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New year, new notes from past Artist Fellows/Finalists. (Speaking of, apply now in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, or Poetry.)

Go see the 2012 deCordova Biennial ASAP (1/23-4/22). Why? Work by Matthew Gamber (Photography Finalist ’11), Eric Gottesman (Photography Fellow ’09), and 21 other terrific New England artists/collectives, is why.

The work and life of Karen Aqua (Film & Video Fellow ’11) will be honored at a special event and exhibition at the Roswell Museum in New Mexico (1/13).

Michael Hoerman (Poetry Fellow ’04) shares never-before-read-for-an-audience poetry at Literary Firsts, Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge (1/23, 7 PM).

Scott Listfield (Painting Finalist ’10) has work in Adult Swim (1/13-2/4) at Gallery 1988 in L.A. – and they used one of his iconic astronaut paintings for the show flyer!

If you’re within high fiving distance of Suzanne Matson (Fiction Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’98), do so; she received a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship!

Great interview with Christian McEwen (Playwriting Fellow ’11) on the radio show “Writer’s Voice.”

Monica Raymond (Playwriting Finalist ’07, Poetry Finalist ’08) collaborated via Skype with an actress in Finland to create a piece for the Internationalists’ Around the World. Also, hear her poem The Sacred on qarrtsiluni.

Superb, excellent, and just plain neato mosquito: Allan Reeder (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’10 and ’06) won a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Grant.

Daily swims during at a Blue Mountain Center residency inspired Naoe Suzuki‘s (Drawing Fellow ’06) Blue, showing at Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center Gallery (1/13-3/2).

He’s getting into Dodge: Michael Zelehoski (Painting Fellow ’10) has a solo show at NYC’s DODGE Gallery (1/12-2/19).

Read past Fellows Notes. If you’re a past fellow/finalist with news, let us know.

Image: Michael Zelehoski, CRATE (2011), found crate, painted plywood, 63×96 in.

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Tis the season (for great news from past fellows/finalists of our Artist Fellowships). Hark!

Steve Almond (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’08) blesses readers with God Bless America readings, including a co-event with the also-awesome Elizabeth Searle (12/6 at Stellina in Watertown).

Steven Barkhimer (Playwriting Fellow ’11) puts on his director’s hat for Merry Wives of Windsor with Actors’ Shakespeare Project (12/7-1/1).

Woo hoo! for David Binder (Film & Video Fellow ’11, Photography Fellow ’01), a 2011 Assets for Artists grantee for business/financial training and support.

Be a winner and learn about Edie Bresler‘s (Photography Finalist ’11) installation at the Somerville Arts Council’s Inside-Out Gallery.

Excellent: Beth Galston (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ’11) has two large-scale installations at PAAM (thru 1/15/12), commissions from San Antonio and Nashville, and a 2011 Design Award from the Chain Link Fence Manufacturers Institute for Serpentine Fence.

Michal Goldman‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’07) At Home in Utopia just screened in Philly and will stream for free online at New Day Digital (12/17-12/18).

Above: art-lovers immerse themselves in Brian Knep‘s (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) Healing Pool, which is at SEVEN during Miami Basel (thru 12/4).

All A’s for Caitlin McCarthy (Playwriting Finalist ’11), Best Short Script winner for Pass/Fail at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

Complementing his work at ICA/Boston, Daniel Ranalli (Drawing Fellow ’10) shares Snail Drawings at Gallery Kayafas (thru 1/7).

Nicky Tavares (Film & Video Fellow ’11) is Kickstarting her new film-in-progress, Son of a Bug.

You already knew she’s in vogue, but did you know that Rachel Perry Welty (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09, Drawing Fellow ’04) is in Vogue? Get the scoop on the artist’s Facebook page.

Read past Fellows Notes. If you’re a past fellow/finalist with news, let us know.

Image: Brian Knep, HEALING POOL (2008), six-channel interactive video installation, computers, six video projectors, three video cameras, custom software, vinyl floor, 30×20 ft.

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Well now this is cool.

Gobs of Lines Some Wet Some Dry, a “pop-up” exhibition, will take place at the studio of artist Conley Harris (Painting Fellow ’86) on November 17-19 in Boston’s South End. The show features several past MCC Fellows, Brian Corey (Painting Fellow ’08), Christopher Faust (Painting Fellow ’10), and Mary O’Malley (Drawing Fellow ’06), with Jeffrey Gibson, James Kennedy, John Guthrie, and Kim Pashko.

Along with the art (which = awesome), this show is just nifty in its conception. According to a Boston Globe review of a past pop-up show, Harris organized the series as a monthly exhibition of local artists, in response to a decrease in opportunities for artists due to the economic downturn. Participating artists contribute $25 for exhibition costs, but all sales directly benefit the artists.

Each Pop-Up centers around a theme. From Harris’s announcement:

It is my pleasure to exhibit painters and drawers who pursue line as the main language and expressive mode in their works. That first line serves as the generator, the machine that propels ideas through a range of complex impulses and responses. Here we see either painterly lines, delicate lace-like lines, poured and flowing lines or layered patterns of line as the artist’s means to express their passions. These extraordinary works, some fantastically large and others quite small and intimate, show an impressive group of Boston artists.

I really like how this series devises an all-rise solution to dry economic times. Add one part generosity, one part ingenuity, and one part inventive art. You never know what might pop up.

LISTED and Conley Harris present Pop-Up No. 4, November 17-19
Studio No.1 at 1140 Washington Street near East Berkeley Street in Boston
Opening Reception: 6-8 PM, Thursday November 17
Additional viewing: Fri / Sat Nov. 18 and 19, 1-6 PM

Images: Brian Corey, NE BOUNDARY (2011), acrylic, ink, graphite on panel, 24×24 in; Mary O’Malley, HAECKELS GARDEN (2008), Metallic ink on paper, 32×40 in.

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November, upon us like a helping of heavily syrupped sweet potatoes, brings with it this bounty of news from our past Fellows/Finalists…

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Contrary to popular belief, artists don’t pack up their practices for the month of October so they can concentrate solely on churning out witch-crashed-into-a-tree decorations for Halloween.

