The platforms and technology make it feasible, and even, in the right circumstances, advantageous: artists bypassing traditional gatekeepers and presenting work themselves. In some cases, an artist may decide that self-publishing/presenting is the most appropriate method for a particular work. In others, an artist or group becomes a presenter to benefit their discipline's … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – July 12
It's July: cue the John Philip Sousa and make way for a march of news from MCC Fellows/Finalists. Sophia Ainslie and Stacey Alickman are in the group show NET work: A drawing and mixed media installation at Kingston Gallery (7/5-7/28, reception 7/6, 5:30-7:30 PM), in which individual works by the show's artists have a variety of interconnections. Intra Country: … [Read more...]
What Makes an Arts Community Thrive?
Community can be a place, a group, an environment, a conversation. In the arts, community means all that and something more. We recently asked artists in different disciplines: What makes an arts community thrive? Lara JK Wilson, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow, Board member and Instructor at Grub Street Writers, Inc. What makes a thriving writers' community? The short … [Read more...]
Announcing 37 Awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2012 Artist Fellowship awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. Twenty artists will receive fellowships of $7500 and another 17 will receive $500 finalist awards. See a complete list of this year's fellows and finalists. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on the artistic quality and … [Read more...]
How Do You Choose Your Titles? Part Two
We've been exploring issues artists encounter in their work, and we recently asked a variety of artists: How do you choose your titles? In part two of the same discussion, a wider picture starts to emerge of how titles function in different artistic disciplines. Deborah Abel, choreographer Usually the title for my choreography offers the only words I will be using to … [Read more...]