ArtSake

Here’s an interesting and informative article about creating a work-in-progress webcast. The piece is written by Jaki Levy, a New Media Consultant and Founder of Arrow Root Media. Be sure to check out the webcasts he has created with Misnomer Dance Theater.

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For culture junkies like us, trying to answer the question So, whats going on tonight? can incite a mad scramble across several different websites and one or two free newspapers. Luckily, our friends at ArtsBoston are unveiling their new site, and its a must-bookmark for art lovers. ArtsBoston.org compiles just about every event in the Boston area – music, theater, dance, film, museum and gallery exhibits, opera. If you have a performance or an exhibition coming up, make sure its listed. If youve seen something recently and want to share your opinion, you can write a review.

Were particularly psyched about the extensive visual arts listings, which even come with image galleries. But most of all, were relieved that the answer to that pesky question is finally all in one place.

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The above image was dispersed by artist Nick Rodrigues (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’07), announcing the latest interactive project in his Hi (Human Interaction) series.

Nick is seeking participants for his “social love experiment” at the BEEHIVE’s next art show Sting 4, February 18th from 6:30 pm-9:30 pm. Artists are encouraged to send personal ads of 60 words or less by 2/14 (click the image and read the cocktail napkin to find out how). The ads will be displayed on beer glasses, and at the art show, as Nick puts it, “Every drink you buy is a chance for love.”

Nick has a gift for illustrating intriguing ideas through hilarious, interactive art. Recently, he drew the attention of WBZ news in Boston when he donned a portable, one-person tollbooth to drive home (as it were) the personal impact of toll hikes.

In November, Nick led a group of teen artists (he’s the resident sculptor at the youth art organization Artist for Humanity) as they lit the way to the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo at Boston Children’s Museum. Teens dressed in colonial garb carried LED-lamp “torches” and rode stationary bikes that used pedal power to light up signs reading “The GREEN Revolution is Coming” and “Proclaim Sustainability Throughout the Land.”

All images care of Nick Rodrigues.

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If you’re looking for a bohemian, Paris cafe-channeling, arty, funky, hard-to-categorize experience in Boston tonight (and really, when aren’t you – I’ve heard the stories), check out Sting! 2 at the Beehive (the subterranean bar at the Boston Center for the Arts).

The event will feature performance art, “eclectic dub reggae” and “free-flowing horns,” and visual art by the MCC-honored Jane D. Marsching (Photography Fellow ’99, Finalist ’03), Laurel Sparks (Painting Fellow ’04), and Deb Todd Wheeler (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’03).

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August Fellows Notes is up, with news, events, and exciting what-have-yous from our fellows and finalists.

Here’s a taste: the unique visions of Sherrill Hunnibell, with her enigmatic paintings and altered books at Maine’s Turtle Gallery, and Ranjanaa Devi’s Nataraj Dancers, with their version of the Ramayana at the Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival, offer works unlike any other. Meanwhile, Julie Levesque’s sculptures and 2-D works bring an air of mystery to P-town’s Rice/Pollak Gallery, and Steve Tourlentes shares *prison stories in Big RED and Shiny.

More in MCC Artist Fellows Notes.

*As in, “photographs of…”

Image: Julie Levesque’s “break” (2008)

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