Laura Harrington is a novelist, playwright, and librettist who has received two Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowships and numerous other awards and honors. She's just published her second novel, A Catalog of Birds, and has upcoming readings in Beverly, Belmont, and Rockport. In 2011, we talked to Laura about her first novel, Alice Bliss, and the way her creative process … [Read more...]
From the Archives
What Is Your Greatest Need as an Artist?
Periodically, we pose questions to artists about issues they face in their work and lives. This month, we asked practitioners in a variety of disciplines, What is your greatest need, as an artist? Michelle Marroquin, choreographer My needs, if all things were possible? 1. Funding that would be earmarked specifically for dancers to engage in new work. Residencies might … [Read more...]
Charlotte Meehan: Cleanliness, Godliness, and Madness
Charlotte Meehan, Artistic Director of Sleeping Weazel and a past contributor to ArtSake, premiered the new play Cleanliness, Godliness, and Madness: a User's Guide at the Boston Center for the Arts in September 2016, in the run-up to the November presidential election. Here, she shares how her personal background and the country's "mad time" have shaped her new work for the … [Read more...]
Funding for Individual Artists in Massachusetts
Ethan Murrow (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow '16), WOODLAND MADRIGAL - SUCCULENT ODE (2016), graphite on paper 52x36in You're a Massachusetts artist and you're looking for grants. Here are some ideas. (Article updated July 2018.) Direct Funding for Artists When Massachusetts individual artists ask us about grants, our first response is to strongly encourage … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Kayla Mohammadi
With influences ranging from Helsinki to Maine, the award-winning artist Kayla Mohammadi's abstract paintings will be exhibited in a solo show at the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine, from August 14 - September 14, 2013. The alluring forms and patterns in her paintings reflect the varied influences in her mind. Originally from Northern California, as well as having lived in … [Read more...]