Every year, the MacDowell Colony's prestigious arts fellowship welcomes more than 300 artists from across the U.S. and worldwide to produce original works. Out of 846 applications, a diverse group of 86 artists were awarded $10,000 MacDowell Fellowships for a summer residency.

Located in a remote environment in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the MacDowell Colony offers the peace and quiet that many artists need when working on something new. During their stay, the fellows work in a private studio for a period of up to eight weeks. 

The cohort includes composers David Hertzberg and Žibuoklė Martinaitytė; film artists Tamar Baruch and Hannah Gross; performance artist Joseph Keckler; playwright Annie Baker, landscape architect Jane Hutton; visual artists Portia Munson, Accra Shepp, and Chadwick Rantanen; poets Victoria Chang and Ari Banias; and writers Kia Corthron, Sheila Heti, Tommy Orange, Kenneth Rosen, and Farah Stockman. 

The full list of recipients are listed below.

Architects Jane Hutton, Katherine Jenkins, Kyle Miller, Robert Pietrusko, Parker Sutton, and Christopher Woebken.

Composers Tomás Brantmayer, Caroline Davis, Christopher Dietz, Wally Gunn, David Hertzberg, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and Steven Snowden.

Filmmakers Tamar Baruch, Johan Grimonprez, Hannah Gross, Kristen Nutile, JP Olsen, Sierra Pettengill, Steve Reinke, Joshua Solondz, and Courtney Stephens.

Interdisciplinary Artists Matt Bodett, Michelle Boulé, Jerome Ellis, Katie Holten, Joseph Keckler, Corinne Spencer, and Leah Stein.

Theater Artists Annie Baker, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Dominic Finocchiaro, Peter Gray, Aleshea Harris, MJ Kaufman, Richard Marshall, Julian Maynard Smith, and Jonathan Spector.

Visual Artists Meghan Brady, Barnett Cohen, Paul Collins, Matthew Connors, Hope Gangloff, Clay Jordan, Bridget Mullen, Portia Munson, Chadwick Rantanen, Accra Shepp, Mary Temple, and Tenesh Webber.

Poets Alfredo Aguilar, Ari Banias, Victoria Chang, Juan Andrés García Román, Katie Hale, Sara Lefsyk, Aurora Masum-Javed, and Hoa Nguyen.

Nonfiction Writers Cal Flyn, Vincent Granata, Frank Huyler, Christopher Ketcham, Mary Kosut, Raghav Krish, Kimberly Meyer, Joanna Rakoff, Kenneth Rosen, and Farah Stockman.

Fiction Writers Gbolahan Adeola, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Rachel Cantor, Kia Corthron, Jennifer Down, Patrick Flanery, Amina Gautier, Rachel B. Glaser, Adam Haslett, Sheila Heti, Ladee Hubbard, Genevieve Hudson, Maxim Loskutoff, Lydia Millet, Michael Moore, Anna Noyes, Tommy Orange, and Mikkel Rosengaard.

“From cutting edge film to bold new directions in electronic music, and from topical theater to new approaches in multi-disciplinary design, this group of fellows represents a stunning array of creative approaches to make new work destined to delight art lovers far and wide,” executive director Cheryl A. Young said in a statement. “The sheer diversity of talent, discipline, and cultural perspectives defined by these artists is part of the formula that makes a MacDowell Fellowship so unique and rewarding.”