Kirun Kapur and Dawne Shand created the Tannery Series three years ago to "(bring) authors to the North Shore whose writing confronts the world in essential and curious ways." This week (6/20, 6:30 PM), they'll host writers Jerald Walker and Tisa Bryant at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The writers will perform in an event in conjunction with PEM's latest exhibit, In … [Read more...]
Interviews
Jaime Clarke, on Vernon Downs
It's not uncommon for artists to contribute to a region's literary community from various angles, but even so, Jaime Clarke's contributions are particularly well-distributed. He's a writer (one published novel and another soon-to-be), editor of various anthologies, founder and former editor of the literary journal Post Road, and to top it off, co-owner of one of the … [Read more...]
Cur8or: Leah Hennessy
Musician Leah Hennessy is curating a new collaborative art and music series at the Lilypad in Cambridge, MA. The series In Response pairs local emerging artists and musicians by sharing their existing works, notebook sketches and demo recordings with each other. In Response opens on April 21st, with the photography of Kelly Burgess and the music of Americana duo Ari and Mia … [Read more...]
Cur8or: Flatfile Boston
Schools train artists. Museums and galleries exhibit them. Grant-making organizations (like us) do our best to fund them. But who creates that crucial connection between art-buyers and art-makers? Flatfile Boston is a project of Sara Dassel, Mika Hornyak, and George Sopel, three folks that help prospective art collectors find and buy art, work to create opportunities for … [Read more...]
Julie Wu on The Third Son and the World(s) of Writing
Julie Wu (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '12) is among the writers & poets in Mass Cultural Council's Commonwealth Reading Series, reading at the Forbes Library in Northampton on April 24, 2013, 7 PM. Days later, she'll celebrate the publication of her novel, The Third Son (from the publisher: "a story of yearning and freedom set in occupied Taiwan and in America at … [Read more...]