June 2010 We compile a monthly list of presentations, honors, publications, and events featuring past and present MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. As you'll see, the news is good - not just about these award-winning artists, but also about the breadth and vitality of contemporary arts throughout the Commonwealth. Two past fellows are featured in Solstice: a Magazine … [Read more...]
Exports/Imports: a round-up
Exported (temporarily): If you spent last Wednesday searching up and down Massachusetts for master balafon player Balla Kouyate, here's why you couldn't find him. Balla, a recent Artist Fellow in Traditional Arts, was in D.C. performing at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and later at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. Our sibling blog, Keepers of … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – April
April 2010 We compile a monthly list of presentations, honors, publications, and events featuring past and present MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. As you'll see, the news is good - not just about these award-winning artists, but also about the breadth and vitality of contemporary arts throughout the Commonwealth. Three MCC Fellows/Finalists are featured in an … [Read more...]
Artist Opportunities Beyond the Clouds
I was blue, just as blue as I could be Ev'ry day was a cloudy day for me Then good luck came a-knocking at my door Skies were gray but they're not gray anymore Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see from Blue Skies by Irving Berlin Call to Artists: APOCALYPSE FOOD, an exhibition from the University of West Florida Art Department with a 20-year … [Read more...]
Nathalie Miebach: weaving science, sculpture, and music
For Nathalie Miebach, the mysteries of art and science are best engaged by their individual components: colors and temperatures, reed and wind speeds. Through a time- (and hands-) intensive weaving process, she creates sculptures that visually interpret scientific data. The resulting sculptures - intricately crafted yet curiously natural - invite new understandings of … [Read more...]