MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
NEF studio - oldest residency in the country but this is one of the more recent structures, built in the early 1990's.
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
The amazing NEF front window
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
My fireplace
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
The NEF darkroom
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Close up of one of the tombstones, every studio resident signs when they leave
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
My first visitor
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
My first visitor
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
The famous lunch basket closed...
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
the famous lunch basket, open...
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Cold weather array in the library.
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
One of Neel Mukherjee's favorites, from his reading
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Painting easel from repurposed dark room trays and film reels
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Arrival of the boxes
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Commandments for working at MacDowell, but really for anywhere
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
No lights outside equals a very black night.
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
My driveway and the road to Colony Hall
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
The view from my window
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Getting to work
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Valentine's Day at MacDowell with Amy Gerstler
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Thanks for the use of the lightbox Zoe!
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Quilt templates for making watercolors
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Looking out my window, NEF
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Getting the quilt templates on the wall
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Walking to dinner at Colony Hall, about half way there
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
A quilt from the The Quilts of Gee's Bend in Matt's presentation
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
From Matt Phillip's presentation
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Painting by fellow resident Matt Phillips
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Detail of a painting by fellow resident Matt Phillips
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
the cold weather array in my studio
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Getting there with the quilt templates, working towards a total of 123
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Panel 6 from Vinland: Quilt
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Panel 101 from Vinland: Quilt
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
View of the library, old and new buildings
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
First edit of Episode 1961 from Your View of (Social) Nudism
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
My own personal boulder
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
The library consists almost entirely of contributions from MacDowell fellows, here's mine
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Touching remembrance in the basement of Colony Hall
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
100 quilt templates on the wall, 100 quilt templates...take one down...
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Michael Grossman organized a screening of Our Town (which was written at MacDowell and loosely based Peterborough) - MacDowell fellow Spaulding Gray as the Stage Manager
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
NEF
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
First fire in NEF with tombstones
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Masks for Vinland: Quilt
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Panel 67 from Vinland: Quilt
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Max Posner and Scott Adkins - from Scott Adkins' re-enactment of a Tom Murrin full moon ceremony
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
From Scott Adkins re-enactment of a Tom Murrin full moon ceremony
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
From Scott Adkins re-enactment of a Tom Murrin full moon ceremony
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
From Scott Adkins re-enactment of a Tom Murrin full moon ceremony
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
My tarot
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
From Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism: Episode 1961
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
First wall arrangement of Episode 1961 on the wall.
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
MacDowell Residency Weeks 1 and 2, February 2016
Walking to breakfast at 7:30am and 20 degrees was tough, so I stocked up.
MacDowell, Weeks 1 and 2
MacDowell is my first non teaching residency and so far it’s been amazing. Four weeks of time, supported in every way possible. Lunch is even delivered to my door each day, left just outside on the screen porch so as not to disturb the working process. Extraordinary. I’m writing from a library filled with contributions from other MacDowell Fellows, to which I’ve been given a key for 24/7 access. I’m also writing just as some of the closest friends here have completed their stay and left….it seemed like a good time to report back to friends at home.
I’ve been concentrating on two bodies of work: an evolution of the social nudism project which I’ve broadened to a larger history presented as a series of episodes divided by year, and a series of watercolors for Vinland based on a quilt acquired from my Aunt Gladys in Beaches, Newfoundland.
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