karen Ganz, Seattle, WA, finished a big NYC in 2004. span of nine large, overlapped paintings Katharine Kuharic, St. Louis, MO, for the port of Seattle and for two shows worked on a painting, Super Bowl Sunday Alexandra Newmark, Brooklyn, NY, at Esther-Claypool Gallery in Seattle and and completed over forty drawings and completed sculptural work to be shown Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston. collages. These works were exhibited at at P.S.122, NYC, in 2004. Crocheted in P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC, in 2004 and in off-white mohair, it explores the disloca- Andrew Ginzel, New York, NY, began a Phillip Slein Gallery, St. Louis. tion of the memory of childhood. large-scale work considering the dialogue between mass and energy and completed Laura Larson, Brooklyn, NY, worked on Matthew Northridge, Brooklyn, NY, con- plans for the installation Hyphen, which a new series of spirit photographs, which tinued working on a series of collages. opened in 2003. address the intersections between narrative He had a solo show at Gorney Bravin and landscape. Her work is represented and Lee Gallery, NYC, in 2003. His work David Goldes, Minneapolis, MN, worked by the Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, NYC. was included in the Brooklyn Museum of on a series of photographic still lives Arts Open House: Working in Brooklyn; based on historical science experiments. Eva Lee, Ridgefield, CT, completed digi- Intimate Purlieus: The Diminutive He began new work that considers the tal animations and works on paper for Landscape and Contemporary Art; and representation of objects. Work from an exhibition at P.S. 122 Gallery, NYC, in at the Palmer Museum of Art. both series was included in an exhibition 2004. She received a 2003 Artist Fellowship at Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC, in 2004. from the Connecticut Commission on the Michelle Oosterbaan, Philadelphia, PA, Arts. Her work will be included in “The developed a series of oil paintings that Drawn Page,” a group exhibition at the explore themes of mapping and memory, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, by bringing the viewer’s attention to Ridgefield, CT, in 2004. color psychology, spatial dynamics, and personal imagery. Andrea Loefke, Brooklyn, NY, created a group of objects that evoke a dream Joanne Pasila, North Adams, MA, devel- world environment. She was recently oped large-scale charcoal drawings, inkjet named an Artist in Residence at the photos and models for installations. She Smack Mellon Residency, NYC. is a recent Berkshire Taconic Foundation Grant Recipient. Her work was included Mary Lum, Hornell, NY, worked on in the 44th Chautaqua Juried Exhibition large-scale wall drawings and an artists of American Art and will be included in book project. Her work was recently a group show in Amsterdam. shown at the Galerie Birthe Laursen, Paris, and the Paris Project Room (2002).

Painter Pang-Chieh Hsu 11 Lisa Carey, Brookline, MA, worked on her fourth novel. HarperCollins published her third novel, Love in the Asylum, in Donald Antrim, Brooklyn, NY, worked on 2004. A film based on her first novel, The a book about his mother’s life. Sections of Mermaids Singing, is scheduled to begin it have appeared in the New Yorker. His filming in Ireland in 2004. last novel, The Verificationist, was pub- lished by Knopf in 2000. Michael Chabon, Berkley, CA, worked on his fifth novel, tentatively titled The James Arthur, Toronto, Canada, continued Yiddish Detectives Union. The novella he work on his first poetry manuscript, ten- completed during his 2002 MacDowell tatively entitled Forgetful. His poems have residency, The Final Solution, won the recently appeared or are forthcoming in 2003 Aga Khan/Paris Review Prize. Brick: A Literary Journal, Agni, The Iowa Review, Many Mountains Moving, and The Lan Samantha Chang, Cambridge, MA, Laurel Review. completed her first novel, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2004. Her collec- Ferenc Barnas, Budapest, Hungary, con- tion, Hunger, was published in paper- tinued working on a third novel, Notices, back by Penguin. Fiction writer Joseph Caldwell to be published in 2004 in Hungary. A chapter from his first novel, The Parasite, Yong-Wook Chung, Edgewater, NJ, appeared in Tunnrow in 2003. worked on short stories and a personal Carrie Scanga, Cottekill, NY, laid the essay. She received an MFA from Sarah groundwork for a new series of print April Bernard, North Bennington, VT, Lawrence College in 2004. works to be completed in 2004. She wrote poems for her fourth book and an recently showed her work at the essay about Marianne Moore. She was Carolyn Chute, Parsonsfield, ME, worked International Print Center, NYC, The Islip a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim on a libretto for an opera for the composer Art Museum, NY and Bradbury Gallery, Foundation grant in poetry. Evan Hause. She also worked on her State University of AR. seventh novel. Roberta Bernstein, Brooklyn, NY, Jane South, Brooklyn, NY, worked on an worked on her first novel, I Was Candy. Andrea Cohen, Charlestown, MA, worked installation piece for Drawn + Quartered, on a manuscript of poems tentatively an exhibit to open at SECA (NS) in 2004, Star Black, New York, NY, completed a entitled Eureka. She has poetry forthcoming and other works for an upcoming show series of collages to accompany her fifth in Provincetown Arts. at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects book of poetry, Ghostwood, published by in 2004. Melville House in 2003. Tom Cole, New York, NY, focused on the draft of a new play, Tina, while continuing Ferenc Suto, New York, NY, continued Kate Blackwell, Washington, D.C., con- research on a play with music about working on a series of photographs tinued work on her novel, The First Stone. Nico. In 2003 he received a grant from LEF which was begun at Light Work in Foundation to create a new performance Syracuse, NY, in 2001-2. Entitled Instant Paula Bohice, Astoria, NY, completed a series at the ONI Gallery, Boston. Replay All-Stars, it deals with the subject poetry manuscript, Charity. Individual of masculine identity. poems have or will appear in Agni, Teresa Cooper, New York, NY, focused on Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi the first draft of her second novel, currently Whiting Tennis, New York, NY, worked on Review, and others. titled Lipshitz Six, which is about three gen- paintings, drawings, and photographs for a erations of a western Russian Jewish family show at Derek Eller Gallery, NYC. Based Jane Brox, Dracut, MA, worked on a that settles in the panhandle of Texas. on architecture scenes, buildings, and land- new collection of nonfiction. Clearing scapes, his work is rendered in collage Land: Legacies of the American Farm, her Steven Cosson, New York, NY, worked with hand-printed paper. third book, will be published by North in collaboration with Michael Friedman Point Press in 2004. to complete a rewrite of their play Paris Sheri Warshauer, New York, NY, contin- Commune. Recently, he directed his theatre ued work on a series of interior architec- Christopher Burawa, Phoenix, AZ, com- company, The Civilians, in the NYC tural paintings of contemporary homes. pleted the final section of a manuscript Premiere of Gone Missing. Paintings from this series were shown at of poems entitled Prayer Salts. Jack the Pelican Gallery, NYC, in 2003. John Dalton, Chapel Hill, NC, focused She also had a solo show at the Art Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Brooklyn, NY, on early chapters of his second novel. Mission in Binghamton, NY, in 2003. worked on new fiction. Harcourt will His first, Heaven Lake, was published by publish her first novel, Madeline is Scribner in 2004 and was chosen by Sleeping, in 2004. Barnes and Noble for their Great New Writers program. WRITERS Joseph Caldwell, New York, NY, whose novel, Bread for the Baker’s Child, was Shira Dentz, Brooklyn, NY, worked on M.S. Allen, San Francisco, CA, continued published last year by Sarabrande Books, her second manuscript, a series of narra- work on his book, Ivan and Misha: A worked on a new novel set in County tive poems entitled Dr. Abe’s Psychotherapy, novella and stories. Kerry, Ireland. or The Interpretation of Events. These poems deconstruct the nature of psycho- Benjamin Anastas, Brooklyn, NY, Sheila Callaghan, New York, NY, com- logical power. worked on his third novel and a collec- pleted the first draft of We Are Not These tion of stories. His previous books are An Hands, a play commission by Eye of the Judy Doenges, Fort Collins, CO, worked Underachiever’s Diary (Dial Press) and The Storm Theatre in Minneapolis. She also on a short story, Voting The Dead and on Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance. completed the first draft of her play, a personal essay. Her novel, The Most Dead City, which was a commission from Beautiful Girl in The World, will be pub- Playwrights Horizons, NYC. lished by Viking in 2004. 12 Stephen Dunn, Frostburg, MD, was work- ing on poems for a new collection. His twelfth book of poems, Local Visitations, was published by Norton in 2003.

Erin Flanagan, Lincoln, NE, completed a draft of a novel.

Cynthia Fox, Brooklyn, NY, worked on her non-fiction book about stem-cell therapies.

John Frazier, Ridgeland, SC, worked on a verse biography of painter Beauford Delaney’s “yellow paintings.”

T. Louise Freeman-Toole, Pullman, WA, continued work on a book about her grandmother, based on her WWI diary. Her first book, Standing up to the Rock (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2001), received the Idaho Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 2002.

Michael Friedman, New York, NY, com- pleted the script for Paris Commune, a collaboration with Steven Cosson. His recent show with The Civilians, Gone Visual artist Whiting Tennis Missing, was performed in NYC in 2003.

Elisabeth Frost, New York, NY, worked Sheila Glaser, New York, NY, completed James Hannaham, Brooklyn, NY, worked on a manuscript of prose poems, some of a translation of a Cape Verdean novel, The on a collection of stories provisionally which appear (or are forthcoming) in The Last Will and Testament of Sr. Napumoceno entitled Loss Prevention and refocused a Yale Review and Quick Fiction. Her book, da Silva Araujo, by Germano Almeida, to novel-in-progress whose working title is The Feminist Avant-Gardes in American be published by New Directions in 2004. God Says No. Poetry (Iowa), was released in 2003. Shari Goldhagen, New York, NY, complet- Ethan Hauser, New York, NY, worked on Lise Funderburg, Philadelphia, PA, ed work on a novel tentatively called, The a collection of short stories. worked on a nonfiction book about her Next Generation of Dead Kennedys, parts of father’s life in the years preceding her which have appeared in various journals. Caroline Heller, Boston, MA, focused on birth. She also received support for this She also began work on a second novel. her book, Reading Claudius, about the project from the Pennsylvania Council cultural, political, and literary life of her on the Arts, which named her one of its Andrew Greer, San Francisco, CA, parents in pre-WWII Prague, to be pub- 2003 Literature Fellows. whose second book of fiction, The Path of lished by Random House in 2005. Minor Planets, was published in 2001 by Madeline George, Astoria, NY, worked Picador, worked on short stories. His Laura Hendrie, Brooklin, ME, continued on a new play commissioned by the book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, was work on her novel, still untitled. Manhattan Theatre Club. Her play, The published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. Zero Hour, won the Princess Grace Award Pheobe Hoban, New York, NY, whose for playwriting, and will be presented at Stephanie Gunn, North Palm Beach, FL, book, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, was Play Labs in Minneapolis in 2004. worked on her novel, Miss Runner-up. published by Viking in 1998, worked on a biography of Alice Neel to be published Camilla Gibb, Toronto, Canada, com- Jennifer Haigh, Hull, MA, finished a by St. Martin’s Press. pleted a draft of her third novel, Sweetness draft of her second novel, Baker Towers, in the Belly, to be published by Doubleday to be published by William Morrow in Cathy Park Hong, Brooklyn, NY, contin- in 2005. 2005. Her first novel, Mrs. Kimble, was ued work on her second manuscript, republished as a Yankee paperback by Dance Dance Revolution. Concentrating on Harper Perennial in 2004. themes of cultural dislocation, this book focuses on community, using Seoul, Roya Hakakian, Woodbridge, CT, worked South Korea as a backdrop. on her first book in English, a memoir entitled Exiting the Land of No. Published Michelle Hoover, Williamsburg, MA, by Crown in 2003, this book recounts her completed revisions on her first novel, experience of the Iranian revolution. The History of Flight, and returned to her work as an older, second novel, The W. David Hancock, St. Peter, MN, finished Swallow and the Nightingale, a chapter of a draft of his play, Chum Flush. Two of which will be appearing in Best New his plays will premiere in 2004: Leftover American Voice 2004. Future at New City Theatre in Seattle, and The Generation of Regret at the Christine Hume, Ann Arbor, MI, whose Foundry Theatre, NYC. second book, Alaskaphrenia, won the Green Rolse Award and will be published in 2004, worked on new poems. Writer Cathy Park Hong 13 Marilyn Krysl, Boulder, CO, whose book of stories, How to Accommodate Men, was published in 1998 by Coffee House Press, worked on a novel and poems.

