In 2009, Claire Andrade-Watkins won an Artist Fellowship in Film & Video by submitting a portion of her film Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican. The documentary is about immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, whose community was devastated by gentrification in the '60s and '70s. It is a fascinating and intensely … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Mammoth Artist Opportunities
Rumor has it that this mammoth has the song The Baby Elephant Walk by Henri Mancini stuck in her mind for days on end. Oh no, ArtSake hears it now, too! Dance Groups The 2011 Dance for World Community Festival on June 11, 2011 in Harvard Square, Cambridge is now accepting applications from dance groups. The festival is a full-day, free community event featuring performances … [Read more...]
Jendi Reiter, on Winning
The 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series of events with MCC writers and poets continues this week with a reading at Forbes Library in Northampton on Wednesday, March 23, 7 PM. One of the featured writers at the Forbes is Jendi Reiter (Poetry Fellow '10), who recently won the Anderbo Poetry Prize. Once a practicing lawyer in New York City, she now writes - and champions - poetry … [Read more...]
The Community
Recently, Playwriting Fellow Peter Snoad ('09) mapped out the terrain for new play productions for local playwrights. One of the tips he gave was to get involved in the local community of new play-makers. This is prime advice for artists of any discipline. In our just-published Q&A with Gigi Rosenberg, author of The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing, the author encourages … [Read more...]
Gigi Rosenberg: The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing
In the introduction to her recent book, Gigi Rosenberg shares an anecdote about her first grant proposal: an application to the Boston Film/Video Foundation (now, sadly, defunct) for a documentary project. She says that instead of clearly and confidently expressing her goals and intent, she was really hoping that a grant would confirm something more personal: that she really … [Read more...]