No, they keep doing great stuff like this. Here’s what past MCC Artist Fellows and Finalists are up to this month:

The Boston Book Festival, taking place on Saturday, October 15, 2011, Copley Square in Boston, is a free, day-long schedule of events, readings, and workshops. Among the presenters are these past awardees from our Artist Fellowships Program: Jessica Bozek (Poetry Finalist ’10) joins poets Stephen Burt and Sandra Beasley for the reading/discussion Poetry: Personae, Self-Portrait As…. Henriette Laziridis Power (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’06) moderates Fiction: Time Is… with Jennifer Egan, Peter Mountford, and Lawrence Douglas, and hosts the Flash Fiction Open Mic. Regie Gibson (Poetry Fellow ’11) hosts Page and Stage: Teen Spoken Word. Steve Almond (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’08) and Laura Harrington (Playwriting Fellow ’05) read in Local Talent: Readings in the Forum.

Marti Jo Epstein (Music Composition Fellow ’05), Jan Swafford (Music Composition Fellow ’89), and Andy Vores (Music Composition Finalist ’11) were among the composers commissioned by cellist Rhonda Rider to create a musical work in conjunction with her artist residency at the Grand Canyon (listen to a Radio Boston story about the residency). The works were recently performed at Boston Conservatory.

Camilo Ramirez (Photography Fellow ’09) and Irina Rozovsky (Photography Finalist ’09) are among the photographers included in Transcend the Ordinary at The Aviary in Jamaica Plain. The show, which features explorations of the rituals and routines of ordinary life, runs October 6-30, 2011, with an opening reception Thursday, October 6, 7-9 PM, coinciding with Jamaica Plain’s First Thursday.

Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro‘s (Playwriting Fellow ’11) new play Before I Leave You premieres at the Huntington Theatre Company, running October 14-November 13, 2011. Read an interview with Rosanna on the Huntington’s blog. In it, she says one of the key turning points in her career was “this year, when at 72 I became a Huntington Playwriting Fellow, received a MCC Artist Fellowship, and was given a slot in the 2011-2012 Huntington Theatre Season. My son Pablo said, ‘It sounds like the beginning of a brilliant career.’”

Claire Andrade-Watkins‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’09) film was among the films featured at Festival Cineport.

Liza Bingham (Painting Finalist ’10) is among the artists in the Contemporary Landscape Invitational at Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College in Barnstable. The show runs October 17-November 10, 2011, with an opening reception October 27.

Alice Bouvrie‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’11) documentary Thy Will Be Done screens at Lesley University‘s Marran Theater in Cambridge on October 12, 2011, at 7 PM.

Alexander Chee‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’10) essay “I, Reader” was selected for the Notable Essays list in this year’s Best American Essays.

Shawn Cody (Playwriting Fellow ’07) has launched a fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo to bring his musical theatre work The Water Dream to Broadway.

Janet Echelman‘s (Crafts & Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09) spectacular work is on the cover and in the pages of the September ’11 Sculpture Magazine.

Tory Fair‘s (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ’11) solo installation, Testing a World View (Again) is on exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA through April 29, 2012. In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid shares her impressions of the work.

Pagan Kennedy (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’10) recently finished a year-long fellowship at MIT for science journalists. Her science-infused nonfiction can be found in a recent New York Times piece on “cyborg” technology and a Boston Magazine story on a local genius in the art of lockpicking.

Lisa Kessler (Photography Fellow ’11) has work in the Danforth Museum New England Photography Biennial 2011, up through November 13. She’ll have an Artist Talk on Wednesday, October 19, at 12:30 PM. Lisa’s photographs are also currently on view at the Dubois Gallery at Lehigh University, PA, Women Photographers, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Collection through December 2011. In August, the artist spoke on a panel about contemporary photography with Brian Clamp of ClampArt NYC, Susan Danly, Curator of Photography at the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, and George Kinghorn, Curator and Director, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor.

Jesse Kreitzer (Film & Video Finalist ’11) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for his independent feature film, The Wake. The film, which was recently selected as a finalist for the 2012 Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Lab, is the story of a grief-ridden social worker who cares for a dying woman in secrecy from his wife and two children.

Kathryn Kulpa (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’10), editor of Newport Review, is among the writers participating in “An Evening in New Bedford with the Newport Review” at Gallery 65 on William Street, as part of AHA New Bedford. The reading, which takes place on October 13, 2011, at 7 PM, includes readings by Kathryn, Lisa Borders, and others, including a open mic. (Writers planning to do the open mic should arrive by 6:30 PM.)

Caitlin McCarthy (Playwriting Finalist ’11) did a video interview while attending the 2011 Action on Film International Film Festival. She discusses her feature script CAPE COD LITE (which won the “Best Drama” screenplay award at AOF), as well as her new TV series teleplay “Pass/Fail.”

Congratulations to Joshua Meyer (Painting Fellow ’10), who won a prestigious Sustainable Arts Foundation Award.

Nathalie Miebach‘s (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09) solo show Weather Scores will be on exhibit at the Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University, running October 10–November 4, 2011, with an opening reception October 11, 4-6 PM. She’s also included in Seeing/Knowing, a show on 15 internationally renowned award-winning artists working at the intersection of information and image exchange, at Graham Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in OH, running October 29-March 4, 2012.

Congratulations to Caleb Neelon (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’07), who recently won an Awesome Grant from the Boston branch of the Awesome Foundation.

Mary O’Malley (Drawing Fellow ’06) is among the artists featured in Wild Things: Contemporary Art Inspired by Nature at the Art in the Round Barn at the Green Mountain Cultural Center in Vermont. The show, curated by Stephanie Walker of Walker Contemporary, runs through October 15, 2011. Mary recently participated in the Porter Mill Open Studios on September 24, 2011, at the new Porter Mill artist studio building in Beverly.

Toni Pepe‘s (Photography Finalist ’11) work is included in the New England Photography Biennial 2011 at Danforth Museum in Framingham, and she has an upcoming solo show, The Gesture of Tradition, at the University of Notre Dame Art Gallery in Indiana. Also, Toni has organized a conference taking place at Boston University, this month. Think Art: Memory (October 14-15, 2011) is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and artists to explore the manipulation of memory and how the individual and society remembers.

