Yoko Ono to receive MacDowell Medal Sunday

Yoko Ono will be honored Sunday with the Edward MacDowell Medal.

Ono will receive the award for her interdisciplinary work, the second artist to win the MacDowell Medal in that discipline.

The medal ceremony will be held Sunday at 12:15 p.m., and is free and open to the public on the grounds of the artists’ retreat on High Street in Peterborough. The 64th MacDowell Medal will be presented to Ono’s longtime music manager, David Newgarden, MacDowell said. Ono, 91, is not expected to attend the ceremony, a MacDowell spokesperson confirmed.

“There has never been anyone like her; there has never been work like hers. Over some seven decades, she has rewarded eyes, provoked thought, inspired feminists, and defended migrants through works of a wide-ranging imagination,” said author and visual artist Nell Painter, chair of the MacDowell board, in a news release.

Source: The Keene Sentinel

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