Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and More Receive MacDowell Colony Fellowships

The MacDowell Colony has awarded 67 artists working in seven disciplines with fellowships for the fall 2016 season.

Theater veterans Jim Findlay, Aleshea Harris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Daaimah Mubashshir, Robert Plowman, Andrea Thome, and Alina Troyano were among the 67 artists who received residencies.

These highly competitive fellowships, each with an average value of $10,000, were awarded from among a pool of 574 applications received between February 2016 and April 2016. A panel of distinguished professionals in each discipline picks Fellows based solely on their talent, and Fellows are provided a private studio for a period of up to eight weeks, accommodations and three meals a day at one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts programs.

By awarding these fellowships, the MacDowell Colony continues its long-standing mission 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.