Artists reflect on their transformative experiences at MacDowell, a residency fostering creativity and community while providing a nurturing environment for artistic exploration and the space to take on their most challenging work.

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Transcript:
“Residences like MacDowell give you the space and time to work on incredibly challenging and dark material in a space where all your needs are met. And you're around other bright, creative people who are doing similar - different work, but just, you know, comparable work. And it's nourishing and it's exciting.”

“I just think that the place is sacred. For me, it all comes down to MacDowell doesn't require anything of the artist. In almost every other circumstance, every grant, every other residency, it requires something. And I think that's really what is so important about this experience. It's pretty extraordinary, I think.”

“I know that one of the things I love about this place is just meeting all of the artists.”

“To actually see people's work and what they're doing, what they've done.”

“That's been my experience here. It's my first time. And I didn't really know what to expect. I mean, I sort of read the literature and I knew about the sort of legendary MacDowell residencies. When I got here, it was just this absolute blissful discovery of the supported solitude.”

“I have spent some time in the library reading some of the other participants’ poetry or essays or their books, and it's been really incredible.”

“On the most challenging of those days, either the work isn't going the way you wanted it to, or you're dealing with intense material. I always look forward to dinner. You know, going back and seeing people and hearing how their days were.”

“You're going to dinner together, you're talking, you have your lunch delivered, but here you can choose whether or not you want to work in your studio. I really like that.”

“That's the special thing about MacDowell is that they really care so much. They don't want to bother you with any practical need. It's just everything is just supported so you can just get to work.”

“You're always pulled back into reality by a positive other person who is also working through a similar process, which makes it feel much more normal, makes it feel much more lighter, and I think lends itself to producing work, not as a machine, but as a thinking, feeling being, yeah.”

“I mean, I feel like as long as we keep these incubation spaces like MacDowell alive and well and thriving, personally I have benefited and I'm watching other people do the same.”

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MacDowell Fellows in voiceover, in chronological order: Sarah Weinman, Andrew Ondrejcak, Susan Steinberg, Lauren Cohen, Jennifer Krasinski, Ingrid Jungermann, and Morgan Quaintance.

We wish to thank every Fellow who participated in the creation of this video, especially those who invited us into their studios and quiet spaces at MacDowell: Kevin Benham, Doga Buse Cavdir, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Madeleine Cravens, David DeGusta, A. Kendra Greene, David Hytone, Digvijaysinh Jadeja, August Lamm, Lisa Leeman, Liz Miller, Migiwa Miyajima, Julie Moon, Bonita Oliver, Alice Sheppard, Amy Talluto, and Ziui Chen.

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Film created by Conval Media
Music and sound by Echo Finch
Editing by Matt Cooney
Production by Jonathan Gourlay

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