Daniel Ranalli (Drawing Fellow ’10) is included in a major fall exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston, Dance/Draw, curated by Helen Molesworth. The exhibition, which runs through January 16, 2012, includes works from Daniel’s Snail Drawing series (images from that series won the artist the MCC fellowship). Daniel is also participating in the ICA’s 75 Artists for the 75th exhibition, as well.

Monica Raymond‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’07, Poetry Finalist ’08) play A TO Z, which recently won the 2011 Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award, had a staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as part of their annual Page-to-Stage Festival on September 3, 2011.

Matthew Rich‘s (Painting Fellow ’10) “Woodcut Parallelogram” was acquired by the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The print was published by ningyo editions, which currently has on display New Woodcuts by Matt Rich and Joe Wardwell through October 14, 2011.

Evelyn Rydz (Drawing Fellow ’10) is among the Massachusetts College of Art and Design faculty members featured in Selections 11, October 10–December 7, 2011 in the Stephen D. Paine Gallery at MassArt.

Jeff Warmouth (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ’05) has a solo exhibition at the SHOW Gallery and Performance Space in Staten Island, NY. The show, called SuperJeffuBurgerMarket, runs through October 29, 2011.

Debra Weisberg (Drawing Fellow ’08) has a solo show at Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Dystopian Dreaming: Constructed/Glow Drawings by Debra Weisberg, running October 22-November 26, 2011. There will be an opening reception Saturday, October 22, 5-7 PM. (The gallery will also be open First Friday, November 4 until 8 PM.)

Cary Wolinsky (Sculpture/Installation Fellow 09, collaboratively with TRIIIBE, is included in More Back Forty at The Art Complex in Duxbury. Cary will exhibit a new body of work at the show, which includes recent work by artists who have exhibited at the Art Complex over the past 40 years. The show runs through January 15, 2012.

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Are you a past fellow or finalist with an event, honor, or other bit of news you’d like to share? Tell us about it.

Images: Joshua Meyer, WOPBOPALOOBOPBALOPBAMBOOM, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 in; promotional image for BEFORE I LEAVE YOU by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro at the Huntington Theatre Company; still from THE WAKE, a film in progress by Jesse Kreitzer; Toni Pepe, INSTALLMENT FIVE (2010), Archival Inkjet, 40×30 in; Debra Weisberg, GLOW DRAWING 2: DAY VIEW AND NIGHT VIEW (2010), paper tape, photoluminescent tape, glow powder, polymer on museum board, 9×5.5 in.

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In September, past MCC fellows/finalists venture into imagined flora, faraway lands, outer space, the impermanent, the temporary, and the nearly not. (For starters.)

And now, we venture into our monthly round-up of the news of past awardees of our Artist Fellowships Program.

Karen Aqua (Film & Video Fellow ’11) will be honored by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in a tribute program, on Sunday, September 25, 2011, 3 PM. Read more about the program on ArtSake.

Sally Bellerose (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’04) will read from her novel The Girls Club at Forbes Library in Northampton on Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 3 PM. The novel tells of the complicated, interconnected lives of three working class sisters in small town Massachusetts.

Congratulations to Alice Bouvrie (Film & Video Fellow ’11), whose documentary Thy Will Be Done now has a distribution partnership with New Day Films. The film will be appearing at Heart of England International Film Festival in the UK, September 7-18, 2011. The film, an excerpt of which won the artist an 2011 Artist Fellowship, will also be screening at the North Louisiana Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Shreveport, LA on September 17 (12:30 PM) and September 20, 2011 (5:30 PM, followed by a panel discussion). Next month, along with a screening at the International Film Festival Australasia in Australia, the film will be shown at Lesley University‘s Marran Theater in Cambridge on October 12, 2011, at 7 PM.

Sarah Braunstein‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’04) novel The Sweet Relief of Missing Children was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.

John Cameron‘s (Crafts Fellow ’11) work is included in New Hampshire Furniture Masters 2011. The annual auction is on September 10, 2011, at the Currier Museum of Art in NH.

Cheryl Clark (Poetry Finalist ’10) will read her poetry on Saturday, September 24, 3 PM, at Outpost 186 in Inman Square, Cambridge, as part of the Unaffiliated Reading Series.

Shawn Cody‘s (Playwriting Fellow ’07) new music theater work The Water Dream will have a staged reading as part of Shakespeare & Company’s Studio Festival of New Plays. The performance features Broadway veteran Anthony Rapp and takes place Monday, September 5, 2011 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Read about the event in Playbill.

Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10) has a solo show of new paintings, called Nearly Nots, at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. The show runs September 2-21, 2011, with a reception on Friday, September 2, 7-10 PM.

Vico Fabbris (Painting Fellow ’06, Drawing Fellow ’00) will have an exhibition titled Floragenis at the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown from September 1 to September 15, 2011. Opening reception, with the artist, Friday, September 2, 2011 at 7 PM. An interview with Vico Fabbris on his Floragenis exhibition at the Rice Polak Gallery will appear in the Provincetown Banner on Thursday, September 1, 2011, written by art historian and art critic Susan Rand Brown.

Long time organizer of poetry and interdisciplinary programs in Massachusetts, Michael Hoerman (Poetry Fellow ’04) has created a brand new organization, The Temp Series Project, to advocate and promote writing and art in the Commonwealth. Based in culture-rich Lowell, MA, The Temp Series Project will create interdisciplinary events, develop commissions, and host special showcases that highlight Massachusetts artists and promote their appreciation. Projects in the works include a temporary reading series, pocket poetry festival, and temporary public art. For more information, join The Temp Series Project on Facebook. The Temp Series Project was recently approved for fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas.

Brian Knep (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) is showing Healing 2 as part of the group show Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future at Brown University in Providence, RI. The show runs at the David Winton Bell Gallery September 3-November 6, 2011, with an opening reception and curatorial talk on Friday, September 9, 5:30-7:30 PM.

Jesse Kreitzer (Film & Video Finalist ’11) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for his independent feature film, The Wake. The film, which was recently selected as a finalist for the 2012 Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Lab, is the story of a grief-ridden social worker who cares for a dying woman in secrecy from his wife and two children.

