Marian MacDowell

Marian MacDowell

female, 152 years old
composer, pianist, American, MacDowellColony, art colony, Marian Griswold Nevins
Marian MacDowell (maiden name Marian Griswold Nevins) (1857 - August 23, 1956) was the founder of MacDowell Colony, an art colony in Peterborough,...
Alex Shapiro

Alex Shapiro

female, 47 years old
composer, Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, California Arts Council, American MusicMakers, The American Season, Sonata for Piano…MacDowellColony
Alex Shapiro composes acoustic and electroacoustic chamber music favoring combinations of modal harmonies with chromatic ones, and often...
Louise Talma

Louise Talma

female, deceased (1996)
American Conservatory, augmentation, Harriet Cohen International Music Award, imitation, Alexie Haieff, National Institute of Arts and Letters…MacDowellColony, Edward MacDowell Association
Louise Talma was a composer. She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts (Juilliard School of Music, 1922–1930) an...
Dan Welcher

Dan Welcher

male
Theodore Presser Company, University of Louisville, ASCAP, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and School, National Endowment for the Arts…MacDowellColony
Dan Welcher (born 1948) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the...
Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley

female, 32 years old
New York University, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Best American Erotica, The Memoirists Collective, Bumbershoot, MacDowellColony
Maria Dahvana Headley (born June 21, 1977 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American writer. She graduated from Vallivue High School in Caldwell, Idaho,...
Maggie Anderson

Maggie Anderson

female, 61 years old
West Virginia writer, from West Virginia, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, Ohio Arts Council, MacDowellColony
Maggie Anderson (b. 1948) is an American poet. Born September 23 in New York City, she attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Virginia...
Richard McCann

Richard McCann

male, 60 years old
American University, from Washington, D.C., The Atlantic, Lambda Literary Award, Humanities academic, Ms. magazine…MacDowellColony
Richard McCann is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, born in 1949. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a professor in the...
Sheila Callaghan

Sheila Callaghan

female, 36 years old
Women dramatists and playwright, Dead City, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Theatremania, American Theater Magazine, Regional Alternative Theater…MacDowellColony
Sheila Callaghan (b. 1973) is a New York City-based playwright who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theater) movement of the 1990s. Her...
John Bisbee

John Bisbee

male, 44 years old
Bowdoin College, Portland Museum of Art, Plane Space, MacDowellColony, ARTnews, Sculpture Magazine
John Bisbee is an American sculptor living and working in Maine, where he teaches at Bowdoin College. He received his B.F.A. from Alfred University...
T Cooper

T Cooper

Columbia University, out magazine, Middlebury College alumni, The Believer magazine, The New York Times Book Review, MacDowellColony
T Cooper is an American novelist. Cooper is the author of two novels, "Some of the Parts" (Akashic Books, 2002) and "Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry...