From an article featuring Adam Ekberg as an artist-in-residence at MacDowell:
For me, being at MacDowell was like visiting the universe next door, a place inhabited by amazing artists who became good friends and days filled with working in the studio, bike rides to Willard Pond to eat a picnic lunch followed by swims in cold water while conjuring photographs. This then all topped off with an evening playing ping pong. The fact that such a place exists is magical; the fact that I got to be there was transformative. I was lucky to be in Putnam, where my mentor was in 1987, and I felt his presence many times while walking in the woods and when staging photographs in the studio.” – Adam Ekberg (’26)