Dawn Lane (Choreography Fellow ’10) will premiere a new work of dance, one potato, two potato, at the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow on September 2, 2011 (8 PM) and September 3, 2 PM and 8 PM. The work draws on aspects of Irish culture & history (i.e. knitting, the famine and Irish dance) to explore perceptions of excess, wastefulness, having enough, or nothing. Dawn’s MCC Fellowship, as well as a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Creative Development Residency, helped pave the way for the new work. One potato, two potato is presented in cooperation with Jacob’s Pillow Community Dance Programs and Community Access to the Arts. Read Dawn’s post about the development of one potato, two potato, on ArtSake.

Scott Listfield (Painting Finalist ’10) is among the artists with work in Lift Off: Earthlings and the Great Beyond at the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University in NJ. The exhibition is in the Main Gallery September 1, 2011-January 5, 2012, with an opening reception and catalog launch Thursday, September 15, 5-7 PM. Follow Scott’s new blog for more info on his upcoming solo show at the University Gallery at UMass Lowell, Astronaut: Paintings by Scott Listfield. That show will run November 7–December 2, 2011, artist talk & reception November 8, 3-5 PM. Finally, Scott is featured in a recently released book documenting the great Crazy 4 Cult art shows at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.

Christian McEwen‘s (Playwriting Fellow ’11) new book World Enough and Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down will be published by Bauhan Publising this month. The book reflects on how slowing down the pace of one’s life can have profound benefits, including on creativity.

Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09) has two solo shows in Massachusetts, this month: Musical Storms is on exhibit at the Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College in Easton from September 22-October 31, 2011, with an opening reception October 5, 6-7:30 PM. Another solo show, Changing Waters, is on exhibit at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown September 30-November 30, 2011.

Anne Neely (Painting Finalist ’10) has a solo exhibit, Mopang: Recent Paintings on view at Lohin Geduld Gallery in NYC, from September 7 through October 8, 2011, with an opening reception September 8, 5–7 PM. A catalog with essay by Jonathan Franzen (who, incidentally, won our Artist Fellowship in 1986!) accompanies the exhibit.

Congratulations to Marlo Poras (Film & Video Fellow ’05), whose film-in-progress The Mosuo Sisters received a Chicken & Egg Pictures Liberty Grant.

Eric Henry Sanders‘s (Playwriting Fellow ’09) play Reservoir is being remounted at Theater 89 in Berlin (translated title: Haseks Heimkehr), following a successful production there in May. There was one performance in August, and upcoming performances September 9, 10, 16, and 17, 2011.

Tara Sellios (Photography Fellow ’11) is preparing for a solo show called Lessons of Impermanence at The New England School of Art & Design, this November 2011.

Peter Snoad‘s (Playwriting Fellow ’09) short play My Name is Art was staged at Artists Exchange in Cranston, RI, August 19-28 as part of their Black Box Theatre’s annual one-act festival.

Julia Story‘s (Poetry Finalist ’10) poetry was recently featured in TriQuarterly literary journal.

Steve Tourlentes (Photography Fellow ’11, ’05) currently has a piece in Night Vision, an exhibition on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through September 16, 2011.

Frank Ward (Photography Fellow ’11) gave two presentations in Central Asia, in August, first presenting his work in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, followed by a lecture in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Jeff Warmouth (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ’05) has a solo exhibition at the SHOW Gallery and Performance Space in Staten Island, NY. The show, called SuperJeffuBurgerMarket, runs September 10-October, 29, 2011, with an opening reception Saturday, September 10, 5-8 PM.

Ellen Wineberg (Painting Finalist ’04) has work in two MA exhibitions this months: she has four pieces in 24 Solo Shows at Bromfield Gallery in Boston, August 31-October 1 (opening reception Sept. 9, 6-8:30 PM). She’s also part of a five-person show, Exquisite Corpse at Deerfield Academy. The show, with work ranging from minimal to real, runs September 22-November 17 (opening reception Sunday, Oct. 2, 2-5), at the school’s Russell Gallery.

Michael Zelehoski (Painting Fellow ’10) has a solo show at Sanford Smith Fine Art in Great Barrington, running through October 13, 2011.

Past Fellows Notes
Aug. 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
Apr. 2011
Mar. 2011
Feb. 2011
Jan. 2011

Are you a past fellow or finalist with an event, honor, or other bit of news you’d like to share? Tell us about it.

Images: Painting by Vico Fabbris, from the FLORAGENIS series; paintings by Rebecca Doughty, from the NEARLY NOTS series; Michael Hoerman’s digital rendering of Storehouse No. 1, a video installation proposed by The Temp Series Project in Lowell; cover art for Christian McEwen’s WORLD ENOUGH & TIME (Bauhan Publishing, 2011); Frank Ward, #3 (2009), Giclee print, 22X33 in.

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Our August collection of news and notes from past MCC Fellows/Finalists is very august indeed. Way to be month/adjective appropriate, all!

Four past MCC awardees, Claire Beckett (Photography Fellow ’07), Ambreen Butt (Drawing Finalist ’10), Caleb Cole (Photography Finalist ’11), and Eric Gottesman (Photography Fellow ’09), are exhibiting in East Meets West, a show of Boston Artadia Awardees in San Francisco, CA. The show, which also features Raul Gonzalez, Amie Siegel, and Joe Zane, exhibits at the Walter & McBean Galleries of the San Francisco Art Institute through September 10, 2011.

Elizabeth Alexander (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) has a solo show, Welder’s Daughter: Safe and Powerless, at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. The show runs August 3-27, 2011, with an opening reception August 5, 6-8:30 PM. Also, Elizabeth is one of the artists exhibiting in Art Encounters Preservation, showing from until October 15, 2011 at the Wentworth Coolidge Mansion Museum in Portsmouth, NH. Recently, Elizabeth was interviewed in Open Letters Monthly.

Claire Andrade-Watkins (Film & Video Fellow ’09) announced that SPIA Media Productions, which she founded, has launched a new online digital distribution project that includes SPIAVISION mini.doc, a series of documentary shorts available online and accessible with barcode for scanning by iPhones. SPIA Media Productions is also debuting Live from 02903, a blog about the Fox Point Cape Verdean community, which has been, in part, the focus of Claire’s documentary film work. Atlantic Portals, the second film in Claire’s trilogy in feature documentaries about the Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, RI, is now in post-production.

David Bookbinder (Photography Fellow ’07) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support The Flower Mandalas Project, a meditative book of Flower Mandala images and related text exploring “52 fundamental aspects of the human experience.”

Sarah Braman (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ’09) is among the artists in Not About Paint, curated by Evan Garza, at the Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, through August 20, 2011.

Tory Fair (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ’11) has a solo installation, Testing a World View (Again), at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA. The installation, which features four figures created from fiberglass, aluminum, and wax, will be on exhibit through April 29, 2012. Tory will join filmmaker Robb Moss for a discussion on Saturday, August 6, 2 PM, as part of the PLATFORM Discussion Series. The two artists will explore how the body and nature feature into the creative work and process.

Michal Goldman‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’07) film-in-progress, currently titled Nasser: An Egyptian Story, recently received funding support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The film is a full-length documentary project about Gamal Abdel Nasser, an iconic figure in Egyptian history.

Eric Gottesman‘s (Photography Fellow ’09) Sudden Flowers: May the Finest in the World Always Accompany You, a book of photographic short stories and fragments that describe the lives of 23 children affected by HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is forthcoming from Umbrage Press. Eric has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the project and the book’s publication. As mentioned above, Eric is currently in the East Meets West show of Artadia Awardees in San Francisco; as part of that exhibition, Eric will participate in an artist talk on August 3 at the San Francisco Art Institute. Also, Eric’s work Tinsae, an installation based on Eric’s decade-long photographic conversation with an Ethiopian boy named Tinsae Muluneh, is at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, through Sunday, October 2, 2011.

Masako Kamiya (Painting Fellow ’06, ’10) has a solo show of paintings, called Dialogue, at the Tobin Ohashi Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, through August 28, 2011.

Dawn Lane (Choreography Fellow ’10) will premiere a new work of dance, one potato, two potato, at the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow on September 2, 2011 (8 PM) and September 3, 2 PM and 8 PM. The work draws on aspects of Irish culture & history (i.e. knitting, the famine and Irish dance) to explore perceptions of excess, wastefulness, having enough, or nothing. Dawn’s MCC Fellowship, as well as a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Creative Development Residency, helped pave the way for the new work. One potato, two potato is presented in cooperation with Jacob’s Pillow Community Dance Programs and Community Access to the Arts.

Caitlin McCarthy (Playwriting Finalist ’11) won two awards at the 2011 Action on Film International Film Festival: the “Best Drama” screenplay award for Cape Cod Lite; and the 2nd place group award for the AOF Writers’ Room Invitational short screenplay Lockdown High. Lockdown High was written as part of the first-ever AOF Writers’ Room Invitational. The short was filmed by AOF, and screened during the festival. Read about the awards in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Gary Metras (Poetry Fellow ’84) contributed a “Teacher Vignette” about “The Class Clown” to the new book The American Public School Teacher by Darrel Drury and Justin Baer (Harvard Education Press, 2011). Also, five of his poems were published in the Summer 2011 issue of the online literary journal, PoetryMagazine.com. Finally, a three part interview with Gary, called Fly Fishing and the Art of the Chapbook, appeared on the Which Silk Shirt blog.

Stephen Mishol (Painting Fellow ’08) has a solo show, In Place, at the Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston, through August 13, 2011.

Daniel Ranalli (Drawing Fellow ’10) will exhibit in Outermost at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. The show will include Daniel’s new work as well as some highlights from his Provincetown Art Association and Museum survey show Traces: Daniel Ranalli, Cape Work 1987-2007 which ran through the fall and winter of last year. Outermost runs August 12-25, 2011, with an opening reception Friday, August 12, 2011, 6-10 PM.

Monica Raymond‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’07, Poetry Finalist ’08) script A to Z beat out over a hundred scripts to win the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for a new play about race or ethnicity. There’s a $1000 prize, a staged reading at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (date TBA) with the possibility of a full production. Monica wrote the play during her recent Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Evelyn Rydz (Drawing Fellow ’10) has drawings in a group show at the Joshua Liner Gallery in NY. The show runs August 4-27, 2011, with an opening reception is Thursday, August 4, from 6–9 PM.

Congratulations to Candice Smith Corby (Painting Fellow ’08), who was one of seven artists to receive a $1000 award in the Dave Bown Projects Semiannual Competition. Candice’s work was among submissions from at least 34 countries.

Julia Story (Poetry Finalist ’10) was recently featured on Doug Holder’s poetry blog.

Nicky Tavares (Film & Video Fellow ’11) received a Pre-Production grant from the LEF Foundation in support of her documentary-in-progress, Son of a Bug. Son of a Bug is a feature-length experimental documentary about The Bugs, the first Pakistani rock band (formed circa 1964).

Cam Terwilliger‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’08) story “Man and Machine,” which won him his MCC Fellowship, was published in Narrative Magazine. Also, Cam was recently featured in Somerville Journal, in an article about “Voices of the Somerville Home,” a weekly memoir writing class he designed and teaches at The Somerville Home residential care facility.

Marguerite White (Drawing Fellow ’06) is among the artists in You hold it in your mind all the time, an exhibition of experimental work about physicality and perception at the Art at 12 Gallery in the Fort Point Artists Community in Boston. The show includes projected and monitor-based video, sculpture, drawing, and photography; Marguerite’s cut-paper shadow theatre, Cargo Cult, reflects on the power of visual memory and the subjective nature of physical perception. You hold it in your mind all the time runs August 11-September 30, 2011, with a reception Thursday, August 11, 2011, 5-8 PM. There will also be an artists talk/closing reception on Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 2 PM.

Jim Wolpaw (Film & Video Fellow ’03, with Steve Gentile) received a grant from the Rhode Island Council for Humanities for Finding Lovecraft, co-directed with Cat Hainfeld. Finding Lovecraft: Life is a Hideous Thing explores the life and work of HP Lovecraft, using an innovative mix of narrative and documentary storytelling (Jim received his MCC Fellowship for Loaded Gun, a film about another New England writer – Emily Dickinson).

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Images: Eric Gottesman, CAR AND MAPLE TREE (2010), from the Studio Karmen series, inkjet print, 30×40 in; David Bookbinder, from THE FLOWER MANDALAS PROJECT; publicity photo from Dawn Lane’s ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO; Evelyn Rydz, RED PLANE (2011), pencil and colored pencil on drafting film, 16×19 in; still from FINDING LOVECRAFT by Jim Wolpaw and Cat Hainfeld.

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Set off some dazzling fireworks (naturally, I mean safely and legally) – it’s time to celebrate July’s news and notes from past MCC fellows/finalists.

Shakedown, an exhibition at DODGE Gallery in NYC, includes work by Taylor Davis (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’99), Sheila Gallagher (Drawing Finalist ’10), and Laurel Sparks (Painting Fellow ’04). The show also features Massachusetts artists Robert de Saint Phalle, Jane Fox Hipple, and Douglas Weathersby, among others.

Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10), Eric Gottesman (Photography Fellow ’09), Frances Hamilton (Drawing Fellow ’98), and Dawn Southworth (Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books Finalist ’04) are all exhibiting work in Picture Books, featuring art in all media that pictures, or, references a book within the composition, or, is a book of some kind. The show runs at Clark Gallery in Lincoln through August 6, 2011.

Chuck Holtzman (Drawing Fellow ’06), Joel Janowitz (Painting Fellow ’08) and Harold Reddicliffe (Painting Fellow ’10) join Mary Armstrong, Carol Gove, Conley Harris, and Anne Lilly for an exhibition at Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston. The show of drawings, paintings, and sculpture runs through August 20, 2011.

Camilo Ramirez (Photography Fellow ’09) and Irina Rozovsky (Photography Finalist ’09) are exhibiting in a dual show of their recent photography, called Details at a Distance. The show runs at Fountain Studios in Brooklyn, NY, July 9-30, 2011, with an opening reception July 9, 7-10 PM.

An installation of the work of Karen Aqua (Film & Video Fellow ’11), called Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, will be on exhibit at the Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville, through July 10, 2011. The exhibition features pastel drawings, sounds, and video from Karen’s final film, Taxonomy, which was completed one month before her untimely passing on May 30, 2011. There will be a memorial tribute to Karen’s life and work on July 10, 2011, 2 PM, at the Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville.

Sweetgrass, a film by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Film & Video Fellows ’11), will be broadcast on PBS as part of the POV series starting July 5, 2011.

Congratulations to Michele Caniato (Music Composition Fellow ’07) for receiving a Fulbright award. He will be in Helsinki, Finland for four months starting in September, hosted by Metropolia University and will be composing, conducting, and lecturing.

On her blog, Cheryl Clark (Poetry Finalist ’10) added an audio recording of her reading from the Commonwealth Reading Series this past March 2011.

Patrick Donnelly (Poetry Fellow ’08) has a great interview on the Mass Poetry Festival blog, where he discusses opportunities available at The Frost Place, a poetry education center where he is Director of the Advanced Seminar.

Janet Echelman (Crafts & Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09) was recently interviewed by CNN!

Samantha Fields (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) has a solo show, Ecstasy and Common Sense, at NK Gallery in Boston. The show will run July 6-29, 2011, with an opening reception July 8, 6-8 PM.

Laura Harrington‘s (Playwriting Fellow ’05, ’97) novel Alice Bliss is a People Pick, receiving four out of four stars in the July 4th issue of People Magazine. Laura will join JoeAnn Hart for a reading on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 7:30 PM, at Gloucester Writer’s Center (call for start time). Laura will also have a joint reading with fellow debut author Rebecca Makkai at the Boston Public Library (Tues, July 12, 2011, 6 PM). And, she’ll have a talk, Q&A, and signing at Stellina’s Restaurant in Watertown, on Wednesday, July 13, 6-7:30 PM.

Gregory Hischak‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’11) new full-length play Volcanic in Origin had its world premiere at the Source Festival in Washington D.C. and runs through July 3, 2011. Read an essay about the play by its dramaturg LaRonika Thomas.

Congratulations to Rania Matar (Photography Fellow ’11, ’07), whose A Girl and Her Room series is featured in a same-titled exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms in London, UK (through July 23, 2011). Also, Umbrage Editions will print a book of photos from the A Girl and Her Room series, scheduled for release Spring 2012. Rania’s exceptional work has recently been awarded the Legacy Award by Debra Klomp Ching in conjunction with the 17th Juried Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography (through August 29); First Place at the Off the Wall Exhibit at the Danforth Museum of Art (through August 7, 2011); First Prize at The Julia M. Cameron Awards: Category Portrait, People and Figure; and Winner in the PDN Magazine Photo Annual 2011 in the Personal Category (featured in the June 2011 edition). Rania’s work is included in a number of group shows: University of Maine Museum of Art Photo National 2011 Exhibition (through September 24, 2011); Photographic Resource Center Exposure 2011 Exhibit (opening reception: July 21, 6:30PM, exhibit through August 21); Beirut Exhibition Center, Rebirth: Lebanon 21st Century Contemporary Art (through July 24, 2011).

Rachel Mello (Painting Finalist ’10) has a solo show of works from her Cities and Shadows Series at Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, July 8 through July 20, 2011. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, July 9 5-7 PM. Rachel’s monoprint School of Pliers in Peril is featured in Crest Hardware Art Show in Brooklyn, NY, a show that features art inspired by and/or involving hardware. The show runs through July 30. Also, Rachel’s work was recently featured in Multiple/Unique at the Washington Street Art Center in Somerville.

Congratulations to Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09), who received a TED Global Fellowship! As part of the Fellowship, she’ll participate in the TED Global Conference, which will be held in Edinburgh (UK), July 11-15, 2011.

Caleb Neelon (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’07) was one of the innovative thinkers invited to speak at the June 2011 TEDxBoston! Read a recent interview with Caleb on the Converse blog.

Liz Nofziger (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’05) is among the artists in Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. The exhibition runs July 2-September 18, 2011, with an opening reception July 7, 5:30-7:30 PM.

Masha Obolensky‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’11) ten-minute Girls Play has been selected to participate in The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. The festival, now in its 36th year, takes place at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row in NYC on July 19-24. Read an interview with the playwright on the Festival’s blog.

Monica Raymond‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’07, Poetry Finalist ’08) story Ludd and the Perkadoodles was a runner up for the contestoria contest at HERE ARTS CENTER. Read it online.