Paul LaFarge, New York, NY, worked on a draft of his third novel, Luminous Airplanes. His second novel, Haussnamm, or the Distinction, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Brad Land, Conway, SC, completed a draft of his first novel, Songs to Learn and Sing. His first book, a memoir titled Goat, was published by Random House in 2004.

James Lapine, New York, NY, continued work during his residency on a new play and an original screenplay.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Providence, RI, continued work on The United States of Austin: A Literary Memoir, Medical Mystery, and Public Health Warning, parts of which have been published in Newsweek and the anthology Toddler. She is a 2003-4 fiction grantee from the RI Writer Marilyn Krysl State Council on the Arts.

R. Zamora Linmark, Honolulu, HI, Barbara Hurd, Frostburg, MD, whose author of Rolling the R’s, worked on a second collection of essays, Entering the Aaron Jafferis, New Haven, CT, worked collection of poetry and a draft of his Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the on book and lyrics for the musical You are third novel, Alohalinda. Dark, was published in 2003, worked on Not Me, a collaboration with composer prose pieces that used the wrackline as Gihieh Lee. He also began Shakespeare: Margot Livesey, Cambridge, MA, literal and metaphoric setting. Her book The Remix, a hip hop play for Theatre worked on her fifth novel, which will be of poems, The Singer’s Temple, was pub- Works, CA. published by Henry Holt. lished in 2003. Jay Jennings, Tarrytown, NY, worked on Barry Lopez, Finn Rock, OR, worked on Frances Hwang, Fairfax, VA, worked on his first novel, tentatively titled, Humble, the research and outline for a nonfiction her first collection of short stories. Her Arkansas. His journalism and humor book called Horizon. In 2004, Knopf will work has appeared in Shankpainter and have often appeared in the New York publish Resistance, a work of fiction; and Best New American Voices 2003. Times and the Wall Street Journal. Scribner will publish a 25th anniversary edition of his Wolves and Men with a Lewis Hyde, Cambridge, MA, worked Agymah Kamau, Norman, OK, worked new afterward. on a nonfiction book about the “cultural on his third novel, which is the final commons,” the vast store of unowned book in a trilogy. His first book, Flickering Alessandra Lynch, Johnstown, PA, whose art, ideas, and inventions inherited from Shadows, was listed among the Library first collection of poetry, Sails the Wind the past. Journal’s top 20 first novels of 1996. Left Behind, was published in 2002, by Alice James Books, worked on a series of poems for a second collection. In addition, she focused on revising a poetic prose piece, The Kite. Most people fit writing into their life. Sarah Mangold, Seattle, WA, continued At MacDowell, one fits life working on Boxer Rebellion, a serial poem into their writing. based on her great-grandmother’s experi- [ ] ences in China during the early 1900s. Her first book, Household Mechanics (New – Fiction writer Chris Offut Issues), was selected by C.D. Wright for the 2001 New Issues Poetry Prize.

Christopher Marquis, Washington, D.C., completed the first draft of a new novel. Kirun Kapur, Newburyport, MA, worked His first novel, A Hole in the Heart, was Susan Ito, Oakland, CA, co-editor of the on her first collection of poetry. Her published by St. Martin’s in 2003. anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories poems have appeared recently in Agni, and Poems of Adoption, worked on com- Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Seneca Review. Sarah Fay McCarthy, Brooklyn, NY, pleting a short story collection and on completed Wait, a collection of poems on her first novel. Suki Kim, New York, NY, worked on her Austin, the Southern Hemisphere, and second novel. Her first novel, The cracking eggs. Interpreter, was published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in 2003.

14 Honor Moore, New York, NY, completed a collection of poems, Foreground, to be pub- Shin Yu Pai, Boston, MA, completed her lished by W.W. Norton, and wrote the first book of poems, Equivalence, which introduction to The Selected Poems of Amy will be published by La Alameda Press Lowell, which she is editing for the Library in 2003, and is supported by a grant of America. She also worked on The from the Massachusetts Cultural Bishop’s Daughter, a memoir, with former Council. She also began work on a visual colonist and translator Catherine Ciepiela. text project explaining family ancestry.

Brighde Mullins, Cambridge, MA, Christopher Patton, Salt Spring Island, worked on her play Teach/Duende and BC, drafted half of a book-length poem completed a draft of a new play called entitled Tammuz Ishtar. An excerpt will Those Who Can Do. Her play, Rare Bird, appear in the Spring, 2004 issue of Field. was featured at the Jonathan Larsen Lab Selections from his first manuscript, Stone at NY Theatre Workshop in 2003. Her Gate, are forthcoming in the Paris Review. monologue, The Ablutions of Bernadette, was performed at the Playground Julia Pearlstein, New York, NY, began a Theatre Festival in San Francisco in 2003. draft of Swarf, a multimedia play with songs. She continued work on I Am Fiction writer Agymah Kamau Jean Nathan, New York, NY, completed Karma’s Bitch, an autobiographical a biography of children’s book author vaudeville first performed at Dixon Place Jo McDougall, Little Rock, AR, whose and illustrator Dare Wright, to be pub- in NYC. Her 10-minute play Blue Sky latest book of poems, Dirt, was published lished by Random House. won the 2003 Ten by Ten Award at the in 2001, worked on her fifth book of Triangle Festival. poetry. She revised a series of thirteen Ann Nietzke, Los Angeles, CA, worked personal essays and completed essays for on a new nonfiction piece about frugality. Joanna Smith Rakoff, New York, NY, publication in The Midwest Quarterly and Most recently she completed Wonders completed most of a novel, Too Much Fun. Clutter of Silence, the Poems of Miller Refuse to Cease: Three Novellas. From that Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Williams by Edward Cifelli. collection, Virginia in the Meantime was Review, Antioch Review, and Crab Orchard featured in the New Short Fiction Series Review, and she contributes features and Heather McGowan, Hudson, NY, worked of dramatic readings in LA. reviews to the New York Times, Newsday, on her second novel. The paperback the Los Angeles Times, and numerous edition of her first novel, Schooling, was Diane O’ Leary, Skaneateles, NY, set her other publications. published by Vintage in 2002. second collection of poems in motion and worked on an essay on the relation Peggy Rambach, Andover, MA, worked James Mendelsohn, New York, NY, con- between musical and poetic meters. on her second novel. Her first novel, tinued working on his first novel, The Year Fighting Gravity, was published by of Forgetting, about four members of a fami- Chris Offutt, Iowa City, IA, worked on Steerforth Press in 2001. ly in 1979 and 1980. He also worked on an Further Evidence that My Childhood was as-yet untitled work about a community Stranger than Yours, a book about grow- Marc Robinson, New Haven, CT, in which the alphabet disappears. ing up in the Appalachian Mountains of worked on The American Play, a critical Eastern Kentucky. His most recent book study of American drama and theater. David Meyer, Glenwood, IL, worked was No Heroes (Scribners), about moving His recent essays have appeared in toward completion of his third memoir back to his home county in Eastern Theater magazine and in the anthologies about friends and mentors of his youth. Kentucky after 20 years away. Land/Scape/Theater and The Cambridge His two previous books are Memoirs of a Companion to Sam Shepard. Book Snake (Waltham Street Press, 2001) Hugh Ogden, Glastonbury, CT, revised and Inclined Toward Magic (WSP, 2003). poems in the manuscript for his sixth Martha Ronk, Los Angeles, CA, worked book, Bringing a Fir Straight Down, did on a series of poems based on Giorgio De Katherine Min, Plymouth, NH, worked the first compilation of a manuscript of Chirico’s Ariadne paintings. Her recent on a novel. She received a 2004 New his selected poems, and wrote new poems. book of poems, Why/Why Not, was pub- Hampshire State Arts Council Fellowship. lished by the Univ. of CA Press in 2003. Carole Oles, Chico, CA, worked on a Valerie Miner, Navarro, CA, and poetry manuscript, Phantasmal Space, and Minneapolis, MN, finished her eleventh translations of poems by Alda Merini from book. Abundant Light and Other Stories is Italian. Recent work appears in Colorado forthcoming in 2004. She also began a Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Field. new novel. Eugene Ostashevsky, Brooklyn, NY, Chiori Miyagawa, New York, NY, worked translated the poetry and prose of on Red Again, a short adaptation of Oberiu, a group of absurdist writers in Sophocles’ Antigone. Another short ver- Leningrad of the late 1920s and early sion on the same subject, Antigone’s Red 30s, for an anthology under his editor- will be published in the anthology Take ship forthcoming from Northwestern Ten II from Vintage Books. Red Again will Univ. Press. He wrote a brief operetta be preformed in NYC in 2004 as part of entitled The Bridge of DJ Spinoza, which the Antigone Project. will be published as a separate chapbook with art by Eugene Timerman. Nicholas Montemarano, Philadelphia, PA, completed his second collection of short Alicia Ostriker, Princeton, NJ, worked stories, The Beginning of Grief. His first col- on a series of poems on the themes of art, both visual and musical, which she lection, The Worst Degree of Unforgivable Playwright Julia Pearlstein (2003) and a novel, A Fine Place (2002), originally began at MacDowell during a were published by Context Books. 1997 residency. 15 Gail Taylor, Yellow Springs, OH, com- pleted her second poetry manuscript, Marc Weitzmann, Paris, France, continued Guest House, which explores the themes work on Une Place Dans Le Monde (A of transience, womanhood, and the African Place in the World), a three part novel set American experience. Work from Guest in Paris and Tel-Aviv that explores House appears in the May 2003 edition of themes of identity. Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and the forthcoming anthology Wild Sweet Notes Kellie Wells, St. Louis, MO, worked on her II: More West Virginia Poetry, 2004. second novel, Fat Girl, Terrestrial, focusing on, among other things, the female Brian Teare, East Palo Alto, CA, was grotesque. Her collection of short fiction, working on his second manuscript of Compression Scars, won a 2001 Flannery poetry, entitled Pleasure, a book length O’Connor Award and was published in sequence concerning spirituality, sexuality, 2002, by the Univ. of Georgia Press. landscape, and language. He is a recipient of a 2003 NEA fellowship, and his first Elizabeth Wetmore, Chicago, IL, worked book, The Room Where I Was Born, was on her first novel. Her stories have published in 2003. appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, and Poet Gail Taylor Peter Thomson, Boston, MA, completed other journals. a first draft of Blue Crescent, an account of a journey to Siberia’s Lake Baikal with Tracy Winn, Concord, MA, focused on his brother. drafting a new work for a collection of Wendy Salinger, New York, NY, worked linked stories which take place in and on a book about recovered memory and Lynne Tillman, New York, NY, worked around the mills of Lowell, MA. Recent revised the manuscript of her novel on a new novel tentatively titled American work appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Victor Dying. Excerpts have appeared in Skin. Her most recent book, This is Not It, The New Orleans Review, and Western the Kenyon Review. a collection of stories, was written in Humanities Review. response to (and with images from) 22 Catherine Sasanov, Jamaica Plain, MA, contemporary artists and published in Gary Winter, Brooklyn, NY, completed continued work on her third collection of 2002 by Distributed Art Press. work on a new play, Centrifugal Force, poetry, a book-length poem cycle titled, and began work on a new play, Girls Reassembling the Bodily Relics of St. Blair Tindall, Gutenberg, NJ, completed Night Out, inspired by Aeschylus’ Gemma Galgani. Franciscian University the first draft of her nonfiction memoir Suppliant Maidens. His work has been Press will publish a selection of the of classical music, Mozart in the Jungle, produced at the Cherry Lane Alternative, poems in their chapbook series in 2004. which will be published by Grove The Flea and Here Theatres, NYC. Atlantic Press in 2005. Her cover story Anthony Schneider, New York, NY, on John Steinbeck’s tidepools appeared June Unjoo Yang, Brooklyn, NY, wrote wrote short stories and started work on a in the May/June issue of Sierra Magazine. two new stories to add to her collection novel. His nonfiction book, Tony Soprano of short fiction. One of the stories in her on Management (Berkley Books), was Kim Todd, San Francisco, CA, worked collection won the Nelson Algren award published in 2004. on a biography of naturalist Sibylla for Short Fiction in 2002; others have Merian. Her previous book, Thinking with appeared recently in Glimmer Train, Ravi Shankar, Chester CT, worked on Eden; A Natural History of Exotics in Manoa, and Bellingham Review. poems for his second book, including a America, appeared in paperback in 2002. series of ekphrastic and reconstituted Susan Yankowitz, New York, NY, made pastoral pieces. His first book, Jonathan Treitel, London, United final revisions on a new novel and began Instrumentality, will be published in 2004. Kingdom, wrote several stories about a play based on the life of Goya. Israelis and Palestinians and began work Amy Sickels, New York, NY, worked on on a new novel. the first draft of her second novel. Genya Turovskaya, Brooklyn, NY, con- Taije Silverman, Washington, DC, was tinued work on a poetry manuscript ten- working on her first manuscript of poems. tatively entitled A Cold and Larger Air, as well as translations of works by the Ellen Slezak, Los Angeles, CA, began Russian poet Avkadii Dragomoshchenko. work on her second novel. Her first Her chapbook, Calendar, was published novel, All These Girls, will be published by Ugly Duckling Press in 2002. by Hyperion in 2004. Wendy Walters, Providence, RI, continued Charlie Smith, New York, NY, worked work on Birds of Los Angeles, a collection on revisions of several novels. His book of poems. She has poems forthcoming in of poetry, Women of America, is forthcom- the Yalobusha Review, Court Greens, Seneca ing from W. W. Norton. Review, Nocturnes Review, and American Poetry Journal. Susan Steinberg, San Francisco, CA, whose first collection of short stories, The Wendy Wasserstein, New York, NY, End of Fire Love, was published in 2003, worked on a play that was commis- worked on completing her next collection. sioned by Lincoln Center. Fiction writer Marc Weitzmann

