Choreographers Green Street Studios Emerging Artists Award Program: Winter 2011. This program is designed to provide infrastructure for choreographers, to create new work with a focus on group work and to provide deep, ongoing mentorship between experienced and early-to-mid-career choreographers. The Emerging Artist Award provides the opportunity for New England-based … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
Echoes of a Troubled Time
The following is a guest post by Charles Coe, Program Officer for Cultural Investment Portfolio, Massachusetts Cultural Council - As the audience sat in rapt attention, the speaker described how during World War II, the Nazis cynically promoted arts and culture at the Terezin concentration camp to maintain the fiction that the prisoners (who the regime claimed were in … [Read more...]
Artist Events Roundup
The Massachusetts Artists Coalition has organized two free events for artists of all disciplines: Live-Art-Speak at the Boston Public Library, Saturday, November, 6, 2010 (1-4:30pm) includes a tour of the Kirstein Business Library geared for artists as well as information sessions on Cultural Districts, Fair Trade, Artists Spaces, and networking opportunities. … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Matthew Rich
Nine Boston-area artists are in the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition. We've been sharing Studio Views with the finalists for the prestigious $25,000 Foster Prize, and I've found it interesting the way artists' descriptions of their art-making often seem to parallel the work itself. Fred H.C. Liang writes with evocative … [Read more...]
Gallery Glimpse: Irene Lusztig
Today's glimpse from our gallery of past MCC fellows/finalists: a brief excerpt from Irene Lusztig's personal documentary Reconstruction, which explores Irene's maternal grandmother and her role in a failed bank robbery in late-1950s Romania. Since winning her MCC grant, Irene has gone on to teach at UC Santa Cruz, but she's currently back in the area on a 2010/2011 … [Read more...]