Alison Safford (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’03) just completed a solo show at Gallery 303 at the New England Institute of Art.

Katy Schneider (Painting Fellow ’00) is featured in Inside/Out, a dual show with David Gloman of expressive landscapes and interiors, at studio21south in North Adams, through July 10, 2011.

Congratulations to Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry (Film & Video Fellows ’07), whose Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project won a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts!

Naoe Suzuki (Drawing Fellow ’06) is collaborating with the theatre company Dramahound Productions for a fascinating multi-media installation. Mi Tigre, My Lover at the Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn, NY features a play based on Naoe’s paintings, which are inspired by early 20th century female tiger trainer Mabel Stark. The paintings serve as the backdrop for a play by Anne Phelan. The play runs June 25-July 9, 2011, at 306 17th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave, South Slope, Brooklyn.

Rachel Perry Welty‘s (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09, Drawing Fellow ’04) Rachel Perry Welty 24/7 at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Musueum was very favorably reviewed in Art in America Magazine.

Nine Houses: nine matted archival pigment prints by Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship (Drawing Fellow ’83, Painting Finalist ’82, ’83), has just been published by Tahawus Press. The prints are in a clothbound boxed folio, limited to an edition of fifty, and are accompanied by text and poetry, written in response to the images, by Alan Lightman, Maxine Kumin, Florence Ladd, John Baeder, Elizabeth McKim, and her fellow Guggenheim Fellows: Morris Halle, Philip Levine, Ann Patchett, and Richard Wendorf.

Kevin Young (Poetry Fellow ’10) will present an afternoon of poetry at The Mount, the historic home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA. The reading, presented in partnership with the Amy Clampitt Fund, is on July 9, 2011, at 4 PM. Tickets are $12 and are available online.

Evan Ziporyn (Music Composition Fellow ’11) will present in The Music of Evan Ziporyn on Thursday, July 7, 2011, 8 PM, at the Shalin Liu Performance Center as part of the Rockport Music Festival. The composer will perform along with musicians including “friends from Bang on a Can.” Speaking of: from July 13 through July 31, the tenth annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival takes place at MASS MoCA in North Adams. Evan Ziporyn, who has been actively involved in the festival since its inception, will pariticpate in the Festival, which is dedicated to programming today’s most innovative new music and includes public performances, recitals, and lectures, plus workshops for participants in everything from Balinese music to improvisation, master classes, music business seminars, and more.

Past Fellows Notes
June 2011
May 2011
Apr. 2011
Mar. 2011
Feb. 2011
Jan. 2011

Are you a past fellow or finalist with an event, honor, or other bit of news you’d like to share? Tell us about it.

Images: production photo from Masha Obolensky’s GIRLS PLAY, featuring scenic design by Caitlin Fergus; Samantha Fields, Detail of SHE SPEAKS FOLLY IN A THOUSAND HOLY WAYS; Liz Nofziger, PORE; Evan Ziporyn, photo by Kevin Yatarola.

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We didn’t forget you! We were just, um, saving these announcements. To build suspense.

Seriously, though, sometimes there are so many events featuring our past awardees that we miss some in our monthly roundup. Here are three to add to our recently posted June Fellows Notes:

Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10), Eric Gottesman (Photography Fellow ’09), Frances Hamilton (Drawing Fellow ’98), and Dawn Southworth (Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books Finalist ’04) are all exhibiting work in Picture Books, featuring art in all media that pictures, or, references a book within the composition, or, is a book of some kind. The show runs at Clark Gallery in Lincoln from June 6-August 6, 2011. There will be an opening reception 4-6 PM on Saturday, June 11, following a daylong sidewalk book sale.

Candice Smith Corby‘s (Painting Fellow ’08) autobiographical, deadpan-humored mixed-media paintings are part of Patio, an exhibition at Drive-By Projects in Watertown. The show, which also features Matthew Clowney, Amze Emmons, Steve Novick, and Douglas Weathersby, runs June 9-August 25, 2011, with an opening reception – featuring Weathersby’s lemonade stand! – Friday, June 10, 6-8 PM.

Finally, on Saturday, June 11, 2011, Susan Rivo (Film & Video Finalist ’11) will have a work-in-progress screening of her fascinating documentary Left on Pearl at The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at UMass-Amherst (Thu, June 9–Sun, June 12). Left on Pearl explores a forgotten episode in local history, when, in March 1971, a group of women took over a Harvard University building to dramatize the need for a Women’s Center. Susan will also participate in a panel discussion at the conference called “Documenting Second Wave Feminism through Film.” Learn about the conference.

See what else Massachusetts artists are up to in our Fellows Notes.

Images: Rebecca Doughty, LANDSCAPE WITH A BOOK (2011); Candice Smith Corby, THE GREAT ESCAPE (2005), gouache on vintage napkin, 15×18 in; still from LEFT ON PEARL, a work-in-progress film by Susan Rivo.

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June is here. Sunshine is real. Let’s experience some art.

Here are a few ideas, care of our Fellows Notes (current news of past MCC fellows/finalists).

We are excited to announce New and Recent Work by 13 Massachusetts Cultural Council Award Recipients in Painting and Drawing, an exhibition at Tufts University Art Gallery in Medford. The exhibition will run June 2 – July 31, 2011, with an opening reception Thursday, June 2, 5:30-8 PM. The 13 exhibiting artists are all Fellows in Drawing and Painting from the 2010 grant cycle, including: Cree Bruins, Christopher Faust (his painting Vanishing Point is above), Jan Johnson, Masako Kamiya, Yanick Lapuh, Joshua Meyer, Monica Nydam, Daniel Ranalli, Harold Reddicliffe, Matthew Rich, Cristi Rinklin, Evelyn Rydz, and Michael Zelehoski. There will be an Artists’ Talk on Thursday, June 2, 5-6 PM, featuring Cree Bruins, Jan Johnson, Yanick Lapuh, Joshua Meyer, and Michael Zelehoski.

Numerous MCC fellows/finalists contribute artwork to Flourish, a juried exhibition of alumni of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The show, running June 8-July 9, 2011 in the Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery, features work by Elizabeth Alexander (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11), Claire Beckett (Photography Fellow ’07), Candice Smith Corby (Painting Fellow ’08), and Adam Lampton (Photography Finalist ’07), among other MassArt alums. Tammy Dayton (Moth Design), Michelle Lamunière (curator, Harvard Art Museum), and Edward Saywell (curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) served on the selection committee.

