MacDowell and 92nd Street Y Salon: The Enactment of Identity / Nell Painter with Chang-rae Lee, Michael Chabon, and P. Carl - 92Y, New York
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MacDowell and 92nd Street Y Salon: The Enactment of Identity

Nell Painter with Chang-rae Lee, Michael Chabon, and P. Carl
Nell Painter, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Chabon, and P. Carl

Please join Moderator and MacDowell Chair Nell Painter, author Chang-rae Lee, author P. Carl, and author and former MacDowell Chair Michael Chabon as they discuss the relationship between the artist’s vision, the creation of character and story, and the ways their own individual and social identities (however they interpret them) interact with their art practice.

This multi-disciplinary series of conversations about creativity and the arts serves to capture the magic of artists-in-residence from every discipline coming together on the MacDowell residency grounds. It features artists and luminaries from across the globe in dialogue including Change-rae Lee, P. Carl, Michael Chabon, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Lonnie Bunch, Marc Payot, as well as others soon to be announced. This partnership series between MacDowell and the 92nd Street Y will take place over the course of 2021 and is hosted by MacDowell Fellow, author, visual artist, and MacDowell Board Chair Nell Painter.

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About MacDowell

Composer Edward MacDowell and pianist Marian MacDowell founded MacDowell in 1907 to nurture the arts …

About MacDowell

Composer Edward MacDowell and pianist Marian MacDowell founded MacDowell in 1907 to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination. Each year, MacDowell welcomes more than 300 architects, composers, filmmakers, interdisciplinary artists, theatre artists, visual artists, and writers from across the United States and around the globe. More than 15,000 residencies have been awarded in the last 114 years. Recipients have included Ayad Akhtar, James Baldwin, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Louise Erdrich, Osvaldo Golijov, Cathy Park Hong, Glenn Ligon, Dee Rees, Vijay Seshadri, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and Julia Wolfe. Bestselling author and visual artist Nell Painter is the chair of MacDowell’s Board of Directors.

https://www.macdowell.org/about

P. Carl

P. Carl is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College in Boston …

P. Carl

P. Carl is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College in Boston and the author of the memoir, Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition (Simon & Schuster, 2020). He was the Spring 2020 Anschutz Fellow at Princeton University, awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018, and the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Lit Hub. He is currently working on the stage adaptation of Becoming a Man, commissioned by American Repertory Theater.

Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered …

Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered, which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize. His novels have won numerous awards and citations, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time (Asia), Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications.

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels including Wonder Boys …

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels including Wonder Boys, which was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Notable Books of 2000 and won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize. The book has also been adapted for the stage by the Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle, and the Folio Society has published an edition illustrated by Chris Samnee. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, won both the Nebula Award and Hugo Award for Best Novel. His other novels include Gentlemen of the Road, Telegraph Avenue, and Moonglow. Moonglow was awarded the California Book Award’s Gold Medal as well as the Jewish Book Council’s 2016 Modern Literary Achievement Award “for his general contribution to modern Jewish literature, including his most recent work, Moonglow.”

Chabon has also written a number of screenplays, including John Carter. Most recently he co-wrote (with Ayelet Waldman and Susannah Grant) Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape.” He also scripted Star Trek Discovery: Calypso, and is executive producer and showrunner for a forthcoming Star Trek series starring Patrick Stewart. Michael Chabon has also collaborated with acclaimed music producer Mark Ronson as lyricist for Ronson’s album titled Uptown Special.

Michael Chabon is the chairman of the board of directors at the MacDowell Colony. In March 2012 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Nell Painter

After a fulfilling career as a publishing Princeton historian (most notably as the author of The History of White People), Nell Painter began again in art school …

Nell Painter

After a fulfilling career as a publishing Princeton historian (most notably as the author of The History of White People), Nell Painter began again in art school, a move eliciting a great deal of curiosity. In residence in 2016, she completed a memoir entitled Old in Art School, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle autobiography award. In 2017 she completed the series “You Say This Can’t Really Be America” and in 2018 she published an art review of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power in the New York Review Daily. Painter was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of MacDowell in 2020.

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