The MacDowell Colony Residency Begins

Jamaaladeen is very honored and pleased to have started his residency at the prestigious MacDowell Colony. MacDowell has been a vital and nurturing creative environment for Artists such as James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, Alice Walker just to name a few, each has created historical works at the Colony. He will call the Watson studio home for 8 weeks. In which time he aspires to do some innovative and monumental works of his own. Jamaaladeen is working on his composition "2 Groove Electric" a celebration of the first electric guitarist Charlie Christian and the first electric Bassist Monk Montgomery . He will posting his experiences online here at his website on his Blog page.

MacDowell Colony and Headlands For The Arts

I am very honored to be receiving two great artist residencies in 2012 at Macdowell Colony NH and Headlands Center for the Arts Sausolito . It is an amazing opportunity for me . Both made possible by The Pew Center For Arts & Heritage.

The Center Announces Upcoming Artist Residencies for Seven Pew Fellows in the Arts
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce that a group of recent Pew Fellows will take sojourns outside of the Philadelphia area next year for residencies that will push their artistic practice and expand their horizons. These Fellows will soon find themselves in new surroundings—creative communities that nurture artistic expression and exploration, located in California, Alberta, and under the big sky of Wyoming—thanks to a new residency partnership between Pew Fellowships in the Arts (PFA), the Alliance of Artists Communities, and four North American artist residency programs. An additional partnership with the MacDowell Colony will also give one Pew Fellow each year the opportunity to spend time as The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellow in residence at one of the oldest and most prestigious residency programs in the country.


CAConrad (2011, Literature) – Ucross Foundation
Kara Crombie (2010, Visual Arts) – MacDowell Colony
Ken Kalfus (2009, Literature) – Ucross Foundation
Tina Morton (2010, Media) – The Banff Centre
Tim Portlock (2011, Visual Arts) – 18th Street Arts Center
Matthew Suib (2011, Visual Arts) – The Banff Centre
Jamaaladeen Tacuma (2011, Music) – Headlands Center for the Arts