Sterling Watson, Tierra Verde, FL, fin- ished the second novel of a trilogy. The first of the three, Sweet Dream Baby, was published in 2002 by Sourcebooks. 16 COLONY FELLOWS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The Fellows Executive Committee, comprised of artists who have been in recent residence, serves as an advisory group to the Colony. Committee members serve for three years and are elected by their peers. With firsthand knowledge about a MacDowell residency experience, they provide recommendations and feedback to the Colony’s staff and Board of Directors.The FEC aims to extend and broaden the community of Fellows across all disciplines and generations.

FELLOWS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Julia Jacquette, painter Paul Brantley, composer President Fred Hersch, composer Maria Levitsky, photographer Nancy Green Madia, writer Clarinda Mac Low, interdisciplinary artist Vice President Rebecca Moore, composer Alan Burdick, writer Joel Sanders, architect Treasurer Alex Sichel, filmmaker Adam Silverman, composer Mark Thompson, writer Martha Southgate, writer Secretary Suzanne Williamson, photographer

Julia Jacquette, a painter, is the current FEC president and as such, a MacDowell board member. The FEC communicates with the extensive community of Fellows through a column in the biannual newsletter, as well as through a presence on the Colony Web site. Annual dues raise funds that are donated to MacDowell. In previous years these funds have led to improvements such as Internet access in Colony Hall, computer supplies, a Colony Fellows at the Annual Fellows Party sound system, and bicycles and their repairs. Some FEC Photo by Dan Carlson gifts have later been adopted as regular fixtures in the budget – most famously, the maple syrup that greets breakfasters in Colony Hall. In addition to the annual ANNUAL FELLOWS PARTY designated gifts, a portion of dues collected is also given On October 17, 2003, MacDowell Colony Fellows gathered to the Colony to spend at its discretion. in New York City at the Annual Fellows Party which is organized by the Fellows Executive Committee. For the In 2003-04 the Fellows Executive Committee met four times second year in a row, the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea with the executive director to discuss ways to engage the generously donated its space for this special event. community of Colony Fellows. Agenda items brought to the FEC meetings for discussion include ways to involve Colony Fellows in the Centennial celebration in 2007, recommendations to the development office regarding the annual appeal and feedback on the new Web page.

The truth is that artists have always been eager to do anything they could for The MacDowell Colony. Their willingness to help, their esteem and gratitude, constitute an irreplaceable asset. It’s an asset that should be [ a constant source of encouragement to us all. ] – George Kendall, Executive Director, 1965

17 MACDOWELL IN THE COMMUNITY

Through the Colony’s outreach programs, notably MacDowell Downtown and MacDowell in the Schools, artists-in-residence volunteer to share their work and experiences with members of the community, including students of all ages from area schools. During 2003-04, 25 Colonists participated in the outreach programs, reaching audiences of more than 500 people.

MacDOWELL DOWNTOWN

The Colony initiated the MacDowell Downtown program in 2002 to provide a glimpse of the work being done in the studios. On the first Thursday evening of each month, at the Peterborough Historical Society, an artist currently in residence presents his or her work in an “open studio” format, such as reading from a work in progress, performances or film screenings.

The programs are open to the public free of charge. Those unable to attend can read about the participating artists in a regular column published in the Monadnock Ledger newspaper each month. This year’s participants are listed below. April Tom Gilroy, filmmaker May Marilyn Krysl, writer June Mitch McCabe, filmmaker September Andrew Sean Greer, writer October Jiyoung Chae, visual artist November Aleksandra Vrebalov, composer December David Barker, filmmaker January Lady in the Wings film screening February Deke Weaver, performance artist March John Bisbee and Ben Butler, visual artists Special thanks to volunteers Deborah Lieh for her assistance with the MacDowell Downtown program.

MacDOWELL IN THE SCHOOLS

Active since 1996, the MacDowell in the Schools program continues to exert its special influence in the community by introducing students to MacDowell Fellows—artists who are passionate about their work. Thanks (top) Fiction writer Andrew Sean Greer signing books to the teachers in the following schools for helping to coordinate this (bottom) Performance artist Deke Weaver enacting opportunity for artists and students to learn from each other: a work in progress CONVAL HIGH SCHOOL Christopher Marquis, journalist PETERBOROUGH ELEMENTARY Alexandra Newmark, visual artist Mike Holober, composer Sarah Fay McCarthy, poet FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE Joanna Rackoff, writer THE MEETING SCHOOL Hugh Ogden, poet with jazz ST. ANSELM’S COLLEGE improvisation Matthew Northridge, visual artist

18 Sculptors Ben Butler and John Bisbee at MacDowell Downtown

COMMUNITY EVENTS

In addition to the regular outreach programs, artists often visit other organizations to share their work with the community.

It should be noted that Colony Fellows presenting their work outside of their residency periods are not listed. MacDowell Fellows often return to New Hampshire and the Monadnock region for book readings, concerts tours, and other events, sharing their work with residents of the region that has helped to feed their creativity. PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY PETERBOROUGH WOMAN’S CLUB Poets offered two evenings of poetry to Film Screening celebrate National Poetry Month Elizabeth Subrin, filmmaker Andrea Cohen Traci Dant LEADERSHIP NEW HAMPSHIRE Shira Dentz Annual Arts Meeting in Savidge Library Sarah Fay McCarthy Richard Peaslee, composer Hugh Ogden Carol Oles KIWANIS, PETERBOROUGH CHAPTER Shin Yu Pai Hugh Ogden, poet Gail Taylor Added thanks to Andrea Cohen and Shin Yu Pai for volunteering to judge the Town Library’s annual poetry contest, grades K-12.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY

In 2002, MacDowell initiated a program to provide Colony Fellows’ books, CDs, and videos to the Peterborough Public Library. Artists who donate their work to MacDowell’s Savidge Library are encouraged to include a second copy to be made available to the public through Peterborough’s wonderful town library. So far, several hundred works have been added to the public library’s collection. Each item is labeled to indicate that it is a donation from a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Peterborough Library Director Michael Price noted, “These are books you would not normally see at the library. It’s a significantly different collection than normally purchased. It dovetails nicely with the existing collection.”

19 EVENTS

(above) Board Chairman Robert MacNeil with Nan Talese and Morley Safer; (right top) Margaret L. Stevens and Bill Mayo-Smith; (right bottom) Phyllis Toohey, Karen Hughes, and Edward Toohey. Photos by Steven Tucker.

LITERARY EVENING

On May 19, 2003, MacDowell’s Chairman Robert MacNeil read to great acclaim from his most recent book, Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America at Sotheby’s New York. Guests received signed copies of MacNeil’s book at the dinner, which was generously underwritten by Sotheby’s.

SALON SERIES On the Road On October 9, 2003, MacDowell friends and supporters enjoyed a tour of Dia:Beacon led by MacDowell board member Amy Baker Sandback, Director of Collection Research. This new museum in Beacon, NY, houses the Dia Art Foundation’s collection of major sculptures, amongst other work, from the 1960’s to the present in a 300,000 square-foot historic printing factory over- looking the Hudson River.

