American Academy of Arts and Letters adds 33 new members, including MacDowell Fellows Glenn Ligon (89), Faith Ringgold (82), Ta-Nehisi Coates (10), Sigrid Nunez (4x 89-19), Kevin Young (6x 93-13), and Anthony Davis (4x 91-07), in addition to 2014 #MacDowellMedal recipient Betye Saar!
MacDowell Fellows Alix Kates Shulman (6x 74-16) and Honor Moore (10x 77-17) help us understand the monumental task of women’s liberation in this excerpt from the new anthology they co-edited. On #InternationalWo mensDay, we celebrate that work and everything it inspired.
"I began to see that it took all of one’s forces constantly driven in one direction, and the will of the world, and the happiest of circumstances, all working together, to enable one to make a life in art."
MacDowell Fellow in theatre arts James Anthony Tyler (18), who was among the artists whose 2020 MacDowell residencies were postponed due to COVID-19, joins the cast and crew of a recent production of his play "Some Old Black Man" to talk about producing a play during the pandemic.
Barbara Ess, a writer, musician, and multidisciplina ry artist, has died. She was in residence at MacDowell six times between 1997 and 2010, working in Eastman, Nef, and Putnam studios, meeting and affecting hundreds of other artists-in-resi dence along the way.
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