Freedom to Create / MacDowell Colony

Mark Foster Gage outside Adams Studio, 2008 - © Joanna Eldredge Morrissey / Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony

Now accepting residency applicants, the MacDowell Colony’s mission is to “nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination.” Artists from a wide range of disciplines, including a long list of architects, have experienced the MacDowell Fellowship, receiving a studio, accommodations and three meals a day for up to eight weeks with no residency fees. The experience is very private. Each individual is given their own studio to live and work in solitude, as no studio is visible from another. Meals are shared at the Colony Hall. The sole criterion is artistic excellence.

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Cite: Karissa Rosenfield. "Freedom to Create / MacDowell Colony " 02 Jan 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/196702/freedom-to-create-macdowell-colony> ISSN 0719-8884

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