Christopher Zuar's (MF 17, 22) orchestra performs his new album, EXUBERANCE, with animations by Anne Beal (MF 17) (his creative partner who he met at MacDowell!), at New York's The Sheen Center on Saturday, May 11: sheencenter.org/events/detail/…

Melissa Friedling/Melissa Friedling's (MF 23) MacDowell-supported experimental documentary, MIDWOOD MOVIE, premieres in the 2024 @PrismaticGround film festival!

Saturday, May 11, at Anthology Film Archives: prismaticground.com/2024/wave-3-pr… #MadeAtMacDowell

Going to Independent this week?

Don't miss Tilton Gallery's presentation of Anna Tsouhlarakis's (MF 24) new work, which the artist was creating during her spring 2024 MacDowell residency. jacktiltongallery.com/exhibitions/an… #MadeAtMacDowell

NYC premiere! Composer Huang Ruo's (MF 10, 12) AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, with a libretto by David Henry Hwang, opens Sunday, May 12, at PAC NYC!

Three MacDowell Fellows are among the ten artists awarded a 2024 Herb Alpert Awards: Anna Webber (17, 20), Huang Ruo (10, 12), and Robin Frohardt (16, 23)!

Each recipient receives a residency at CalArts and an unrestricted $75,000 prize. Congratulations! hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts…

New Ayad Akhtar (13, 17) play!

This fall, LincolnCenterTheater will produce Ayad Akhtar's MCNEAL, with direction by Bartlett Sher and Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role: nytimes.com/2024/05/07/the…

Jayne Anne Phillips/Jayne Anne Phillips's (8x 93-18) MacDowell-supported novel NIGHT WATCH wins the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! The Pulitzer Prizes #MadeAtMacDowell

What an honor to be part of this panel on Women's Voices from the Frontlines with these two brilliant women I admire, Jane Ferguson and Xanthe Scharff at MacDowell!

macdowell.org/events/2024-06…

1PM ET today: Don't miss this wonderful, vital conversation!

Oh I must pass nothing by
  Without loving it much,
The raindrop try with my lips,
  The grass with my touch;

For how can I be sure
  I shall see again
The world on the first of May
  Shining after the rain?
…

From 'May Day,' by Sara Teasdale (MF 25) poets.org/poem/may-day-1

A MacDowell Fellow recommending a fellow Fellow's work! Bill Goldstein (12) says read Nell Painter’s (3x 16-21) I JUST KEEP TALKING. ✨

Tonight at The Center for Fiction!

Recent artist-in-residence Diana Lobontiu/Diana Lobontiu's (24) IF YOU’RE A MAN AT NIGHT…YOU GOTTA BE A MAN IN THE MORNING is coming to @BrickTheater's Aux space in Brooklyn!

Saturday, May 4! It's a staged reading X reality TV show screening X pity party! bricktheater.com/event/if-youre…