Gena & the MacDowell Colony
Any person in the arts will tell you that the one thing they would like for their career is to spend uninterrupted time creating their specific area of the arts whether that be sculpting, painting, writing, photography, film, graphic arts, dance, or composing music. Time for creativity and developing our talent is at a premium for all of us as life gets in the way with jobs that support us, family crises or a million other details. We dream of a place and an extended period of time that will allow us to be in our art; to practice and to create. Such a place exists in the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. When American composer and pianist, Edward MacDowell died in 1908, his wife, Marian, spent the next 48 years of her life creating and fundraising for his vision; an artist's retreat where people would enjoy the solitude of creative work at Hillcrest, a farm the couple had purchased in 1896. Even before Edwa...