The Creative Process: Working Across the Disciplinary Divide The Colony hosted a Salon evening exploring the subject of interdisciplinary art at the home of RoseLee Goldberg and Dakota Jackson on March 3, 2004. Colony Fellows Andrew Ginzel, Laurie Olinder, and Mac Wellman presented their work during a dynamic discussion led by Ms. Goldberg. A model of MacDowell’s planned Interdisciplinary Studio was on view. We are grateful to the Salon Committee, RoseLee Goldberg and Mac Wellman with RoseLee Goldberg and Dakota Jackson, and the participating artists for donating their Board Member Dan Hurlin. Photo by Steven Tucker. time and talent.

Colony Fellows listed in bold. 20 ANNUAL WINTER BENEFIT

The annual New York Benefit, honoring art patron and collector Werner H. Kramarsky for his longstanding and passionate support of emerging artists, was held on December 11, 2003 at The University Club. Ann Philbin, Director of the UCLA Hammer Museum, introduced Mr. Kramarsky, and Board Chairman Robert MacNeil presented him with a MacDowell picnic basket painted by Board Member and Colony Fellow Benny Andrews.

The program featured performances by Board Member Jane Alexander, Colony Fellows Jonathan Franzen and Eric Moe, Wycliffe Gordon, and Elaine Stritch; it was directed by Scott Perrin. Benefit Co-Chairmen Ruth M. Feder and Helen S. Tucker worked expertly and enthusiastically to create this successful event, with nearly 280 guests in attendance and over $326,000 raised in support of MacDowell’s artists residency program. Werner H. Kramarsky and Board Member Richard E. Oldenburg Photo by Steven Tucker.

TOASTS AND REVELRY

The MacDowell Colony honored Board Member and long-time friend Evelyn Stefansson Nef on the occasion of her 90th birthday at a special dinner at The Explorers Club in New York City on May 21, 2003. Nef joined MacDowell’s board in 1991 and gave the Nef Studio for photography, the first new studio to be built at the Colony in 50 years. In 1993, Nef was accepted as a Colony Fellow to work on her memoir, Finding My Way: The Autobiography Of An Optimist.

(right top) Board Members Benny Andrews, Mary Carswell, and Peter Cameron. Photo by Steven Tucker. (right bottom) Dayton Duncan and Board Member Ken Burns. (below left) Board Members Vartan Gregorian and Evelyn Stefansson Nef. Photo by Steven Tucker.

NEW HAMPSHIRE BENEFIT

On September 5, 2003, over 500 guests attended a preview of Ken Burns’ and Dayton Duncan’s documentary film, Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip, to benefit The MacDowell Colony. Both Burns, a member of the Colony’s board of directors, and Duncan were on hand at the Colonial Theatre in Keene, NH to introduce and answer questions about their film. The film screening and reception, which were superbly organized by the New Hampshire Benefit Committee, raised $30,000 in support of the artist residency program at MacDowell. ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY

MacDowell board members, friends, and staff socialized and enjoyed refreshments in Colony Hall on December 5, 2003. In the spirit of the season, guests were invited to bring donations to the Monadnock Area Food Bank, and the staff, in lieu of its own celebration, made a donation to Secret Santa, an organization that buys and distributes gifts to needy families.

21 THE EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL AND MEDAL DAY

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

Merce Cunningham continually disrupts our assumptions. Now that we are living in a time when there is more and more fear and resistance to the unexpected, Merce’s work becomes a kind of antidote and affirmation of letting go of a fixed [ and static construct, so that we may live life more fully. ] – Meredith Monk

Choreographer Merce Cunningham was awarded the 44th Edward MacDowell Medal on August 17, 2003 before an audience of over 1,000. Considered an innovator in the field of dance and choreography EDWARD MacDOWELL and a collaborator with many visual artists and composers, MEDAL WINNERS Cunningham was the first recipient of the Medal in the category 2003 Merce Cunningham of interdisciplinary art. Selection committee members included 2002 Robert Frank Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum of Art, RoseLee 2001 Philip Roth 2000 Lou Harrison Goldberg, and artists Charles Atlas and Dan Hurlin. Meredith 1999 Ellsworth Kelly Monk served as the presentation speaker. (Photograph below with 1998 I. M. Pei Merce Cunningham.) 1997 Chuck Jones 1996 Joan Didion 1995 George Crumb 1994 Jasper Johns 1993 Harry Callahan 1992 Richard Wilbur 1991 David Diamond 1990 Louise Bourgeois 1989 Stan Brakhage 1988 William Styron 1987 Leonard Bernstein 1986 Lee Friedlander 1985 Robert Motherwell 1984 Mary McCarthy 1983 Elliott Carter 1982 Isamu Noguchi 1981 John Updike 1980 Samuel Barber 1979 John Cheever 1978 Richard Diebenkorn 1977 Virgil Thomson 1976 Lillian Hellman 1975 Willem de Kooning 1974 Walter Piston 1973 Norman Mailer 1972 Georgia O'Keeffe 1971 William Schuman 1970 Eudora Welty 1969 Louise Nevelson 1968 Roger Sessions 1967 Marianne Moore 1966 Edward Hopper 1965 Edgard Varese 1964 Edmund Wilson 1963 Alexander Calder 1962 Robert Frost 1961 Aaron Copland 1960 Thornton Wilder

22 GIFTS FOR RESIDENCIES AND STUDIOS

Gifts to underwrite fellowships for artists and to maintain the Colony’s studios and residency buildings are essential in helping MacDowell continue its mission of the past 97 years. Major gifts designated for fellowships perpetuate the Colony’s tradition of accepting artists solely on the basis of talent. Fifty-nine annual and endowed fellowships and 11 annual and endowed studio maintenance grants were given during 2003-04, 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.

Anonymous Foundation Fellowship Judy Fox, Margot Livesey, and Andrea Loefke Starting in 1999, an anonymous foundation established a fellowship to support the residencies of three creative artists each year.

Anonymous Foundation Fellowship David Hancock and Matthew Northridge An anonymous foundation underwrote fellowships to support the residencies of two creative artists in 2003-04. Interdisciplinary artist Shimon Attie Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Fellowship Alex Shapiro Continuing a practice begun in 1961 to honor the memory Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship of Faye Barnaby Kent, the national collegiate sorority Alpha Alicia Ostriker and Blair Tindall Chi Omega contributed a fellowship for the residency of Beginning in 2000, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has a composer. been partnering with the Colony to encourage applications from creative artists from the state of New Jersey. Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship Honor Moore Ray Gottlieb Fellowship In recognition of board member Anne Cox Chambers’ Shimon Attie generous gift to support The MacDowell Colony’s Starting in 1996, the Ray Gottlieb Fellowship will be pro- Annual Benefit, a fellowship to support the residency of vided each year for ten years by the Abraham Gottlieb one creative artist in 2004 was named in her honor. Foundation. Lynn Gilbert gave this gift in memory of her mother, Ray Gottlieb, whose appreciation for fine art enriched both her life and the lives of those around her.

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships Benjamin Anastas, Ben Butler, Yong-Wook Chung, Meredith Holch, and Brad Land A Creativity/Multidisciplinary grant from the National Endowment for the Arts was awarded to MacDowell in 2003 to help support the residencies of ten creative artists at the Colony in 2004 (an additional five recipients will be named in 2004).

Netherland-America Foundation Fellowship Nelleke Beltjens The Netherland-America Foundation will support the residency of a writer or artist who is from the Netherlands or working on Dutch-related subject matter.

3-D artist Andrea Loefke 23 It’s impossible for me to achieve the kind of total immersion at home that writing a novel requires... [ here I am always writing.] – Fiction writer Michael Chabon

Composer Aleksandra Vrebalov ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS Endowed Fellowships, based on investment income from gifts held in the Colony’s endowment fund, provide support in perpetuity for one or more residencies each year.

Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship est. 1985 Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship est. 1999 Mike Holober Traci Dant The Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship for composers was Friends and family of Nadya Aisenberg, a poet, author, established by the board of directors in recognition of scholar, and Colony Fellow, established this fellowship Mrs. Crofts’ very generous support of the Colony, her in her memory to support the residency of a female poet. devotion to music, and her commitment to helping provide creative opportunities for modern composers. Milton and Sally Avery Fellowships est. 1983 Emily Brown and Katherine Kuharic Ewing Fellowship est. 2003 The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, in tribute to the Peter Thomson memory of Milton Avery, a Colony Fellow, endowed a A fellowship for a creative artist at MacDowell was fellowship for a painter of outstanding ability. In 1990, endowed by Ruth Ewing, a longtime friend of the Mrs. Avery, also a Colony Fellow and board member 1989- Colony and board member 1975-2000, and her husband, 2003, expanded the fund to provide for two fellowships. Jim Ewing, a member of the board of directors 1961-75 and its vice president 1966-1974. Cathrine Boettcher Fellowship est. 1991 Mark Robbins Gerald Freund Fellowship est. 1996 Cathrine Boettcher Felding, a longtime supporter and Andrew Greer friend of the Colony, established through her will a fund Friends of Gerald Freund, an advisor to and longtime to support residencies at MacDowell. friend of the Colony, established a fellowship for emerging writers in honor of his 40-year career in philanthropy Stanford Calderwood Fellowships est. 1998 and his commitment to funding exceptionally creative Donald Antrim, Sarah Bynum, Michael Chabon, Sheila Glaser, individuals in the arts and sciences. Frances Hwang, Suki Kim, Genya Turosky, and June Unjoo Yang To repay writers for the joys of a lifetime of pleasurable Isabella Gardner Fellowship est. 1982 reading, Stanford Calderwood, a member of the board of Christine Hume directors 1968-78 and its treasurer 1971-77, established a The family and friends of Isabella Gardner, as a tribute fund to support the residencies of all writers who work and a memorial, established this fellowship for a young, in the Calderwood Studio. female poet.

Chubb LifeAmerica Fellowship est. 1990 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship est. 1989 Brighde Mullins Suzanne Bibeau Chubb LifeAmerica made a grant to establish a fellow- The Heathcote Art Foundation, in tribute to its founder and ship to support artists from New Hampshire or northern benefactor, Josephine Mercy Heathcote, an 18th-century New England. decorative arts scholar and collector, endowed a fellow- ship for an artist of exceptional ability.

24 Kate and George Kendall Fellowships est. 1990 R. Zamora Linmark and Aleksandra Vrebalov Friends of the Kendalls established this fellowship as a tribute to George Kendall, general director of the Colony 1951-71. In 1999, the fund’s endowment received a generous bequest from George Kendall. Norton Stevens Fellowships est. 1975 Bret Battey, Paul Elwood, Stacy Garrop, and Lucia Ronchetti MacDowell Poetry Fellowship est. 1990 In honor of Colony Fellow Aaron Copland’s 75th birthday, Gail Taylor the Norlin Foundation established an endowment to Edwin C. Cohen, member of the board of directors 1984-99, provide fellowships for composers. established this fund to support the residency of a poet of exceptional ability. DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowships est. 1978 L. Louise Freeman-Toole, Camilla Gibb, Caroline Heller, Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship est. 2002 and Michelle Hoover Hugh Ogden DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest established an endowment A bequest from Colony Fellow Patricia Mangione estab- to provide fellowships for writers. lished a fellowship to support the residencies of senior writers and artists who have worked at their crafts for at Thornton Wilder Fellowship est. 1990 least 30 years. Marc Robinson In recognition of Thornton Wilder’s generous legacy to Robert Maxwell Fellowship est. 1989 the Colony, the board of directors established a fellowship Christopher Marquis in his name for an artist of any discipline. Wilder was a In recognition of Robert Maxwell’s generous legacy to the nine-time Colony Fellow, as well as the first recipient of Colony, the board of directors established this fellowship the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1960. for an artist of any discipline.