Six MCC fellows/finalists are in new issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review: Sally Bellerose (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’04), Simeon Berry (Poetry Fellow ’06), Patrick Ryan Frank (Poetry Fellow ’06), Elizabeth Graver (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’06), Caroline Klocksiem (Poetry Fellow ’08), and Tara L. Masih (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’96).

Alan Colby (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’07) and Linda Price-Sneddon (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’01) both have work in a group show curated by Jeff Hull at A Street Gallery, 4 Clarendon St, Boston MA. The show runs June 4-30, 2011, with an opening reception Saturday, June 4, 3-5 PM.

Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10), Eric Gottesman (Photography Fellow ’09), Frances Hamilton (Drawing Fellow ’98), and Dawn Southworth (Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books Finalist ’04) are all exhibiting work in Picture Books, featuring art in all media that pictures, or, references a book within the composition, or, is a book of some kind. The show runs at Clark Gallery in Lincoln from June 6-August 6, 2011. There will be an opening reception 4-6 PM on Saturday, June 11, following a daylong sidewalk book sale.

Two MCC fellows/finalists are featured in the show Fresh Work: A Sampler of New England Photographers as part of the Flash Forward Festival Boston. Toni Pepe (Photography Finalist ’11) and Camilo Ramirez (Photography Fellow ’09) will both have work on display at the Fairmont Battery Wharf in Boston, June 3-June 5, 2011, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, at 7 PM.

Photography by Claire Beckett (Photography Fellow ’07) is included in The Workers, a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring the many aspects of labor, at MASS MoCA in North Adams.

S. Bear Bergman (Playwriting Fellow ’05) received a Lambda Literary Award for co-editing Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation.

Liza Bingham (Painting Finalist ’10) will have work in the 2011 Season Preview Exhibit at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA, June 3-29, 2011, with an opening reception on June 3, 6-9 PM.

Alexander Chee (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’10) is currently a Fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy. The residency encourages the creative process by providing uninterrupted time to devote to work, as well as a collaborative spirit with the visual artists, writers, and musicians who are invited as Fellows.

Laura Harrington (Playwriting Fellow ’05, ’97) will publish her new novel, Alice Bliss (Pamela Dorman Books, Penguin/Viking, 2011), in June 2011. She’ll have numerous author events in New England: Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge (Weds, June 8, 2011, 7 PM); Barnes & Noble in Peabody, MA (Thurs, 6/9, 7 PM); Jabberwocky Bookstore in Newburyport (Fri, 6/10, 7 PM); Concord Bookshop in Concord (Sun, 6/12, 3 PM); Broadside Bookshop in Northampton (Tues, 6/14, 7 PM); Toad Hall Books at the Rockport Library (Wed, 6/15, 7 PM); and a joint reading with fellow debut author Rebecca Makkai at the Boston Public Library (Tues, July 12, 2011, 6 PM). Read an ArtSake interview with Laura.

Gregory Hischak‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’11) new full-length play Volcanic in Origin will have its world premiere at the Source Festival in Washington D.C., June 10-July 3, 2011.

Rania Matar (Photography Fellow ’11, ’07) is among the ten photographers selected by Whitney Johnson, picture editor at The New Yorker, for inclusion in EXPOSURE 2011, the 16th chapter of the Photographic Resource Center’s juried members exhibition. Selected work will be on exhibition from Thursday, July 21 to Sunday, August 21, with an opening reception at the PRC on Thursday, July 21.

Koji Nakano (Music Composition Finalist ’11, ’09) will present the second concert in his Asian Young Musicians Connection, which commissions new music by Asian composers. The concert takes place Friday, June 3, 2011, 7:30 PM, at the California State University at San Bernardino Recital Hall.

Anne Neely (Painting Finalist ’10) has work in the exhibition Maine As Muse, at Lohin Geduld Gallery in NYC, through July 8, 2011.

Masha Obolensky‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’11) ten-minute Girls Play has been selected to participate in The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. The festival, now in its 36th year, takes place at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row in NYC on July 19-24. Girls Play was the winner of the 2010 KCACTF National Ten-Minute Play Award.

On Saturday, June 11, 2011, Susan Rivo (Film & Video Finalist ’11) will have a work-in-progress screening of her fascinating documentary Left on Pearl at The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at UMass-Amherst (Thu, June 9–Sun, June 12). Left on Pearl explores a forgotten episode in local history, when, in March 1971, a group of women took over a Harvard University building to dramatize the need for a Women’s Center. Susan will also participate in a panel discussion at the conference called “Documenting Second Wave Feminism through Film.” Learn about the conference.

Candice Smith Corby‘s (Painting Fellow ’08) autobiographical, deadpan-humored mixed-media paintings are part of Patio, an exhibition at Drive-By Projects in Watertown. The show, which also features Matthew Clowney, Amze Emmons, Steve Novick, and Douglas Weathersby, runs June 9-August 25, 2011, with an opening reception – featuring Weathersby’s lemonade stand! – Friday, June 10, 6-8 PM.

Cam Terwilliger (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’08) has a short story, Cherry Town, in the most recent issue of The Literary Review. His story Reply Hazy appears in The Good Men Project. And he shares great advice gleaned from years of serving as a reader for literary journals and awards, in The Review Review.

Hannah Verlin (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) has a solo show, Knowing Not Knowing, at Boston Sculptors Gallery in Boston, through June 26, 2011. There’s a SOWA First Friday reception: June 3, 5–8 PM.

Past Fellows Notes
May 2011
Apr. 2011
Mar. 2011
Feb. 2011
Jan. 2011

Are you a past fellow or finalist with an event, honor, or other bit of news you’d like to share? Tell us about it.

Images: Chris Faust, VANISHING POINT (2010), Acrylic on canvas, 36×48 in; Camilo Ramirez, FLIGHT SUIT (2008), Archival Inkjet Print, 16 in x 20 in; Cover art for ALICE BLISS by Laura Harrington (Pamela Dorman Books, Penguin/Viking, 2011).

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