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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and More Receive MacDowell Colony Fellowships

The organization awarded fellowships to 67 artists.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has received a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has received a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.
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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.