Philip Morris Company Fellowship est. 1991 Marc Weitzman The Philip Morris Company, in recognition of MacDowell’s contribution to the arts, established this fellowship in literature.

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellowship est. 1990 Carol Irving This fellowship to support the residency of a photographer was given by Evelyn Stefansson Nef, who has been on the board of directors since 1991 and serves as a vice chairman.

New Hampshire Committee Fellowship est. 1991 David Barker The New Hampshire Committee raised funds from 1987-91 to establish an endowed fellowship for an artist from New Hampshire .

Elodie Osborn Fellowship est. 1984 Jem Cohen In honor of Elodie Osborn’s efforts to establish film as a discipline at the Colony, her friends created a film fellow- ship at the Colony. Ms. Osborn was a member of the board of directors 1969-86 and president of the Colony 1975-77.

Bernardine Kielty Scherman Fellowship est. 1975 Barry Lopez In recognition of Bernardine Scherman’s long association with the Colony and her love of good writing, the Scherman Foundation established, in her name, a fellow- ship for a writer.

Frances and William Schuman Fellowship est. 1990 Tarik O’Regan The Schuman Fellowship was established as a loving tribute to the composer William Schuman, MacDowell Medalist in 1971, board member 1972-79, chairman 1980-83, and honorary chairman 1984-90; and Frances Schuman, board member 1977-94. Nonfiction writer Marc Robinson

25 STUDIO GRANTS Sigma Alpha Iota Pan’s Cottage, built as a men’s residence in 1919, was Studio Grants, whether endowed or annual gifts, given by Sigma Alpha Iota, an international fraternity for help provide for the upkeep of individual studios women in music. A Sigma Alpha Iota contribution in and residence buildings. 2003 helped meet expenses for utilities and upkeep.

Sorosis Club Alpha Chi Omega The Sorosis Studio was built in 1924-26 with funds Since 1971, Alpha Chi Omega, the first organization to provided by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis, which contribute a studio to the Colony, has extended its fellow- contributed in 2003 toward the studio’s maintenance. ship support to help maintain Star Studio, which was built in 1911-12. In 2003, the organization made a contribution to help meet the studio’s expenses. TRAVEL AND FINANCIAL AWARDS Stanford Calderwood Studio Two major gifts make possible travel grants for artists to In 1999, Stanford Calderwood funded the construction of help pay domestic and international transportation costs, a new studio for writers and established an endowed respectively. Financial aid for writers, based on need, is fund to cover the annual costs of maintaining the studio. provided through a grant from an anonymous foundation. Delta Omicron Members of Delta Omicron, an international music club, MacArthur Transportation Fund funded the building of Omicron Studio in 1927. In 1996, the In 1990, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Delta Omicron Foundation made a gift to refurbish a Mason Foundation awarded the Colony a $200,000 grant that & Hamlin grand piano, dedicated in memory of Roxine has been set aside to establish an endowed transportation Beard Petzold and Adelaide Louise Collyer, two past fund for artists who cannot afford domestic travel to presidents of the fraternity. Delta Omicron made a contribu- and from the Colony. During 2003-04, 50 grants totaling tion in 2003 to help meet annual costs for the studio. $15,542 were awarded which enabled artists to come from 15 states. Valli Dreyfus Firth Studio In 1993, Barn Studio was dedicated to Valli Dreyfus Firth The David and Rosamond Putnam Transportation Fund who supported the Colony generously for many years. In This endowed fund was established in 1989 by Mr. and Mrs. her memory, the Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation funded David F. Putnam, longtime friends and generous bene- extensive renovations to the visual artists’ studio and factors of the Colony, to provide financial assistance for established an endowed maintenance fund for its upkeep. international travel to and from the Colony for artists who could not come at their own expense. During 2003-04, 16 Evelyn Stefansson Nef Studio grants totaling $13,323 were awarded that enabled artists In 1992, Vice Chairman Evelyn Stefansson Nef funded the from 11 countries to come to MacDowell. construction of a new photography studio and established an endowed fund to cover the annual costs of maintaining Writers Aid the studio. It was the first new studio built on the Colony Through a gift from an anonymous foundation, the Colony grounds since 1936. awards grants of up to $1,000 each to writers needing finan- cial assistance in order to attend The MacDowell Colony. New Hampshire Studio The three-year pilot program (1998-2001) provided about 30 In 1990, the Gilbert Verney Foundation established an awards each year. A grant in 2001 extended the program for endowed fund to maintain and improve the New an additional three years. Future funding will be sought to Hampshire Studio. In 1992, through a generous bequest expand the stipend program to other disciplines. During the given in memory of Colonist Victor Candell, the studio past fiscal year, $39,820 was awarded to 42 writers. was renovated – enlarging and improving the space available for use by visual artists.

Heinz Studio In 1996, Drue Heinz, a vice chairman of the Colony, donated funds to re-create the old icehouse as a sculpture studio and to establish a studio maintenance fund.

New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs The New Jersey Studio (1920-21) was funded by the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, who have continued as longtime contributors to its maintenance. In 2003, Federation contributions helped meet studio expenses.

Phi Beta Phi Beta Fraternity, a national organization for professionals in music and speech, provided for the construction of Phi Beta Studio (1929-31), and continued to help support its upkeep with a grant in 2003. Painter Suzanne Bibeau in Firth Studio 26 THE MACDOWELL CIRCLE

The MacDowell Circle recognizes the total annual giving of all contributors who have made gifts to The MacDowell Colony.The generous support of these donors allows the Colony to fulfill its mission of helping artists in their creative endeavors.The categories of giving are in honor of distinguished artists who have been Colony Fellows. Gifts of $7,500 or more fully underwrite the residency of a creative artist.

THORNTON WILDER MILTON AVERY Ms. Wendy Belser Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lehrer CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS Mr. John Bisbee Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Deane Leonard $10,000 and over $1,500 and over Mr. and Mrs. David Boies Mr. William S. Lieberman Ms. Louise Bourgeois Ms. Margot Livesey Mr. William N. Banks Anonymous Gift Mr. Robert Boyett Ms. Louise Eastman Loening Ms. Eleanor Briggs Mr. Benny Andrews and Ms. Emily Scott Brown Ms. Mary M. Lum Mary and Robert Carswell Ms. Nene Humphrey Ms. Jane Brox MacDowell Club of Allied Arts The Honorable Anne Cox Chambers Helen and Peter Bing T. Edward Bynum of Los Angeles Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Clarke Ms. Kate Blackwell in honor of Sarah Bynum Norm and Judy Makechnie The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Mr. Ken Burns and Ms. Julie Burns Mr. Jay E. Cantor Ms. Alice Mattison Memorial Fund Mr. Peter Cameron Seong Chun and Nick Winter Ms. Jo McDougall Mr. John Hargraves and Mr. Michael Chabon Church & Main, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gerard M. Meistrell Ms. Nancy Newcomb Paula Cooper and Jack Macrae Cincinnati MacDowell Society Melanson Heath & Company, PC Mrs. Drue Heinz Mr. Alexander Cortesi and Citizens Bank Richard and Ronay Menschel Mr. and Mrs. Werner H. Kramarsky Ms. Wendy Mackenzie Mrs. Joan Hardy Clark Mr. David Meyer Abby and Mitch Leigh Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Draper Mr. Arthur Clarke and Ms. Susan Sloan Harvey S. Shipley Miller/ Mrs. Evelyn Stefansson Nef Mary T. Garland Mr. and Mrs. Landon Clay The Judith Rothschild Foundation Stephanie and Robert M. Olmsted Gerry and Teresa Gartner Ms. Andrea Cohen Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. Betsy and Ted Rogers Mr. Robert F. Gould Mr. Jem Cohen Mr. Nicholas Montemarano Mr. and Mrs. William G. Spears Mrs. S. William Green Rick and Jan Cohen Ms. Honor Moore Terry and Rick Stone Mr. Wilder Green Ms. Suzanne F. Cohen Mrs. Renate Ponsold Motherwell The Thomson Corporation Harcourt, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Abram T. Collier Mr. Dennison Nash Ms. Ilse G. Traulsen HarperCollins Publishers Mr. Edward T. Cone Ms. Nina D. Nyhart Mrs. Helen S. Tucker/ David W. and Katherine Moore Heleniak Lisa and Wayne Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Oldenburg Gramercy Park Foundation Peter and Mary Heller Ms. Mary Sharp Cronson/ Mrs. Anthony T. Oppersdorff Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation The Helm Foundation The Evelyn Sharp Foundation Orr & Reno, P.A. Mr. Robert P. Hubbard Mr. Sebastian Currier Mr. and Mrs. Craig Oxman The Hurlin Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Debs Mr. Richard Cutts Peaslee Dr. and Mrs. Julius H. Jacobson II Ms. Lucia Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. I.M. Pei Jane and Gerald Katcher Mr. Stephen Dunn Mrs. John David Peterson AARON COPLAND Mr.† and Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen Ms. Judith Dupre Mr. Robert S Pirie CONTRIBUTORS Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kramarsky Mr. and Mrs. Jeb Embree The Honorable and Mrs. Nicholas Platt $7,500 and over Carol H. and Robert D. Krinsky Mrs. Robert M. Feely Prudential Foundation* Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lash/Christie’s Mr. Bruce W. Ferguson Mary Ann and Bruno Quinson Robert and Donna MacNeil Honorable Samuel Kenric Lessey, Jr. Rosamond and David Putnam Mr. Richard Festinger Ann and Martin Rabinowitz Mr. and Mrs. James S. Marcus Mrs. Barbara G. Fleischman Mr. David C. Rakowski Tom and Babs Putnam Mr. Paul Moravec Random House, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Folger/ Mr. Jock Reynolds John and Olivia Parker The Folger Fund Mr. Robert Rodat and Ms. Mollie Miller Mr. and Mrs. Mark K. Posnick Mr. Richard E. Ford Ms. Martha Ronk Mr. Andrew Prozes and Ms. Laura Heery The Foscue Foundation Mrs. Marjorie P. Rosenthal Ms. Nan Quick Mr. and Mrs. David Foster Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rothfusz WILLA CATHER Random House Children’s Books Mr. Jonathan Franzen Dr. James L. Sacksteder Leslie E. Robertson and Saw-Teen See CONTRIBUTORS Mr. and Mrs. Eric P. Fraunfelter Janet U. Schaefer Mr. Stephen Ruddy III Mr. Hugh J. Freund The Segal Company $3,000 and over Ms. Jennifer Russell Miss Mary Laura Gibbs Mr. Robert H. Silsbee Brook and Roger Berlind/ Linda and Donald Schapiro Mr. Andrew Ginzel Mr. Alan B. Slifka The Berlind Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff/ Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Goldsmith Ms. Susan Sollins-Brown Mrs. Catherine G. Curran The Schiff Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Vartan Gregorian Mr. Ronald L. Steel Mrs. Ruth Ewing Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Seifer Mr. and Mrs. Judson D. Hale, Sr. Ms. Judith Stout Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Feder/ Mr. and Mrs. David Kenneth Specter Mr. Richard William Hayes, AIA Nan and Stephen Swid Feder Family Charitable Ms. Margaret L. Stevens Mr. Fred Hersch Mr. David Teiger Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. D. Firth Mr. Charles J. Tanenbaum and Ms. Marlene Hess Mrs. James P. Warburg Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Forbes Ms. Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum John and Jean Hoffman Ms. Wendy Wasserstein J. Paul Getty Trust Mrs. Amos N. Wilder/ Karen and Jeff Hughes Mildred and George Weissman/The Carol Sutton Lewis and Wilder Family Charitable Fund in honor of Robert MacNeil Mildred and George Weissman Fund William M. Lewis, Jr. Mr. Lewis Hyde Peter and Andrea Wensberg Ms. Denise Marika Woody and Elizabeth Ives Ms. Shelby White/Leon Levy Philanthropic Markem Corporation Dr. Michael I. Jacobs Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Ms. Pamela J. Johnson Wilder Family LLC New Hampshire Charitable Foundation HELEN FARNSWORTH MEARS David Kamp and Michael Rubin Mr. Mark Winges Peter and Suzanne Read CONTRIBUTORS Mr. Sidney R. Knafel and Ms. Londa Ms. Tracy C. Winn Ms. Ruth Reichl $500 and over Weisman/Knafel Family Foundation Carter and Eileen Wiseman Mrs. Janos Scholz Mrs. Evelyn Kossak/The John and Yankee Publishing, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sichel/ Anonymous Gift Evelyn Kossak Foundation Ms. Cheryl A. Young Franz W. Sichel Foundation A.W. Peters, Inc. Mr. Jan Krzywicki Elizabeth and Geoffrey Verney Ms. Jane Alexander and Mr. Ed Sherin Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit L. Lansing Colony Fellows listed in bold Mrs. Marian J. Ware Mrs. Philip Bastedo, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Lauder Mr. David Baum and Ms. Terry Reeves * matching gift Mr. Francis H. Williams Monica and Michael Lehner † deceased 27 FRIENDS OF MACDOWELL Ms. Rosellen Brown Ms. M. Christine Dwyer and Ms. Tara Winslow Geer Up to $500 Ms. Bliss Broyard Mr. Michael Huxtable Ms. Lynn Geesaman Ms. Susan Brynteson Eastern Mountain Sports Ms. Kinereth D. Gensler Anonymous Gifts (21) Mr. Victor Bumbalo Ms. Jan Eaton Ms. Kathleen George Acqua Bistro Ms. Carol Burdick Mrs. Justine A. Eaton Mr. Robert L. George Mr. Samuel H. Adler Ms. Gabrielle Burton Mr. Jason Eckardt Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Germain Dr. Alan C. Aisenberg Mr. Bruce Keith Busby Mr. Charles A. Edwards Mr. Panos Ghikas and Ms. Patience Haley Mr. Hugh Aitken Mr. Paul Byard Mr. and Mrs. John T. Elliott, Jr. Mr. Hugh Dana Gibson Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Allen Ms. Pauline Ho Bynum Mr. Paul Elwood Mr. Thomas Gilroy Alliance Capital Management Corporation* Ms. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Ms. Susan Emerling Ms. Betty Gimber Ms. Mara Alper Mr. Joseph Cady Ms. Elise Engler Mr. Eugene Gloria Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Delta Beta Chapter Mr. Joseph Caldwell Dr. Robert and Alfrieda Englund John and Andrea Glovsky Alpha Chi Omega, Santa Fe/ Ms. Ann M. Callaway Dr. Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Ms. Rebecca T. Godwin Los Alamos Alumnae Club Cambridge Trust Company of Ernst & Young Ms. Eunice Golden Mr. Earl K. Anderson New Hampshire John and Barbara Faria Grethe and David Golden Mr. Donald Eldridge Antrim Ms. Donna Cameron Geoffrey and Evelyn Farnum Mr. Robert Golden Ms. Edith V. Antunes Mr. Mark Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faulkner Mr. David Goldes Ms. Katherine Aoki Ms. Catherine Castellani Ms. Jemison Faust and Mr. Thomas Wilson Mr. Elliott Alexander Goldkind Ms. Frieda Arkin Mr. Sidney Chafetz Robert Sargent Fay Mrs. Florence K. Goldman Mr. and Mrs. William Arthur Ms. Lenora Champagne Ms. Tina Feingold Molly and Sym Goodnow Mr. Louis S. Asekoff Ms. Lan Samantha Chang Ms. Merrill Feitell Mr. Jim Goss Ms. Mary Jo Ashenfelter Mr. Eric Chasalow Ms. Cecelia Feld Mr. John L. Gray Ms. Cristina M. Ashjian Ms. Karen Chase Ron and Frayda Feldman Mr. Harvey Green Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Askenaizer Mr. Edward Chudacoff Ms. Mary Felstiner Mrs. Robert S. Green Ms. Donnette Hatch Atiyah Mr. David Claman Ms. Diane S. Festa Mr. Eamon Grennan Mr. Shimon Attie Mr. Tim Clark and Ms. Mary Lowry Clark Mr. Michael D. Fiday Mr. Timothy Groesbeck Ms. Heléne Aylon Mr. Everett Clement Ms. Ruth Fields Ms. Rachel Hadas Mr. Thomas W. Bakewell Mrs. Eleanor Cogswell Mr. Peter Filkins and Ms. Susan Roeper Ms. Nancy Hagin Bank of New Hampshire Mr. Gerald Cohen Ms. Emily Fine Mr. Dennis Hahn Ms. Mirra Bank Ms. Rachel Elizabeth Cohen Ms. Ruth E. Fine Ms. Nancy Hahn Mr. Joseph Barbieri Mr. Dan Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Finn Mr. and Mrs. David Hall Mr. Ricardo Barreto and Ms. Vivien Abrams Collens Ms. Rosemarie Fiore Ms. Sydney K. Hamburger Mr. William Chapman Ms. Zena Collier Ms. Cheryl Fippen Ms. Mary Stewart Hammond Ms. Andrea Barrett Ms. Betsy Collins Ms. B.G. Firmani Ms. Joelle Hann Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Barry Ms. Martha Collins Hilda W. Fleisher Mr. Stephen William Harby Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bass Jed Distler Mr. Peter Foley Ms. Pagan Danielle Harleman Sallie and Rob Bass Ms. Jane M. Cooper Ms. Liza Folman Mr. Paul Taylor Harrill Ms. Lynn Bassler Ms. Teresa Cooper Ms. Laurie Foos Ms. Pamela Harrison Ms. Cecily Bastedo Miss Christin Couture Mr. H. A. Forbes Ms. Maren J. Hassinger Mary Catherine Bateson and J.B. Kassarjian Mrs. Margaret C. Bean Mr. Kevin E. Beavers Ms. Deborah Beblo Mr. Herbert Beerman Mr. Paul Beirne/The Beirne Foundation, Inc. When I am at home, Myron Beldock, Esq. I build on what MacDowell has given me Bellows-Nichols Agency, Inc. Mrs. William G. Belser the freedom to discover. Mr. and Mrs. John Benjamin Mrs. Margaret R. Bennett The magic of MacDowell is Mr. Edward Bent Mr. Jonathan Seth Berger that the magic lasts. Ms. Marina Berio [ ] Mr. Brett Berk Ms. Vivian Berman – Poet Jo McDougall Ms. April Bernard Mr. Douglas Beube Ms. Suzanne Bibeau Cronin and Gervino Insurance Ms. Judy Carol Fox Ms. Caroline Heller Barbara and Charles Bickford Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cronin, III Mr. Stephen Frailey Mr. David Hellerstein Ms. Isabel Bigelow Ms. Susan Cooper Cronyn Ms. Velma L. Francisco Mr. Hunt Henrie and Thomas and Claudia Bissett Anna E. Crouse Ms. Joslin Kimball Frank Ms. Leslie Wilcott-Henrie Ms. Star Cobey Black Ms. Marilyn Currier Mr. Max Frankel Mr. William K. Henze Mr. David H. Blair Mr. C. Michael Curtis Ms. Anne S. Frantz Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Hermes Ms. Tia Blassingame Mr. John D’Agata Ms. Susan Frantz and Mr. Wes DeVries Ms. Christine Hiebert Mr. Kevin M. Bleau Mr. John H. Dalton Linda M. Frawley Ms. Ellen M. Hill Ms. Chana Bloch Mr. Jack Damer Ms. Susan K. Freedman Ms. Nellie Hill Mr. Matt Bloom Mr. Richard Danielpour Mr. and Mrs. John Freyer Ms. Jane B. Hirshfield Mr. Steven Bognar Mr. Thomas A. Dart Mr. John Freyer Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hoch Mr. James Boorstein Mr. Lyell C. Dawes and Ms. Jessie Pollack Ms. Sasha Waters Freyer Ms. Rolaine Hochstein Mrs. Geoffrey A. Boughton Ms. Jean Day Dr. and Mrs. William F. Fritz Dr. and Mrs. B. P. Hoffman Mr. Hayg Boyadjian Dr. and Mrs. Francis de Marneffe Gerard and Maryjane Fromm Vernon E. Hollenbach Ms. Miriam Boyce Peter and Lisa de Roetth Mrs. Minnie Frost Mr. Mike Holober Mrs. Ginna Brand Ms. Roberta H. Delaney Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Fry Mr. and Mrs. David E. Howe Ms. Michele Brannan Mr. Edward Dell, Jr. Ms. Kristi D. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. James Howell Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Brawer Mr. Stephen Dembski Ms. Lise Funderburg Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Howell Mr. Marco Breuer Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel T. Denis Dr. and Mrs. Francis Fuselier Ms. Anne Huberman Ms. Joan Jessop Brewster Ms. Anne-Marie Desroches Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gabriel Mr. Jim Humes Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bromberg Ms. Judy Doenges Mr. Carlton Gamer Ms. Florence V. Hunt Ms. Ellen K. Brooks Mr. Danny M. Donovan-Wilhelmi Ms. Anne Garcia-Romero Ms. Barbara Hurd Ms. Margaret Brouwer Ms. Eileen Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Gardiner Ms. Valerie Hurley Mr. and Mrs. Duncan W. Brown Ms. Eleanor Drury Ms. D. Baldwin Gardner Dan Hurlin and Kazu Nakamura Ms. Elizabeth C. Brown Ms. Amy Dryansky Ms. Charlotte Garrett Currier Priscilla and David Hurlin Ms. Elizabeth Brown and Mr. Peter Howe J. August and Charlotte Duval Ms. Stacy Garrop Mr. Lee J. Hyla

