the MacDowell Club and by 1903 was a member of the Woman's Art Club of New York. She was director of Arden Studios at 160 W. 74th Street (the same location as Veltin School) by 1915. She was a member of the MacDowell Colony and by 1918, 31 of Sprague Smith's students funded the creation of the Isabelle D. Sprague Smith studio at the MacDowell Colony, an artist colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She helped found and was director of the People's Institute, which was founded by her husband. He was its director until his death in 1910. Sprague Smith was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, a private social club for women, and the Barnard Club. She was president of the New York Bach Festival. Florida She founded the Bach Festival in Winter Park, Florida in 1935. Through "sheer force of will, [she] created the choir, soloists, musicians, audience and funds necessary for the project." The annual concert has been held the months of February and March at the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Rollins College and beginning in the late 1940s was broadcast over a national broadcasting station. She received an honorary degree from Rollins College in 1939. She managed the festivals activities until 1950. It is Central Florida's oldest operating performing arts organization and the third-oldest continuously operating Bach Festival in the United States. Notes References 1861 births Philanthropists from New York (state) 1950 deaths 19th-century American artists 19th-century American women artists 19th-century American educators 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American educators Art Students League of New York alumni Educators from New York City 19th-century American women educators 20th-century American women educators