February 27th, 2026 — Civitella is pleased to share that several members of the Civitella community have received MacDowell Fellowships for the Spring/Summer 2026 residency season in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Complimenti a Jeremy Dennis (CRF 2025), Mary Gaitskill (CRF 2008), and Lewis Hyde (DG 2024)!
Jeremy is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., a nonprofit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation dedicated to uplifting Indigenous and BIPOC artists. His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation, using photography to stage cinematic, otherworldly narratives rooted in Native oral stories, history, and contemporary experience.
Mary has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Lewis is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. He was a MacArthur Fellow and the director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University.
These recognitions are inspiring reminders of the profound contributions that Civitella’s alumni continue to make to the arts and letters. Join us in celebrating the continued creative journeys of Jeremy, Mary, and Lewis! Their successes reflect not just personal milestones but the vibrant legacy of artistic inquiry and excellence that defines the Civitella community. These fellowships offer the three artists a generative period of focused creative development in the company of peers across disciplines to continue the work they started at Civitella.