Colony Fellows listed in bold 28 * matching gift Ms. Catherine Ingraham Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Iselin Mr. Christopher Ison Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lorimer Mr. Rodney Jack Ann and Carl Jacobs Ms. Julia Jacquette Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Janklow Ms. Phyllis Janowitz Mr. Tom Jaremba Ms. Alison Jarvis Ms. Teresa Jaynes Paula K. Jeffries Mr. Jay Jennings Ms. Diana Jensen Mr. Simen Johan Johnson, Killen and Seiler Ms. Arlene Jones Ms. Cornelia A. Jones Mr. Mike Whitney Jones Ms. Tayari Jones Joseph’s Coat Peace Crafts Mr. Gus Kaikkonen Ms. Debra Kam Mr. H. Peter Karoff Mr. John McCauley Keenen Ms. Susan Keizer Mr. Brian Kellman Ms. Nancy Kelly and Mr. Kenji Yamamoto Ms. Aviva Kempner Mrs. R. Grice Kennelly The Lodge Residence. Photo by Barbara Yoshida. Ms. Elizabeth A. Kerwin Mr. David Kezur Ms. Suki Kim Ms. Sara MacDonald and Mr. Daniel Z. Nelson Ms. Diane Pieri Mr. John S. King Mr. Carl Sandland Ms. Joanne Nerenberg Ms. Barbara A. Pike Kingsbury Corporation MacDowell Club of Allied Arts Ms. Bonnie Newman Mr. Robert Pike Mr. Anthony C. M. Kiser of Oklahoma City Ms. Viven Nicholl Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson C. Pillsbury Ms. Ann Klein MacDowell Club of Chattanooga Mr. and Mrs. Irving Nichols Ms. Hermine D. Pinson Ms. Susan Klein MacDowell Club of Flint Mr. Samuel Angelo Nigro Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pokorny Ms. Nancy Knutson MacDowell Club of Green Bay Mr. William U. Niss Mr. and Mrs. James S. Polshek Ms. Joann Kobin MacDowell Club of Providence Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Nitze Mr. Vincent A. Pomilio Ms. Rosemarie Koczy MacDowell Ensemble Chapter Mr. Abner Nolan Ms. Sylvia T. Pope Mr. Christopher Koep of the MacDowell Colony League Mr. Davidson Norris Ms. Nancy A. Potter Ms. Phyllis Koestenbaum Roderick and Eila Mackenzie Mr. Kevin Norton Mr. Edward Praczukowski Ms. Edith Konecky Mr. and Mrs. Charlton MacVeagh, Jr. Ms. Lorie Novak Mr. Bobby Previte Mr. and Mrs. James L. Koontz Mr. David Macy and Ms. Rebecca Rothfusz Mr. Stanley Noyes Ms. Joanna Priestley Mr. Andrew Kordalewski Elaine Malsin/Lane Bryant Malsin Mr. Michael Oakes Public Service Company of Ms. Zane Kotker Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Bob and Sandy Odell New Hampshire Mr. Dennis Kowal Communal Fund Mr. Chris Offutt Mr. Alexander Purves Ms. Darlene R. Krato Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Malt Mr. Hugh Ogden Ms. Sharon Pywell Mr. Arthur V. Kreiger Scott Manning and Frank Guerra Ms. Carole Oligario Richard and Janet Quinn Mr. Karl Kroeger Mr. Jaime Manrique Ms. Laurie Olinder Mr. Lawrence Raab Ms. Katherine Kuharic Mr. Christopher Marquis David and Suzanne Oliver Ms. Margo Rabb Ms. Madeleine May Kunin Ms. Caroline Marshall Mr. Clary Olmstead and Ms. Willa Rabinovitch Lynette Lamb Ms. Susan B. Martin Ms. Kathleen Heenan Ms. Peggy Rambach Mrs. Elizabeth Coles Langhorne Mr. and Mrs. Jon J. Masters Mr. and Ms. Austin Olney Mr. James Rauchman Ms. Eve Andrée Laramée Mr. Steve Maughan Ellen C. Oppler Mr. and Mrs. William V. Regan/ Mr. and Mrs. David Latimore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Maynard Mr. Tarik O’Regan The Ann and William Regan Fund Mr. Eric Lax Ms. Deirdra H. McAfee Mr. and Mrs. P.J. O’Rourke Ms. Melanie Rehak Joan and Henry Lee Ms. Martha Louise McDonald Ms. Alicia Ostriker Ms. Frances Richard Ms. Marie Lee Ms. Lynda Reeves McIntyre Ms. Karen P. Ostrom Miss Mabel C. Richardson Ms. Joan Leegant Ms. Julie McKee Mr. James R. Packard Ms. Harvena Richter Ms. Tammy Lenski Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. McLaughlin Mr. Gregory Page Ms. Jean Rigg Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Deane Leonard Ms. Deirdre McNamer Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Paley Mrs. Sally Heath Rives Ms. Jane Leonard Mr. Stephen Mead II Mr. and Mrs. Fredric S. Papert Mr. Mark Robbins Mr. Steven Levene and Ms. Susan Peters Mediation Services of New England Ms. Gail Merrifield Papp Ms. Celeste Roberge Mr. Robert Levey and Ms. Ellen Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Meryman Ms. Suzan-Lori Parks Mr. James Oliver Robertson Ms. Alice Rabi Lichtenstein Ms. Elisabeth Haly Meyer Ms. Mary Ann Paullin Ms. Ann S. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Lincoln Mr. Greg Miller Dr. and Mrs. John W. Payne Mr. Marc Robinson Rosemary and Lewis Lloyd Ms. Adrienne C. Mim Mr. Brian Allan Payton Ms. Patricia Goedicke Robinson Mr. Sebastian Lockwood and Ms. Valerie J. Miner Mrs. Anne Pelletier Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rogers Ms. Nanette Perrotte Ms. Anne Minich Mr. Ronald Perera Mr. Jay Rogoff Mr. Robert Lombardo W. Luis Molina Domino’s Pizza Jerome and Dorothy Rosenberg Mr. Edwin London Ms. Sherri Monson Peterborough Outfitting Company in honor of Mary Carswell Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lord, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jean Montagu Peterborough Woman’s Club Ms. Judith H. Rosenberg Mrs. Ruth Lord Helen and Gordon Moodie Ms. Heather Peterson and Mr. Mel Rosenthal Susan and David Lord Ms. Barbara Moore Mr. Chuck De Vinne Mr. Walter Ross Ms. Andrea Louie Mrs. Arlene Morrow Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Peterson Judith Rubin Ms. Frani Lowe Mr. Ben Frank Moss Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Carlton Mr. Andrew Rudin Dr. Ray Luke Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Mumma Petrone, Jr. Ms. Helen Barr Rudin Ms. Joanne Lyman Ms. Louise E. Myers Ms. Marcia Pettee Ms. Marcia R. Rudin Ms. Lilla Lyon Ms. Thelma S. Nason Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Ms. Catherine Ruggieri Ms. Dorothy M. Macalaster Ms. Jean Nathan Ms. Marlene Nourbese Philip Mr. and Mrs. L. Phillips Runyon III Ms. Cynthia Macdonald Ms. Deborah Navas Mr. Tony Phillips Mr. Robert J. Russett 29 Ms. Jonsara Ruth Mr. John von Bergen PUBLIC FUNDING MEDAL DAY Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Sagalyn Mr. Dietrich Von Frank CORPORATE PARTNER Saint Anselm College Mr. and Mrs. Carl Von Mertens We are grateful for funding from Ms. Wendy L. Salinger Ms. Judith Winslow Walcott The National Endowment Jefferson Pilot Financial Mr. Richard Sargent Ms. Lindsay Walt for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schaefer Mr. Robert E. Ward Mr. Gary Schiro Ms. Anne R. Wardwell RESTRICTED GIFTS Mr. Anthony W. Schneider Ms. Marianne R. Weil BEQUESTS Donors who have designated funds Mr. Henry Schour Ms. Elaine Weiss Ms. Patricia Hartung for a specific purpose. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond V. J. Schrag/ Mr. Dan Welcher Mr. Kent W. Kennan The Raymond V. J. Schrag Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Welden ANONYMOUS GIFTS (2) Ms. Susannah McCorkle Mr. Victor Schrager Peter and Karin Wells For Fellowships to support Ms. Eileen Simpson Mr. Ben Schrank Anne Wesson three residencies Mr. Tony Schuman White Mountain Investment, Inc. For Writers’ Aid Program IN MEMORIAM Mr. Elliot Schwartz Dr. Ess A. White, Jr. NADYA AISENBERG ENDOWED Mr. Elliott Schwartz Laura and Reid White Gift in memory of Nadya Aisenberg FELLOWSHIP Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Crane Mr. Daniel Scott Ms. Susan McDonald White Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Crane Mr. Daniel V. Scully Mr. Thomas Whitman Gifts in memory of Garth W. Benepe ALPHA CHI OMEGA FELLOWSHIP Ms. Marlene Sellers Mr. Edward F. Whitney Marian J. Ware Ms. Alex Shapiro Ms. Kate Whitney and Mr. Frank Thomas Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Ms. Myra Shapiro Ms. Patricia Willard Gifts in memory of Amanda Davis in honor of Faye Barnaby Kent Mrs. William L Shearer III Mr. Hugh O. Williams Ms. Heléne Aylon THE GERALDINE R. DODGE Mr. C. James Sheppard Suzanne Williamson and John Capouya Ms. Bliss Broyard FELLOWSHIP Mr. Stephen Shore Rev. and Mrs. William E. Wimer Mr. Bruce Keith Busby The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Ms. Marilyn Shrude Charles and Ellen Winchester Mr. Jason Eckardt Ms. Susan Silton Mrs. Katherine Blodgett Winter Ms. Merrill Feitell THE EWING FELLOWSHIP Ms. Glori Simmons Ms. Joanne Wise Ms. Joelle Hann Mrs. James D. Ewing Ms. Tayari Jones Mr. Herbert Simon Mrs. Robert S. Wolcott THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE Mr. Christopher Koep Sim’s Press, Inc. Ms. Dee I. Wolff FELLOWSHIP Mr. Patterson Sims Mrs. Dana D. Woody Ms. Deirdre McNamer Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Singleton Mr. David B. Wristen Mr. Abner Nolan Glen and Annagreta Swanson Ms. Hilary Sio Ms. Susan Yankowitz Mr. Brian Allan Payton Dr. Henry F. Smith Ms. Jo Yarrington Ms. Margo Rabb STUDIO MAINTENANCE Ms. Rheta Smith Ms. Joanne Gover Yoshida Ms. Willa Rabinovitch Alpha Chi Omega for Star Studio Ms. Rosalind Solomon Alan and Lois Young Ms. Frances Richard Delta Omicron Foundation, Inc. Ms. Maya Sonenberg and Ms. Arlene Zallman Mr. Daniel Scott for Omicron Studio Mr. John Robinson Elissa Zengel and Charles Post Ms. Rosalind Solomon New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sorensen Ms. Susan Zielinski Ms. Susan Zielinski Clubs for New Jersey Studio Mr. Peter Sourian Dr. Joan Zinkawich Phi Beta Fraternity for Phi Beta Studio Gifts in memory of Ric Frede Ms. Martha Southgate Ms. Harriet Zinnes Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Southgate Ms. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich for Pan’s Cottage Glen and Annagreta Swanson Drs. Rawn and Carlesta Spearman Sorosis Inc. for Sorosis Studio Ms. Kathleen Spivack IN-KIND DONATIONS Gifts in memory of Leo J. Hertzel Melinda and Lewis Spratlan In addition to the donors listed below, Ms. Kristi D. Fuller RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES David and Barbara Stahl the Colony is grateful for contributions Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Hermes Amy Beach Mr. Lewis M. Stark of books, recordings, films, slides, and Vernon E. Hollenbach Cathrine Boettcher Felding Ms. Beryl Steadman other works of art by Colonists, which Mr. Christopher Ison Louise Talma Mr. Christopher Giles Eric Steadman are placed in MacDowell’s archive and Johnson, Killen and Seiler Charles Cadman Wakefield Ms. Sharon Steadman made available to artists in residence. Lynette Lamb Lou Winans Mineral Rights Mr. Donald Steele Ms. Frani Lowe Ms. Ruth Sterling 12 Pine Mr. and Mrs. David E. Stinson Mr. Robert L. Stern 1-800-flowers.com We have made every effort to assure Gift in memory of Daniel Kingman Mr. Matthew Stevenson Aesop’s Table that this list is accurate and complete. Ms. Betsy Collins Mr. and Mrs. David E. Stinson Grace Aldrich We apologize for any errors. Please let Rev. and Mrs. Lewis S. Stone Alfred A. Knopf Gift in memory of William Byrne Paullin us know of any oversight Susan Strickler Bonnie Doon Vineyards, Santa Cruz, CA Ms. Mary Ann Paullin Ms. Elisabeth Subrin Discountech Suburban Music Study Club Elegant Settings Gift in memory of Thornton Wilder Ms. Nancy Sullivan Elizabeth Harris Gallery Mrs. Amos N. Wilder/Wilder Family Miss Patricia F. Sullivan Fiddleheads Café Charitable Fund Colony Fellows listed in bold Mr. Andrew Supplee Ms. Roya Hakakian Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Swanson Mr. Terry LaRock Ambassador Richard N. Swett Mass Audio Visual Ms. Deborah Tall McLeod Apple Orchard Dr. and Mrs. Kimball B. Temple The Monadnock Ledger Ms. Lenore Tenenblatt Mr. Tarik O’Regan Mr. Mark A. Thompson People’s Linen, Keene Ms. Maryann Thompson The Peterborough Transcript Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thorne Puritan Press Sara and Jeffry Timmons The Restaurant at Burdick Chocolate Toadstool Bookshops Rosaly’s Farmstand Stan and Anne Trecker Roy’s Market Jamie and Laura Trowbridge The Segal Company Ms. Liliane Emery Tuck Shearman & Sterling Ms. Nan Tull Sotheby’s Dr. Robert Comrie Turner Sterling Business Corporation Ms. Katrina Tuvera Mr. Ferenc Suto Ms. Nancy Van de Vate Ms. Carol Cary Taylor Mr. Tom Varner Mr. Whiting Tennis Ms. Susan Varon Verizon Ms. Carolyn R. Vogel Ms. Paula Vogel Ms. Patricia Volk

30 MESSAGE FROM THE TREASURER

In 2004 the MacDowell Colony was the beneficiary of sound financial management, a favorable climate in the financial market and the generous contribution of numer- ous supporters. The combination of these forces resulted in a dramatic improvement in financial strength while the Colony continued to fill its mission of service, hosting 253 creative artists in residence for a total of 8,124 days.

Development efforts were successful in increasing Support and Revenue by 69% to over $1.5 million. Bequests contributed $734 thousand of that total. Expenses increased by less than 1%.

Our investment portfolio consists of equities and interest bearing instruments. Total investment return was over $5.0 million, bringing the total investment in securities to over $21.3 million. Because the Colony has other short-term and fixed assets (property and equipment), and virtually no liabilities, the net book value of assets is almost $25 million.

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 E. 81st Street, New York, NY 10028.

Gerald J. Gartner Treasurer

SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR FISCAL YEARS ENDING MARCH 31, 2004 and 2003 2004 2003 Number of artists in residence 253 237 Total number of artists days 8,124 7,580

Investments at Fair Value $ 21,324,270 $ 17,103,717 Total Assets 24,945,313 20,629,912 Total Liabilities 73,026 77,097 Total Net Assets 24,872,287 20,552,815 Total Operating Support and Revenue 1,547,771 916,127 Total Operating Expenses 2,254,126 2,239,090 FY04 SOURCES OF OPERATING SUPPORT Operating Deficit (706,355) (1,322,963) CONTRIBUTIONS Net Investment Return 5,025,827 (1,794,507) Individuals $ 245,445 11% Net Change in Assets $ 4,319,472 $ (3,117,470) Corporations 765 0% Foundations 117,530 5% Bequests and Restricted Contributions 773,887 34% Government Grants 30,000 1% Events 353,947 15% Subtotal 1,481,574 66% FY04 TOTAL EXPENSES ADMISSIONS, ROYALTIES & OTHER 66,197 3% Program $ 1,400,632 62% Administration 443,171 20% TRANSFER FROM UNRESTRICTED FUNDS 706,355 31% Development 410,323 18% TOTAL $ 2,254,126 100% TOTAL $ 2,254,126 100%

Admissions, Development Royalties & Other 3% 18% Contributions Program Administration 66% 62% 20% Unrestricted Funds 31%

31 BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF as of June 2004 as of June 2004

Robert MacNeil David W. Heleniak Cheryl A. Young MAINTENANCE Chairman Dan Hurlin Executive Director John Sieswerda Julia Jacquette Maintenance Foreman Carter Wiseman Jytte Jensen David Macy Rob Cummings President Verlyn Klinkenborg Resident Director Summer Maintenance Staff Carol Krinsky Terry LaRock William N. Banks Tania Leon ADMINISTRATION Maintenance Staff Drue Heinz William S. Lieberman Michelle Aldredge Eric Miller Evelyn Stefansson Nef George M. Nicholson Office & Fellows Services Assistant Summer Maintenance Staff Vice Chairmen Richard Oldenburg Grace Aldrich Robert Panish Robert Olmsted Admissions & Office Assistant Summer Maintenance Staff Gerald J. Gartner Olivia Parker Courtney Bethel Jamie Sargent Treasurer Thomas Putnam Admissions Coordinator Maintenance Staff Peter C. Read Jody Garnick Blake Tewksbury Helen S. Tucker Leslie E. Robertson Information Systems Coordinator Fellows Services Coordinator Secretary Jeff L. Rosenheim Tammy Lester Amy Baker Sandback Assistant Financial Administrator VOLUNTEERS Cheryl A. Young Alvin Singleton Martha Moore Special thanks to: Assistant Secretary Susan Sollins Librarian Tammy Lenski Charles F. Stone III Kyle Oliver Deborah Lieh Jane Alexander Robert Storr Assistant to the Resident Director Rebecca Rothfusz Benny Andrews Ilse Traulsen Judy Jones Parker, CPA Carolyn Saari David Baum Jamie Trowbridge Financial Administrator and these volunteers: Robert Beaser E. Geoffrey Verney Beth Weinstein Alexander Belser Varujan Boghosian Wendy Wasserstein Executive Assistant (NY) Claudia Bissett Eleanor Briggs Peter C. Wensberg Tom Bissett Barbara K. Bristol Ellen Taaffe Zwilich COMMUNICATIONS Lynn Campbell Ken Burns Brendan Tapley Chris Cooke Peter Cameron Mrs. David F. Putnam Communications Director Bea Corriveau Mary Carswell Director Emerita Karen Sampson Tim Donovan Anne Cox Chambers Communications Associate Emily Drury Alexander Cortesi Charles Farinella David Del Tredici The MacDowell Colony DEVELOPMENT (NY) Carli Genet Mrs. Arthur A. Feder thanks the following directors Wendy Belser Mike Gordon Mrs. Nicholas L.D. Firth who retired from our board Director of Development Sabrina Gschwandtner Mrs. Robert Forbes during 2003-04: Lauren Faria Dennis Hahn David V. Foster Paul Byard Development Assistant Francisco Juarez Dan Froot Randall Kenan Adria Santo Andrew Lucas Mary Garland Libby Larsen Senior Development Associate Sean Marlowe Wilder Green Tim McMahon Vartan Gregorian and sadly notes the passing of CENTENNIAL (NY) Anne Pelletier Judson D. Hale, Sr. Director Emerita Anne Stark Judith Rothfusz Elizabeth Hardwick Mrs. Ernest S. Heller Centennial Coordinator Ralph Rothfusz John A. Hargraves Morgan Silverman HOUSEKEEPING Deborah Marsh NY INTERNS House Manager Rebecca Gruitza Terry Martorano Heather Isbell Housekeeper GENERAL INFORMATION Julie McAdoo NH INTERNS Detailed information about admissions or any other Housekeeper Jennifer Miller aspect of the Colony’s work may be obtained by Beth Scheffel Emily Sullivan addressing inquiries to: Housekeeper The MacDowell Colony thanks KITCHEN these departing staff members The MacDowell Colony Christiane Smith for their work: 100 High Street Chef Susan Bowles Peterborough, NH 03458 Maryel Chabot Lisa Dahl 603-924-3886 tel Cook Elizabeth Gray 603-924-9142 fax Susan Moody Anne Thompson [email protected] Cook [email protected] Paul Hertneky Substitute Cook www.macdowellcolony.org Jerry Willis Substitute Cook

Kitchen Assistants: EDITOR Mary Cramb Beth Weinstein Anastasia Dubrovina The MacDowell Colony is a member of the Alliance of Artists Galen Kerrick Communities, a nationwide consortium and professional organization DESIGNER Lacey Lamb for the field (www. artistcommunities.org), and Res Artis, an international Lisa Dahl Andrea Larson association of residential arts centres (www.resartis.org). Colette Lucas PRINTER Ashley Silverman Sim’s Press Cecelia Webber PHOTOGRAPHER Photographs by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey unless otherwise noted. Writer Barry Lopez

A GIFT TO MACDOWELL

Help us support artists and their creative work.

The MacDowell Colony gratefully accepts contributions, including donations of cash, property (such as securities and real estate), and gifts-in-kind, from individuals, foundations, and corporations. Gifts may be unrestricted for the general operating support of the Colony or designated by the donor for a specific purpose, such as a studio endowment or a fellowship. Unique naming opportunities are available for studios, rooms, special equipment, landscaping elements, and endowment funds. MacDowell is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and relies on gifts to operate.

Throughout its history, the Colony has benefited from legacies of assets, including cash bequests, stocks, real estate, the rights to and royalties from works of art, and useful items such as books, equipment, and furnishings. The Marian MacDowell Society has been established to honor the many Colony Fellows, friends, and supporters who have chosen to remember MacDowell in their wills. Your bequest to The MacDowell Colony will help to guarantee that future generations of artists can continue to make lasting works of the imagination in an ideal place.

Please consider expressing your commitment to MacDowell through an annual gift, bequest, or planned gift. To discuss the ways in which your gift will help creative artists, and to learn about possible significant tax savings of 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. The MacDowell Colony 100 High Street 163 East 81st Street Peterborough, NH 03458 New York, NY 10028 603-924-3886 tel 212-535-9690 tel 603-924-9142 fax 212-737-3803 fax

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